High Yield PPT: Emma Holliday Ramahi Flashcards
Absolute contraindication to surgery?
Diabetic Coma, DKA
What to do to try to maximize someones nutrition?
Enteral feedings
Other reasons surgeons will delay surgery?
Liver failure
Poor nutrition
When should a smoker stop smoking prior to surgery?
8 weeks!
Smoker patient: what to think of as coming out of anesthesia?
Don’t keep O2 sat at 100 % because likely chronic CO2 retainer. Hypoxia is their strongest drive for respiration.
What is Goldman’s Index?
Tells you who is at greatest risk for surgery
Most important factor in Goldman’s index (biggest predictor of peri-operative mortality)?
CHF
What should you check in patient with CHF?
Ejection fraction
(if less than 35 %, no surgery).
2nd most important indicator when predicting mortality from surgery?
MI within 6 months
Patient who comes in for pre-op evaluation and has a late systolic ejection murmur, crescendo-decrescendo?
Aortic stenosis
Meds to stop before surgery?
Aspirin NSAIDs Metformin Vit. E Warfarin
Why stop metformin?
Risk of lactic acidosis
Want INR less than?
1.5
Take what dose of insulin?
1/2 morning dose
When do you dialyze before surgery?
24 hours pre-op
Why worry if BUN > 100?
Increased risk of post-op bleeding. Uremia –> uremic toxins interact with platelets!!
Coag pannel of patient with uremic platelet dysfunction?
normal platelet count
Increased bleeding time
Good for weaning patient off of ventilator?
Pressure support
Assist-control vent setting
Set Tidal Volume and Rate…if patient takes a breath, predetermined volume still delivered
Pressure suppor vent
Patient rules rate! Boost of pressure is given if they are not able to take in entire TV on their own!
CPAP
Patient breathes on own! But + pressure given all the time in order to make sure alveoli stay open
PEEP
Keeps alveoli open in patients with ARDS or CHF…alveoli are collapsing and that’s what is causing the difficulty in facilitating gas exchange. Positive pressure only given at the END of cycle
Patient on vent…how do we want to evaluate management?
ABG
low pO2 in patient on vent
not getting enough oxygen…increase FiO2!
What does too much oxygen do?
Free radical damage…too high concentrations can worsen ARDS etc.
Patient has low PaCO2 and high pH…how can you fix it?
Decrease TV (better option because decreasing more of the air in the functional space)
or decrease rate–blow out less CO2
Anion gap equation
Na+ - (Cl- + HCO3-)
Normal anion gap
8-12
Causes of non-gap acidosis
Diarrhea**main one
Diuretic
RTAs
Why is diarrhea most common cause of non-gap acidosis?
GI tract has a lot of bicarb…if pooping a lot…getting rid of a lot of bicarb–metabolic acidosis
How to differentiate cause of metabolic alkalosis?
Check Urine Chloride
Vomiting–urine chloride will be low
High–could be genetic problem
Causes of hypervolemic hypernatremia?
CHF
Nephrotic
Cirrhotic
Next test after finding a patient with Normal volume but decreased sodium…SIADH
CXR. Paraneoplastic syndrome associated with lung cancer
Treatment of hyponatremia if patient is hypovolemic?
Normal saline
When do we use hypertonic 3 % saline?
Severly symptomatic hyponatremia (seizures, Altered mental status, or if sodium is super lowwww like less than 110)
Why don’t we use this hypertonic saline more often?
Central pontine myelinolysis
Appropriate rate of sodium correction
Between 12-24 meq/day
or 0.5-1 mEq/hour
Treatment of Hypernatremia
Replace with D5W or hypotonic fluid
Low calcium can do what to EKG
Prolonged QT interval
Symptoms of Hypokalemia
Paralysis
Ileus
ST depression
U waves
Tx of hypokalemia
Give potassium! Monitor renal function.
EKG changes of hyperkalemia?
Peaked T waves
Prolonged PR and QRS
Sine waves
Treatment of hyperkalemia
*IMPORTANT
Give:
- Calcium-gluconate-stabilize cardiac membranes
- Insulin + glucose–shift K+ into cells
What can be used besides Insulin to get K+ into cells?
B-agonist like Albuterol
Makes you poop out potassium
kayexalate
maintenance iVF of choice
D51/2NS
erythematous, not peeling
1st deg. burn
epidermis
super painful, loss of integrity of epidermis
2nd degree burn
Dark or pale, no sensation because damage goes all the way through dermis and starts to affect nerves
3rd degree burn
Patient comes in confused, headache, cherry red skin
carbon monoxide poisoning
Check carboxyhemoglobin!
Cause of clotting in old people
Cancer
New clots, edematous, high BP, foamy pee
Nephrotic syndrome
(because losing protein in urine…some of first to go-antithrombin III)–hypercoaguabule state!
Most common inherited hypercoaguablitity?
Factor V leiden
What can’t you give someone with ATIII def?
Heparin
Young woman with multiple Spontaneous abortions?
lupus anticoagulant
Post op patient with thrombocytopenia but increased clotting?
Maybe they received heparain! HIT
Treat HIT with?
Leparudin or Agatroban
isolated decrease in platelets?
ITP
Normal platelets, increased bleeding time and PTT?
vWF disease
Low platelets
coags high
schistocytes
etc…
DIC
due to gram-sepsis (LPS), carcinomatosis, OB stuff
Parkland formula
for burn patient fluid resuscitation
Adults:
Kg x %BSA x 3-4
Kids:
Kg x %BSA x 2-4
Give half in first 8 hours, the rest over the next 16 hours
Route of giving antibiotics to burn patients
TOPICAL
Can cause leukopenia
Does not penetrate eschar
Silver sulfadiazene
Penetrates eschar
hurts like hell
Mafenide
Can cause hypokalemia and hyponatremia
doesn’t penetrate eschar
Silver nitrate
Electrical burn…get what test?
EKG
Pee red but no RBC in it…
Rhabdomyolysis causing myoglobinuria
Find myoglobinuria, check?
K+ level! Can cause fatal arrhythmias
Airway if patient is unconscious?
INTUBATE
Feel subcutaneous emphysema in neck after patient stabbed
Fiberoptic bronchoscope
What do you do after you intubate patient?
listen for breath sounds
indications to take someone with hemothorax to OR
High output greater than 1.5 L during initial chest tube insertion or greater than 200 cc/hour for first 4 hours
“White out lung”
Pulmonary contusion
Tx. Control pain, wait
Flail chest
> 3 consecutive rib fractures
Moves in upon inspiration
Tx for flail chest
Nerve block (for pain control)
*Don’t give opiates–decrease resp. drive
Petechial rash in chest
Fat embolism