Anesthetics equipment check
MISMADE:
Anesthesia machine/room check
MS MAID:
- Monitors (EKG, SpO2, EtCO2, etc)
- Suction
- Machine check (according to ASA guidelines)
- Airway equipment (ETT, laryngoscope, oral/nasal airway)
- IV equipment
- Drugs (emergency, inductions, NMBs, etc)
Anesthesia: quick check
SOAP:
- Suction
- Oxygen
- Airway
- Pharmacology
"Anesthesiologists Enjoy S & M":
- Analgesia
- Excitement
- Surgical anesthesia
- Medullary paralysis
Endotracheal intubation: diagnosis of poor bilateral breath sounds after intubation
DOPE:
- Displaced (usually right mainstem, pyreform fossa, etc.)
- Obstruction (kinked or bitten tube, mucuous plug, etc.)
- Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)
- Esophagus
General anaesthesia: equipment check prior to inducing
MALES:
- Masks
- Airways
- Laryngoscopes
- Endotracheal tubes
- Suction/ Stylette, bougie
Inhalation anesthetics
SHINE:
- Sevoflurane
- Halothane
- Isoflurane
- Nitrous oxide
- Enflurane
*If want the defunct Methoxyflurane too, make it MoonSHINE.
Spinal anesthesia agents
"Little Boys Prefer Toys":
- Lidocaine
- Bupivicaine
- Procaine
- Tetracaine
Xylocaine: where not to use with epinephrine
"Nose, Hose, Fingers and Toes"
- Vasoconstrictive effects of xylocaine with epinephrine are helpful in providing hemostasis while suturing. However, may cause local ischemic
- necrosis in distal structures such as the digits, tip of nose, penis, ears.
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