Jeopardy!

“Anesthesia Jeopardy!” has been around since 1991 and many former residents and faculty have enjoyed playing. Jeff Schwartz has created a combination of hardware, software and crafted questions that allow participants and audiences to play in the style of the popular game show. The direct descendant of David Silverman's "College Bowl", it has been an annual June treat for the department. In recent years, “Anesthesia Jeopardy!” has been seen at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Duke University. This year "Anesthesia Jeopardy!" was hosted by the Connecticut State Society of Anesthesiologists.

Try your skill at these selected categories from Anesthesia Jeopardy. But remember - it's always easier at home!

Potent Opioids

• $100: When combined with droperidol in the drug Innovar, it was a primary component of neuroleptanesthesia
• $200: Its rapid onset can be attributed to a pKa most near 7.4 and moderate lipid solubility
• $300: Its context-sensitive half-time is essentially independent of the duration of infusion
• $400: This opioid is a thienyl derivative of fentanyl and gets its name from that fact
• $500: This opioid, used mostly for veterinary anesthesia, is 10,000 times more potent than morphine; one tiny crystal accidentally killed a chemist

Alphabet Soup

• $100: Factors II, VII, IX and X require this cofactor in order to be carboxylated and become active
• $200: This Mapelson circuit is useful during spontaneous ventilation but very inefficient during controlled ventilationy
• $300: These two types of nerve fibers carry nociceptive stimuli from the periphery to the spinal cord
• $400: The designation for a pacemaker that senses the atrium, paces the ventricle and is inhibited by systole
• $500: These ubiquitous proteins acts as molecular switches to relay information from activated receptors including adrenergic, muscarinic, dopaminergic and opioid

Word Origins

• $100: A cornerstone of anesthesia care, it comes from the Latin word “monere” meaning “to warn”
• $200: The Greek god of dreams (and the Laurence Fishburne character in The Matrix), he is often depicted surrounded by poppies
• $300: The two possible stories are that Von Baeyer named this class of drugs either after a girl he was infatuated with or the Feast of St. Barbara
• $400: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., father of the future Supreme Court Justice, coined this term in 1846
• $500: The Greek god of sleep from which we derive the word for a component of the anesthetic state