Physics, Monitoring, & Devices
- Abdominal compartment syndrome: Diagnosis
- Arterial waveform: Peripheral vs. Central
- Ascending vent bellows advantages
- Automated drug delivery devices
- Awareness: Equipment issues
- Bivent pacing: Indications
- Blood gas coefficient
- Brachial artery catheter: Cx
- Capnogram waveform: obstruction
- Cardiac pacemaker indications
- Carotid Endarterectomy: CNS monitoring
- Carotid surgery: CNS monitoring
- Central venous pressure wave forms
- Clark electrode
- CO2 absorbers: volatile anes toxicity
- CVP waveform: Components
- Cylinder content: weight vs. pressure
- Dalton’s Law – Applied
- DDD pacemaker periop mgmt
- Desflurane vaporization physics
- Doppler shift & angle of incidence
- E-cylindr PSI/vol relationship
- ECG leads: P-wave detection
- ECG loose lead effect
- Evoked potentials: anesthetic effects
- Factors affecting turbulent flow
- Factors affecting vaporizer output
- Flowmeter: Gas properties
- Gas laws: temp/pressure changes
- Heliox effects
- Incompetent expiratory valve: Signs
- Inhaled anesthetic: Uptake
- Inhaled anesthetics: vapor pressure
- Intra-art SBP amplification mech
- Line isolation monitor
- Mapleson D: Rebreathing
- Mask CPAP: Physiologic effects
- Misfilled vaporizer: Output calc
- Motor evoked potentials: Anesth effec
- MRI – Monitoring hazards
- O2 E cylinder
- Oxygen delivery: Pipeline vs cylinder
- Oxygen regulator: Characteristics
- Pacemaker Designation
- Pacer lead placement: ECG morphology
- PCA clinical advantages
- Pin index safety system
- Poiseuille’s law: IV fluids
- Pressure support ventilation
- Radiation exposure vs distance
- Significance of U/S probe frequency
- Soda lime exhaustion: Mgmnt
- Spinal microcatheters
- SpO2: Carbon monoxide
- SSEP Latency: anesthetic drugs
- SSEP monitoring – Anes effects
- SSEP: physiological effects
- Sub-ambient pressure alarm
- TCD: Utility in CEA
- TEE – Contraindications
- TEE views: perfusion distribution
- TEE views: perfusion distribution (22%)
- TEE: diagnosis: hypotension
- TEE: Tamponade vs hypovolemia
- TEG: Decreased MA Dx/Rx
- Transducer – Art line vs NIBP
- Ultrasonography: internal jugular
- Ultrasound structures: echogenicity
- Ultrasound: Acoustic impedance
- Uncuffed ETT: Max leak pressure
- Vaporizer output at altitude
- Vaporizer output calculation
- Volume controlled ventilation
