Important facts Flashcards
What factors increase respiratory depression with a PCA?
-Basal infusion rate
-Administration of other sedative medications
-Old age
-OSA and pulmonary disease
Respiratory depression is NOT higher when compared to other opioid routes
What opioid is not recommended with PCA pumps?
-Meperidine
What meds
target perception ?
General Anesthetics, opioids, and Alpha-2
What drugs target modulation ? Where is the most important site?
Neuraxial
NMDA
Alpha 2
AchE
SSRI
SNRI
Substantia Gelatinosa
What is the order of block onset for fiber types?
B
C
A (gamma and delta)
A (Alpha and Beta
What concept is analogous to ED50?
Minimum effective concentration.
Lower are more easily blocked
Higher are harder to block
Do local anesthetics affect the RMP or TP?
NO
Where do local anesthetics bind to?
Alpha subunit INSIDE the sodium channel.
What are the three building blocks of a local anesthetic ?
benzene ring - lipophilic
Intermediate chain - determines class
Tertiary amine- hydrophilic
What is the primary determinant of potency ?
Lipid solubility
Intrinsic vasodilating effect is a secondary effect of potency
What determines the duration of action of a local anesthetic?
- Protein binding
- Lipid solubility and intrinsic vasodilating activity
Which local has a high intrinsic vasodilating effect?
Lidocaine
Which locals have low protein binding
- Chloroprocaine - 0
- Procaine - 6
- Prilocaine - 55
- Lidocaine - 65
What factors influence vascular uptake into the blood?
- Site of injection
- Tissue blood flow
- Properties of local
- Metabolism
- Adding a vasoconstrictor
Rank the injection sites from most vascular to least
IV
Tracheal
Interpleural
Intercostal
Caudal
Epidural
Brachial Plexus
Femoral
Sciatic
Subq
***Femoral is low
What is the most common sign of LAST?
Seizure
Except cardiotoxicity with Bupivacaine
What conditions increase the risk of CNS toxicity with LAST?
Hypercarbia - Increases blood flow to brain and increases the free fraction to enter the brain
Hyperkalemia - Raises RMP
Metabolic acidosis - Decreases the convulsion threshold
What drug has the highest cardiotoxicity ? Why?
Bupivacaine, Levobupivacaine, Ropivacaine, Lidocaine
Affinity for the voltage gated channel
What’s the drug of choice for resuscitation from LAST? What to avoid ?
Amiodarone
Avoid vaso, lido, and procainamide
Treatment for LAST?
Lipid emulsion therapy
Bolus 100mL over 2-3 minutes
Infusion of 250mL over 20 minutes
Repeat and/or double
If under 70kg
1.5mL/kg of LBW
0.25mL/kg/min
Repeat
MAX DOSE 12mL/kg
Max dose age for tumescent anesthesia ?
- 50mg/kg
What two locals produce a leftward shift in the oxyhemoglobin curve?
Prilocaine and benzocaine which creates anemia
ALSO
EMLA and cetacaine
Treatment for methemoglobinemia ?
Methylene blue 1-2mg/kg over 5 minutes
What patients are at risk for methemoglobinemia ?
Glucose-6 phosphate reductase deficiency
and
Fetal hgb
Max dose for EMLA cream?
0-3 , 1g - 10cm
3-12 months , 2g - 20cm
1-6 years ,10g - 100cm
7-12 years , 20g - 200cm
How does bicarbonate affect local ?
Shortens the onset time and reduces pain
WHAT DRUG REDUCES THE EFFECTIVNESS OF OPIOIDS?
Chloroprocaine
What drugs offer supplemental analgesia to locals?
Clonidine, Epi, Opioids
What can improve the diffusion through tissue?
Hyaluronidase, used in eye blocks frequently
What conditions allow extrajunctional receptors to populate in the myocyte?
Motor neuron injury
Spinal cord injury
Burns
Cerebrovascular accident
Chemical denervation
Tetanus
Sepsis
Muscular dystrophy
How are extra junctional receptors affected by sux and nondepolarizers ?
Sux - remain open longer so have an increased in Potassium
Nondepolarizers - Need an increase dosage
Is there fade with Succ? When do you see fade?
No unless high dose or continuous IV infusion
7-10mg/kg
What TOF ratio correlates with full recovery from a NMB?
> 0.9 at the adductor pollicis
Best location to measure the onset and recovery for NMB?
Onset - Orbicularis Oculi
Recovery - Adductor pollicis
What is the best test to assess recovery from NMB?
