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Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
for Crises in Anaesthesia ... Airway • Check position ... not resolving, call ... help AND check arterial ... levelling patient position
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
AND increase anaesthesia ... Airway • Check position ... rhythm, perfusion; increase ... consider intra-arterial ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
Increase fresh ... Airway • Check position ... intrathoracic pressure ... in Box E and call ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Stroke Volume / Arterial ... associated with an increased ... significantly positive ... heart disease • Increased ... Worse outcomes in CKD
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
oxygen delivery • Increase ... Airway • Check position ... CO2 is absent, presume ... Evaluate the airway pressure ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Intraoperative Sepsis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Severe sepsis (hypotension persisting after initial fluid challenge of
likely underlying cause ... dysfunction). ❶ Call ... of problem. ❷ Increase ... pressure ≥ 65 mmHg ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Intraoperative Tachycardia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Tachycardia in theatre is often due to inadequate depth
Guidelines for Crises ... rhythm and blood pressure ... hypotensive first increase ... Airway • Check position ... control (Box C). ❽ Call
Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexplained increase in ETCO2 AND tachycardia AND increased
Unexplained increase ... tachycardia AND increased ... other, more common causes ... INVESTIGATIONS Arterial ... 30 mins, U&E, CK
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
Increase fresh ... Airway • Check position ... not resolving call ... help AND check arterial ... airway pressure
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
13 Dangerous Causes ... meningismus - increased ... intracranial pressure ... head in dependent position ... temporal (giant cell