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General anesthesia
It is a reversable blocking of
pain feeling in whole body or
in a part of it using
pharmacology or other
methods
Definition of anesthesia
Local- regional anesthesia,
patient is conscious or sedated
General- anesthesia interact with
whole body, function of central
nervous system is depressed:
– Intravenous
– Inhalation (volatile)
– Combined, balanced
Anesthesia- division
TIVA
Total Intra Venous Anaesthesia
VIMA
Volatile Induction and Maintain
Anaesthesia
Parts of general anesthesia
 Hypnosis- pharmacological sleep,
reversable lack of consciousness
 Analgesia-pain management
 Areflexio-lack of reflexes
 Relaxatio musculorum- muscle
relaxation, pharmacological reversable
neuromuscular blockade
Parts of general anesthesia must
be in balance between:
Hypnosis (anesthesia) Analgesia
Lack of reflexes (muscle relaxation)
 Features of General anesthesia
 1 Lack of consciousness
 2 Pain management
 3 Lack of reflexes
 4 Neuromuscular blockade
Stages of general
anesthesia
• Stadium analgesiae (analgesia and
sedation stage)
• Stadium excitationis (excitation stage)
• Stadium anaesthesiae chirurgicae
(anesthesia for surgery)
• Stadium paralysis respirationis
(intoxication, respiratory arrest)
I. Analgesia stage
• Patient consciouss
• Spontaneus respiration
• Reflexes present
• Possible small surgery procedures like dressing change in burns
II. Excitation stage
• Possible uncontrolled movements, vomitings
• Increase in respiratory rate
III. Anesthesia for surgery
• It begins with lack of lid reflex
• 4 substages
• Airway opening necessary
• Possible surgery except for abdominal opening if no
relaxants are used
• Possible endotracheal intubation
IV. intoxication, overdosing
• Respiratory arrest
• If anesthesia not discontinued possible
cardiac arrest
 Premedication
Main reasons for premedication:
 Anxiolysis lack of of threat
 Sedation – calming down
 Amnesia – lack lof memories of
perioperative period
Methods of general anesthesia
 OPEN OLD
 SEMIOPEN USED MOSTLY IN PEDIATRIC ANESTESHIA
 SEMICLOSED MOST COMMON
 CLOSED MODERN ANESTESHIA
Methods of general anesthesia
CIRCLE SYSTEM
*HIGH FLOW
FRESH GAS FLOW > 3 l/min.
*LOW FLOW
FGF ok. 1l/min.
*MINIMAL FLOW
FGF ok. 0,5 l/min.
Stages of general anesthesia
• Introduction to anesthesia (induction)
• Maintaining of anesthesia (conduction)
• Recovery from anesthesia
Anesthesia agents
 1. Inhalation anesthetics (volatile anesthetics) -
gases : N2O, xenon - Fluids (vaporisers)
 2. Intravenous anesthetics - Barbiturans :
thiopental - Others : propofol, etomidat
 3. Pain killers - Opioids: fentanyl, sufentanil,
alfentanil, remifentanil, morphine - Non Steroid
Anti Inflamatory Drugs: ketonal, paracetamol
 4. Relaxants - Depolarising : succinilcholine -
Non depolarising : atracurium, cisatracurium,
vecuronium, rocuronium
 5. adiuvants -benzodiazepins: midasolam,
diazepam
Volatile vs
intravenous
anesthesia
Mechanism of action of inhaled anesthetics
 Reaction depends on concentration. This
depends on alveolar (first compartment), blood
and brain (central compartment) concentration ,
(third compartment- other tissue like muscles,
fataccumulation effect):
– Minute ventilation
– Lung blood perfusion
– Solubility in tissues
MAC-minimal alveolar concentration
Concentration in which 50% of anesthetised patients do not
react on skin incision
Corelation with solubility in fat tissue
The lower MAC is the higher strenght of action is
Inhalation agents
Division of inhalation agents
1.Gases:
• N2O – old, weak, used as adiuvant
• Xenon – lately introduced
2. Vapors (fluids):
• Halothan
• Enfluran
• Isofluran
• Sevofluran
• Desfluran
Features of ideal volatile
anesthetic
 Not disturbing smell
 Fast acting, titrable
 Low solubility in blood- fast transport to
brain
 Stable when stored, not reacting with other
chemicals
 Non- flamable, non- explosive • Low
methabolism in body, fast elimination, no
accumulative effect
 No depressing effect on circulatory and
respiratory systems
Nitrous oxide
• Old
• Weak
• Used as adiuvant
• Will be removed form medical use up to
2010
Halothan
• Used for many years with good effect
• First non-flamable volatile fluid anesthetic
• MAC high
• Depression of circulatory system
• May destroy liver
• Now-a-days used only in pediatric anesthesia
Isofluran
• Disturbing smell
• May interact with heart contractivity
• Increases relaxation of muscles
Desfluran
• Very disturbing smell- can not be used for
VIMA
• Is not methabolised
• Very fast acting
• May be used for one-day surgery
• Expensive, difficult to store (boiling temp.
