Administration of succinylcholine via the intraosseous route.
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The less common methods of medication administration that used to be used only in the hospital are also now used in alternate settings. Understanding the treatment modalities, care requirements, and complications of these alternate routes of administration is important for nurses who participate in the care of patients receiving infusions. Several alternate routes of administration are discussed, with emphasis on the more commonly used methods: intra-arterial, intraspinal, intraventricular, intraperitoneal, intraosseous, and several other routes.
During status epilepticus, rapid IV access for the administration of anticonvulsant drugs can be a very difficult and time-consuming procedure. Our study evaluated whether therapeutic serum levels of phenobarbital and phenytoin could be obtained by the intraosseous route. Twenty domestic swine weighing 10 to 20 kg were divided into two groups (ten each). In one group, phenobarbital 20 mg/kg was administered either intravenously (five) or intraosseously (five). The second group received phenytoin 15 mg/kg either intravenously (five) or intraosseously (five). All animals had samples for anticonvulsant levels drawn from an indwelling arterial cannula at one, three, five, seven, ten, 15, and 30 minutes after dosing. Anticonvulsant levels were found to be statistically significantly higher with IV administration (P less than .01). However, phenobarbital levels were therapeutic by the intraosseous route, while phenytoin levels were below the therapeutic range after the ten-minute interval. Bone marrow levels 45 minutes after infusion were 13.5 micrograms/mL (phenobarbital) and 11.5 micrograms/mL (phenytoin). Our study demonstrates that current IV dosing of phenobarbital 20 mg/kg given intraosseously obtains and maintains therapeutic serum levels. Phenytoin 15 mg/kg does not maintain therapeutic levels and cannot be recommended for intraosseous administration.
The present experiment investigation of the relationship between intraarticular and intraosseous pressures was carried out in mongrel dogs. Under general anaesthesia simultaneous pressure measurements were performed in the femoral artery, the knee joint and the tibia and femur adjacent to the knee joint. The intraarticular pressure was increased by infusion of saline. Increase in the knee joint pressure caused an increase in the femoral intraosseous pressure, while the tibial intraosseous pressure remained unchanged. The pressure increase in the femur was most pronounced in dogs with intact epiphyseal plates. It is suggested that the rise in the femoral pressure was caused by compression of the venous drainage from the bone. Further evidence to support this suggestion was obtained from anatomical studies, intraosseous phlebography and experiments with selective venous compression.
Physiological studies on the patellar intraosseous pressure gave the following results: The mean value of the intraosseous pressure was 12.5 mmHg (range 7-19.5 mmHg). The effects of femoral vascular occlusion and intravenous infusion of epinephrine or norepinephrine were similar to those reported on long bones. Not only the elevation of intraarticular pressure but also the compression of the infrapatellar fat pad increased intraosseous pressure during extension or flexion of the knee as a result of venous engorgement. The results of efferent nerve stimulation suggested that the femoral nerve carried the vasomotor fibers supplying the vessels of the patellar bone marrow. The afferent nerve responded to more than 20-39 mmHg elevation of the patellar intraosseous pressure.
Much recent literature supports the resurgence of the intraosseous route of access in pediatrics. Intraosseous lines provide a timely noncollapsable route to the circulation in medical or traumatic emergencies when intravenous access is not possible. There has been no controlled study comparing intravenous and intraosseous loading of phenytoin. A 15 mg/kg dose of phenytoin was administered over 15 minutes to pigs by either the intravenous (n = 6) or tibial intraosseous route (n = 6). Femoral artery blood samples were drawn every 5 minutes for 35 minutes after initiation of infusion to determine phenytoin levels. There was no statistical difference between the two groups using analysis of variance repeated measures (P = .160). Microscopic examination of the cortex and marrow at the intraosseous site in these pigs was normal 5 weeks postinfusion. The authors conclude that the intraosseous route is an effective alternative to intravenous loading of phenytoin without permanent damage to the marrow.
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A review of different ways of injecting drugs during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and during states of shock is presented. On the basis of this review, central or peripheral intravenous injection is recommended as first choice. If a peripheral vein is used, the drug injection should be followed by infusion of a large volume of normal saline to facilitate the entry of the drug into the central circulation. In case of endotracheal intubation, several drugs can be injected into the tracheal tube. Atropine, lidocaine and naloxone are shown to be effective when given by this route. Adrenalin is probably not effective when injected endotracheally. Intraosseous injection of drugs, crystalloids and colloids is an alternative in all states except for hypovolaemic shock due to lower infusion rates. Intracardiac injection of drugs during CPR is recommended as a last resort.
Tibial intraosseous pressure and blood flow, along with arterial pressure, were measured in anesthetized rabbits before and during intravenous infusion of prostaglandin E1 at doses of 0, 100, 300, 1000, and 2000 ng/kg per min. The mean arterial pressure decreased dose-dependently. The intra-osseous pressure increased during infusion at doses of 300 and 1000 ng/kg per min, but decreased during infusion at the dose of 2000 ng/kg per min. Bone blood flow increased during infusion only at a dose of 1000 ng/kg per min. Calculated vascular and arteriolar resistances in bone decreased dose-dependently during infusion at doses of up to 1000 ng/kg per min, but no change was seen when the dose was increased from 1000 to 2000 ng/kg per min. These findings indicated that: (1) there was a turning point in the effect of prostaglandin E1 at a certain dose between 1000 and 2000 ng/kg per min, at which the arterioles in bone were fully dilated; (2) at a dose of 1000 ng/kg per min or lower, responsive dilatation in the arterioles of bone under mild arterial hypotension increased the influx of blood into the bone, thereby increasing the intraosseous pressure; and (3) at doses higher than 1000 ng/kg per min, dose-dependent arterial hypotension without further dilatation in the arterioles of bone decreased the influx of blood.
