Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
During one-lung ventilation, the mixing of unoxygenated blood from the collapsed upper lung with oxygenated blood from the still-ventilated dependent lung "does what to the alveolar-arterial O2 gradient?
-What does this often result in? |
Widens the A-a O2 gradient
Often results in hypoxemia |
|
|
Malpositioning of a double-lumen tube is usually indicated by what?
|
-poor lung compliance and low exhaled Vt
|
|
|
Postoperative hemorrhage complicates about 3% of thoracotomies and may be associated with up to 20% mortality.
What would signs of hemorrhage include? |
-increased chest tube drainage
(> 200 mL/h) -hypotension -tachycardia -falling hematocrit |
|
|
_________ presents as a sudden large air leak from the chest tube that may be associated with an increasing pneumothorax and partial lung collapse
|
Bronchopleural Fistula
|
|
|
How can an Acute herniation of the heart into the operative hemithorax occur?
|
can occur through the pericardial defect that is left following a radical pneumonectomy
|
|
|
What volatile gas is contraindicated in pt's with cysts or bullae b/c it can expand the air space and cause rupture.
|
Nitrous Oxide
|
|
|
What are the signs of a ruptured cyst or bullae in the lungs?
**How would you treat it?** |
-sudden hypotension
-bronchospasm -abrupt rise in peak press **chest tube** |
|
|
Following Lung transplantation, PIP should be maintained at the minimum pressure compatible with good lung expansion, and the inspired O2 concentration should be maintained at?
|
< 60%
|
|
|
Regardless of the procedure, what is the major anesthetic consideration for patients with esophageal disease?
|
Risk of pulmonary aspiration
|
|
|
G6PD Defieincy clinical pres?
|
Back pain and hemoglobinuria a few days following oxidative stressor.
fava beans |