Tongue blade. Max 50% of receptors are occupied
What other tests are used to assess NMB recovery?
No fade (60% of receptors)
Sustained head lift and hand grip (50% of receptors)
Tidal volume >5mL/kg (80)
Vital Capacity>20mL (70)
Ins force better than negative 40 (50)
How does succ affect HR, IOP, Renal failure, intragastric pressure?
Tachy and Bradycardia
Increase IOP
Okay to give in renal failure if K is normal, however caution with elevated K
Increases intragastric but is canceled out by esophageal sphincter tone
What are the three variants of pseudocholinesterase ?
Homo (Dibucaine of 80) 8 min duration of succ
Hetero (Dibucaine of 50) 25 min duration of succ
Atypical Homo (dibucaine of 25) 5 hour duration of succ
What is the treatment for hyperkalemia cardic arrest ?
Calcium to raise the Threshold Potential
How is hyperkalemia treated when from Succ?
Calcium
Hyperventilation, glucose and insulin, sodium bicarb, albuterol
Diuretics, dialysis, volume
Who is at the highest risk for myalgia?
Young adults, women more than men, those who do not exercise
How can myalgia be reduced?
HIGH dose of succ
Lidocaine
NSAIDS
NOT opioids
What populations are at increased risk with succ?
Charcot - Marie - Tooth
Hyperkalemic paralysis
Duchenne’s
Guillain Barre
Upregulation of extra junctional
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
MS
Rank the NMB smallest to largest ED95 ( dose which there is a 95% decrease in twitch height )
Cis
Vec
Miv and Panc
Atra
Roc
Need 3x for intubating dose
What NBM are metabolized through Hoffman?
-Atracurium 33% (66% by non specific plasma esterase (different that Pseudo))
-Cisatracurium 100%
Which NMB is metabolized by pseudocholinesterase? what other paralytic is ?
Mivacurium and Succ
What does Hoffman rely on ? how does it change the reaction?
Normal blood pH
Faster with alkalosis and hyperthermia
Slower with acidosis and hypothermia
What is the active metabolite of cis and atracurium ?
Laudanosine - CNS stimulant
How is roc metabolized and eliminated? Any metabolite?
No metabolite
70% through liver
How is vec metabolized and eliminated? Any metabolite?
Liver
50% Liver and 50% kidney
3-OH vec
How is panc metabolized and eliminated? Any metabolite?
Liver
15% Liver and 85% kidney
3-OH panc
What drugs potentiate (increase the effect) NMB
Antibiotics, antidysrhythmics, locals, diuretics, dantrolene, cyclosporine
How do electrolytes potentiate NMB?
Increased Lithium and Mag
Decreased Ca and K
Which NMB have a histamine release
Succ, atra, mivacurium
What NMB can block the heart?
Panc and a little roc
What NMB has a vagolytic effect?
Panc - Increases HR while no effect on SVR
What NMB should be avoided with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Panc
Atra
Miva
What NMB is most likely to cause anaphylaxis?
Succ
3 examples ways to inhibit acetylcholinesterase ?
Competitive through electrostatic attachment - Edrophonium
Formation of carbamyl esters (competitive) - neostigmine, pyridostigmine
Phosphorylation - noncompetitive inhibition - organophosphates and echothiopate
How does renal failure affect the dosing of acetylcholinesterase?
Prolongs the duration
Also prolongs the duration of NMB
Is neostigmine faster or slower in children or adults?
Faster in children
What acetylcholinesterase inhibitor passes through the BBB.
Physostigmine
The rest do NOT
Common side effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors includes
DUMBBELLS - Increases parasympathetic nervous system
Diarrhea
Urination
Miosis
Bradycardia
Bronchoconstriction
Emesis
Lacrimation
Laxation
Salvation
Which anticholinergic does not pass through the BBB?
Glyco
When can atropine cause paradoxical bradycardia?
small IV dose.
<0.5 mg in adult
What are two ways AchE inhibitors increase Ach?
-Enzyme inhibition
-Presynaptic effects
What AchE inhibitor is mainly presynaptic ? What is it also used for ?
Edrophonium
Tensilon test, symptoms get better with MG and will get worse if in cholinergic crisis
Which AchE inhibitors inhibit pseudocholinesterase?
Neostigmine and pyridostigmine
How is edrophonium metabolized and eliminated? Neostigmine?
75% renal
50/50
Onset of AchE inhibitors is directly related to?
Depth of block
They also have an additive effect and more isn’t always better