Inhalation Agents Flashcards
Uptake
removal from the lungs
Increase in uptake
delay anesthetic action
Increase of Input of anesthetic
Help speed up anesthetic action and fall asleep
The more dissolved in the blood
the more time patient takes to fall asleep
Blood solubility
affects delivery.
Vehicle absorption and elimination
Lungs
Desflurane and N2O
minimal metabolism
Measurable
Inspired concentration
and expired concentration
At equillibration of FA/FI
any changes in the machine occurs quickly in the brain
N2O is the only gas
at room temperature
The larger breathing circuit
Hinders anesthetic, can work against wor
Fraction inspired
The gas then enters the inspiratory limb of the circuit to be inspired
by the patient
Fraction alveolar FA.
The inspired concentration is then taken into the lungs through spontaneous or controlled ventilation and transferred to the alveoli
VA are respiratory
Depressant
Too much anesthetics
breathing will decline, protecting mechanism of the patient
**2 effects of VA:
Myocardial depressant
Respiratory depressants
The more soluble in the BLOOD
the longer time to fall asleep
BLOOD GAS PARTITION of Des
1.4
BG partition of 0.5 (fills in quicker)
At equillibration, for every 2 molecules in alveolar gas, 1 moleculres will be in the blood
BG partition of 1.5 (fills in slower)
2 molecules in alveolar gas, 3 molecules in the blood.
Partial pressure determined by
Solubility in blood and solubility in the tissues.
Relationships
FD> FI > FA> pressure arterial > pressure brain> Pressure venous
Agents with a low blood to gas partition coefficient equilibrate_________ than do agents with a high blood to gas partition coefficient if other variable are held constant.
more rapidly
Mass spectometry
How much in and how much out