about 20 C)
• Modern and widelly used
Sevofluran
• Not disturbing smell- may be used for
VIMA
• Low solubility in blood- fast acting
• Does not disturbs airway
• May depress circulatory system
• Methabolised to Compound A- may be
renal toxic (but not confirmed in humans)
• May be used in one-day surgery
• Modern, and more and more widely used
volatile anesthetic
Intravenous
anesthesia
TCI (target controlled infusion)
 TCI is an infusion system which allows the
anaesthetist to select the target blood
concentration required for a particular effect
 It allows to control depth of anaesthesia by
adjusting the requested target concentration
 Instead of setting ml/h or a dose rate
(mg/kg/h), the pump can be programmed
to target a required blood concentration.
 Effect site concentration targeting is now
included for certain pharmacokinetic
models.
 The pump will automatically calculate how
much is needed as induction and
maintenance to maintain that
concentration.
THIOPENTAL
 Old, one of the first used intravenous
anesthetics
 Depressing effect on circulatory system
 May be used in patients with ASA 1
Ketamine
Only intravenous anesthetic which has
good analgesia effect
Does not depress circulatory nor respiratory
function
Used in children, and in emergency and
diseaster medicine
Gives night mare dreams in adult patients
Propofol
Very good anesthetic for induction and
maintaince of anesthesia with no
accumulation effect
 Titrable
 May be used in short procedures –
titrated do not effect circulatory and
respiratory system in important manner
 Good for sedation, brain protecting effect
 May be used in TCI
 Opioids
 fentanyl, alfentanil, sufentanil,
remifentanil
 May be used for induction and maintain
of anesthesia in repeated bolus or
continuous infusion technique
 Sedative effect
 In high doses may be used alone for so
called opioid anesthesia- formerly used in
cardioanesthesia- very stable circulatory
effect
 Compications of use
 Respiratory depression
 Muscle rigidity in high doses
 Post-Operative Nausea and
Vomitings
 Accumulation effect after prolonged
administration (except for
remifentanil)
 Remifentanil
 T1/2 3-5 min
 Methabolised by non-specific tissue
esterases- methabolism is not
altered by renal or liver function
 No accumulation effect after
prolonged
BENZODIAZEPINES
Used in anesthesia:
Diazepam
Midazolam
Used as adiuvants for premedication
MUSCLE
RELAXANTS
Division of relaxants depending on mechanism
of action
 1.nondepolarising-
combine with receptor for Ach like antagonists-
they are fake mediators
do not cause muscle contractation but block
access to receptors for Ach
 2.depolarising-
they combine with receptors for Ach and cause
contractation of muscle but they stay
connected with receptor blocking access to it
for Ach.
They act like agonists.
