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Cardiopulm resuscitation (Corrie) Flashcards

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Crash cart box

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  • Rescuscitation drugs
  • Laryngoscope with small and large blades
  • Syringes with needles attached
  • Fluids and delivery sets
  • Catheters wtih t-sets/tape, etc
  • Heparinised saline flushes
  • Scalpels
  • Basic laceration pack
  • Suture
  • Ambubag
  • Thoracocentesis kit made up
  • Blood collection tubes
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The emergency area

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  • Selection of endotracheal tubes
  • Oxygen source
    • anesthesia machine
  • EKG
  • Defibrillator and gel
  • Capnograph
  • Drug dose chart
  • Clippers
  • Clock/timer and record sheets
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Recognising a crisis

10 second patient assessment

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  • The 10 second patient assessment
    • cessation of breathing/agonal breaths
    • No palpable pulses
    • No heart sounds
    • Unresponsive
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Recognising a crisis

Under anesthesia

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  • Under anesthesia
    • cessation of respiration
    • sudden EKG changes
    • rapidly falling blood pressure/loss of doppler sound
    • reduced CO2 output on capnograph
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Patient selection

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  • respect owners wishes
  • post-rescucitation care can be expensive
  • Is cause of death reversible
    • anesthesia/drug overdose
    • restraint
    • anemia
    • hypovolemia
    • vagal event
      • vomiting
      • straining to defecate
    • Airway obstruction
    • pericardial effusion
    • unexpected arrest

*Age is not a disease!

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Avoiding futile CPR

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  • Avoiding waste of resources
  • Avoiding wastage of owners money
  • Reducing emotional impact on staff
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Aim of CPR

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  • Perfuse heart and brain with oxygenated blood
    • Cerebral perfusion pressure
      • mean arterial pressure - intracranial pressure
    • Coronary perfusion pressure
      • aortic diastolic pressure - right atrial diastonlic pressure
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Do not…..

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  • Do an intracardial stick
  • Do precordial thump
  • Give glucose
    • can cause hypoglycemia
  • Give Ca and sodium bicarb
    • very limited uses
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Ventilation

Artificial respiration

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  • Artificial respiration with oxygen
    • ideally endotracheal tube
    • tracheostomy
    • tight fitting face mask
    • alternative airway device
    • ambubag
    • anesthesia machine
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Ventilation

Technique

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  • Rate of artificial respiration
    • between 10-12 breaths/minute
  • Depth
    • cause visible rise in chest wall
  • Avoid excessive pressures
    • > 20mmHg bad
  • Avoid rapid respiration
    • reduces chance of success by lowering CO
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Perfusing heart and brain

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  • Circulation
    • Chest compressions
      • direct cardiac compression: small patients < 15 kg
        • compresses directly over heart - causes artificial systole
      • Thoracic pump mech: patients > 15 kg
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Direct cardiac compression

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Thoracic pump mech

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  • chest is a pump
  • relaxation allows blood flow back towards heart
  • one way valves ensure mostly one way
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Thoracic pump mechanism

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Chest compressions

Technique

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  • Rate between 100-120
  • push hard
  • allow complete relaxation
    • allows ventricular filling
  • Don’t stop
    • pauses associated with reduced survival
    • have someone else monitor pulses, capnograph
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Open chest CPR

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  • Technique for maximising blood flow by direct cardiac massage
  • May allow dealing with underlying cause of arrest
  • Sometimes expensive aftercare
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Indications for open chest CPR

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  • Pleural effusion
  • Pneumothorax
  • Pericardial effusion
  • Chest trauma
  • Recent thoracic surgery
  • Dead on arrival
  • Large dog: external chest compressions not effective
  • Intra-operative arrests
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Open chest CPR

Technique

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  • Cut at 5th or 6th rib space
    • usually on right side
  • Clipping ideal
    • not essential
  • If successful: close check
    • antibiotics
    • flush routinely
    • thoracostomy tube
    • remember internal thoracic artery
    • routine closure
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Monitoring CPR

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  • Return of pulses, spontaneous apex
  • Capnograph
  • EKG
  • CO2 thru roof means reperfusion
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EKG Rhythms

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  • Asystole
  • Pulseless electrical activity
  • Ventricular fibrillation
    • defib
  • Pulseless Ventricular tachycardia
    • defib
  • Sinus bradycardia
  • Sinus tachycardia
  • Ventricular tachycardia
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Capnograph

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  • Sudden increase in CO2 output
    • indicates ROSC
  • Zero CO2 output
    • innefective chest compressions
    • accidental extubation
    • zero blood flow
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23
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Pulseless electrical activity

-seen in euthanasia: take off EKG

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Course ventricular fibrillation

-shockable rhythm

25
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Pulseless Ventricular fibrillation

-I think you shock this one…?

