High Yield Pediatric Anesthesia Review Flashcards
What is unique with the pediatric CO?
Heart rate dependent CO
Chest wall compliance in pediatric?
Greater chest wall compliance
What is the body water content in pediatric
Higher Total body water content
In pediatric patient ratio of BSA to body weight
Increase BSA to body weight
Nasal passages of the pediatric is
Narrower
Risk of morbidity in pediatric anesthesia is
INVERSELY Proportional to age
Lung volume changes in pediatric
Reduce FRC, reduced lung compliance
HR, BP and RR in the pediatric patients
Increase HR
REDUCED BP
Increased RR
How is the LV in the pediatric patient?
Noncompliant LV
Resistance to airflow is greater or lower in the pediatric patient?
Greater
Epiglottis in the pediatric patients
Longer
Head and tongue in the pediatric patients?
Larger head and tongue
Cannulation of IV in the pediatric patients is
Difficult for both venous and arterial
Larynx in the pediatric patients 2 characteristics?
Anterior and cephalad
Trachea and neck of the pediatric patients
Shorter trachea and neck
Protein binding for pediatric patients
Decreased protein binding for drug binding in blood
Induction and recovery in the pediatric patients?
More rapid induction and recovery from inhaled anesthetics.
MAC in pediatric patients is
Increased
Volume of distribution for water soluble drugs in pediatric patients?
RELATIVELY LARGER VOLUME OF DISTRIBUTION for water soluble drugs
NMJ for Pediatric patients
Immature NMJ
Hepatic bio-transformation for the pediatric patients?
Immature liver/hepatic biotransformation
0-1 months is a
Neonate
1-12 months is a
infant
12-24 months is a
toddler
2 -12 years is a
Young children
Neonate and infants ventilate (more/less) efficiently and why?
Less efficiently and thats because their ribs are more horizontal and they have BIG ABDOMEN (protuberant )
Airways of pediatric are ________
fewer and smaller
Alveoli are ______ in pediatric leading to e ______Lung compliance; ______airway resistance and ______ WOB
Fewer; Reduced lung complaince,
Increased airway resistance and increased WOB
Cartilaginous ribcage in pediatric does what to chest wall compliance ?
Increase chest wall compliance that promotes collapse during inspiration and a LOW RV at expiration.
LOW RV predispose what in pediatric patients?
Limited O2 reserve during apneic episodes
Predispose them to hypoxemia and ATELECTASIS
2 things that can both cause depression in respiration in PEDIATRIC ?
Hypoxia and HYPERCAPNIA
RR is ______ in neonates and reach adult values by ______
INCREASED
ADOLESCENT (it decreases)
2 VALUES that remains constant THROUGHOUT DEVELOPMENT?
TV and DEAD space per KG
GLOTTIS for Neonates and infants is at
C4
Narrowest point of the airway in children younger than 5
Cricoid cartilate
Narrowest point of the airway in ADULTS
Glottis
CO is very sensitive to changes in ______for the pediatric patient?
HR
3 major things that can trigger bradycardia and profound reduction in CO?
Activation of PNS
Anesthetic overdose
Hypoxia
Bradycardia in the pediatric patients lead to
Hypotension
Asystole
Intraoperative death.
2 immature in the infants causing more prone to adverse events
SNS and baroreceptor reflexes are immature.
PEDIATRIC RESPONSE To exogenous catecholamies
Blunted response to exogenous catecholamines.
Pediatric heart and VA
Immature heart more sensitive to depression by VA and to opioid-induced bradycardia.
VASCULAR TREE is less able to ______In pediatric patients
Less able to respond to hypovolemia with compensatory vasoconstriction.
Intravascular volume depletion in neonates and infants may manifest as
Hypotension without tachycardia.
Normal BP for 12 months old`
95/65
Normal BP for 3yo
100/70
Normal BP for 12 years
110/60
Neonate BP
65/40
RR normal in neonate
40
RR normal in 12 months old
30
RR normal in 3 years old
25
Pediatric kidney function approaches to normal by
6 months to as late as 2 years old
Premature neonates renal problems include
decrease CrCl Impaired sodium retention Impaired glucose excretion Impaired bicarb reabsorption Reducing dilution and concentrating ability
Neonates and GI problems
Increase incidence of GERD
Neonate conjugation
Liver conjugates drugs and other molecules.
What predispose neonates to hypoglycemia?
They have REDUCED glycogen stores.
Neonates are more predisposed to hypoglycemia because they have a reduced glycogen stores, what can offset this tendency?
Their IMPAIRED GLUCOSE EXCRETION
What are the neonates at the greatest risk for HYPOGLYCeMIA>?
PREMATURE
Small for gestational age
Receiving hyperalimentation
Born to mothers with diabetes.