Assessment Exam II Flashcards
What is the preferred pathway for the passage of nasal air devices?
Inferior Meatus
What makes up the anterior 2/3rds of the of the mouth?
Hard Palate
What are the subdivisions of the pharyx? Which one gives us the most problems?
- Nasopharynx
- Oropharynx
- Hypopharynx
Oropharynx
What is one of the primary causes of upper airway obstruction during anesthesia?
Loss of pharyngeal muscle tone
What is a common site of airway obstruction in both awake and anesthetized patients?
Velopharynx
What joins the nasal and oral cavaties with the larynx and esophagus?
Pharynx
What counteracts the collapse of the pharyngeal airway?
Chin lift with mouth closure
Where is the end of the cricoid cartilage?
6th cervical vertebra
What are the unpaired laryngeal cartilages?
Thyroid
Cricoid - complete ring
Epiglottis
What are the paired larygneal cartilages?
Arytenoid
Corniculate
Cuneiform
Extends from the inferior cricoid membrane to the carina
Trachea
What is normal tracheal diameter?
10-15 cm
What is more valuable than any test?
History
What are the basic decisions?
Can I ventilate/intubate??
What’s the most predictve factor of a difficult airway?
Previously documented difficult airway
A neck greater than ______ cm indicates a difficult intubation.
43 cm
What’s the preferred inter-incisor distance?
> 6 cm (3 finger breadths)
Less than this is indicative of a difficult airway
What is macroglossia?
enlarged tongue
What teeth are the most frequently injured during endotracheal intubation?
Anterior maxillary central and lateral incisors
What causes negative pressure pulmonary edema?
Pulling enough pressure on the tube by putting it down that it causes pulmonary edema
What is the anatomical position for sniffing position?
Cervical flexion and atlanto-occipital extension
What structures does sniffing position align?
Aligns oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal axis
Want all three in perfect alignment
What is the perferred distance for sternomental distance?
> 12.5 cm
What are the most common risk factors for ischemic heart disease?
- Age
- Male
Most common reason for impaired coronary blood flow resulting in angina?
Atherosclerosis
What are the (3) primary stressors that induce angina?
- Physical exertion
- Emotional tension
- Cold weather
Chest pain that does NOT change in frequency or severity in a 2-month period.
Chronic stable angina
Chest pain increasing in frequency and/or severity without increase in cardiac biomarkers.
Unstable angina
What is the A-OK protocol?
Treats amniotic fluid embolism with zofran and toradol.
Who is the typical gallbladder patient?
Fat, fertile, female
Which test allows us to directly visualize coronary perfusion?
Nuclear stress imaging
Size of perfusion abnormality = ?
significance of CAD detected
How long does aspirin inhibit the platelet?
Lifespan of the platelet (7-14 days)
Why are nitrates contraindicated in patients with AS and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Need to maintain afterload in patients with AS
What is the only drug that prolongs the life of CAD patients?
B-blockers
Decreases risk of death and reinfarction in MI patients
What are the 3 principal effects of beta blockers?
- Anti-ischemic
- Anti-hypertensive
- Anti-dysrhythmic
Which cardiac drug is also used as an anxiolytic?
Propranolol
What is one of the primary differences between Ca2+ blockers and B-blockers?
Ca2+ blockers have more vascular smooth muscle tone relaxation
What is the primary downside of ACE-Is?
Patients taking ACE-Is have an exagerated response to systemic changes (hypo, hypertension)
What are the 3 types of ACS?
- STEMI
- NSTEMI
- Unstable angina
Emergency CABG is reserved for what type of patients?
Failed angioplasty
Ventricle rupture
Mitral Regurg
Anatomy that inhibits PCI
What is the most significant predictor of stent thrombosis?
P2Y12 inhibitor discontinuation
How long do patients need to wait for elective surgery after drug-eluting stent placement?
1 year
How long do patients need to wait for elective surgery post CABG?
At least 6 weeks; 12 weeks is preferred
What are the 2 non-cardiac diseases we need to worry about for cardiac patients?
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
Which B-blocker can reduce anesthetic requirements?
Esmolol
Which drug is given for refactory hypotension?
Vasopressin
What two drugs can be used to treat excessive bradycardia caused by B-blockers during the perioperative period?
Atropine or glycopyrrolate
Glycopyrrolate is preferred/better
What are the 6 independent predictors of major cardiac complications in the RCRI?
- High-risk surgery
- Ischemic heart disease
- CHF
- CVA/TIA
- Insulin-dependent DM
- Preoperative serum creatinine > 2mg/dL
What drug would you give a hypotensive AS patient?
Phenylephrine
What is the benefit of volatile anesthetics with ischemic heart disease?
