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perioperative conditions leading to sickling:
SIX H’s cause SICKling (HbS)
- Hypothermia
- Hyperthermia
- Hypoxemia
- Hypotension
- Hypovolemia
- H+ ions (acidosis)
Lumbar plexus block, what is blocked and what spared?
Aka psoas compartment block: Blocked: - femoral - obturator - iliohypogastric - genitofemoral - lat fem cut
Spared:
- sciatic nerve
Law of laplace
T(wall tension)=(P*r)/(2h)
h= wall thickness P= pressure in ventricle.
Meld vs child Pugh
Meld:
I Crush Several Beers Daily
(INR, creatinine, sodium, bilirubin, dialysis)
Child-Pugh:
Pour Another Beer At Eleven
(PT, ascites, bilirubin, albumin, is encephalopathy)
Factors increasing MAC:
Drug
- amphetamine
- cocaine
- ephedrine
- Chronic Etoh
- highest street 6 months
Electrolyte:
- hypernatremia
Hyperthermia
Red hair
Factors decreasing MAC:
Drugs:
- alpha 2 antagonists(clonidine, precidex)
- acute Etoh
- local anesthetic
- lithium
- verapamil
- chronic amphetamine use
Electrolyte:
Hyponatremia
Elderly Anemia Hypothermia Hypoxia Pregnancy
Gabapentin receptor for action
Calcium channnel A2-delta
Chemotherapeutic toxicity’s:
- Cisplatin/carboplatin: acoustic nerve, nephrotoxicity
- vincristine: peripheral neuropathy
- bleomycin/busulfan: pulm fibrosis
- Trastuzumab: cardiotoxicity
- Doxorubicin: cardiotoxicity
- 5-FU, 6-MP, methotrexate: myelosuppression
Papillary muscle blood supply
Posterior-medial: RCA
Antero-lateral: Lcx and LAD
Major source of heat production in neonates and infants?
Nonshivering thermogenesis, triggered by:
- Norepinephrine
- glucocorticoids
- thyroxine
Inhibited by:
- volatile anesthetic
- B blockers
Drugs that typically follow zero-order kinetics are:
THE PAW: theophylline, heparin, ethanol, phenytoin, aspirin, warfarin.
Agents with low blood:gas partition coefficients
sevoflurane, desflurane
I.e. faster onset (more in the alveoli and so more in the brain)
Alpha stat pH correction for hypothermia vs pH stat
pH: temp corrected system. Aims at constant pH and adds CO2.
- Allow faster cerebral cooling and better O2 delivery.
- Concern for loss of auto-regulation and increases microemboli
Alpha: primary buffers Hco2 and phosphate decreased efficacy and so AMINO ACIDS = most important buffers.
- Maintains uncorrected CO2, pH at nml levels (more physiologic)
Alveolar Gas Equation
PAO2 = FiO2 * (Pb - PH2O) - PaCO2 / R
Amount of fibrinogen In cryo?
200mg
Amount of liquid volatile anesthetic
3 x fresh gas flow(L/min) x volume % = liquid of volatile anesthetic per hour
Anaphylactic vs anaphylactoid
Same clinical picture but anaphylactic are IgE mediated.
antinausea, antiemetic medications target what receptors?
chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ) of the brainstem. also known as the area postrema and, along with the nearby nucleus tractus solitarius, is felt to contain dense quantities of emetogenic chemoreceptors.
Receptors include dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, histamine, and NK1 types.
Aortic regurgitation
Heart rate goal?
regurgitant volume depends on the diastolic time and the pressure gradient across the aortic valve
kept above 80 bpm to prevent increases in the time for regurgitation
Aortic stenosis
valve area less than 0.8 cm2
mean pressure gradient > 40 mmHg,
AV node blood supply
PDA branch of RCA in 75% of people.
In other 25% PDA comes from circumflex
B-blocker overdose treatment
Glucagon
Blood gas interpretation: Acute and chronic changes expected.
- pH will decrease by 0.05 for every acute 10 mmHg increase in PaCO2.
- Bicarbonate increases 2.0 mEq/L per 10 mmHg acute increase in PaCO2.
- increase 4 mEq/L per chronic 10 mmHg increase in PaCO2, and pH will return toward normal if hypercarbia persists long enough (i.e. 1-2 days).
Volatile anesthetics currently in use. Physiological changes
decrease arterial blood pressure, SVR, and myocardial function comparably and in a dose-dependent manner
Halothane decreases CO