Inhaled anesthetics Flashcards
Causes tonic clonic seizures. Exacerbated by?
Enflurane - hypocarbia and repetitive auditory stimuli
Only IA that suppresses seizure activity
Isoflurane
Used in neurosurgery at 0.5 MAC
Isoflurane
Can compensate for increase in ICP by hyperventilation
Desflurane Isoflurane as well - but at the time the induction agent is given
CANNOT compensate for increased ICP by hyperventilation
Enflurane - Hypocarbia can cause tonic clonic seizures
Highest amount of CO production
Desflurane Then Iso and enflurane Trace with sevo and halo
Compound A
Sevoflurane
Safest for CAD with the supplementation of opioids
Sevoflurane
NO increase in CVP or RAP
Sevoflurane
SNS stimulation
Nitrous oxide Transient with desflurane and Isoflurane
Giving opioids with this agent may unmask undiagnosed myocardial depression, CAD and severe hypovolemia
Nitrous oxide - opioids take away the SNS stimulation and these patients get a profound SUDDEN bradycardia and hypotension
Autoregulation to CO2 remains UNCHANGED with these agents up to what MAC?
Sevoflurane up to 1.5 MAC Naglhout also states Desflurane as well.
Which agent offers the greatest cerebral protection from ischemia?
Isoflurane - at >1 MAC it is often used for Neurosurgery but at 0.5 MAC Due to the unchanged CBF at >1 MAC (still increased CBF) and decreased cerebral metabolic oxygen requirements Greatest uncoupling of CMRO2 and CBF
Which agent produces only a mild increase in ICP
Nitrous oxide - likely due to the inability to administer 1 MAC
Isoflurane is and Isomer of Enflurane with these key differences
- Does not induce seizures, but rather supresses seizure activity 2. It does not increase CSF production and allows CSF outflow 3. Iso has minimal myocardial depression
IA that increases CSF production and increases resistance to CSF outflow
Enflurane
Which agents cause direct myocardial depression
Halothane Nitrous oxide
Which agents decrease BP is a result of the agents ability to primarily decrease SVR and have minimal myocardial depression?
Sevoflurane Isoflurane Desflurane
Gasses that have baroreceptor reflex intact
Ennflurane, Isoflurane, Desflurane
Volatile anesthetic that typically increases HR but in Elderly and Neonates this effect is blunted and Heart rate is decreased
Isoflurane
This volatile anesthetic suppresses SA node depolarization (junctional rhythm) and decreases conduction in the bundle of his and purkinge fibers
Halothane
Increases BP, HR, SVR and CO d/t SNS stimulation
Nitrous oxide
Volatile anesthetic that produces DOSE DEPENDENT decrease in CO
Halothane
LVSV is decreased __________% for all volatile anesthetics. Our notes say a specific one.
15 - 30% for desflurane Often times increased HR is enough to offset the decrease in stroke volume
This volatile anesthetic has a wider margin of safety between that which anesthetizes the brain and that which produces cardiovascular collapse. This means it has minimal cardiac depressant effects in the doses we use it.
Isoflurane
Does Not have an increase in CVP or RAP
Sevoflurane
Has minimal effects on SVR
Halothane (all other volatile anesthetics decrease SVR)
_____________ increases blood flow to ____________ and ____________ areas. This distribution is similar to a ___________ effect. There is an excess perfusion relative to oxygen needs. It may manifest in the OR as ____________ due to _____________ blood flow. There also may be enhanced _______________ like NM blockers.
Isuflurane skeletal muscles and cutaneous areas ß-agonist loss of heat due to cutaneous delivery of drugs.
What is a possible explanation for the increase in cutaneous blood flow produced by all volatile gasses?
May reflect a central inhibitory action on temperature regulating mechanisms.
should be avoided in the neonate with congenital heart disease
Nitrous - d/t increased PVR which may increase the magnitude of a right to left shunt causing further decrease in arterial oxygenation.
Two volatile gasses that sensitize the heart to Epi
Halothane Enflurane ≥ 4.5 mg/kg
Dilate the small coronaries and cause a redistribution of flow from the ischemic area to that of non ischemic areas, but it is not clinically significant and thus still cardioprotective
Isoflurane - causing coronary steal
An abrupt Increase this volatile gas to cause neurocirculatory response.
Desflurane -irritates airway and will cause a transient increase in BP and HR d/t SNS stimulation - this can be blunted by opioids/esmolol/clonidine prior to increasing MAC Also consider this for Isoflurane - but des has a faster onset
T or F Volatile anesthetics produce the same amount of myocardial depression in the healthy and diseased myocardial muscle?
TRUE - the significance is just greater in the diseased heart because they are starting form a lower baseline (baseline decreased contractility).
Neurocirculatory responses by abruptly increasing Desfluarane want to be avoided in which patient
CAD
Causes a myocardial depression in CAD patients that does not occur with healthy individual
As little as 40% of nitrous oxide
What anesthetic may not be good for aortic stenosis but good for mitral or aortic regurgitiation? Why?
Isoflurane - because of the peripheral vasodilation decreasing after load
what may enhance the myocardial depressant effects of volatile anesthetics
arterial hypxemia
Drugs that can influence the magnitude of cardiac depression and circulatory effects
CCB- already decrease contractility and make the heart more vulnerable to myocardial depression antihypertensives and ß-blockers may make patients more vulnerable to the circulatory effects
What is it called when volatile anesthetics activate the K ATP pump causing hyper polarization. Which has negative inotropic effects and relax vascular smooth muscle
Ischemic preconditioning - which is cardiaoprotective
All inhaled anesthethetics except _______________ produce DOSE DEPENDENT increases in respiratory rate. What does this gas do?
Isoflurane Increases RR up to 1 MAC At concentrations >1 MAC it does not further increase the frequency of breathing
What is the net effect of the respiratory changes produced by anesthetic gasses to a patient under anesthesia
Rapid shallow breathing, with decreased minute ventilation and increased PaCo2 (increased RR not enough to offset the decreased TV)