Lecture 1 - Intro, History & Vocab (Test 1) Flashcards
An artificially induced lack of feeling or sensation to pain can be described as _____?
Anesthesia
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What is the purpose of using anesthesia?
To permit the performance of surgery or painful procedures.
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What is General Anesthesia?
A drug-induced loss of consciousness.
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Are patients arousable by painful stimuli under general?
No!
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Do patients have to be intubated or vented under general?
Nope.
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What typically becomes obstructed under general?
The airway - you may have to jaw thrust, put in an oral airway, use pressure support or even intubate
(BUT this is not the definition of General Anesthesia)
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Does the patient have to be breathing a volatile anesthetic to be considered under general anesthesia?
Nah.
Can use IV anesthetics to induce General!
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When it comes to billing - I can bill anything that alters the patients LOC as General Anesthesia. True or False?
True!
If you give a little versed and the patient gets sleepy, you can bill that as General - even though that is not the actual definition.
Peripheral, spinal or epidural can be referred to as what type of anesthesia?
Regional
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Does my LOC change if I am under regional anesthesia?
No.
However, you can give general in combo with regional to do so.
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Insensibility caused by the interruption of sensory nerve conduction of a particular region of the body is referred to as ___________?
Regional Anesthesia
You may hear this referred to as “Peripheral Anesthesia” at times.
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What are the 3 levels of sedation?
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Is deep sedation considered general anesthesia?
Nah…but ‘almost’.
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Which doctor tried the ether technique on a patient with two vascular neck tumors?
Crawford Long
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Which dentist used ether for denture fitting?
William Morton
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When was the first successful public demonstration of ether? The patient was motionless and had no recall.
1846
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Dr. Robinson Squibb developed a process for ___________ ether.
Purifying
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Ether has a very _____ onset, and even _______ offset.
Slow, Slower
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What are the disadvantages of ether?
Flammable
Prolonged induction
Unpleasant, persistent odor
High incidence of nausea/vomiting
(not used in USA anymore)
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Who was the first physician to define pain as, “actual or potential tissue damage”?
Sir James Simpson
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What did Sir James Simpson experiment with following dinner parties?
Chloroform
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True or False: The religious thought back in the day was that women deserved to feel pain during childbirth due to Eve eating the dang apple in the Garden of Eden.
True
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Who believed that God liked anesthesia because he made Adam go to sleep when he removed his rib?
Sir James Simpson
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Who did Dr. John Snow anesthetize for the birth of her two children, Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice?
Queen Victoria
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Who met due to large numbers of chloroform-associated deaths?
Hyderabad Commissions
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In 1888, the Hyderabad commission believed that the deaths associated with chloroform were caused by…
Bad anesthesia providers
Patients not being watched
Patients overdosing
(basically the technique/methods of providers, not necessarily the drug itself)
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The Hyderabad Commission that met in 1891 said you could also have _________ before or after respiratory arrest and that’s why deaths occurred from chloroform.
Cardiac arrest
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By 1894, who proved that children got liver failure from chloroform?
Guthrie
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By 1900, Levy had a series of studies that showed that light chloroform stimulated what?
The autonomic nervous system.
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Light chloroform anesthesia stimulating cardiac function can lead to what?
Ventricular fibrillation
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What are two major adverse effects of chloroform discussed in class?
Hepatotoxicity
Ventricular fibrillation (Light Chloroform)
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Treat the patient holistically (amnesia, analgesia, and muscle relaxant) is referred to as?
The Triad
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If you are unconscious, your nerve will not transfer painful stimuli to the brain. True or False?
False
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When do we give analgesia, before or after we cause the pain?
Before :)
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How does amnesia work?
Stimulating inhibitory transmissions by the use of Acetylcholine
or
inhibiting stimulatory transmissions by the use of GABA.
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Why were narcotics not favored in the past?
Due to a lot of respiratory arrests and deaths.
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What are some of the synthetic derivatives of opioids?
Fentanyl derivatives, demerol, hydromorphone
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What types of analgesia drugs does multimodal pain relief include?
Using Cyclooxygenase inhibitors, Gabapentin, Acetaminophen, and regional/ peripheral nerve blocks other than opioids.
(A lot of CRNA are moving away from using Opioids d/t the increasing crisis)
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What plant does morphine come from?
The poppy plant, from which opium is derived from and turned into morphine.
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What was used as an anesthetic for eye surgery by Dr. Koller?
Cocaine (slide 19)
Who first used cocaine as a regional nerve block on the mandibular nerve?
Dr. Halsted (Slide 19)
Who performed the first spinal anesthetic with cocaine and developed a regional block technique that is still in use today?
Dr. August Bier.
Developed the Bier Block
(Slide 19)