W1 Flashcards
What is the Vet Tech’s role in Anesthesiology?
The Veterinary Technician administers anesthesia and anesthesia-related care in four general categories
What are the 4 general categories of anesthesia/anesthesia related care?
1 - Pre-anesthetic preparation and evaluation.
2 - Anesthesia induction, general anesthesia, monitoring.
3 - Post-anesthesia care (recovery and pain management).
4 - Anesthetic equipment maintenance.
What does the Tech do under a licensed Vet’s supervision? (12)
- Performing and documenting a pre-anesthetic assessment and evaluation of the patient, including in collaboration with a veterinarian, requesting consultations and diagnostic studies, administering pre-anesthetic medications and fluids.
- Developing and implementing an anesthetic plan. Must be approved!
- Selecting and initiating the planned anesthetic technique which may include: general, regional, and local anesthesia and intravenous sedation.
- Selecting, obtaining, or administering the anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, and fluids necessary to manage the anesthetic, to maintain the patient’s physiologic homeostasis, and to correct abnormal responses to the anesthesia or surgery.
- Applying, or inserting appropriate non-invasive and invasive monitoring modalities for collecting and interpreting patient physiological data.
- Managing a patient’s airway and pulmonary status using endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, or extubation.
- Managing emergence and recovery from anesthesia by administering medications, fluids, or ventilator support in order to maintain homeostasis, to provide relief from pain and anesthesia side effects, or to prevent or manage complications.
- Releasing or discharging patients from a post-anesthesia care.
- Providing post-anesthesia follow-up evaluation and care related to anesthesia side effects or complications.
- Assessing and managing analgesia. Pain management.
- Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administration of emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
- Inspect the anesthesia machine, endotracheal tubes and other anesthesia and monitoring equipment before and after use assuring that the anesthetic machine and equipment is in proper working order.
Anesthesia
- Anesthesia or anaesthesia (from the Greek ““αναισθησία, anesthisia”” meaning ““no feeling””) is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness.
- It may include analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), or unconsciousness. A patient under the effects of anesthetic drugs is referred to as being anesthetized.
General anesthesia
- Is a medically induced coma with loss of protective reflexes, resulting from the administration of one or more general anesthetic agents.
- It is carried out to allow medical procedures that would otherwise be intolerably painful for the patient; or where the nature of the procedure itself precludes the patient being awake.
- A variety of drugs may be administered, with the overall aim of ensuring unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, loss of reflexes of the autonomic nervous system, and in some cases paralysis of skeletal muscles.
- Reversible
Surgical anesthesia
a stage of general Anesthesia within the planes of Anesthesia where there Is sufficient loss of pain (analgesia) and muscle relaxation to allow surgical procedures to be perform without patient pain or movement.
Analgesia
A stage of general anesthesia within the planes of anesthesia where there is sufficient loss of pain
Sedation
- Sedation Is the reduction of irritability or agitation by administration of sedative drugs, generally to facilitate a medical procedure or diagnostic procedure. Examples are grooming, diagnostic imaging, minor surgery (suturing) and other minor procedures.
- Can be arouse by noxious stimulation. For example, toe pinching or loud noise.
Noxious stimulation
example, toe pinching or loud noise
- Noxious - painful or physically harmful
Tranquilization
Drug-induced state of calm, a reluctant to move. The patient is aware of its surroundings, but is unconcerned.
Hypnosis
A sleeplike state from which the patient can be aroused with sufficient stimulation
Narcosis
A drug-induced sleep from which the patient is not easily aroused and that is most often associated withe the administration of narcotics
Local Anesthesia
a loss of sensation in a small area of the body produced by administration of a local anesthetic agent in proximity to the area of interest
Topical Anesthesia
A loss of sensation of a localized area produced by administration of a local anesthetic directly to a body surface or to a surgical or traumatic wound.
Regional Anesthesia
A loss of sensation in a limited area of the body produced by administration of a local anesthetic or other agent in proximity to sensory nerves
