24.2 Flashcards
During paediatric gas induction, the gas flow recommended by SPANZA for least environmental impact is:
a) 1L/min
b) 2L/min
c) 3L/min
d) 4L/min
e) 5L/min
Ans: 3L/min (0.15L/kg/min)
The Mapleson circuit to best achieve normocarbia with mechanical ventilation is:
a) Mapleson A
b) Mapleson B
c) Mapleson C
d) Mapleson D
e) Mapleson E
Ans: Mapleson D
A - best for spontaneous ventilation
B, C - both crap
D, E, F - best for mechanical ventilation
SQUIRE guidelines
a) Provide a framework for reporting new knowledge about healthcare improvement
b) How to conduct a systematic review
Ans: Quality improvement
What is the five number summary on a box and whisker plot?
Ans:
- Minimum
- First quartile
- Median
- Third quartile
- Maximum
Axis of ECG- left axis deviation (aVR was isoelectric, AVF negative, I positive)
a) -45 degrees
b) -75 degrees
c) +15 degrees
Ans: -45?
AVF negative - must be between 0 and -180
I positive - must be between 0 and -90
AVR isoelectric - must be 90 degrees to -150 therefore answer is -60
(if the remembered leads are correct)
What does a green colour on the laryngoscope blade mean
a) Reusable
b) Recyclable
c) Single use
d) Disposable
e) Fibreoptic light source
Ans: fibreoptic light source (in handle), lamp in the blade, electrical connection
versus black (?) handle which has light source in the blade not the handle.
Arndt blocker attachment point for the breathing circuit (just a schematic drawing provided in the exam)
Vivasight components (arrow to the red bit in the exam)
a) Flush port
b) Light source
c) Aspiration port
Flush port
Semaglutide half life
a) 3 days
b) 7 days
c)14 days
6-7 days
From ANZCA clinical practice recommendation on periprocedural use of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists
Exenatide 3.3-4 hours
Liraglutide 12.6-14.3 hours
Dulaglutide 4.7-5.5 days
Semaglutide 5.7-6.7 days
Tirzapatide 4.2-6.1 days
Gastric USS image
a) Empty stomach
Preoperative intravenous iron to treat anaemic before major abdominal surgery (PREVENTT) trial showed:
a) Reduced allogenic red cell transfusion
b) Reduced mortality
c) Reduced readmission rates within 30 days
d) Reduced infection rates
Ans: reduced readmission rates in 30 days
Published in the Lancet October 2020
Found that preoperative intravenous iron was not superior to placebo to reduce need for blood transfusion when administered to patients within anaemia 10-42 days before elective major abdominal surgery.
Readmissions to the hospital following surgery were significantly lower in the intravenous iron group in the first 8 weeks after the index operation.
Compared to UFH, enoxaparin preferences:
a) Thrombin
b) Xa
Xa
Child on 15mcg/kg steroids, when to give hydrocortisone (stress dosing)
a) > 2 weeks
b) > 1 month
c) > 2 months
Stress dose if >15mg/m^2 daily for > 1 month
Stress dose is 2mg/kg hydrocortisone.
DCD - last acceptable organ
a) Lungs
b) Kidney
c) Liver
d) Pancreas
e) Heart
Ans: lungs (90 minutes)
Liver and pancreas - 30 minutes from withdrawal of support
Heart - 30 minutes from systolic <90
Kidneys - 60 minutes from systolic <50
Liver - 90 minutes from systolic <50
DCD criteria, what doesn’t include
a) Immobility
b) Apnoea
c) Absent skin perfusion
d) Absence of circulation (no arterial pulsatility for 2 min)
Cannot recall other option, which was the answer (maybe absence of sedation?)
Ans: d
Should be absence of pulsatility for 5 minutes not 2 minutes.
