Emergency Anesthesia Procedures

 

Description:

Anesthesia emergencies can occur suddenly in the operating room or procedural areas, even with proper procedures and preparation. The anesthesia provider needs to be able to anticipate and quickly respond to these emergencies for a successful outcome. Checklists and cognitive aids can assist in predicting and quickly responding to an emergent event. Emergency Anesthesia Procedures describes the management of many of the anesthesia emergency events that can occur during a surgical procedure, and provides checklists and clearly defined steps designed to assist the reader during the management and response to an emergency.Each chapter provides symptoms and differential diagnoses as well as needed equipment and medications needed for a variety of emergent scenarios. Each chapter then presents a management strategy using clearly defined steps with tips on techniques to address the emergency, as well as how to address potential complications and pearls for success. As such, this book functions as a cognitive aid as well as an oral board review book and should appeal to established anesthesia providers as well as anesthesia providers in training.

 

 

Table of Contents:

 

Part 1 Airway, Breathing, Lungs

1. Airway Fire

2. Bronchospasm

3. Foreign Bodies in the Airway and Esophagus

4. Laryngospasm

5. One-Lung Ventilation

6. Unanticipated Difficult Airway

7. Tracheostomy Complications

Part 2 Cardiac

8. Arrhythmias

9. Cardiac Tamponade

10. Myocardial Ischemia

11. Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) and Asystole

12. Management of Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation

13. Tension Pneumothorax

14. Vascular Access: Peripheral Venous, Central Venous, and Intraosseous Access

15. Venous Air Embolism

Part 3 Bleeding, Blood, Transfusions

16. Hemorrhage and Massive Transfusion Protocols

17. Intraoperative Management of the Bleeding Patient

18. Post-Tonsillectomy Bleeding

19. Transfusion Reactions

Part 4 Neurologic

20. Management of the Unstable Cervical Spine

21. Emergent Craniotomy

22. Perioperative Complications of Neuraxial Anesthesia

Part 5 Allergic Reaction, Toxicity

23. Anaphylaxis

24. Angioedema

25. Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)

Part 6 Metabolic

26. Malignant Hyperthermia

Part 7 OB, Neonatal

27. Amniotic Fluid Embolism

28. Anesthetic Management of Emergency Cesarean Delivery

29. Anesthetic Management of Morbidly Adherent Placenta (Accreta/Increta/Percreta)

Part 8 Equipment, Facilities, CRM

30. Anesthesia Machine Failures

31. Operating Room Fires

32. Crisis Resource Management

Index