Pulmonary Hypertension
This induction agent is preferred for PH because it maintains BP
What is Ketamine or Etomidate?
The gold standard for screening sleep apnea
What is polysomnography?
Two major concerns for anesthesia in patients with pneumonia.
What are hypoxia and worsening infection?
A challenge when caring for a patient with Treacher Collins syndrome.
What is difficult airway due to mandibular hypoplasia and facial structure anomalies?
This toxic substance is produced when using low flows of Sevoflurane.
What is Compound A?
The greatest intra-operative risk for PH patients undergoing general anesthesia.
What is Acute RV Failure?
The anesthesia concern for OSA patients during emergence and recovery.
What is increased risk of airway obstruction?
The minimum length of time you should wait to reschedule a surgery for a patient with active URI.
What is 6 weeks?
The key strategy for managing Ludwig’s angina in the OR.
What is avoid airway manipulation, plan for awake tracheostomy?
What is the recommended dose of sugammadex if there’s no TOF response but 1–2 post-tetanic counts?
What is 4 mg/kg?
In PH patients, what 4 perioperative factors should be avoided to prevent increases in PVR and worsening RV function?
What is hypoxia, hypercapnia, acidosis, and hypothermia?
A key preoperative step for patients with OSA.
What is ensuring CPAP use and minimizing sedatives?
Why bacterial tracheitis is particularly concerning for airway management.
What is risk of sudden obstruction, need for skilled airway management?
In this congenital condition, a person's internal organs are mirrored from their normal positions.
What is situs inversus from primary ciliary dyskinesia?
By what percentage does MAC decrease for each decade after age 40?
What is 6%?
Gold-standard for the Diagnosis of PHTN
What is Right Heart Cath?
This condition involves upper airway collapse and increased perioperative hypoxia risk.
What is OSA?
Reason elective surgery might be delayed in a patient with an acute URTI.
What is increased risk of laryngospasm, bronchospasm, and desaturation?
This congenital syndrome is associated with micrognathia and airway difficulties
What is Pierre Robin?
What is ANIL ?
The 5 WHO groups of pulmonary hypertension
What are Group 1: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Group 2: PH due to Left Heart Disease, Group 3: PH due to Lung Disease/Hypoxia, Group 4: Chronic Thromboembolic PH (CTEPH), and Group 5: PH with Multifactorial or Unclear Causes?
The dilators of the upper airway
What are the genioglossus and tensor palatine muscles?
This is the preferred technique for intubating a patient with Ludwig’s Angina
What is fiberoptic awake intubation?
If both ventilation and intubation fail, the algorithm directs providers toward this last-resort, invasive airway access method
What is emergency cricothyrotomy?
Which of these factors does NOT cause hypertension?(pain, hyperventilation, hypercarbia)
What is hyperventilation?