2 Flashcards
Carbon dioxide carried in blood
- dissolved
- buffered with water as carbonic acid
- attach within erythrocytes; carbaminohemoglobin (75%)
Anion gap
- Na- Cl- HcO3
- 12 +/- 2
Respiratory compensations
- acute: for every 10 mm Hg change in PaCo2 the pH should change the opposite by 0.08
- chronic: every 10 mmHg the pH should change in the opposite by 0.03
Metabolic compensations
- acidosis: PaCo2 = 1.5(HCO3-) +8
- alkalosis: for every 10 mmol/L change in HCO3-, PaCO2 changes by 7 in the opposite direction
Metabolic Acidosis causes (gap)
MUDPILES
methanol, uremia, DKA, propylene glycol, Isoniazid, lactic acidosis, ethelyne gylcol, salicylates
Metabolic Acidosis causes (non gap)
HARDUP
hyperalimentation, acetazolamide, renal tubular acidosis, diarrhea, ureterosigmoidotomy, pancreatic fistula
pH during CPB hypothermia
- natural alkaline shift which causes increase gas solubility and reduce PaCO2
pH stat
- maintains physiological level of pH throughout hypothermia
- correct for alkaline shift and maintain a neutral pH by ADDING CO2 to the actual bypass circuit
- This addition of CO2, and maintenance of pH neutrality, will increase your total body CO2
- addition of CO2 will increase the speed of homogenous cerebral cooling through global cerebral vasodilation (which at the same time improves oxygenation but also increases delivery of emboli to the brain)
- pediatrics
Alpha stat
- ioniation state that affects protein function and therefor pH (unprotanated imidazoles on histidine) should not be corrected
- goal is to keep the ionization state (alpha) constant
- temperature corrected will show pH in normal physiologic range
- better preserved cerebral autoregulation and better neurologic outcomes
- adults (to high a risk for embolic events in adults to use pH)
reasons for hypoxemia
- low inspired FiO2
- V/Q mismatch
- shunt
- impaired alveolar capillary diffusion
- hypoventilation
ABG in pregnancy
- slight respiratory alkalosis (paCo2 around 33)
- compensatory metabolic acidosis with HCo3 15-20
Flow Volume loop
Flow on Y, Volume on X (expiration on top, inspiration on bottom)
-Intrathorasic shows airflow reduction during expiration, extrathorasic on inspiration, fixed on both
asthma
- antigen bind to immunoglobulin E (IgE) on mast cell surface
- release of histamine, bradykinin, leukotriences, platlet-activating factor and prostagladins
- results in bronchoconstriction, increased secretion and edema
Drugs associated with histamine release
- atracurium
- morphine
- thiopental
- meperidine
- avoid in asthmatics
Absolute indications for one lung ventilation
1) prevent contamination: infection or blood
2) control ventilation: fistula, cyst/bullae, bronchial disruption
3) unilateral lavage
4) VATS
Relative indication for one lung ventialtion
Surgical exposure
- high priority: Thoracic aortic aneurysm, pneumonectomy, upper lobectomy
- low priority: esophageal, middle/lower lobectomy, thoracoscopy under GETA
1 MET
- oxygen consumption of an average person at rest
- 3-5ml/kg/min
clinical risk factors from ACC/AHA
- history of MI
- CHF
- cerebrovascular disease
- diabetes
- renal impairment