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Airway management and Mechanical Ventilation
1. Airway Management and
Mechanical Ventilation
John Angelo Perez
St. Luke’s Medical Center
International Institute of Neurosciences
October 21, 2015
2. Management of ICP is multi-modal
Increased
ICP
Head
Positioning
Osmotherapy
Sedation and
Analgesia
Seizure
Control
Hypothermia
BP Control
Ventilation
3. Questions for today
• What makes neurologic patients special?
Some considerations
• What are the steps for intubation?
Intubation as a life-saving intervention
• What is the role of ventilation in neurocritical care?
Ventilation in the NCCU
4. Part 1: Some considerations
What makes neuro patients special?
5. More patients require intubation in
the NCCU
Bhardwaj and Mirski. Handbook of Neurocritical Care 2nd Ed. 2011
6. The airway is divided into parts
Butterworth et al.
Morgan and Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology 5th Edition. 2013
31. Secondary infarction is the most important
complication of hyperventilation
Normal:
50mL/100g/min
Stochetti et al. Hyperventilation in Head Injury: A Review. Chest 2012
34. What have we learned today?
Failure to Protect
or Maintain
Airway
Failure to
Oxygenate or
Ventilate
Anticipate a
deteriorating
course
Increased
ICP
Head
Positioning
Osmotherapy
Sedation and
Analgesia
Seizure ControlHypothermia
BP Control
Ventilation
35. Questions?
Failure to Protect
or Maintain
Airway
Failure to
Oxygenate or
Ventilate
Anticipate a
deteriorating
course
Increased
ICP
Head
Positioning
Osmotherapy
Sedation and
Analgesia
Seizure ControlHypothermia
BP Control
Ventilation
Editor's Notes
Setting the big picture of this talk. There many several strategies in the management of increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Each deserves their own talk, but for today, we will talk about ventilation.
Some questions that we will answer today. This will also serve as our outline.
In a general medical ICU, 25% of patients need intubation.
In a neuro ICU, up to 85% need intubation
Neurologic insults impair cranial nerve function.
Tendency of the tongue to occlude
Dysregulation of ventilatory drive
Paralysis
Loss of reflexes
Impaired swallowing
Prophylactic intubation, if unintubated and neuro status does not improve within 24-72h, may intubate
Many neurologic etiologies may require intubation.
A physician is guided by these 3 general problems and applies clinical judgment to determine if a patient needs intubation.
All these conditions can simply be grouped into these 3 general criteria.
Once we have determined the need to intubate, what do we do?
Should there be a need for intubation, Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) is an algorithm we can follow. There are many intubation algorithms (Crash Airway, Failed Airway, Awake Intubation), but RSI has the highest success rate of up to 90% in experienced operators.
The 3-3-2 rule. Three fingers should fit the mouth, 3 fingers between the mentum and the hyoid bone (hyomental distance) and 2 fingers should fit between the thyroid notch and the hyoid bone (thyrohyoid distance).
In neurologic patients, since their cranial nerves are impaired, we see a lot of Class III-IV patients.
The Three-Axis theory of airway management. Extending the neck aligns all 3 axes to visualize the airway and facilitate oxygenation.
“Moderately ill” patients have up to 6 minutes to be intubated.
These medications are given during RSI. Premedication agents are used to minimize the side-effects of instrumentation. Induction agents are used to sedate the patient, while muscle relaxants are used to prevent ventilator asynchrony.
Hyperventilate!
As minute ventilation increases, CO2 is blown off. This results in deliberate hypocapnea.
Hypocapnea in turn reduces cerebral blood flow since CO2 is a potent vasodilator. Less CO2, less dilation. Less dilation, less blood flow. The reported therapeutic range is 25-30mmHg.
Therefore, hyperventilation, through vasocontriction, can decrease ICP. However, this effect is only temporary, ranging from 10-20 hours. Hyperventilation is only used as a temporizing measure for some other more definite intervention.
The details of hyperventilation are still being debated. Unfortunately, there are have been no RCTs to date that analyze each of these variables. For now, only hyperventilation in trauma has only been studied.
The most important hurdle to the use of therapeutic hyperventilation is the risk of secondary infarction.
Roberts and Schierhout found no evidence for improved outcomes in TBI. Evidence is so scarce that a meta-analysis has only found 1 RCT studying 77 patients. However, the meta-analysis is inconclusive as it only evaluated one RCT. More research needs to be done in order to investigate hyperventilation further.