SEE/NCE Anesthesia IV and Inhaled Anesthetics Flashcards
The presence of a right to left shunt will affect inhalation induction by?
Lower/decrease the arterial partial pressure of the anesthetic
How does the right to left shunt leads to a slower rate of induction?
In a right-to-left shunt, the shunted blood dilutes the blood returning from ventilated alveoli. As a result, the arterial partial pressure of the gas is reduced, and the rate of induction becomes slowed.
This slowing down of induction in a right-to-left shunt will be more pronounced in an agent with
low blood solubility than in an agent with high blood solubility. This is because the uptake of the soluble agent offsets the dilutional effect the shunt produces
Age and Intraoperative bronchospasm relationship
age less than 10 years more at risk
Airway device and bronchospasm relationship
Endotracheal intubation
How does the inhaled anesthetics affect myasthenia gravis?
Skeletal muscle relaxation In patients with myasthenia gravis is more pronounced and enhanced by as much as 40%
Skeletal muscle relaxation is most pronounced when using what kind of volatile anesthetics?
potent volatile anesthetics in excess of 1.0 MAC
Which effect on the respiratory system are you most likely to see with the administration of an inhalation anesthetic?
Respiratory depression due primarily to a decrease in TIDAL VOLUME
With volatile anesthetics, how is minute ventilation affected ?
The tidal volume is primarily affected, followed by the respiratory rate.
Vt and volatile anesthetic relationship
Inverse proportional relationship –> The tidal volume is decreased as the concentration of the agent increases
What happens to the RR ? Does CO2 increase?
The respiratory rate increases, but this is typically insufficient to prevent increases in arterial CO2 due to hypoventilation
2 potential byproducts of sevoflurane administration are
Compound A
Fluoride
Compound A and sevoflurane has been associated with
Low flow anesthesia
How to remember number of fluoride between DES, SEVO and ISO
5-6-7 I-D-S 5- Isoflurane 6- Desflurane 7- Sevoflurane
The composition of the inspired gas mixture a patient receives depends primarily upon what 3 things? .
Fresh gas Flow rate
Absorption by the circuit
Volume of the breathing circuit
The best way inspired gas concentration will be closer to the fresh gas concentration
- if the circuit volume and level of absorption by the circuit are low
- the fresh gas flow is high.
A patient with a right-to-left shunt is about to undergo induction of general anesthesia. You expect that the speed of induction will be _____ and this effect would be greatest with _____.
Slower;
Greatest with the low blood/gas solubility agent like nitrous / desflurane
What is the vapor pressure of Desflurane?
660 mmHg
What is the vapor pressure of Isoflurane?
240 mmHg
How does nitrous oxide affect PVR (Pulmonary vascular resistance)
Nitrous increases PVR
You are anesthetizing a patient with a congenital heart disease and a right-to-left shunt. The use of nitrous oxide could
increase the shunt due to an increase in PVR
MAC is related to the
oil:gas solubility coefficient of an anesthetic agent.
One way to estimate the approximate MAC of an agent is to
divide 150 by the oil:gas coefficient. In this case, 150 divided by 100 would equal an estimated MAC of 1.5%.
Overpressuring during an inhalation induction is acceptable with sevoflurane because it
less pungent and less likely to produce airway irritation.