Inhaled Anesthetics 1 (Exam 3) Flashcards
Inhaled Anesthetics: Pharmacokinetics (ADME)
- A: Uptake from alveoli into pulmonary capillary blood
- D: determined by fat content and cardiac issues
- M: not much metabolism; exhale drugs
- E: Exhaled
Describe how age influences how we respond to Inhaled Anesthetics.
- ↓ lean body mass
- ↑ fat
- ….↑ Vd for drugs (especially for more fat soluble)
- ↓ clearance if pulmonary exchange is impaired
- ↑ time constraints due to lower cardiac output
Describe Boyles law
- Given a constant temperature –>
- Pressure and volume of gas are inversely proportional
How do we apply Boyles Law to Inhaled anesthetics?
- As positive pressure ventilation begins, bellows contract
- Pressure increases within ventilator and circuit. (makes a pressure gradient)
- Anesthetic gases flow from high pressure to low pressure (lungs)
Fick’s diffusion depends on…..
- partial pressure of the gas
- Solubility of the gas (diffusion)
- Thickness of the membrane
Describe Graham’s law of Effussion.
- Process by which molecules diffuse through pores and channels without colliding
* Smaller molecules effuse faster dependent on solubility (diffusion)
Name a gas that is an exception of Graham’s Law. Describe why.
- Carbon dioxide. wt 44 g
- Oxygen. wt 32 g
- Carbon dioxide is more soluble
When we administer inhaled anesthetic, what is the end goal?
a. PA <–> Pα <–> PBr
Alveola Pressure is an indicator of:
- depth of anesthesia
- Recovery from anesthesia
Partial Pressure Gradients: Anesthetic Machine to Alveoli
INPUT
* Inspired partial pressure
* Alveolar ventilation
* Anesthetic breathing system (is there a lot of rebreathing)
* FRC
Partial Pressure Gradients: Alveoli to Blood
UPTAKE
* Blood gas partition coefficient
* Cardiac output
* A-v partial pressure difference
Partial Pressure Gradient: Arterial blood to brain
UPTAKE
* Brain:gas partition coefficient
* Cerebral blood flow
* a-v partial pressure difference
Describe the Concentration Effect
Impact of PI on the rate of rise of PA
* The higher the PI of a volatile, the more rapidly PA approaches PI
* Offsets uptake in Pa
Concentration Effect: Graph
- 85%: fastest rate of rise and equal in 5-6
- 50%- fast rate of rise: FI=FV
- Higher the concentration, the faster they will go to sleep.
What are the effects of “Over Pressurization”
- offsets slow induction from highly soluble volatiles
- A large increase in PA
- sustatained deliver at over pressurization can result in overdose
- Ex: 1 vital capacity breath of high concentration SEVO = loss of eyelash reflex.
Describe Second gas effect
- Uptake of a high-volume gas (N2O) accelerates concurrently administered companion gas– a volatile
How does Second Gas Effect work?
- High volume of N2O uptake in pulmonary capillary
- Increases concentration of 2nd gas
- Increased uptake of 2nd gas to due gradient
Second Gas Effect Graph
What (2) type of surgeries are counterindicated with using Second Gas Effect?
- Closed Space Surgeries (stomache, eyeball, lung, intestines)
- Unstable Cardiac patients
Nitrous Oxide transfer depends on (2) factors
- Nitrous diffusing into air filled cavities
- Magnititude of pressure
How much Nitrous diffuses into airfilled cavities? How quickly?
- up to 10L in 10-15 minutse
- depends on Compliant walls vs non-compliant walls
Magnitude of pressure of Nitrous depends on….
- partial pressure of nitrous
- blood flow to cavity
- duration of nitrous administration.
Nitrous Oxide Transfer Graph
- Open shapes = nitrous inhalation: 300% increase in 1 hour
- Black Shapes: oxygen inhalation
Name (3) things that can change the speed of induction
- Increased Alveolar Ventilation
- Spontaneous v Mechanical Ventilation
- Solubility
How does Increased Alveolar Ventilation change the speed of induction?
- Increased Respiratory rate speeds PA –> PI and induction of anesthesia
Name (1) thing that can slow the speed of induction
Decreased PaCO2 (hyperventilation)
* Decreases CBF and limits speed of induction
Induction and Sponataneous Ventilation
Negative Feedback Loop
* Dose dependent depressant effects
* As input decreases:
1. Volatile redistribution
2. tissue –> brain w. high concentrations
3. to tissues with low concentrations (fat)
4. As brain concentration decreased, ventilation increases
Induction and Mechanical Ventilation
- body loses the negative feedback loop and is not able to compensate.
- We have to control the redistribution effects.
Define Solubility
- a ratio of how inhaled anesthestics distribute between 2 compartments at equilibrium
Solubility depends on what (3) Factors
- Equal partial pressures
- relative capacity of each compartment to hold volatile.
- Temperature dependent ( ↑temp =↓ solubility)
What happens when the blood solubility is low/high?
- Low: miminal amounts must be dissolved —— Rapid Induction
- High: large amounts must be dissolved —– Induction prolonged
FA: FI: Solubility Graph
- Halothane: 30 min -> 50% … slowest
- Iso: 30 min -> 70%
- Des: 30 min-> 90%: Quickest