Anesthesia
The primary function is controlled enhancement of anesthetic vaporization.
What is a vaporizer?
Ensures a patent airway and facilitates patient ventilation.
What is an endotracheal tube?
Facilitates visualization of the glottis as the endotracheal tube passes through the trachea.
What is the laryngoscope?
The only bird that can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?
This instrument can be used to determine the specific gravity of urine and protein concentration of plasma.
What is a refractometer?
Rubber bag often black or green
Reservoir bag
The bag ideally hold 50ml per kg
Placed in a vein before induction of anesthesia, when possible.
What is an intravenous catheter?
This monitors pressure inside the breathing circuit.
What is the manometer?
Decreased respiration
What is apnea?
Pouches autoclaved are good for how long?
What is 1 year?
Term to describe all precautions to prevent infection of a surgical site.
What is aseptic?
Used to remove waste gas
Scavenger
Kind of stethoscope placed during anesthesia at the level of the heart to amplify the heartbeat so it is audible from a distance
What is esophageal Stethoscope
Provides a gas volume sufficient for the patient to inhale maximally without creating negative pressure in the circuit.
What is a reservoir bag?
The pressure of blood in the artery when the heart contracts.
What is systolic?
The doppler measures systolic only.
Unpleasant sensory or emotional experience
What is pain?
Destruction of All microorganisms
What is Sterilization?
Controls oxygen flow will a ball indicator
flowmeter
This allows for carbon dioxide to be eliminated using high gas flow rates.
What is a nonrebreathing system?
This prevents excess pressure in the rebreathing circuit.
What is the pop-off valve?
This prevents waste gas discharge into the room air.
What is the scavenging system?
After length of time are skin sutures typically removed
What is 10 -1 4 days
An ectoparasite that can jump up to 2 feet high onto its host.
What is a flea?
Controls the amount of gas in the circuit
Vaporizer
The pressure in a full compressed gas oxygen cylinder.
What is 2200 psi?
Too much carbon dioxide in the blood.
What is hypercapnia?
The pressure reading on the manometer has these units.
What is cm H2O?
Slow HR
What is bradycardia?
Nothing by mouth
What is NPO?
Name of the machine part where you fill the isoflurane
Fill port