Cardiovascular Flashcards
What is the Etiologu and Diagnosis of Acute Pericarditis?
When do they occur?
When does it worsen?

What is the treatment for Acute Pericarditis?
Medications
What is reserved for cases that don’t respon to conventional treatment?

This is an accumulation of pericardial fluid in the perdicardial sac
normally 15 - 100 ml of fluids

What are the S/S of a patient that has cardiac tamponade?
mild to severe that occurs gradually.

What are the s/s of chronic cardiac tamponade?
Signs:
- tachycardia
- JVD
- hepatomegaly
- peripheral edema
- CVP almost always increased
- Tamponade may be the cause of low cardiac output post cardiac surgery
Tamponade can happen chronically,
as cardiac tamponade progresses there will be equalization of pressure –
Equalization of pressures:
Equalization of LA pressures with RV end diastolic pressure –> impaired diastolic filling pressure of the heart –> decrease stroke volume –> decrease CO
How do we diagnose tamponade?
What is a difinitive measure?

How do we treat tamponade?
Recommendations for pericardiocentesis procedure
No general anesthesia if pericadiocentesis is the plan.
Recommendation: very acute severe cardiac tamponade
Light sedation –
local anesthetic
**hand holding
—> sometimes tamponade is severe enough that patient will arrest if put on GA

What is chronic constrictive pericarditis

What is the definitive treatment of Chronic Constrictive pericarditis
When do you expect hemodynamic improvement?
surgical removal of constricting pericardium (pericardial stripping)
– expect improvement in 3 months (its slow)
What is the anesthetic management of Constrictive Pericarditis
what are the hemodynamic changes that you want minimized?
**heavy handed on opiods**
*tend to be long cases**

What is a most serious aneurysm?
what are we concerned about?

dilation to all 3 layers if an artery
50 % increase in diameter
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Where do most dissection commonly happens?
What are the factors in aneurysmal disease?
What are Causes of dissection?
most commonly happens in the thorax in the ascending aorta
What are the factors in aneurysmal disease?
- Atherosclerosis (80%)
- HTN
- Older age
- Male sex
- Family Hx of aneurysmal disease
- Smoking
Causes:
– Blunt trauma, cocaine use, iatrogenic dissection d/t aortic cannulation, systemic HTN, chronic dissection (17%)
most common symptom of aneurysm
back pain
Thoracuc Aortic Aneursym Inherited disorders

Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm Classifications
Type 2 crosses the diaphragm
Type 3 also crosses
Type 4 below diaphragm

DeBakey Classification

What are S.S of TAA
often asymptomatic

S/S of TAA
dissecting**

What is the mechanism of cardiac tamponade in TAA
Cardiac Tamponade in TAA:
Retrogade dissection of sinus of valsava in the pericardial space
—> major cause of death
How di we diagnose TAA?

Type A Dissection
what is the mortality?

Type B Dissection
where is it?
what is the mortality?

when do we repair TAA?

















