 Nondepolarising agents
 d-tubocurine – oldest deliverate of
curarine –
 alcuronium
 -pancuronium – cheap and still used –
 pipercuronium –
 vercuronium –
 atracurium –
 cisatracurium –
 mivacurium
 -rocuronium
 Division of nondepolarising relaxants due to
Chemical structure:
 AMINOSTEROIDS
 Pankuronium( Pavulon )
 Pipekuronium( Arduan )
 Rapakuronium ( Raplon )
 Rokuronium ( Esmeron )
 Wekuronium ( Norcuron )
Benzylizochinolons
 Miwakurium( Mivacron )
 Cisatrakurium( Nimbex )
 Atrakurium(Trakurium)
 Division of nondepolarising relaxants
due to time of action:
 Short acting < 3 min: still searching
 Midle time <60 min: mivacurium,
atracurium, cisatracurium, rocuronium,
vecuronium
 Long acting > 60 min: pancuronium,
pipecuronium
 Atracurium
 Elimination non-enzymatic, independent of renal and liver
function, Hoffman elimination- hydrolisis
 Releases histamine
 Acts about 30 min
Cisatracurium
 One of stereoisomers of atracurium,
 Do not release histamine
 Acts about 60 min
 Rocuronium
 Fast acting- time to 100% supresion 60 sec.
 Do not release histamine
 Acts about 60 min
 Is methabolised in liver- disfunction of liver may
alter elimination
 Mivacurium
 Releases histamine
 Acts about 15-20 min – used for short
procedures
 Methabolised by plasma esterases
 Reverse of neuromuscular blockade
 Neostigmine, piridostigmine- blockers of
acetylocholinesterase
 Must be given toghether with atropine to avoid
bradycardia caused by activation of perisympatic
system
 Depolarising agents
 Only one: chlorsuccinilocholine –
 It is methabolised by pseudocholinesterase -
Causes many complications, has many
contraindications –
 Indications: Rapid sequence induction: full
stomach, suspected difficult intubation because it
acts very fast < 30 seconds and short < 3 min
 Complications of general
anesthesia
 Respiratory: residual relaxants/opioids
action
 Circulatory
 Neurological: residual
anesthetics/opioids action
 Post-Operative Nausea and Vomitings
Mortality connected with anesthesia
 0,05 0,05 - 4/10000 GA
 2 2 - 16 % of of surgical surgical patients
patients
 80 % is is caused caused by by human
human mistakes
Major causes of deaths
Airway obstruction
Difficult and and unefficient intubation
Insufficient ventillation
 Other causes of mortality and morbidity
 Anoxia
 Haemodynamic instability
 Aspiration Aspiration
 Toxity of drugs drugs
 mostly inhalation agents
 Anaphylaxia and and drug
interations

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4Generalanesthesia.pp general basic principles

  • 2. It is a reversable blocking of pain feeling in whole body or in a part of it using pharmacology or other methods Definition of anesthesia
  • 3. Local- regional anesthesia, patient is conscious or sedated General- anesthesia interact with whole body, function of central nervous system is depressed: – Intravenous – Inhalation (volatile) – Combined, balanced Anesthesia- division
  • 4. TIVA Total Intra Venous Anaesthesia VIMA Volatile Induction and Maintain Anaesthesia
  • 5. Parts of general anesthesia  Hypnosis- pharmacological sleep, reversable lack of consciousness  Analgesia-pain management  Areflexio-lack of reflexes  Relaxatio musculorum- muscle relaxation, pharmacological reversable neuromuscular blockade
  • 6. Parts of general anesthesia must be in balance between: Hypnosis (anesthesia) Analgesia Lack of reflexes (muscle relaxation)
  • 7.  Features of General anesthesia  1 Lack of consciousness  2 Pain management  3 Lack of reflexes  4 Neuromuscular blockade
  • 8. Stages of general anesthesia • Stadium analgesiae (analgesia and sedation stage) • Stadium excitationis (excitation stage) • Stadium anaesthesiae chirurgicae (anesthesia for surgery) • Stadium paralysis respirationis (intoxication, respiratory arrest)