Donatelife best practice guideline:
- Arterial blood pressure monitoring is recommended
- Absence of arterial pulsatility for 5 minutes is observed prior to confirmation of death
- Electrical asystole is not required, noting that electrical (ECG) activity may persist beyond circulatory arrest
- Death is confirmed by clinical examination (e.g. absence of spontaneous movement, breathing, heart sounds and central pulse)
- Post-mortem interventions that may restart the circulation should not be undertaken e.g. mechanical ventilation, chest compression
Post herpetic neuralgia, feels like insects crawling across head, what is it?
a) Allodynia
b) Dysaesthesia
c) Formication
d) Pruritis
e) Hyperpathia
Ans: Formication
Dysaesthesia “spontaneous or evoked unpleasant abnormal sensations”
Hyperalgesia “increased response to a normally painful stimulus”
Allodynia “pain due to a stimulus that does not normally evoke pain such as light touch”
What drug to avoid in congenital long QT
a) Propofol
b) Thiopentone
c) Ketamine
Uptodate:
= Droperidol, haloperidol, volatile, ondansetron, amiodarone. methadone
Propofol has least effect. Prop/remi TIVA is safe
“ketamine should be avoided because of its sympathomimetic effects”
Glyco and atropine can prolong QTc and precipitate torsades.
Thiopental can be used in patients with prolonged QT (prolongs the QTc but reduces TDP - transmural dispersion of depolarization)
Long QT syndrome | BJA Education | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Recurrent torsades treatment, acceptable
a) Flecainide
b) Lignocaine
c) Procainamide
d) Amiodarone
e) Sotalol
Ans: Lignocaine (dose is 1mg/kg bolus - ANZCOR)
- Overdrive pacing - Lignocaine decreases the QTc - Beta blockers - Isoprenaline
Uptodate:
- If baseline QTc is normal then less likely to respond to Mg and IV amiodarone may prevent recurrence.
“polymorphic VT” = without QT prolongation
“torsades” = a form of polymorphic VT with QT prolongation
- Acceptable tryptase to diagnose anaphylaxis
a) (1.2 times normal) + 2
b) (1.8 times normal) + 2
c) Normal + 2
d) 10/mL
e) 15/mL
Ans: 2+ (1.2 x baseline)
Uptodate
ANZAAG refractory anaphylaxis
a) Glucagon IV 10min
b) Glucagon IV 5 min
c) Glucagon IM 5 min
d) Glucagon IM 10 min
Other remembered “refractory anaphylaxis in someone on beta blocker”
a) Glucagon 1-2mg every 5 minutes until response
b) Once
c) Every 10 minutes
Ans: Glucagon 1-2mg every 5 minutes
- Fem-fem VA ECMO, where is best representative of coronary PaO2?
- Right radial
- Either radial
- Left radial
- Pre-oxygenator
- Post oxygenator
Right radial
- Post op cognitive decline has an onset within:
- Immediate post
- Within one day, lasting one week
- From ?3 weeks ?10 days post op for a year
From 1 month to 1 year
“Postop neurocognitive disorder” within 1 year of surgery
“Delayed neurocognitive recovery” if present within 30 days of surgery
Delirium = 24-72 hours post op
” changes in cognition earlier than 7 days after surgery cannot be accurately tested and attributed to POCD”
“POCD can be detectable FROM 7 days after surgery”
- Pre-eclampsia at 30 weeks with IUGR
- Low CO, low SVR
- Low CO, high SVR
- High CO, low SVR
High CO, high SVR
Low CO, high SVR
- Burns - expected physiological changes within the first 24 hours
- High cardiac index
- Increased PVR
- Decreased SVR
- High stroke volume
First 48 hours depressed myocardium, hypovolaemia (hypovolaemic shock)
- Increased Hct
- Increased PVR and SVR
- Decreased stroke volume
- Decreased cardiac index
- Decrease venous saturation
- Tachycardia
After 48 hours hypermetabolic state
- Decreased SVR, subclinical myocardial dysfunction
Ans: increased PVR