PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA Flashcards
Pediatric patients have_______Which ____Vd of _____medications
meaning required___________
• Neonates require even more, but are also_________
Increased total body water: • ↑Volume of distribution of water-soluble medications Larger initial dose more sensitive to effects
Less muscle/fat →
• Slow redistribution of the drug into muscle will
- longer clinical drugs effect
- increase duration of clinical effect (opioids, barbiturates)
Mean cerebral blood flow peaks
at 3-8 years
Proportionally
↓CBF in neonates
• Highly lipophilic drugs used for anesthetic induction
rapidly achieve equilibrium with brain tissue
• Reduced cerebral perfusion means that onset time after IV induction is_________
slower in neonates that in early childhood
Offset time is also delayed why?
because redistribution to the well perfused and deep, under perfused tissues is less
Offset time to reach brain then
back to body
Acidic drugs: (2) (BAD)
• Acidic drugs mainly bind to________
diazepam, barbiturates
-albumin
- Basic drugs: __________ and _________
- Basic drugs bind to
- Mainly bound to __________= ↓premies/infants, adult levels by 6 mo
amide local anesthetics, alfentanil
globulins, lipoproteins, and glycoproteins
α1-acid glycoprotein (AAG) =
MAC
minimum alveolar concentration
Plasma protein binding ↓in neonates = _____and____ why?
more free medication –>↑pharmacological effect
↓total protein + albumin
Significantly affects highly protein bound drugs
• Phenytoin, salicylate, bupivacaine, barbiturates, antibiotics, theophylline, diazepam
Minimum Alveolar Concentration (MAC)
- Highest at 6 months
* Higher in children compared to adults
Why MAC higher
May relate to
maturational changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) γaminobutyric acid (GABA) class A receptor numbers
or developmental shifts in regulation of CHLORIDE transporters
Chloride ions
hyperpolarizes cells
“wash-in” aka “FA/FI” aka “induction” aka
GO TO SLEEP!
Determined by 6 factors: FA/FI –> IAF/CSA
- Inspired concentration
- Alveolar ventilation
- Functional residual capacity (you want ideallow)
- Cardiac output
- Solubility (ideal low)
- Alveolar to venous partial-pressure gradient (ideal high)
FA/FI means
Fractional alveolar to fractional inspired partial pressures
How much in alveoli from how much was given
What’s in alveoli is whats in the
BRAIN
FA/FI best if it’s
1
Factors 1-3 determine
delivery of anesthetic to lungs
Factors 4-6 determine
determine rate of removal (uptake) from lungs
Low FRC
Desaturation
From alveoli to ______Eventually because of pressure gradient difference
blood
Ratio of alveolar ventilation (Va)
to FRC is the primary determinant of delivery of inhaled anesthetics to lungs
• Affects more soluble agents greatly because they are easily stolen out of the lungs
Greater Va/FRC =
more rapid equilibration
memorize slide
8
About ____ to get to brain
12 minutes
BP every
3-5 minutes
Normally, rate of rise in FA/FI is
• Mostly affects more
inversely related to changes in CO
soluble agents
• Less anesthesia leeched from lungs in
↓CO states
Opposite in pediatrics is with CO
OPPOSITE in pediatrics
• ↑CO speeds up FA/FI
• More CO distributed to vessel-rich group (VRG)
• Brain, heart, kidney, splanchnic organs, endocrine glands
Partial pressures of anesthetics in the VRG equilibrate with those in the alveoli more rapidly in neonates than in
adults
Isoflurane
Does not go to brain as quickly
As you go up FA/FI
more insoluble
Anesthetic gases are less soluble in neonates in general due to (3)
- ↑water content
- ↓protein/lipid concentration
- Reduces time for equilibration
For older people, VA induction with mask if CO is lower than normal
they go to sleep faster
less anesthesia leeched from lungs
The opposite in pediatric, proportion of blood that gets to the brain is
WAY MORE THAN ADULT
SLEEP FASTER
Solubility for gas (VA) is
NOT GOOD
IT IS SLOW
- Wash-out follows
* Exact opposite of
exponential decay
wash-in curves
- Washout similar in
* More rapid in
children and adults
neonates and infants
Cardiovascular
• Both directly and indirectly depressed
Affect Directly CV by
- Ca2+ channel blockade, altering conduction system, dilating peripheral vasculature
- ↓ Ca2+ flux
AFFect Indirectly CV by
- Affecting balance of ANS and neurohumoral, renal, or reflex responses
- All inhalational anesthetics modestly depress systolic BP in children
Down syndrome patients have increased risk of
bradycardia during induction
Sevoflurane can cause
bradycardia during induction
Junctional rhythm
HR normally unaffected by desflurane unless inspired concentration↑ suddenly
• Attenuated by________ administration
opioid administration
VOLATILE ANESTHETICS: Isoflurane:
LPC
☺ Less myocardial depression than Halothane
☺ Preservation of heart rate
☺ CMRO2 reduction rate (brain requiring less O2)
It is a PULMONARY IRRITANT
DESFLURANE (NOT USE IN KIDS OR WITH MASK)
Desflurane (2) major (IC) think DIC
☺ Increased incidence of coughing, laryngospasm,
secretions
☺ Concern of hypertension and tachycardia from
sympathetic activation
CONTRAINDICATED FOR ASTHMA
DESFLURANE
VOLATILE ANESTHETICS: SEVOFLURANE (LCM)
Sevoflurane
☺ Less pungent than Isoflurane
☺ Concern of compound A (nephrotoxicity) (for rats
☺ Most suitable for induction
Sevo usually run at
2L/min