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Mains Electricity Failure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexpected total power failure is rare and unpredictable.
Mains Electricity Failure ... Unexpected total power failure ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
adequate lung ventilation ... If circulatory arrest ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
surgery; equipment failure ... Rapidly confirm ventilator ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
• Discontinue ventilation ... • Re-establish ventilation ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
optimal airway management ... and then cardiac arrest ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
Call for cardiac arrest ... especially in heart failure ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Consider alternate diagnoses ... Use appropriate ventilation ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Neuroprotection following Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Outcome from cardiac arrest is determined by
positive pressure ventilation ... ❾ Plan further management ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
volume, low/no PEEP ventilation ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
bag moving OR ventilator ... interaction, renal failure ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup