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Capnography
Measurement of exhaled carbon dioxide can be used to confirm ETT placement, for safer procedural sedation,
monitor cardiac & pulmonary ... Specific capnograph patterns ... dysynchrony during mechanical ... bronchospasm, airway ... #diagnosis #pulmonary
Basics of Waveform Capnography
Waveform capnography assesses ventilation by monitoring exhaled carbon dioxide
Can use measurement and morphology
capnography assesses ventilation ... Capnography measures ventilation ... data regarding pulmonary ... • Monitoring airway ... AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
if possible – airway ... Use appropriate ventilation ... consider → 2-2 Hypoxia ... anaesthesia #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
bag moving OR ventilator ... assist/increase ventilation ... o Aspiration, pulmonary ... #Cyanosis #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
bag moving OR ventilator ... Breathing - exclude hypoxia ... interaction, renal failure ... #Hypertension #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
surgery; equipment failure ... Rapidly confirm ventilator ... provide manual ventilation ... 4 H’s, 4 T’s: Hypoxia ... #Differential #Anesthesiology
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
bag moving OR ventilator ... switching to hand ventilation ... o Aspiration, pulmonary ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
obstructing the airway ... and ventilation ... negative-pressure pulmonary ... Laryngospasm #Stridor #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Differential Diagnosis of Respiratory Acid-Base Disorders
Alkalosis
A. Central nervous system stimulation: Pain, Anxiety, psychosis, Fever, Cerebrovascular accident,
Hypoxemia or tissue ... hypoxia: High altitude ... , Pneumonia, pulmonary ... , Mechanical hyperventilation ... Airway: Obstruction
Hypophosphatemia and Hypoxia - Pathophysiology

↓ Phosphate leads to ↓ red cell 2,3-DPG and a  reduction
Rapoport-Leubering pathway away ... acute respiratory failure ... weaning from the ventilator ... Weaning from the ventilator ... pathophysiology #pulmonary