Full Term Newborn Disease Flashcards
What is the most common underlying diagnosis of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn?
Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
A change from fetal circulation to adult circulation requires what to occur?
A drop in PVR and a significant increase in SVR.
What change in the blood gas, sensed by chemoreceptors in the aorta and carotid artery, causes a chemical message to be sent to the brain stem to increase ventilation?
A drop in PaO2.
Which of the following describes cardiomegaly in infants?
A heart silhouette occupying >60% of the thoracic diameter.
Which of the following are considered proper management of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn?
Decrease pulmonary vascular resistance and Minimize ventilator-induced lung injury.
What is the most frequently used pulmonary vasodilator for neonates?
Inhaled nitric oxide.
Complications of extracorporeal life support include which of the following?
IVH, Cardia dysrhythmias, Infection, and Bleeding.
What are the advantages of using venovenous ECMO support?
Spares the carotid artery and Potential emboli remain on the venous side of the patient.
What factors show an increased risk for meconium aspiration syndrome?
Maternal, hypertension, and Fetal distress.
Which of the following is NOT an indication for intubation and ventilation in neonates with meconium aspiration syndrome?
Respiratory alkalosis.
What is Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN)?
A syndrome with severe hypoxemia and high pulmonary artery pressures that occurs when the pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), normally high in utero, fails to decrease at birth.
When does PPHN usually present?
At birth or shortly after.
What is PPHN characterized by?
By a failure to establish adequate pulmonary and systemic oxygenation.
What happens if PPHN goes without treatment?
It can cause severe cardiac dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction, and death.
Where is a PDA located and what issue does it cause?
It is in the aorta and pulmonary artery and causes a lack of O2 to get to the rest of the body because it is not being picked up by the lungs.
What happens if normal pulmonary vasculature is impeded?
It can result in sustained high pulmonary artery pressure.
What is the result of persistent PPHN?
Hypoxemia and cyanosis.
What is preductal SPO2?
Oxygen saturation is taken from an area where arterial blood supply comes prior to ductus arteriosus. Primarily the right hand.
What is post ductal SPO2?
Oxygen saturation taken from an area where arterial blood supply comes after ductus arteriosus which is typically placed on the lower limbs.
When is PPHN suspected?
When the preductal SPO2 and the post ductal SPO2 shows greater than a 10% difference.
What does the ABG show in PPHN?
When PaO2 has a 15mm difference between pre and post ductal.
What is the oxygen index equation (OI)?
Paw x FIO2 x 100/PaO2.
What happens when there is a higher OI number?
It worsens the patient’s ability to oxygenate despite high levels of support.
What is an Oxygen Index greater than 20 an indication for?
Inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNO).
What is an Oxygen Index greater than 40 an indication for?
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).
What is the management and treatment for PPHN?
O2 therapy (maintain PaO2 90-120), conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV), HFOV when CMV pressures or rates are too high, pulmonary vasodilators such as iNO maintain HCT at 35% to 45%, and ECMO for pts who are unresponsive to above therapeutic measures w an OI >40.
What is nitric oxide?
It Is a substance produced by nearly every cell and organ in the human body.
What are the functions of nitric oxide?
Vasodilation, platelet inhibition, immune regulation, enzyme regulation and neurotransmission.
What is nitric oxides main use in the medical environment?
For smooth muscle relaxation of the pulmonary vascular bed.
What does inhaled nitric oxide do?
Selectively dilates the pulmonary vasculature adjacent to open lung units.
What is general usage for iNO?
A failure of ventilation to restore normal PVR.
Why do we want vasodilation
Because everything is constricted.
iNO only works where?
It only works where the blood flow goes it has a short 1/2 life and only works w open alveoli.
What is the recommended starting dose for nitric oxide?
20 ppm
Half life of iNO
<5 sec
What does iNO combine with?
Hb and methemoglobinemia and nitrate.
What is a positive response to iNO therapy?
It is evident by an increase in oxygenation (SpO2 and PaO2) as well as a decrease in the preductal and postductal SpO2 gradient.
What are the 2 most common side effects of iNO?
Rebound hypoxemia and methemoglobinemia.
How do you prevent rebound hypoxemia?
iNO weaning is done in increments which avoids abrupt discontinuation of iNO.
What problems cause a need for iNO?
Swallowed meconium, severe resp distress, or something that has caused.
What will not benefit from iNO?
Atelectatic or fluid-filled lungs due to no uptake of gas.
When will iNO have improved outcomes?
If more reaches capillary endothelium by opening collapsed alveoli which will increase the degree of vasodilation.
What is the responsiveness to iNO enhanced by?
The use of PEEP and high-frequency ventilation.
What shows responsiveness after using iNO?
Increase of 20% O2 saturation.