Drugs in General Anesthesia Flashcards
Drugs used in GA
IV induction agents
Inhalational induction agents
Muscle relaxants and reversals
Analgesics
All the induction agents are _____ and act on _____ receptors which causes ______ and subsequently _______
- Depressants
- GABA receptors
- Increased chloride conductance
- membrane hyperpolarization
Examples of barbiturate induction agents
Thiopentone sodium
Methohexital
What is arm brain circulation time?
Time taken for onset of induction agents
Onset of Thiopentone sodium
15 secs
ph of Thiopentone sodium
10.5 (most alkaline)
Thiopentone sodium:
1. Smell
2. Termination of action is by ____ because the drug is highly ______
3. Dose
4. AOC in ________
5. Other use
6. Accidental intraarterial injection causes
7. Mx in case of intraarterial injection
- Garlic/ onion
- Redistribution, lipophillic
- 3-5mg/kg
- NeuroSx, Hyperthyroidism
- Truth serum
- pain, pallor, gangrene, edema
- Retain cannula (to prevent vasospasm), saline/ heparin flush, stellate ganglion block (lower cervical sympathetic ganglion)
Why is Methohexital avoided in neuroSx?
Proconvulsant
Indication of Methohexital
Dose
ECT
1-1.5 mg/kg
Examples of non barbiturate induction agents
Propofol
Etomidate
Ketamine
Propofol
1. Form? This leads to? What is done to prevent this?
2. Made of?
3. Should be used within?
4. Properties
5. Dose:
6. Duration
- Oily–> painful–> add lignocaine
- Egg lecithin, soya bean oil
- 6 hrs
- Antipruritic, antiemetic
- 1-2.5 mg/kg
- 8-10 mins (w/o hangover)
Propofol
1. AOC in?
2. Side effects?
- Day care Sx and MAC Ophthalmic Sx bc dec IOP
LMA insertion and in laryngospasm bc dec reflexes
TIVA
Endoscopy and colonoscopy - Propofol infusion syndrome– on prolonged–
green urine, severe metaolic Acidosis, asystole
addictive d/t pleasant hallucinations
Etomidate
1. Form:
2. Properties
3. Dose
4. AOC in
5. Side effects
- oily– propylene glycol
- Most cardiostable
- 0.2-0.3 mg/kg
- DC cardioversion, cardiac aneurysm Sx
- myoclonus, emetic and epileptogenic, inhibits adrenocortical synthesis
Ketamine
1. Form
2. Properties
3. ___ receptor antagonist
4. DOse:
5. How to increase duration
- Phencyclidine derivative
- Dissociative anesthesia, depressant (in vivo)
- NMDA; increases catecholamine
- 1-2 mg/kg IV; 4-6 mg/kg IM
- intrathecal admin; used with LA
Ketamine
1. AOC in
2. Side effects
3. C/I
- Shock ( to incr HR and BP)
Asthma/ COPD (bronchodilator)
TOF
In low resource settings (burns, i and D)
Pediatric Sx - inc oral secretions (Tx: atropine/ glycopyrrolate), unpleasant hallucinations/ emergence (reduces with midazolam)
- HTN, cardiac conditions, ocular sx (inc IOP)
Inhalational agents enter and exit circulation via?
lungs
Inhalational induction agents are used to _____
maintain depth of anesthesia
Newer inhalational agents
Halothane, Isoflurane, Desflurane, Sevoflurane
They are non flammable
Older inhalational agents
Ether, chloroform, trilene, cyclopropane
Meyer overton rule
Potency proportional to lipid solubility
MAC
min drug required to produce immobility to painful stimulus
potency inverse proportional to MAC values
Arrange inhalational agents in order of least MAC to most MAC
Methoxyflurane
Halothane
Isoflurane
Sevoflurane
Desflurane
N2O
MAC of N20
104
MAC of Desflurane
6
MAC of methoxyflurane
0.2
Concentration effect
increased conc–> quicker induction
Second gas effect
in presence of N2O, conc of other gas increases. d/t rapid movement of N2O into pulmonary circulation
What effects are seen at start of surgery?
Conc effect and second gas effect seen simultaneously
What effect is seen at the end of sx?
Diffusion hypoxia/ fink effect
Diffusion hypoxia?
AKA Fink effect
Rapid diffusion of N2o from pulm circulation dilutes the o2 present– hypoxia
Mx: O2 supplementation
Blood gas partition coefficient
Conc of agent in blood/ conc of agent in alveoli
increased B/G ratio means?
delayed induction as it has more solubility in blood
Order drugs on least to highest B/G
Xenon
Desflurane
N2O
Sevoflurane
Isoflurane
Halothane
Methoxyflurane
Which new inhalational agents are avoided in asthmatics?
Isoflurane (pungent)
desflurane (irritant)
AOC for asthmatics
Sevoflurane– sweet smell
Also used in Day care surgery and lung injury
Effect of new inhalational agents on resp system
dec RR
dec pulm vascular resistance
mild hypoxic pulm vasoconstriction
Effect of inhalational agents on CVS
Dec HR and BP
AOC for cardiac patients
Sevoflurane > Isoflurane
Which agent causes Coronary steal syndrome?
Isoflurane (only theoretically)
Maximum HR dec is seen with
Halothane
Which agent is avoided in cardiac patients?
Desflurane– increases HR temporarily and irritant
Which agent sensitizes myocardium to adrenaline?
Halothane
Effect of inhalational agents on CNS
Incr cerebral blood flow and ICP
Which agent is c/i in neurosurgery?
Halothane (max increase in ICP)
Enflurane causes ____
Seizures
How is rise of ICP countered in inhalational agents?
by hyperventilation (dec EtCO2–> dec ICP)
AOC in CNS surgery
Iso = Des = Sev
Electrical silence
higher conc of inhalational agents causes flat lines on EEG
At what level is electrical silence produced for isoflurane
1.5 MAC
Main controller of ICP is ____ level
PaCO2