TL block 4 Flashcards
Benefits of prone positioning
-improved ventilation perfusion matching enter
– improved functional residual capacity
– Improve drainage of secretions
What are electrolytes does a trade affect?
Calcium and magnesium
What blood products contain the highest amount of citrate
FFP and platelets
How is citrate metabolize?
By the liver
What increases the likelihood of citrate toxicity?
– Hypothermia
– Liver disease, or transplant
– Hyperventilation
– Pediatric patients
(decrease metabolism of citrate)
Most common cause of acute liver failure
Acetaminophen overdose
Pathophysiology as to why there is liver failure with acetaminophen overdose
Acetaminophen overdose causes increased, ammonia levels, excess ammonia, combines with glutamate to form glutamine -> glutamine acts as an osmotic agent, causing swelling of astrocytes and cerebral edema
– Elevated ammonia levels are toxic to the brain -> cereal, edema, third vision, vomiting, asterixis , seizures
How does lactulose decrease ammonia levels?
Causes a decrease in intestinal pH -> traps ammonia as ammonium ion -> Can no longer cross intestinal membrane and can’t be absorbed
Grades of hepatic encephalopathy
I: short, attention, span, minor, lack of awareness, and disordered sleep
II: asterixis, lethargy, and behavioral change
III: confusion, disorientation bizarre behavior, and tiredness
IV: coma
What should be screened for preoperatively and Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy?
Heart, commonly associated with dilated cardiomyopathy
Why do patients with the Shane and Beck are muscular dystrophy get hyper kalemia?
No association with malignant hyperthermia, but when exposed to volatile anesthetics and succinylcholine, can get hyperkalemia from rhabdomyolysis -> cardiac arrhythmias and arrest
Treatment for hyperkalemia
Calcium, hyperventilation, insulin, bicarb, and albuterol
Why do patients with spinal cord injury get succinylcholine induced hyperkalemia
Extra junctional acetylcholine receptors
Where is the mutation in hyperkalemic periodic paralysis?
Sodium channel mutations
Where is the mutation and hypokalemic periodic paralysis?
Calcium channels
Why do you get bradycardia with carotid, stent application?
Afferent limb of carotid sinus baroreceptor reflex disease (glossopharyngeal) -> stimulation of the nucleus tractus solitarius in medulla -> vagal nuclei activation -> bradycardia and hypotension
Carotid body chemoreceptors
Monitors partial pressure of oxygen, secondarily monitors pH and PaCO2
** after carotid endarterectomy chemoreceptors lose innervation, and have a decreased response to hypoxia **
Alveolar partial pressure of O2
PAO2 = FiO2 * (Patm - PH2O) - (PaCO2/.8)
FiO2 is % at ambient air
Risk factors for the development of postherpetic neuralgia
– Older age
– Female gender
– Increased pain or sensory abnormalities during acute phase
– Severe skin lesion
-Presence of prodrome
How to decrease incidence of postherpetic neuralgia
Vaccines
Where does herpes zoster remain after primary infection to cause shingles?
Dorsal root ganglia
Contraindications to shockwave lithotripsy
– Pregnancy
– Anticoagulation
– Uncorrected bleeding disorders
– Large abdominal aortic aneurysm
Shunt fraction equation
Qs/Qt = (1-SaO2)/ (1-SvO2)
Ex of anatomical shunts
thebesian veins (valveless veins in walls of cardiac chambers that drain directly into cardiac chambers they are on)
bronchial veins (into pulm veins)