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Awareness and Anesthesia Flashcards

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Components of awareness under anesthesia

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  • Hearing
  • Weakness or paralysis
  • Feelings of helplessness, anxiety, panic, and impending death
  • Dreaming (incidence report 7%)
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Definition of anesthesia awarenuss from AANA position statement

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Postoperative recall of events experienced under general anesthesia

Unintended- not part of the anesthesia care plan

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What is not included in awareness?

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The phenomenon of dreaming

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Surgeries where awareness has higher incidence

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  • Cardiac
  • Obstetric (0.4%)
  • Major trauma (11-43%)
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General incidence of awareness in non obstetric, non cardiac cases?

Pediatric incidence of awareness?

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0.1-0.2%

20,000-30,000 per year

Pediatric 0.6-2.7%

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Why is awareness more common in obstetric surgery?

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Increased CO causes rapid redistribution

Also less agents used to prevent neonatal depression

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Why is incidence of awareness greater in major trauma surgery?

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HD instability require reduction of anesthetic

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What type of memory involves information consciously remembered by patient?

Is pain involved?

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Explicit memory

With or without pain

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Examples of explicit memory

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Vivid OR conversations or vague unpleasant sensation or dreams

(but i thought dreams dont count?)

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Which type of memory is more sensitive to anesthesia?

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Explicit memory

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Which type of memory involves memory stored but not recalled but leads to changes in behavior or performance?

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Implicity memory

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How can you test implicit memory?

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Hypnosis or behavioral suggestion

Recall may occur during dreaming

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What medical problems may awareness lead to?

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  • Traumatic neurosis (10%)
  • PTSD (71%)
  • Fear of dying, nightmares, hallucinations, inability to sleep
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Are there legal consequences to awareness?

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Duh

Costs of lawsuits from %1,000 to $1.7 million with average cost $195,327

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What percent of malpractice claims are associated with awareness?

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2%

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Where is the “storage sight” for memory?

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Temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex

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How is short term memory made?

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Reverberating circuits, or post-tetanic potentiation causes increased excitability of the synapse or decreased resting membrane potential after prolonged period of excitation

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What does long-term memory require?

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  • Physical or chemical change of the size and conductiveness of the dendrites
  • Changes reuire about 1 hour to maximally consolidate
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Which S/S of light anesthesia occur first: hemodynamic or motor?

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Motor

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What may block motor signs of light anesthesia?

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NMB

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Motor signs of light anesthesia (6)

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  • Eyelid or eye movement
  • Swallowing
  • Coughing
  • Grimacing
  • Movement of extremities or head
  • Increased respiratory effort- intercostal and abdominal muscles
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Are hemodynamic S/S of light anesthesia reliable?

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Nope

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Why causes hemodynamic S/S of light anesthesia?

What may modify these S/S?

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Caused by sympathetic stimulation

Modified by anesthetic agents

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Hemodynamic S/S of light anesthesia

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  • Hypertension
  • Tachycardia
  • Mydriasis
  • Tearing
  • Sweating
  • Salivation
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What is the last sense suppressed by anesthesia? Why?
Hearing (auditory pathways) Becuase it is most metabolically actice part of brain
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What drugs may make hearing more acute?
NMB
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How can conversation in the OR affect the patient post-op?
May have implicit memories of hearing convo
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What may proivde a glimpse into anesthetic depth based off hearing?
Auditory evoked potentials
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What is the best monitor for anesthetic depth?
No single monitor Use multiple
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How do you assess analgesia, areflexia, and hypnosis?
* **_Analgesia_**- vital signs * **_Areflexia_**- patient movement or nerve stimulation * **_Hypnosis_**- processed EEG (BIS) monitor tires to give quantitative measurement
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How does BIS monitor meausure anesthetic depth?
It doesn't necessarily Based upon the cortical EEG, they measure the relative hypontic effect of the anesthetic
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Recommended BIS level to achieve appropriate anesthetic depth
50-60
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Is BIS valuable in predicting awareness?
Questionable....
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Beach chair position effect on BIS
Lowers
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Trendelberg position effect on BIS
Raises
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Ketamine and nitrous oxide effect on BIS
Increases
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What drugs/substances are associated with higher incidence of awareness?
Heavy alcohol intake Chronic benzos, opioids, requiring treatment or both
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What patient conditions/ features are associated with higher incidence of awareness?
* Impaired CV status * Severe end-stage lung disease * ASA Physical Status 3,4 and 5 * Anticipated difficult intubation * History of awareness
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What procedure/ times in procedure are more associated with awareness?
Acute trauma with hypovolemia Cardiac surgery, including off-pump C-section under GA Bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, or both **Expected** intra-op hypotension requiring treatment
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Preventable causes of awareness under anesthesia
* Light anesthesia * Equipment malfunction * Increased anesthetic requirements * Herbal
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What may cause awak paralysis?
Syringe swap Mislabeled succinylcholine drips 😱
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Why are difficult intubations high risk for awareness?
Redistribution of induction agent Requires redosing
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What equipment malfunctions may result in awareness? these cards are stupidddddd sry
Vaporizers not turned or not filled Pump malfunction Empty nitrous tank Disconnected delivery tubing/circuit
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What factors cause increased anesthetic requirements?
* Multiple general anesthetics (cause long term tolerance) * Chronic alcoholism * Hypernatremia * Hyperthemia * Drugs that increase CNS catecholamines (MAOIs, TCAs, cocaine, amphetamines)
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What herbal supplement places pt at risk for awareness?
St. John's wort
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What drugs are associated with increased risk of awareness? I feel like there are 18 cards that say this but it says it 18 times in our notes slightly different ways
* Muscle relaxants * Nitrous with opioids * Opioid based (in cardiac anesthetic)
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why is TIVA associated with increased risk of awareness?
Due to variability of dosage requirements and variation in elimination
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TC says idk why you would do this but.... If using inhalational agents alone, what MAC would you use to prevent awareness?
At least 0.8-1 MAC
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What MAC of inhalational agents do you use to prevent awareness in combo with nitrous and opioids?
End Tidal 0.6 MAC (potent agent)
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Name some drugs that lower the concentration needed to prevent recall
* Benzodiazepines * Scopoloamine * IV anesthetics * Ketamine
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What should you use on patients at high risk for recall?
Amnestics
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What important step in you anesthesia setup can help prevent awareness?
**Machine check** * Check vaporizers * Check delivery system
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Steps to take if you know your anesthetic is going to have to be on the light side
* Inform patient of possibility for awareness * Use "auditory masking" * Do not use disparaging remarks (duh)
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S/S of PTSD
* Flashbacks or nightmares * Avoidance behaviors * Emotional numbing * Preoccupation with death * Hyperarrousal
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Do patients usually spontaneously complain of recall?
No After direct questioning, may complain of fear, anger, sadness, or "just not right"
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What things may patient describe recalling?
* Conversations * Pain * Weakness or paralysis * Intubation
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What is PTSD usually associated with?
Recall of pain
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Things to ask patient experiencing recall
* Obtain details to determine validity * Assess timing to confirm they are not confused about post-op pain
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Techniques and assurances to use when patient experiences recall
* Question with empathy and compassion * Honest and sincere explanation of what happened and the possible reasons * Reassure patient that future anesthetic should not result in the same
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What should you document about patient's recall experience? Who do you notify? What referrals need to be made?
Document interview Notify risk managment Refer promptly to psychologist or psychiatirst trained in PTSD treatment

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