Regarding the ASA guidelines for an anesthesia machine check; how many items need to be checked/verified daily? (Whole number only)

The most likely cause of thrombocytopenia

Heparin’s pharmacologic effect: 

Which hemodynamic goal is recommended when providing anesthesia for patients with aortic insufficiency?

EKG changes which are consistent with pericarditis:

Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy can be precipitated by:

An echocardiogram reveals increased compliance with decreased contractility, EF 38%, chronic volume overload and eccentric hypertrophy.  This represents:

  Based on the compliance curve above, which curve could represents dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or aortic insufficiency (AI)?

The intrinsic pathway:

Myocardial mechanism which states that increasing the amount of stretch of myocytes (to a point) will result in an increase in the force of contraction.