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Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
of blood, pus, effusion ... inform clinical team ... Plan definitive management ... Cardiac #Tamponade #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
The Trauma Call Timeline

- A trauma team assembles rapidly in response to a major trauma alert
- A trauma team ... multidisciplinary team ... to guide early management ... - The team leader ... restore tissue perfusion
Intraoperative Massive Blood Loss - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Expected or unexpected major haemorrhage

❶ Call for
inform theatre team ... . ❼ Use rapid infusion ... equipment. ❽ Discuss management ... BloodLoss #Hemorrhage #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
anaesthetic (remember infusion ... immediate clinical team ... Anaesthetic #Toxicity #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Sepsis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Severe sepsis (hypotension persisting after initial fluid challenge of
inform theatre team ... Discuss ongoing management ... intensive care team ... anaesthesia #Sepsis #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Cardiogenic Shock - Management ... edema - Large effusion ... nitroglycerine infusion ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... HeartFailure #Cardiology #Management
RV Strain in Pulmonary Embolism on POCUS Echocardiogram

A patient is brought by EMS intubated and hypotensive.
your next step in management ... followed by 90mg iv infusion ... Echocardiogram #clinical #ultrasound
Pancreatitis management checklist 
Evaluation to guide etiology & management 
 - RUQ ultrasound 
 - Calcium
Pancreatitis management ... guide etiology & management ... - RUQ ultrasound ... pain-dose ketamine infusion ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
rate, rhythm, perfusion ... with surgical team ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
Inform theatre team ... Ischemia #Ischaemia #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management