2- Airways and intubation Flashcards
3 main goals to why we intubate (3 Ps)
Protect the people
Protect the patient
Protect the planet
Why does intubating protect the patient
Deliver anaesthetic gases to maintain anaesthesia for surgery.
Protects airways
Allows the use of capnography
Facilitates mechanical or manual ventilation
Facilitates the ability to address species-specific anaesthetic problems
How does intubation protect the planet
Allows us to minimise anaesthetic gas wastage
Allows us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
How does intubation protect people
Allows us to prevent hazardous gases from polluting the room we are working in when anaesthetising a patient.
Economical (reduces gas wastage)
What is intermittent positive pressure ventilation?
Technique used to breathe for the animal
Why do we intubate reptiles?
Often don’t breathe so helpful to intubate in order to ventilate & provide oxygen
In birds what do you ventilate
The caudal airsac
What is the gas scavenging system?
Captures excess anaesthesia gas from the anaesthesia machine & disperses it to outside of the room(facility)
What is atelectasis
where the alveoli in the part of the lung closest to the floor collapse down due to the pressure against the diaphragm from the weight of their abdominal content- generally occurs in horses