Decrease myocardial oxygen requirements and may precondition the myocardium to tolerate ischemic events
What is the dentrimental effect of volatile anesthetics with ischemic heart disease?
Lead to a decrease in blood pressure and an associated reduction in coronary perfusion pressure.
Why is glycopyrrolate preferred over atropine?
Less chronotropy and central effect than atropine
What are the two most commonly used leads for monitoring? Why?
II, V5 because it gives us the best picture of the heart.
What are the leads for the circumflex?
I, aVL
What are the leads for the RCA?
II, III, aVF
What are the leads for the LAD?
V3-V5
Name several criteria associated with difficult airway?
- Large upper incisors
- Strong overbite
- Inability to protrude mandible
- Small-incisor distance (<6 cm)
- Mallampati 3 or 4
- Large tongue
- Narrow or high-arched palate
- Short thyromental distance (<6.5 cm)
- Excessive mandibular soft tissue
- Short, thick neck
- Decreased cervical ROM
What four things would warrant an awake intubation?
- Suspected difficult ventilation with face mask/supraglottic airway
- Significant increased risk of aspiration
- Increased risk of rapid desaturation
- Suspected difficult emergency invasive airway
What should you do first if you cant ventlate or intubate?
Put in a supraglottic airway
In what 3 situations would you alwayas intubate early and quickly?
- Bullets (neck trauma)
- Bites (anaphylaxis)
- Burns (thermal and caustic airway injury)
Which blade goes in the vallecula? Which blade goes on the epiglottis?
MAC ; Miller
What can you do to improve your view?
Ventilate
What does the black stripe on the bougie indicate?
25cm at the lips = mid trachea in an adult male
What views does the bougie help intubate?
Epiglottis only views (class 3 & 4 mallampati)
Etomidate is contraindicated in which patients or conditions?
- Sepsis
- Hemorrhagic Shock
- Epilepsy
What are contraindications for ketamine?
- Hypertensive
- Tachycardic
- High ICP
Ketamine is indicated for which patients and conditions?
- Reactive airways
- Asthmatics
- Hypotension/sepsis
- IM RSI
What are the 3 physiologic killers?
- Hypotension
- Hypoxemia
- H+ (metabolic acidosis)
What BP should we shoot for before intubating?
SBP > 140 mmHg
What is the dose for rocuronium?
1.6 mg/kg
What is NO DESAT? How is it performed?
Nasal Oxygen During Efforts Securing A Tube; NC at 15 LPM + NRB at 15 LPM
What is intervention 2? What is it for?
Delayed Sequence Intubation
- Give 0.5-1 mg/kg Ketamine
- Preoxygenate
- Paralyze
- Apneic Oxygenation
- Intubate
Used for uncooperative, hypoxic, and critically ill patients
What is intervention one?
NC 15 LPM + BVM 15 LPM + PEEP (APL) Valve 5-15 cmH2O
What is intervention three?
Back Up-Head Elevated (BUHE); Don’t insist on laying everyone supine
When do you not move the neck to intubate?
Diagnosed (CT/MRI) cervical spine injury. Use fiberoptic scope and then direct larygnospy as a 3rd choice.
Before doing RSI on patients with high aspiration risk (GI bleed, SBO, Vomitting), what should we do?
NGT prior to intubation and put it to suction
What are the two interventions for acidosis?
- Bicarbonate
- Ventilator Assisted Pre-oxygenation (VAPOX)
What’s the first sign of MH?
Increased ETCO2
What are the key differentials that mimic MH?
CATS
1. Catecholamine tremor from pheochromocytoma
2. Acute porphyria crisis
3. Thyrotoxicosis (Thyroid storm)
4. Sepsis
How do we manage MH?
SHADE
1. Stop inhaled agent
2. Heat control - cold IV fluids,
3. Activated charcoal to remove residual agents from aneshetic work station
4. Dantrolene
5. Electrolytes (check!)
What is CREST syndrome?
Calcionosis - Ca2+ deposits in skin
Raynaud’s - spasm of blodo vessels in response to cold or stress
Esophageal dysfxn - acid refleux, decrease in motility of esophagus
Sclerodactyly - thickening and tightening of fingers and hands, skin taut
Telangiectasias - dilation of caps causing red marks on surface of skin like freckles
What are some unique S/S of scleroderma?
- Limited mobility/contractures
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Keratoconjuctivitis sicca
How do treat a vasospasm in the small arteries of the fingers?
Localize the area, Na+ channel blockade to prevent spasm
Give lido or NS
What is the Edrophonium/Tensilon test?
Improves myasthenic crisis and makes cholinergic crisis worse
What muscleoskeletal disease would you avoid succinylcholine and do regional over GA?
Pseudohypertrophy Muscular Dystrophy (Duchenne’s)