Pulmonary Restrictive Flashcards
Overview of restrictive disease chracteristics?
- Decrease in all lung volumes – especially total lung capacity
- Decrease in lung compliance
- Preservation of expiratory flow rates
- HALLMARK: INABILITY TO INCREASE LUNG VOLUME IN PROPORTION TO AN INCREASING PRESSURE IN THE ALEVOLI
TLC in restrictive diseae severity?
- Decreased TLC
- Mild: 65-85%
- Moderate: 50 -65%
- Severe: < 50%
Examples of acute intrinsic restrictive lung diseaes?
- ARDS
- Aspiration
- Neurogenic problems
- Opioid overdose
- High altitude
- Negative pressure pulmonary edema
- CHF
Examples of chronic intrinsic lung disease?
- Sarcoidosis
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Eosinophilic Granuloma
- Drug induced pulmonary fibrosis
Extrinsic restrictive lung disease?
- Skeletal structures
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Flail chest
- Pneumothorax
- Mediastinal mass
Other causes of restrictive lung disease?
- Obesity
- Ascites
- Pregnancya
Preop goals for patient with restrictive lung disease?
- Similar to those for asthma/COPD
- Assess the severity of lung disease
- Identify comorbid conditions
- Optimize prior to surgery
Important notes to take from history of patient with restrictive lung diseaes?
Respiratory
- Current symptoms - dyspnea, cough, wheezing, or hemoptysis
- Activities or positions that worsen
- Need for oxygen therapy
- Recent history of disease – need for ER visit or hospitalization
- History of tobacco use
- Exposure to drugs/radiation that can damage lungs
Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary HTN
- Cardiomyopathy
- Heart failure
Other
- Rheumatic disease
- Musculoskeletal pain/weakness
Things to note on physical assessment of patient with restrictive lung diseaes?
- BMI
- PFT’s
- Most will already have baseline PFT’s
- Type & Severity of disease
- Patients with sever restrictive disease that should not undergo elective surgery
- ABG
- Resting SpO2 < 93 or elevated serum bicarb on CMP
- Imaging
- X-ray or CT – will most likely have
- Exercise capability
What does a PFT in restrictive lung disease look like?
- Decreased FVC
- Decreased FEV1
- NORMAL TO INCREASED FEV1/FVC ratio
MAC anesthesia in restrictive lung disease?
- Appropriate for selected procedures
- Closely monitor SpO2, ETCO2, & respiratory pattern
- Be ready to provide urgent airway management and respirator support
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Sedatives will decrease RR and drive
- Prevent hypoxia and hypercapnia
- SMALL FRC
- Use short acting agents
- Dexmedetomidine is advantageous
Always consent for GA as well
Regional/Neuroaxial technique in pt with restrictive lung dsieae?
- Advantageous for surgical anesthesia and postoperative pain control
- Spinal/Epidural
- Maintain diaphragmatic function, but may decrease accessory muscles and inspiratory capacity
- Lower Extremity
- Well tolerated
Upper Extremity
- Brachial plexus
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Interscalene
- 100% phrenic nerve block – reduces FEV1 and FVC
- Use cautiously in patients with limited reserve
- Supraclavicular & Infraclavicular blocks
- 17 -50% have reduced FEV1 and FVC
- Most likely due to spread of local anesthetic- LA can go back up and get back to phrenic nerve
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Axillary or wrist
- Acceptable- and preferred
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Interscalene
Induction of GA in pt with restrictive lung disease?
- Place in reverse Trendelenburg- unloads lung/volume
- Adequately preoxygenate- less reserve iwth apnea d/t small lung volumes
- Agents
- Avoid long acting
- Choice based on patient and procedure
Maintenance during GA in pt with restrictive lung disease?
- TIVA
- Short acting agents- propofol can build up over time
- Volatiles
- Sevoflurane is excellent choice; limit desflurane – high concentrations can cause irritation
- May inhibit hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
- Nitrous
- Typically avoided – increase in pulmonary vascular resistance - also takes away amount of O2 you’re able to give
- Opioids
- Short acting- sufentanil, alfentanil for example
- Muscle relaxants
- Short acting
- Adjuncts
- Lidocaine, ketamine & dexmedetomidine are highly encouraged
- toradol, tyenol for adjuncts
- dexmedetomidine as well
Considerations for ventilation during GA for patient with restrictive lung disease?