  • 9. I. Analgesia stage • Patient consciouss • Spontaneus respiration • Reflexes present • Possible small surgery procedures like dressing change in burns II. Excitation stage • Possible uncontrolled movements, vomitings • Increase in respiratory rate III. Anesthesia for surgery • It begins with lack of lid reflex • 4 substages • Airway opening necessary • Possible surgery except for abdominal opening if no relaxants are used • Possible endotracheal intubation IV. intoxication, overdosing • Respiratory arrest • If anesthesia not discontinued possible cardiac arrest
  • 10.  Premedication Main reasons for premedication:  Anxiolysis lack of of threat  Sedation – calming down  Amnesia – lack lof memories of perioperative period Methods of general anesthesia  OPEN OLD  SEMIOPEN USED MOSTLY IN PEDIATRIC ANESTESHIA  SEMICLOSED MOST COMMON  CLOSED MODERN ANESTESHIA
  • 11. Methods of general anesthesia CIRCLE SYSTEM *HIGH FLOW FRESH GAS FLOW > 3 l/min. *LOW FLOW FGF ok. 1l/min. *MINIMAL FLOW FGF ok. 0,5 l/min. Stages of general anesthesia • Introduction to anesthesia (induction) • Maintaining of anesthesia (conduction) • Recovery from anesthesia
  • 12. Anesthesia agents  1. Inhalation anesthetics (volatile anesthetics) - gases : N2O, xenon - Fluids (vaporisers)  2. Intravenous anesthetics - Barbiturans : thiopental - Others : propofol, etomidat  3. Pain killers - Opioids: fentanyl, sufentanil, alfentanil, remifentanil, morphine - Non Steroid Anti Inflamatory Drugs: ketonal, paracetamol  4. Relaxants - Depolarising : succinilcholine - Non depolarising : atracurium, cisatracurium, vecuronium, rocuronium  5. adiuvants -benzodiazepins: midasolam, diazepam
  • 14. Mechanism of action of inhaled anesthetics  Reaction depends on concentration. This depends on alveolar (first compartment), blood and brain (central compartment) concentration , (third compartment- other tissue like muscles, fataccumulation effect): – Minute ventilation – Lung blood perfusion – Solubility in tissues MAC-minimal alveolar concentration Concentration in which 50% of anesthetised patients do not react on skin incision Corelation with solubility in fat tissue The lower MAC is the higher strenght of action is
  • 15. Inhalation agents Division of inhalation agents 1.Gases: • N2O – old, weak, used as adiuvant • Xenon – lately introduced 2. Vapors (fluids): • Halothan • Enfluran • Isofluran • Sevofluran • Desfluran
  • 16. Features of ideal volatile anesthetic  Not disturbing smell  Fast acting, titrable  Low solubility in blood- fast transport to brain  Stable when stored, not reacting with other chemicals  Non- flamable, non- explosive • Low methabolism in body, fast elimination, no accumulative effect  No depressing effect on circulatory and respiratory systems
  • 17. Nitrous oxide • Old • Weak • Used as adiuvant • Will be removed form medical use up to 2010 Halothan • Used for many years with good effect • First non-flamable volatile fluid anesthetic • MAC high • Depression of circulatory system • May destroy liver • Now-a-days used only in pediatric anesthesia
  • 18. Isofluran • Disturbing smell • May interact with heart contractivity • Increases relaxation of muscles Desfluran • Very disturbing smell- can not be used for VIMA • Is not methabolised • Very fast acting • May be used for one-day surgery • Expensive, difficult to store (boiling temp. about 20 C) • Modern and widelly used
  • 19. Sevofluran • Not disturbing smell- may be used for VIMA • Low solubility in blood- fast acting • Does not disturbs airway • May depress circulatory system • Methabolised to Compound A- may be renal toxic (but not confirmed in humans) • May be used in one-day surgery • Modern, and more and more widely used volatile anesthetic
  • 21. TCI (target controlled infusion)  TCI is an infusion system which allows the anaesthetist to select the target blood concentration required for a particular effect  It allows to control depth of anaesthesia by adjusting the requested target concentration
  • 22.  Instead of setting ml/h or a dose rate (mg/kg/h), the pump can be programmed to target a required blood concentration.  Effect site concentration targeting is now included for certain pharmacokinetic models.  The pump will automatically calculate how much is needed as induction and maintenance to maintain that concentration.
