Conventional Vent Flashcards
What is the goal when you first meet the baby at delivery?
Get the lung inflated
Oxygen is a ___________ gas.
It produces lots of _____ _______.
Poisonous
Free radicals
__% of CO goes to the lungs in fetus
When stressed can be ___%
7%
1%
The goal during transition is to have ___% of blood from right heart go to the lungs
100%
The lung inflates by ___ times in the DR that as in utero
4 x’s
There is an ___ -fold increase in pulmonary blood flow in the DR
8
In the DR, PVR immediately plummets by?
1/2
T/F: establishment of oxygenation and ventilation is independent of FiO2 used to establish the initial lung inflation.
True
O2 may delay baby’s first breath by ____ seconds.
24
NPR: use ___% O2 w/term
Use ___-___% w/preterm
Must rely on _____ ______ to determine O2 need.
21%/RA
21-30%
Pulse oximetry
NRP: O2 sats should be:
By 1 minute
by 5 minutes
by 10 minutes
60-65%
80-85%
85-95%
A study done of < 32 wkrs on RA vs 100% FiO2 showed which was better?
Neither, somewhere in the middle, follow institution guidelines
What pH is indication of Acute Respiratory failure?
PaO2?
What would you do?
pH 7.2 and falling
Inability to maintain > 50 w/O2
Give some PPV through CPAP or ETT & Surfactant admin
A PaO2 correlates w/SpO2’s around ___%
85%
Is Apnea a sign of Respiratory Distress?
No
Respiratory Failure
Respiratory Failure is defined by what?
Blood gases (pH too low, PaCO2 too high)
Respiratory Distress is a ________ ________.
Physical Finding:
Increased WOB, tachypnea, retractions, cyanosis
Try only provide ventilation for RDS/Resp Failure?
Respiratory Failure
Reasons for Apnea?
What will you see?
CNS injury
Apnea of Prematurity
**(2 most common)
High CO2, but oxygenate pretty well (b/c have inflated lung)
HMD/Alveolar Dz/Pneumonia babies do what?
So their problem is ____ not ___
Shunt blood b/c lung is collapsed
O2, not CO2
Most important concept to understand is:
The Massive Residual Volume of a babies lungs.
They have a large residual capacity.
What is the typical Vt set on vent?
5 cc/kg
What is the residual capacity of an infant?
25 cc/kg
If there’s an obstruction, baby can get air ___ but can’t get air ____.
Will result in a ___ level of _____.
in
out
high, CO2
Lawyers have decided a preemie <1500 gms is at risk of ROP if PaO2 is >___.
> ____ is a medical, legal emergency
> 80
> 100
BOOST and support trials concluded that targeted Sats
< 90
What happened in the ‘60’s when babies w/HMD were grunting (no surfactant then) and subsequently intubated?
We took away their FRC
Grunting is a babies way of maintaining?
FRC
What are the 6 hazards of mechanical ventilation?
- Airway trauma
- Infection
- Pneumothorax
- PIE
- Impaired venous return
- IVH? (CPAP-inhibits venous return)
- Chronic Lung disease
The ETT is always smaller than?
So, if it is smaller, it has more________.
the trachea
Resistance
ETT’s _____ the lining of the trachea, even if just in/out for Surfactant
injure
In 1971, _____ was discovered, creating Neonatal ICU
CPAP
Name the 2 forms of oxygen toxicity
- O2 itself applied physically to the lung
~40% tolerated well
>70% is toxic to the lung - PaO2 (blood oxygen) is toxic to the organs inside (i.e. ROP)
The CORRECT PaO2 is _________
unknown
PaO2 measures?
The pressure in the dissolved plasma next to the RBC’s
O2 sat monitor is much more ________ measurement of O2 content than PaO2
exact
NIRS monitoring measures deep ______ saturation monitoring.
Why is this helpful?
Venous
To know the balance at oxygenation the end of the circulatory cycle (balance of checking account)
FRC is _____ compared to Vt
Huge
You have an FRC to allow for?
Oxygen exchange
CO2 diffuses ____ x’s faster than O2
22 x’s
O2 is _____ to diffuse.
Slow
Even during exhalation you use _____ to absorb oxygen.
FRC
FRC is a huge volume = ____cc/kg
25 cc/kg
Residual volume in adults is synonymous w/?
FRC
Oxygen =
FRC
Oxygenation is determined by ________, which is determined by _______, which is determined by ________.
FRC (residual volume)
MAP
PEEP