A 30-year-old woman presents for elective surgery.
She is 170 cm tall, weighs 35 kg and has a long history of an eating disorder. The
following statements about this patient are true EXCEPT for which one?
a) She is more likely to have mitral valve prolapse
than a similar patient with a normal
body mass index (BMI)
b) She is more likely to be bradypnoeic and
bradycardic than a similar patient with a
normal BMI
c) She is likely to be anaemic and leucopaenic
d) Her gastric emptying time is likely to be slower
compared to a similar patient with a
normal BMI
e) Common electrocardiogram (ECG) findings in this patient would include
atrioventricular block, QT prolongation, ST segment
depression and T-wave
inversion