26
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Venous Access

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  • Jugular cut down
    • usually needed to do this
    • do it quickly
  • Saphenous, cephalic, medial femoral (cats)
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Drug choices in CPR

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  • Vasopressors
    • epinephrin
    • vasopressin

*cause vasoconstriction, inc arterial pressure

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Epinephrine

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  • Beta adrenergic agonist - looking for alpha 2 properties
  • Low dose way to go
    • 0.01-0.02 mg/kg
  • admin IV every 3-5 minutes
  • can give endotracheally
    • double dose
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Vasopressin

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  • Potent peptide pressor
    • remains more effective in toxic, acidic environments
  • dose: 0.8 units/kg
  • can be given endotracheally
  • rescue therapy if epinephrine fails
  • benefecial in severe acidosis/prolonged arrest
30
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Atropine

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  • for bradycardia
  • can reverse vagally mediated arrest
  • dose: 0.04 mg/kg
31
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Anti arrhythmics

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  • Lidocaine
    • poor efficacy
    • electrical defibrillation first
      • diminishes effectiveness of defibrillation
    • cautious use in cats
  • Amiodarone
    • can help convert ventricular fibrillation and electrical defibrillation
    • can cause anaphylaxis
    • consider if 2 defibrillations are unsuccessful
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Sodium bicarb

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  • Generally overused
  • Only use if
    • severe pre-existing metabolic acidosis
    • OR in arrests due to hyperkalemia
    • And if other methods haven’t resolved problem
  • Used guided by blood gasa
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Calcium gluconate

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  • Use in arrests only if
    • hyperkalemia was cause of arrest
      • blocked cat
    • Severe pre-existing hypocalcemia
      • eclampsia
  • contraindicated for all other arrest reasons
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Reversals

  • Opioids
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Alpha 2 agonists
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  • Opioids
    • Naloxone
  • Benzodiazepines
    • Flumazenil
  • Alpha 2 agonists
    • Atipamezole
    • Yohimbine
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Defibrillation

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  • Converts ventricular fib into a perfusing rhythm
  • temporarily stuns heart muscle
  • IT CAN KILL PEOPLE
    • person holding paddles is responsible
    • clear people of pet and table
  • Dose (external)
    • 2-4 J/kg
  • clip fur away if possible
  • use gel
  • alcohol will light on fire
  • deliver one shock them resume chest compressions 2-3 minutes
36
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open chest CPR

Defib

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  • Internal defib paddles
  • put saline soaked gauze between heart and paddles
  • place directly across heart and press firmly before shocking
37
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Fluid therapy

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  • Use if hypovolemic or severely dehydrated
    • Isotonic crystalloid: LRS
    • hypertonic crystalloid: 7.2% saline
    • Colloids: hetastarch
    • blood products/oxyglobin
      • if arrest was due to anemia

*overuse of fluids can reduce cardiac perfusion

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Post-resuscitation care

Myocardial dysfunction

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  • Myocardial dysfunction
    • pressors usually needed
    • dobutamine for myocardial contractility
      • careful in cats
    • dopamine commonly used
      • start at 10 mcg/kg/min
      • monitor EKG
      • reduce dose if sig arrhythmia, tachycardia or hypertension
    • norepinephrine
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Post resuscitation care

Neurological dysfunction

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  • Neuro dysfunction
    • can take hours to regain cranial nerve function
    • young animals tolerate ischemia better than old
    • serial neuro monitoring
    • consider therapeutic hypothermia
40
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Post resuscitation monitoring

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  • EKG
  • Blood pressure
  • Pulse ox
  • PCV/TS
  • Blood gases
41
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Post-resuscitation: survival

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  • some may need ventilators
  • nursing care
  • 2-8% survival rate to hospital d/c

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