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Instructions for on-line CME/CE testing:
  1. For each question, click on the button indicating the one best Post Test answer.
  2. Complete the administrative information.
  3. Press the "Submit" button to forward to the Society for Critical Care Medicine
  4. Your CME certificate will be emailed to you ( Note: Participants are required to answer 70% of the questions correctly to receive CME credit)
1. The recovery phase of the Flight or Fight stress syndrome is characterized by:
a. Anxiety
b. Pain
c. Delirium
d. A and B only
e. B and C only
2. Stress response from tissue injury does NOT result in which of the following:
a. cytokine activation
b. hormonal changes
c. hypocoagulabity hypocoagulabity
d. hypercoagulability
e. protein catabolism
3. Effects of Stress response in ICU patients can lead to:
a. Nausea
b. Immunodeficiency
c. Irrationality
d. All of the above
4. True or False: Patients with severe lung disease may require deeper sedation?
a. true
b. false
5. True or False: Opioid-induced respiratory depression may be potentiated by the alpha-2 agonists clonidine and dexmedetomidine:
a. true
b. false
6. Side effects of alpha-2 agonists include:
a. Orthostatic hypotension
b. Sinus pause/arrest
c. Vasodilation
d. All of the above
e. A and B only
7. Adverse effects associated with haloperidol do NOT include:
a. QT interval prolongation
b. Hypotension
c. respiratory depression
d. extrapyramidal symptoms
8. In studies comparing propofol with other agents for weaning ventilated ICU patients, propofol was associated with which of the following:
a. less cardiovascular depression
b. shorter weaning time
c. better sedation
d. all of the above
9. True or False: In studies of postoperative ventilated patients, patients receiving dexmedetomidine as primary therapy required significantly more propofol or midazolam than placebo recipients?
a. true
b. false
10. Which of the following is NOT associated with dexmedetomine treatment in intubated patients:
a. Earlier extubations
b. Fewer reintubations
c. Additional morphine use post-extubation
d. Less morphine use during intubation

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