- Goal: Optimal oxygenation and minimization of ventilatory induce lung injury
- TV: Low tidal volumes 4-6 ml /kg
- I:E Ratio: 1:1 or 2:1
- HAVE POOR COMPLIANCE
- need slow, gentle breath in, need time for lungs to fill lungs
- Rate: 14 – 18 (Adjusted to maintain baseline PaCO2 values)
- Patients may have chronic respiratory acidosis-keep at baseline!!
- FiO2: Adjusted to maintain PaO2 > 60 mmHg or SpO2 > 90%- high levels of O2 can cause oxygen toxicity from free radicals
- PEEP: Judicious use of 5 – 10 cm H2O
- Prevent alveolar collapse and maintain adequate FRC
- High intrathoracic PEEP may impair venous return and decrease CO
- may need vasopressor support in order to tolrate peep
Emergence in patient with restrictive lung dx?
- May have serious complication
- Place in reverse Trendelenburg position
- Adequate reversal of NMBD’s- need to make sure EVERY NMJ is open and working because they’re already compromised
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Adequate pain control
- Short acting agents- balance with resp depression
- When patient is alert and cooperative
- Stable
- Not tachycardic, hypoxic or hypercapnic
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May extubate to CPAP
- Prevent atelectasis
Postop concerns for patient with restrictive lung dx?
- Adequate oxygenation
- High flow NC to BiPap
- Adequate analgesia
- Incentive spirometry
- Early ambulation
Summary of anesthesia needs for pt with restrictive disease?
- Short acting agents
- Neuraxial/regional
- Don’t take away respriatory drive
- UE- interscalene has high risk blocking phrenic nerve /supra also has high risk
- LE regional work well
- Opioid sparing techniques
What is a laryngospasm?
- Primitive protective airway reflex that exists to protect against aspiration but can occur in light anesthesia
- Sustained closure of the vocal cords resulting in the partial or complete loss of the patients airway
- Complete
- Chest movement without any air movement
- Partial
- Chest movement with some stridorous noise
- Noticeable mismatch between patient effort and volume of air movement
- Complete
Epidemiology and incidence of laryngospasm?
Epidemiology
- Difficult to get true incidence- different reporting requirements by hospital
- Depends on case mix, hospital, experience of the provider, and hospital reporting requirements
- Newer drugs- lower with propofol c/t thiopental
Varying Incidence
- 1% in adults
- 2% in children
- 3% in very young- highest
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Can be as high as 25% in patients undergoing tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy
- secretion, swelling, ETT, area with sx has high innervation, causes laryngospasm
Pathophys laryngospasm?
- Protective airway reflex
- Mechanical, chemical, or thermal receptor stimulation in the supraglottic airway
- Closure of the glottic opening by constriction of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles
- True vocal cords
- False vocal cords
- Aryepiglottic folds
What are the two anatomical levels where a laryngospasm can happen?
False vocal cords
- Anterior movement and backwards tilt of the arytenoids
- Posterior movement of the base of the epiglottis
- Adduction of glottic opening
True vocal cords
- Lower and posterior to false cords
- Closure may not be mandatory for laryngospasm to occur
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Case reports of laryngospasm in patients with bilateral vocal cord paralysis
- the false vocal cords can close hard enough to cause spasm that true vocal cord spasm isn’t necessary
What is the laryngospasm reflex pathway?
Afferent
- Internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve
Efferent
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve
- Lateral cricoarytenoid (adducts the glottic opening)
- Thyroarytenoid muscles (adducts & shortens
- External branch of the superior laryngeal nerve
- Cricothyroid (tenses the vocal cords)
What happens during a laryngospasm when you’re awake?
- Higher level override
- Conscious state
- Can gain control after potential aspiration
- Protective
- Hypercapnia and hypoxia depress laryngeal adductor neurons
- People will say “laryngospasm will break under hypoxia or hypercarbia”
- Probably not the best approach- will allow kids to become hypoxic/hypercarbic to see if laryngospasm will break on it’s on.