Foreign Language: Eyeballs
This is your anesthetic for 99% of optho cases.
What is versed and fent?
This is the greatest danger with laser use in ENT surg.
What is airway fire?
3yo gets succs for t&a, this is the most common side effect.
What is bradycardia?
These are the pts who laryngospasm.
Who are peds pts?
This is what OD and OS mean.
What is right eyeball (OD) and left eyeball (OS)?
This is how you treat laryngospasm.
What is 100% FiO2, PPV, OPA (should already be in), deepen anes, succs
Surgeon stretches bb's eyeball, HR -> 20, this is what you do.
What is freak out?
This is how fast a pt will be brought up from the ER on call.
What is slow?
This is where the optho clinic is.
What is (i actually dont know)?
This is the AHI Index required to dx SEVERE OSA in adults.
What is 40?
AD Marine tonsilectomy yacking up blood postop -> This is how you are going to secure the airway.
What is RSI, assistant w/ 2nd suction airway, ENT standby, maybe blood?
This is the afferent and efferent limbs of the oculocardiac reflux.
What is trigeminal (V, opthalmic division) to vagus (X)?
This is how you place a tube for RLN monitoring.
What is (Bk will judge)?
This is how you do an awake fiber.
What is (bk will judge)?
This is the advantage to a retrobulbar compared to peribulbar block.
What is a denser block?
Nitrous oxide is contraindicated for 10d after administration of this optho drug.
What is sulfa hexafluoride?
This is the airway laser tube type that is most common.
What is CO2? (or Nd:YAG)
This is how many times I (bk) saw optho on call over 3 years of gas residency.
What is once?
This is what you do when the surgeon says that need zero coughing and bucking on emergence.
What is cancel surgery?