Critical Events

The cognitive aids on this page are reproduced with permission from the "Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology" by Dr. Larry Chu and Dr. Andrea Fuller.

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• Amniotic Fluid Embolism
• Anaphylaxis
• Asystole (and H & T’s)
• Bradycardia - Unstable
• Bronchospasm
• Delayed Emergence
• Difficult airway
• Hemorrhage/Massive Transfusion
• Hypotension
• Hypoxemia
• Local Anesthetic Toxicity
• Malignant Hyperthermia
• Myocardial Ischemia
• Oxygen Failure O2 Cross Over/Pipeline Failure
• Pneumothorax
• Power Failure
• Pulseless Electrical Activity (and H & T’s)
• Tachycardia - Supraventricular STABLE
• Tachycardia - Supraventricular UNSTABLE
• Total Spinal Anesthesia
• Transfusion Reactions
• Venous Air Embolus
• Ventricular Tachycardia & Ventricular Fibrillation