A 42-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician in follow-up from a visit to the emergency department for a treatment of a seizure. The patient has had seizures approximately every other month for the last 6 months. Consideration is now being given to beginning an antiseizure medication. Which of the following indications will play the lowest role in the physician's mind as to which antiseizure agent to start in this patient?

A 42-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician in follow-up from a visit to the emergency department for a treatment of a seizure. The patient has had seizures approximately every other month for the last 6 months. Consideration is now being given to beginning an antiseizure medication. Which of the following indications will play the lowest role in the physician's mind as to which antiseizure agent to start in this patient?

A 54-year-old man is elected to undergo a total knee replacement following a knee arthroscopy. He arrives the day of the surgery in good health. The anesthesiologist induces sedation using phenobarbital. Which of the following parameter changes may be evident in this patient because of the phenobarbital?

A 37-year-old man is preparing to undergo functional endoscopic sinus surgery. In the operating room, he is given intravenous succinylcholine. This agent will initially produce which of the following responses?

Favorable characteristics of pramipexole as a dopamine agonist for treatment of parkinsonism in a 72-year-old man would include which of the following?

A physician is preparing to suture a wound in a 19-year-old man who sustains a laceration of his left leg while playing in a baseball game. The physician is injecting 1% lidocaine to anesthetize the wound. He aspirates back prior to injection. If he did not do this and the lidocaine got into the systemic circulation, which of the following effects would be possible?