  • 23. THIOPENTAL  Old, one of the first used intravenous anesthetics  Depressing effect on circulatory system  May be used in patients with ASA 1
  • 24. Ketamine Only intravenous anesthetic which has good analgesia effect Does not depress circulatory nor respiratory function Used in children, and in emergency and diseaster medicine Gives night mare dreams in adult patients
  • 25. Propofol Very good anesthetic for induction and maintaince of anesthesia with no accumulation effect  Titrable  May be used in short procedures – titrated do not effect circulatory and respiratory system in important manner  Good for sedation, brain protecting effect  May be used in TCI
  • 26.  Opioids  fentanyl, alfentanil, sufentanil, remifentanil  May be used for induction and maintain of anesthesia in repeated bolus or continuous infusion technique  Sedative effect  In high doses may be used alone for so called opioid anesthesia- formerly used in cardioanesthesia- very stable circulatory effect
  • 27.  Compications of use  Respiratory depression  Muscle rigidity in high doses  Post-Operative Nausea and Vomitings  Accumulation effect after prolonged administration (except for remifentanil)
  • 28.  Remifentanil  T1/2 3-5 min  Methabolised by non-specific tissue esterases- methabolism is not altered by renal or liver function  No accumulation effect after prolonged
  • 31. Division of relaxants depending on mechanism of action  1.nondepolarising- combine with receptor for Ach like antagonists- they are fake mediators do not cause muscle contractation but block access to receptors for Ach  2.depolarising- they combine with receptors for Ach and cause contractation of muscle but they stay connected with receptor blocking access to it for Ach. They act like agonists.
  • 32.  Nondepolarising agents  d-tubocurine – oldest deliverate of curarine –  alcuronium  -pancuronium – cheap and still used –  pipercuronium –  vercuronium –  atracurium –  cisatracurium –  mivacurium  -rocuronium
  • 33.  Division of nondepolarising relaxants due to Chemical structure:  AMINOSTEROIDS  Pankuronium( Pavulon )  Pipekuronium( Arduan )  Rapakuronium ( Raplon )  Rokuronium ( Esmeron )  Wekuronium ( Norcuron )
  • 34. Benzylizochinolons  Miwakurium( Mivacron )  Cisatrakurium( Nimbex )  Atrakurium(Trakurium)
  • 35.  Division of nondepolarising relaxants due to time of action:  Short acting < 3 min: still searching  Midle time <60 min: mivacurium, atracurium, cisatracurium, rocuronium, vecuronium  Long acting > 60 min: pancuronium, pipecuronium
  • 36.  Atracurium  Elimination non-enzymatic, independent of renal and liver function, Hoffman elimination- hydrolisis  Releases histamine  Acts about 30 min Cisatracurium  One of stereoisomers of atracurium,  Do not release histamine  Acts about 60 min
  • 37.  Rocuronium  Fast acting- time to 100% supresion 60 sec.  Do not release histamine  Acts about 60 min  Is methabolised in liver- disfunction of liver may alter elimination  Mivacurium  Releases histamine  Acts about 15-20 min – used for short procedures  Methabolised by plasma esterases
  • 38.  Reverse of neuromuscular blockade  Neostigmine, piridostigmine- blockers of acetylocholinesterase  Must be given toghether with atropine to avoid bradycardia caused by activation of perisympatic system  Depolarising agents  Only one: chlorsuccinilocholine –  It is methabolised by pseudocholinesterase - Causes many complications, has many contraindications –  Indications: Rapid sequence induction: full stomach, suspected difficult intubation because it acts very fast < 30 seconds and short < 3 min
  • 39.  Complications of general anesthesia  Respiratory: residual relaxants/opioids action  Circulatory  Neurological: residual anesthetics/opioids action  Post-Operative Nausea and Vomitings
  • 40. Mortality connected with anesthesia  0,05 0,05 - 4/10000 GA  2 2 - 16 % of of surgical surgical patients patients  80 % is is caused caused by by human human mistakes Major causes of deaths Airway obstruction Difficult and and unefficient intubation Insufficient ventillation
  • 41.  Other causes of mortality and morbidity  Anoxia  Haemodynamic instability  Aspiration Aspiration  Toxity of drugs drugs  mostly inhalation agents  Anaphylaxia and and drug interations