Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia Practice Questions

Question 1

All of the following are complications of epidural anaesthesia, EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Hypertension

Answer

Urinary retention

Answer

Total spinal analgesia

Answer

Hypopnoea

Question 2

The gold standard of labor analgesia is which of the following:

Accepted Answer

Continuous lumbar epidural

Answer

IV opioid infusion

Answer

Continuous inhalational agent

Answer

Nerve block

Question 3

Which of the following local anesthetics has the highest maximum concentration allowed for epidural block?

Accepted Answer

Chlorprocaine

Answer

Lidocaine

Answer

Ropivacaine

Answer

Bupivacaine

Question 4

True about Epidural anesthesia:

Accepted Answer

C/I in coagulopathies

Answer

Given in subarachnoid space

Answer

Effects start immediately

Answer

All of the options

Question 5

Which of the following cannot be given by epidural anaesthesia?

Accepted Answer

Remifentanil

Answer

Morphine

Answer

Alfentanil

Answer

Fentanyl

Question 6

Which is false regarding post dural puncture headache?

Accepted Answer

Longer the duration anesthesia , greater will be the chance of developing PDPH

Answer

Definitive cure is obtained with epidural blood patch

Answer

Head ache is aggravated by sitting and relieved by lying down

Answer

Incidence is reduced by pencil point spinal needles

Question 7

In spinal anesthesia, the drug is deposited between

Accepted Answer

Pia and arachnoid

Answer

Dura and arachnoid

Answer

Dura and vertebra

Answer

Into the cord substance

Question 8

Which of the following is advised for severe preeclampsia complicating cesarean delivery?

Accepted Answer

Epidural anesthesia

Answer

Local infiltration

Answer

Spinal anesthesia

Answer

Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia

Question 9

Which is not true about spinal anesthesia?

Accepted Answer

Produces complete sensory and motor paralysis below the level

Answer

Useful for lower limb surgery

Answer

It produces more hemodynamic alteration than epidural anesthesia

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Autonomic fibers are affected above the sensory level

Question 10

All are absolute contraindication of neuraxial anaesthesia except:

Accepted Answer

Spinal deformity

Answer

Local infection of site

Answer

Raised Intracranial pressure

Answer

Coagulopathy

Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia — MCQs

Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia — MCQs

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