Nose/nasal passages, sinuses, pharynx - ✔✔ What consists of the upper airway?
Larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, pulmonary alveoli - ✔✔
... [Show More] What consists of the lower airway?
Immediate hypersensitivity response that involves antigen-antibody reactions (IgE) - ✔✔ What is the most severe type of allergic reaction?
Liver - ✔✔ What is the largest gland in the body?
Pediatric patients - ✔✔ What age group of patients will hypoxia occur much more rapidly in? Bradycardia is a sign relating to hypoxia
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - ✔✔ What does HIPAA stand for?
Ischemia - ✔✔ A decrease in blood flow in the coronary arteries? Can temporarily or permanently damage the heart muscle by decreasing O2 available to the muscle cells?
1 year- Plavix & Aspirin - ✔✔ If a cardiac patient just had stent placement, how long are they required to be on antiplatelet drugs? What are the 2 drugs they usually do together?
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE) aka infectious endocarditis - ✔✔ Type of infection that can further damage heart valves or cause systemic infections? Requires antibiotic prophylaxis
P wave - ✔✔ Atrial depolarization (contraction)
QRS complex - ✔✔ Ventricular depolarization
T wave - ✔✔ Ventricular repolarization (relaxation)
Cushing's disease - ✔✔ Type of disease due to excessive secretion of corticosteroid due to a presence of a tumor or from administration of high doses of corticosteriod drugs (ex: Prednisone)
Myxedema - ✔✔ Chronic long-term hypothyroidism, most commonly seen in older adults (elderly women) who have had a stroke or stopped taking their thyroid medication
Thyroid crisis - ✔✔ Most severe complication of hyperthyroidism from an OMS perspective
Hyperthyroidism - ✔✔ Untreated __________ are at an increased risk for outpatient anesthesia and tend to be sensitive to epinephrine in a local anesthetic
Diabetes Type 1 - ✔✔ Insulin-dependent
Diabetes Type 2 - ✔✔ Non-insulin dependent
Elevated LFTs (Liver function tests) - ✔✔ Elevated level of several liver enzymes and bilirubin is often termed?
Women - ✔✔ What gender is Propofol more rapidly redistributed in and require 10-15% larger dose?
Children - ✔✔ What age group would Propofol redistribute very rapidly, and require at least 50% increase in drug dose?
Diffusion hypoxia - ✔✔ What is a complication of N2O rapidly moving from blood to alveoli of lungs, and displaces other gases, including O2
General anesthesia - ✔✔ Patient is not aroused, even during painful stimulation. Required airway intervention & cardiovascular function is impaired
Deep sedation/analgesia - ✔✔ Can't be easily aroused, purposeful response to pain, and requires airway assistance
Moderate sedation (conscious sedation) - ✔✔ Response to verbal or light tactile touch with no compromise of airway
Minimal sedation (anxiolysis) - ✔✔ Normal response to verbal stimulation with airway reflexes, ventiliation & cardiovascular functions are unaffected
Valium or Versed - ✔✔ What drugs are given for minimal sedation (anxiolysis)
Balanced anesthesia - ✔✔ Anesthesia that relies on the use of several agents together to benefit from each other. Using each drug at a smaller dose than required if it were being used alone
0.2 mg - ✔✔ Maximum does of Epi for a healthy patient?
100% O2, Dantrolene (2.5 mg/kg) and IV cold saline (NOT Ringer's) - ✔✔ What is the treatment for Malignant Hyperthermia?
Hypertension - ✔✔ What emergency would a beta blocker be given?
0.04 mg - ✔✔ What is the maximum dose of Epi for a patient with cardiovascular disease?
Asystole - ✔✔ Cardiac arrest- has no rhythm or contraction of EKG
Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib) - ✔✔ No discernable P, QRS or T waves noted. No pumping of blood at all and no depolarization of the ventricles
V-Fib or Asytole - ✔✔ What are 2 emergencies would Epi be given in?
Lidocaine - ✔✔ What are PVCs treated with?
Versed, valium or propofol - ✔✔ What medications can be given for a severe case of hyperventilation?
Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) - ✔✔ Dysrhythmia with a rapid firing of an ectopic focus with a rate of 140-200 BPM but no P wave
Amiodarone - ✔✔ What medication would be given for V-tach? [Show Less]