Antihypertensives, Diuretics, and Antidysrhythmics
Chemical Structure 15.1 Amiodarone Chemical Structure 15.2 Atenolol Chemical Structure 15.3 Esmolol
The Intensive Care Unit
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Alan David Kaye, Adam M. Kaye and Richard D. Urman (eds.)Essentials of Pharmacology for Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care10.1007/978-1-4614-8948-1_39 39. The Intensive Care Unit Brian O’Gara1, 2 and Shahzad Shaefi1, 2 …
Principles of Total Intravenous Anesthesia
Fig. 4.1 Three-compartment open model Developments are being made to deploy mathematical models for predicting pharmacodynamic effects of anesthetic drugs to counter interindividual variability. Using hypothetical “bio-phase compartment model” estimates…
A Review of Mechanisms of Inhalational Anesthetic Agents
Fig. 2.1 Many agents have been introduced over the past 170 years only to be abandoned after a few years Potent Agents Halothane, enflurane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane Others Nitrous…
Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics
Agent Commonly used for Agent Commonly used for Cocaine Topical Mepivacaine Infiltration, PNB, spinal (not FDA approved), epidural Benzocaine Topical Prilocaine Infiltration, PNB, epidural Procaine Infiltration Bupivacaine PNB, epidural, spinal,…
Reversal Agents
Chemical Structure 13.1 Neostigmine Chemical Structure 13.2 Physostigmine Chemical Structure 13.3 Pyridostigmine Chemical Structure 13.4 Acetylcholine References 1. Glick DB. The autonomic nervous system. In: Miller RD, editor. Miller’s anesthesia….
Anesthetic Induction Agents
Chemical Structure 6.1 Propofol Chemical Structure 6.2 Ketamine Chemical Structure 6.3 Etomidate References 1. Stoelting RK, Miller RD. Basics of anesthesia. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier; 2007. 2. Calvey…
Perioperative Considerations in Pharmacology
Drug Weight used for dosing Propofol Induction IBW Maintenance TBW Fentanyl TBW Sufentanil TBW Remifentanil IBW Alfentanil IBW Morphine IBW Midazolam TBW Rocuronium IBW Vecuronium IBW Succinylcholine TBW IBW ideal…
Case 4: A Day in the PACU
ECG monitor Required Pulse oximetry Required 12-lead ECG Recommended Noninvasive blood pressure Required Invasive blood pressure Recommended Oxygen Required Temperature measurement Required Suction Required Defibrillator Required Crash cart with medications/supplies…
Case 15: Cosmetic Surgery
Fig. 15.1 Side view of Linda with pronounced mandibular prognathism, which led to the corresponding dental malocclusion Finally the time had come! She was 17 years old; the bony growth…
