L18: Physiotherapy in Intensive Care II (Common Conditions in ICU) Flashcards
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What are 5 conditions in ICU?
- ARDS
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- SIRS, Sepsis, septic shock
- systemic inflammatory response syndrome
- Acute head injury
- Intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICUAW)
- Ventilator associated pneumonia
What are 7 causes of ARDS?
- Multitrauma
- Loss of blood > 3litres
- Head injury
- Burns
- Pneumonia
- Pancreatitis
- Near drowning
ie major insult to body

What is the definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)?

What is the cirteria for oxygenation for mild, moderate and severe ARDS?
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MILD
- 200 mm Hg <pao2></pao2>
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MODERATE
- 100 mm Hg < PaO2/FIO2 ≤ 200 mm Hg with PEEP ≥5 cm H2O
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SEVERE
- PaO2/FIO2 < 100 mm Hg with PEEP ≥5 cm H2O
What are 7 trigger results in release of inflammatory mediators?
- Alveolar oedema, resulting from endothelial injury and microvascular permeability
- Leakage of protein into alveoli
- Proliferation of alveolar epithelial type 2 cells
- Increased fibroblast activity
- Shunting ie decreased gas exchange
- Reduced FRC
- Cytokines, proteases and lipid mediators (Inflammation)
- Increased distance –> worsen gas exchange
- Partially atelectatic, very heard –> harder to inflate

What are 4 characteristics of Intrapulmonary (Direct) (ARDSip)?
- Consolidation
- CT Scan
- Consolidation + Ground Glass Opacification
- Evenly distributed areas of inflammation and oedema
- Alveolar filling
- Fibrin
- Blood cells
- Collagen
- Stiff lung
What are 5 characteristics of Extrapulmonary (Indirect) (ARDSexp)?
- Atelectasis
- CT scan
- Ground glass dominant
- Oedema, atelectasis, early hyaline membrane
- Pliable
- Area responsible for improved gas exchange
- Localized in the middle lung regions
- Microvascular congestion
- Stiff thoracoabdominal cage
- Compliant lung
What are 6 management of ARDS?
- Concept of “baby” lung
- Volutrauma, barotrauma, atelectrauma
- Limit volumes and pressure
- High levels of PEEP (If alveolar shuts down , next breath –> splint open)
- “Open lung” technique ie don’t disconnect PEEP
- Additional treatments
- Eg Prone positioning

What are 4 characteristics of ventilator induced lung injury?

What are 5 implications for PT treatment of ARDS?
- Disconnecting patient from Ventilation may reduce FRC, cause Atelectrauma
- MHI may cause volutrauma, barotrauma, atelectrauma
- However, need to prevent secretion retention
- Consider positioning, percussion, vibration, closed suction
- Extrapulmonary causes may be more amenable to MHI than intrapulmonary causes
- In long term cases lung becomes fibrotic. May be able to use MHI but be careful of large pressures (? use pressure manometer)
What are 6 characteristics of prone positioning in ICU?
- Recruitment of dorsal lung
- Increased homogenous distribution of ventilation and perfusion
- V/Q improves
- Improvement in compliance on returning to supine
- Improvement in oxygenation maintained when returning to supine.
- CT changes evident - reinflation of dorsal areas

- SIRS – Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
- Response to release of Endotoxins
- Eg Burns, Trauma, Post transplant, head injury
- NB Initiating insult may be infective or non-infective
- Abnormal values for just sitting/without doing anything
- HR ≥ 90 beats/min can be 140-160beats/min
- To ≥ 39o or ≤ 36o
- Respirations ≥20/min
- WBC count ≥12,000/mm3 or ≤4,000/mm3 or >10% immature neutrophils
Swabbed to see if they have infection
Implications for PT
- Often still haemodynamically stable – able to exercise, tilt table, Rx respiratory system
What is the definition split of sepsis 3?

What is the definition of sepsis 3?

What is the qSOFA criteria of sepsis 3?

What are 5 management of sepsis?
- Treat infection aggressively ie source control NB If respiratory Rx source
- Can be respiratory, joint, small cut
- Get infected tissue out (wash out –> might not even close wound –> next day –> wash out again)
- Management of respiratory failure, renal failure
- Early antibiotics
- If you suspect they have sepsis, give general antibiotics (without antibiotics –> increased risk of mortality)
- Often cardiovascular failure
- Requires
- Aggressive volume resuscitation + vasopressors
- Haemodynamic monitoring
- Early
- ↑ Cardiac output (CO) and ↓ Systemic vascular resistance (SVR)
- Vasodilatation
- Increasing inotropes/vasopressors
- Positive pressure (MHI, VHI) dangerous
- Look at all values - SVR, CO, PAOP
- Normal CO and ↑ SVR – safer
NB Can still do positioning, percussion, vibration if unstable ie source control
What is the prognosis of sepsis?

What are 2 types of acute head injury?
- Primary Brain Damage
- Diffuse brain injury, diffuse axonal injury
- Mass lesion
- Subdural /extradural haematoma
- Intracerebral haemorrhage
- Secondary
- Cerebral oedema
- Ischaemia
- Airway, Arterial blood gases
- Iatrogenic
What are 2 types of primary brain damage as acute head injury?
- Diffuse brain injury, diffuse axonal injury
- Mass lesion
- Subdural /extradural haematoma
- Bleeding –> clot –> presses on brain (better prognosis than diffused brain injury)
- Intracerebral haemorrhage
- Subdural /extradural haematoma
What happens at the scene

What are 4 types of secondary brain damage as acute head injury?
- Cerebral oedema
- Ischaemia
- Airway, Arterial blood gases
- Iatrogenic
What is the intracranical pressure-volume curve?

What are 4 characteristics of cerebral perfusion pressure?
- Clinical evaluation of level of tissue oxygenation in neurosurgical patients
- CPP = MAP - ICP
- Usually kept at > 70mmHg (inotropes eg Noradrenaline)
- If CPP < 40mmHg, tissue perfusion fails
What is teh effect of arterial blood gases on CBF?







