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Capnography
Measurement of exhaled carbon dioxide can be used to confirm ETT placement, for safer procedural sedation,
anatomical dead space ventilation ... with alveolar ventilation ... Ill — alveolar ventilation ... ventilation breath ... bronchospasm, airway
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 ... #Pressure #Differential ... #Anesthesiology
Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV)

Expiratory & Inspiratory Positive Airway Pressure
Both increase intrathoracic pressure, which can decrease
Pressure Ventilation ... in obstructive lung ... exacerbation (cardiogenic pulmonary ... status • Won't Work ... PositivePressure #Ventilation
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
over-vigorous attempts at lung ... and ventilation ... negative-pressure pulmonary ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Basics of Waveform Capnography
Waveform capnography assesses ventilation by monitoring exhaled carbon dioxide
Can use measurement and morphology
capnography assesses ventilation ... Capnography measures ventilation ... • Monitoring airway ... AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION ... the heart to the lung
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
ensure adequate lung ... ventilation: ... • Maintain the airway ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
Rapidly confirm ventilator ... provide manual ventilation ... #Anesthesiology ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
bag moving OR ventilator ... relaxation to optimise ventilation ... assist/increase ventilation ... o Aspiration, pulmonary ... Hypoxia #Cyanosis #Anesthesiology
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
bag moving OR ventilator ... #Hypotension #Differential ... #Anesthesiology ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Upper Lobe Lung Diseases - STAR CHASERS Mnemonic

S - Silicosis
T - Tuberculosis
A - Ankylosing Spondylitis
R -
overventilated (ratio of ventilation ... • ↑ Mechanical ... Silicosis - Coal worker ... • Increased mechanical ... #diseases #differential