CCP 213 Critical Care Anesthesia 💉 Flashcards
PACE plan steps
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- primary
- alternate
- contingency
- emergency
4 A’s of anesthesia
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- amnesia
- analgesia
- areflexia
- autonomic stability
Big syringe (“three syringes principle”)
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- induction agent. “amnesia”.
2. typically a “big syringe” because push dose propofol is done in a 20cc syringe
Little syringe (“three syringes principle”)
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- analgesic agent and/or paralytic agent. “analgesia” + “areflexia”.
- usually a 10cc syringe “little” because it’s smaller than the 20cc propofol syringe
Chaser syringe (“three syringes principle”)
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4 is actually super important. like lets say you’re gonna be inducing someone who is super hemodynamically tenuous. Like, if you’re gonna be giving them ketamine, even though its a relatively “stable” agent, it would probably behoove you to preload them with hemodynamic support BEFORE you give them the sedative that way you’re not behind the curve playing catch up
- hemodynamic support agent.
- examples include push dose epinephrine, phenylephrine, atropine
- “chases” your induction to maintain autonomic stability.
- depending on how unstable the patient is, you may lead with your chaser syringe
life threatening adverse reaction to rocuronium
anaphylaxis
depolarizing NMBA and mechanism
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- succinylcholine
2. binds to and activates the ACh receptor, at first causing muscle contraction, then paralysis
non-depolarizing NMBA and mechanism
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- rocuronium
2. competitively blocks the binding of ACh to its receptors
dosing for succinylcholine in RSI
1.5 mg/kg
dosing for rocuronium in RSI
0.6-1.2 mg/kg
The three stages of anesthesia
- Induction
- Maintenance
- Emergence
Novel reversal agent for non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents
Sugammadex
CCP Indications for intubation
Hint, there’s more than you learned in ALS…
- Failure to oxygenate
- Failure to ventilate
- Failure to protect airway
- Predicted clinical course
- Refractory shock (offload systemic demand)
- Profound metabolic acidosis (offload systemic demand)
potential causes of hypotension following induction
- SNS ablation from sedatives (sympathetic tone)
- PPV compression of vasculature (preload)
- Myocardial depressant and vasodilatory action of drugs (preload, contractility)
- Patient could be catecholamine deplete (sympathetic tone)
Anaesthetics MOA
Propofol (GABA-A receptor agonist, direct activation of the GABA receptor)
Etomidate (GABA-A)
Midazolam (GABA-A)
Ketamine (noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist)
Opiates (Mu receptor agonist)