Lecture 1/18/22 Flashcards
what is the definition of Anesthesia?
Lack of feeling or sensation
Artificially induced loss of the ability to feel pain
To permit the performance of surgery or painful procedures
What is General Anesthesia
A drug-induced loss of consciousness
Patients are not arousable; even by painful stimulation.
Intubation is not required
A ventilator is not essential.
Volatile anesthesia is not necessary but can be induced from prop or Roc
Independent ventilatory function is often impaired
Maintain patent airway, ie jaw thrust, O2 supplementation
Positive pressure ventilation
Cardiovascular support
What is Regional Anesthesia
Insensibility is caused by interrupting the sensory nerve conduction of a particular region of the body
-Peripheral
-Spinal
-Epidural
Level of consciousness is unchanged (unless sedatives are used)
Ventilatory/airway protection is maintained
What are the qualities of minimal sedation?
Responsiveness: To verbal commands
Airway: Unaffected
Spontaneous ventilation: Unaffected
Cardiovascular function: Unaffected
What are the qualities of Moderate Sedation?
Responsiveness: To verbal/touch
Airway: No assistance is needed
Spontaneous ventilation: Adequate
Cardiovascular function: Usually maintained
What are the characteristics of Deep Sedation?
Responsiveness: After repeated or painful stimulation
Airway: Assistance might be required
Spontaneous ventilation: Possibly inadequate
Cardiovascular function: is Usually maintained
What are some anesthetic techniques used from 4000 BC-400 BC
Plants…poppy, coca leaves
Acupuncture
Ethylene fumes from geologic fault lines beneath Apollo’s temple
Cannabis vapor
Carotid compression
Hippocrates
Accommodate the operator
Avoid sinking down and turning away
Dioscorides 40-90 AD
(a surgeon in Nero’s army)
Wrote Materia Medica (pharmacology)
- Authoritative for 15 centuries
- 5 volumes; plants, animal and mineral products
- 360 medical properties (antiseptic, anti-inflammatory)
What is a Soporific?
Soporific was something on a sponge that was smelt to illicit some response
Soporifics….sponges
½ ounce opium
Juice of mandrake leaves
Juice of hemlock
3 ounces of hyposcyamus (L-isomer of atropine)
Sufficient water
Reversal: vinegar
Who is accredited with making Diethyl Ether?
Valerius Cordus 1515-1544
German botanist, physician
What made Diethyl Ether popular
Made from sulfuric acid and ethyl alcohol
Named ether: greek for ignite (Explosive)
Tested on chickens
Recreational d/t whiskey tax
People who would experiment on themselves would get addicted to the high. Liquor was expensive so diethyl ether was a substitute
Why was early anesthetics inhalation agents and not IV?
IV equipment was not invented yet or not easily avaliable
Who is Sir Christopher Wren and who was his partner
His partner was Robert Boyle
Created IV therapy using a goose quill
Administered alcohol into a dog’s vein
Royal Society of London members
“I have injected wine and ale in a living dog into the mass of blood by a veine, in good quantities, till I have made him extremely drunk, but soon after he pisseth it out.”
Hint: “Wren” is a type of bird, A goose is a bird
Hint: if you put in an iv wrong you may get a “BOYLE” under the skin
Joseph Priestly
1773
English chemist
Discovers oxygen and nitrous oxide
Discovered photosynthesis
Hint: Priests are supposed to be religiously “pure”. what is a pure element? Oxygen
Humphry Davy
1800 British chemist
- Suggested its (Nitrous Oxide) use for surgical pain control
- Suggestion not appreciated… instead, its use became recreational and entertainment
- Surgeons wanted pt to hold still not so much did they care about the pain
- He also discovered potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium….
Who was Horace Wells?
1815-1848
Dentist
- Nitrous experimentation
- Noticed that a man under the influence of N2O had no recall of pain/injury
- Self-administered for tooth extraction and uses on several dental patients
- 1845 at Mass General….Arranged administration for amputation
“humbug” Use of Nitrous disregarded by surgeons because pt. was still moving
Hint: after the demonstration, the surgeons said “WELLs” it’s ”NO”t good enough if they are still moving!
Who pioneered the combination of Nitrous and Oxygen? Why was this important?
Andrews
Chicago surgeon….Nitrous/oxygen anesthesia without cyanosis
Some thought that the anesthetic effect was brought about by anoxia and not actually Nitrous
Who invented the 1st anesthesia machine with nitrous/oxygen together
Hewitt
Hint: Nitrous makes you laugh so you have to have a good sense of “Witt”
Crawford Long
Revisited Ether in 1842
delivered either for a patient with 2 vascular neck tumors
Continued use of whiskey
Hint: “Long” after the discovery of ether it was used for a pt with a Long neck who had tumors
William Morton
Revisited Ether
1819-1868
Dentist
Needed anesthesia for denture fitting
Who Developed the process for pure Ether?
Dr. Robinson Squibb
Founded Squibb pharmaceuticals….leading manufacturer
Hint: A “Squibb” (HP reference) is a “PURE” blood wizard with no powers. But some people thought you are “Ether” a wizard or basically a muggle.
What was the disadvantages of ether?
Prolonged induction: Slow onset and slow offset.
Flammable
An unpleasant persistent odor that everyone was breathing in the room
High incidence of nausea/vomiting
Who used Chloroform in obstetric surgerys?
Sir James Simpson 1847
Obstetrician in Scotland
Experimented following dinner parties
Defined pain: “actual or potential tissue damage”
Religious opposition: though biblically women deserved to have pain during childbirth since they gave man the apple.
Genesis 2:21 was Simpsons defense
- “and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof”.
Hint: Think of Pregnant Marge Simpson
Who is Dr John Snow?
Full-time anesthetist
Queen Victoria was given Chloroform for the birth of prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice
“discovered” epidemiology when he traced the London Cholera Outbreak to the water source
Hint: John Snow from GOT turned out to be “royalty”.
What was the Controversial aspect of Chloroform? what were the Commissions called to question its use?
Many deaths of healthy individuals
Hyderabad Commissions
1888 and 1891… safe with “their methods”
Respiratory arrest vs cardiac paralysis
430 cases without “recording devices” + 157 cases with “recording devices”
Guthrie, 1894, delayed chloroform hepatotoxicity in children
Levy, 1900, Light chloroform anesthesia and adrenaline….fatal vfib in animals
Dr Koller
Dr. Koller 1857-1944
Viennese ophthalmologist (a colleague of Sigmund Freud)
Used Cocaine for Anesthetic for eye surgery
Hint: Some “SEE” it as”Kool”ler to use Cocaine than other drugs
Dr. Halsted
1852-1922
1st regional (mandibular) nerve block with cocaine
Dr. August Bier
1861-1949
1st spinal anesthetic with cocaine
Developed Bier block still used today
Turnaquate on arm used
Dude hold my “Bier” said the guy before he did something stupid and broke his spine