Summer Final Exam Flashcards
(165 cards)
Highest Occurence of recall
General surgery
Diagnostic criteria for PTSD
Both: a)person witnessed, experienced or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury or threat to physical integrity of self or others b) the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness or horror
Of 26 patients with awareness in study ___ had no post-op sequelae
8
Percent of recall due to faulty anesthetic technique
70%
Percent of recall due to failure to check equipment
20%
Goals of satisfactory anesthetic
1) Adequate perfusion of all organ systems 2) unresponsive to noxious stimuli 3)no awareness or recall of events during procedure
Cortical Phenomenon
Consciousness (controlled by hypnotics)
Poor indicators of consciousness
Subcortical phenomenon: movement (cord reflex), hemodynamic response (brain stem)
Depth of anesthesia can be defined
by suppression of clinically relevant responses to noxious stimuli
Analgesic
Agent that relieves pain w/o loss of consciousness
Amnestic
agent that results in loss of memory of an event or time period
Hypnotic
an agent that produces drowsiness and acts to induce sleep or sleep like state
Sedative
an agent that allays excitement and produces a calm state
Muscle relaxant
an agent which blocks the transmission of nervous impulses to skeletal muscle, rendering patient paralyzed and unable to breathe or move
Tranquilizer
agent that quiets or calms patient w/o affecting clarity of consciousness
Anxiolytic
agent that relieves apprehension and fear, relief from anxiety
Most commonly used measurements for monitoring anesthetic depth
HR and BP
Explicit Knowledge
easily recalled and explained
Implicit knowledge
cannot consciously recall, influences our behavior
Tracheal intubation is about ___ as stimulating as skin inscision
twice
Most anesthesiologists rely on ___ to assess anesthetic depth
their clinical experience and the dose of anesthetic
Isolated arm method
Blood pressure cuff inflated high, patient is relaxed and anesthetized. Patient is told to squeeze. Some patients respond even though all other signs would indicate anesthetic depth
MAC that we typically use
ED50
Doses minimally larger than ED50
prevent movement