principles-occular Flashcards
- What is the oculocardiac reflex (what reflex arc is it)?
- what causes it?
- What does it cause?
- who usually gets it?
- what preventable condition potentiates or worsens it?
- trigeminal vagal reflex arc
- stimulated by traction on extraoccular muscles (especially medial rectus, as well as conjunctiva and other orbital structures) or pressure on the globe.
- usually causes bradycardia, junctional, av block.
- common in pediatric patients undergoing strabismus surgery
- hypoxia or hypercarbia increase severity.
- how is oculocardiac reflex treated?
2. what preventative measure can be taken?
- local to eye muscle
- atropine 3-6 mcg/kg (4 mcg/kg in pediatrics)
- will eventually fatigue itself
- anesthetic injected (via infiltration) to medial rectus muscles by MD
2. prophylactic atropine as part of pre op meds
what should you draw up when doing eye cases?
atropine
what are patient conditions cause problems in eye surgery when trying to sedate.
- persons with chronic cough
- persons with orthopnea
- claustrophobia
- persons with tremors (parkinsons)
- How is a retrobulbar block done?
- what is used to spread the effect of the block?
- what are signs of a successful block?
- lido or bupiv is injected into muscle cone of extraocular muscles, followed by injection into facial nerve
- hyaluronidase (a connective tissue polysaccharide hydrolizer which breaks down tissue)
- eye akinesia, abolishment of oculocephalic reflex
what can sedation cause that you dont want?
older patients to get restless, topical is usually the best
what should you do during eye surgery under general?
if general, keep patient sedated, paralyzed and deep
- What is detatched retina
2. Who gets them & why?
the retina pulls away from inner wall of eye, sometimes happens to older persons as vitrious humor shrinks
repair of detatched retina:
- injection of gas bubble (air or sulfur hexaflouride (sf6)) to hold sclera down, the air is eventually reabsorbed.
- Scleral buckle
- what gas would you not want to use in patients receiving gas bubble for detatched retina
- how long should someone wait before having this gas again?
- no nitrous oxide for 10 days
if you attempt to intubate and you fail, make sure that you document what?
document 0 of 4 on TOF , so that it is known that the patient was fully paralyzed
what kind of risk might a child with strabissmus have during and after surgery?
increased risk of malignant hyperthermia
high incidence of ponv
high incidence of oculocardiac reflex
sclera
- what is it?
- describe it?
- what is its job
- continuous with cornea at corneoscleral jujction, posterior sclera is preforated by optic nerve
- smooth and white, separated from blulbar fascia by loose connective tissue
- protect eye, retain shape of eye
cornea
transparent centor portion of sclera that permits light into ocular structures
uveal tract
aka middle layer
vascular; direct opposition of sclera
What is the suprachoroidal space?
a potential space that separates the sclera from the uveal tract; it can become filled with blood when injured
iris
- what is it?
- what does sympathetic innervation do to it?
- what does parasympathetic?
- includes the pupil; 3 sets of muscles that contract to control light entering eye
- sympathetic- controls iris dilator muscle (dilates/midriasis)
- parasympathetic- controls iris sphincter & cilliary muscle (constricts/miosis)
cilliary body
- what is it/ what does it do?
- what is the innervation type & from what cranial nerve?
- contains cilliary body which adjust the shape of the lens to accomodate focusing at various distances
- muscles innervated by parasympathetic fibers of occulomotor nerve
choroid
what is it?
contains vessels and capillaries (choriocapillaris) which supply nutrition to outer part of retina
retina
- what is it?
- what spinal nerve innervates it?
- neuro-sensory membrane composed of 10 layers which convert light impulses into neural impulses
- optic nerve
vitreous humor (VH)
- what is it?
- where is it?
- what can it cause?
- gelatinous (viscous=vitreous) substance adherent to the anterior most 3 mm of the retina as well as to large blood vessels and optic nerve
- located in center of globe
- may pull at retina causing retinal tears and detachment
aqueous humor (AH)
- what is it?
- what is its function?
- cear (thinner) fluid produced by cilliary body of posterior chamber
- provides essential metabollic materials and removes waste via Canal of Schlemm (outflow)
what is normal IOP (intra ocular pressure)?
10-20 mmHg
what is the physiological cause of increased IOP?
increase in venous pressure -OR-
decrease in the cross-sectional area of the eye
-which causes a resistance to outflow (which causes increased IOP)