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Mains Electricity Failure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexpected total power failure is rare and unpredictable.
Electricity Failure - Guidelines ... B). ❹ Ensure ventilation ... to spontaneous ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
Patient Fire - Guidelines ... • Discontinue ventilation ... • Re-establish ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines ... cause using the guideline ... Rapidly confirm ventilator ... provide manual ventilation ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
and Stridor - Guidelines ... Consider whether guideline ... Continued airway and ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
Airway Pressure - Guidelines ... through the whole guideline ... bag moving OR ventilator ... switching to hand ventilation ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines ... adequate lung ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Bronchospasm - Guidelines ... Use appropriate ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
•	Non-specific (infections vs non-infectious)
•	≥2 of the following:
o	Temp >38°C or <36°C
o	HR >90 bpm
o	RR
>2 mmol/L Management ... Sepsis Campaign Guidelines ... (oxygenation, ventilation
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines ... bag moving OR ventilator ... assist/increase ventilation ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Diagnosis #Workup #Management
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines ... volume, low/no PEEP ventilation ... Plan definitive management ... Reference Handbook - Guidelines ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management