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Flashcards by Elizabeth Then, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elizabeth Then
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| three components and stages of a GA | components - hyponosis and sedation, muscle relaxation, analgesia stages - induction, maintenance, emergence |
| epidural | injection of local anaesthetic into the extradual space or epidural space to produce loss of sensation |
| spinal | deposition of a small amount of local anaesthetic into the subarachnoid space to block sensory, motor and autonomic sympathetic nerve pathways |
| hypothermia | low body temp occurs in 4 ways radiation - infra red heat convection - exposed skin or cool air conduction - contact with objects evaporation - perspiration and exposed tissue |
| hypothermia management | air warming device warm sheets enflow warmed iv fluids |
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