13 results
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
Endocarditis checklist ... telemetry for heart block ... Internet Book of Critical ... #criticalcare #diagnosis ... #management
High Central Neuraxial Block - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Can occur with deliberate or accidental
Central Neuraxial Block ... • Plan to ensure ... hypnosis as soon as clinical ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Obtain a chest X-ray ... as soon as clinically ... safe to do so. ⓮ Plan ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
tamponade recurs. ❿ Plan ... definitive management ... specialist referral. ⓫ Plan ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Massive Blood Loss - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Expected or unexpected major haemorrhage

❶ Call for
problem and note the ... plan between surgical ... an appropriate clinical ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist ... Evaluation - Chest X-ray ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... Plasma exchange is the ... #Management #CriticalCare
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
bradycardia, conduction blocks ... Stop injecting the ... inform immediate clinical ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Anaphylaxis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Unexplained hypotension
• Unexplained bronchospasm (wheeze may be absent
Plan for repeat ... feasible (Box B). ⓭ Plan ... an appropriate critical ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
In ARDS, we know that the lungs are so diffusely injured that the remaining total area
, we know that the ... Stress come into play ... #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #management ... #respiratory #clinical
Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexplained increase in ETCO2 AND tachycardia AND increased
common causes (see ... Box D). ⓭ Plan ... admission to critical ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management