Eight patients who had large sarcomas in the hip, thigh, or shoulder girdle have been described. Three had osteogenic sarcomas, and one each had Ewing's sarcoma, biphasic synovial sarcoma, pleomorphic liposarcoma, undifferentiated spindling sarcoma, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma. All eight tumors showed evidence of regression after intraarterial infusion of cisplatin and Adriamycin (doxorubicin) given over 48 hours at 3-week intervals, for a total of between three and seven courses. Tru-cut needle biopsy specimens of five of the lesions were normal after chemotherapy. However, after resection of the regressed fibrotic tumor in seven of the patients, four contained foci of probably viable malignant cells. These cell foci were intraosseous in three cases and in the wall of a cyst in one case. In the remaining case, tumor in the distribution of the infused artery regressed, but tumor in a region supplied by an artery that was not infused continued to enlarge. In one patient with osteogenic sarcoma in the pelvis, despite a good response to intraarterial chemotherapy that was followed by surgical resection and radiotherapy, tumor recurred in an adjacent area in tissues supplied by an artery not infused. A hindquarter amputation subsequently was required. With the exception of the two cases in which adequate tumor arterial infusion was not achieved, local primary tumor control was accomplished by intraarterial infusion chemotherapy followed by local resection or radiotherapy and local resection in all patients. Four patients are well without evidence of residual or metastatic sarcoma 3.5 years after presentation in the case of an osteogenic sarcoma of shoulder, 2.5 years after presentation in the case of a large pleomorphic liposarcoma of thigh and groin, 20 months after presentation in the case of lower-thigh malignant fibrous histiocytoma, and 1 year after presentation in a child with an osteogenic sarcoma of lower femur.
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Regional anesthesia has become a routine practice in paediatric anesthesia and local anaesthetics are now widely used in infants and children. Although local anaesthetics are generally quite safe and effective, they may produce systemic toxic reactions affecting the heart and brain. Because postoperative analgesia is often the primary justification for regional anesthesia in infants and children, bupivacaine, a long-acting local anaesthetic, is the most commonly used local anaesthetic for paediatric regional anesthesia. Levobupiva-caine has been used in children by caudal injection, by lumbar epidural route for anesthesia during operation, by continuous epidural infusion for pain control after operation and for spinal anesthesia. Levobupivacaine had shown comparable clinical profiles to that of bupivacaine but produced lower incidence of residual motor blockade. Efforts to minimize the risk of complications during caudal anesthesia must be directed towards measures that reduce accidental intravenous and intraosseous injections, reduce the total amount of local anaesthetic used and use drugs with lower toxic potential. In patients under general anesthesia, when using a large amount of local anaesthetic, in case of accidental intravenous infusion, patients receiving levobupivacaine may tolerate larger doses before manifestation of toxicity compared with those receiving bupivacaine. There are clinical situations including prolonged local anaesthetic infusions, use in neonates or small babies, and caudal block, where replacement of bupivacaine with levobupivacaine appears to be safer.
The hemodynamic effects of neuropeptide Y (NPY) and norepinephrine (NE) in bone were studied by infusion into the nutrient artery of an in vivo and in situ perfused tibia in 19 pigs. NPY and NE caused elevation of the perfusion pressure and decline in intraosseous pressure, which was evidence of intraosseous vasoconstriction. The study suggests that NPY, along with NE, acts as a sympathetic neurotransmitter in the control of vascular tone in bone.
It is well known that both the sympathetic nervous system and several hormones control adipose tissue lipolysis. However, the relative importance of these different lipolytic agents may vary according to the animal species and according to the adipose territories in a same species. The action of noradrenaline administration on tibial intraosseous lipolysis was compared with the effects of splanchnic nerve and lumbar sympathetic chain stimulation in chloralose-anaesthetized dogs. The osseous nutrient artery was infused through the homolateral femoral artery in order to check constant blood flow. The levels of free fatty acids (FFA) were compared in femoral artery blood and in the osseous nutrient vein. Noradrenaline was injected in the infusion line. Lumbar sympathetic chain and splanchnic nerve were stimulated at frequencies of 3-10 Hz and 5-10 Hz respectively. Noradrenaline (at 411 p mol/min i.e. a dose three times higher than that required for adrenaline) induced FFA mobilization from tibial adipose bone marrow. Splanchnic nerve stimulation elicited an increase in the FFA levels in the nutrient vein whereas lumbar sympathetic chain stimulation had no remained without any effect. It is concluded that circulating adrenaline seems more important than noradrenaline released by sympathetic nerve endings in the control of activity of tibial bone marrow adipocytes.
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This in vitro study investigates whether intraosseous endothelial cells can regulate long bone blood flow by secretion of vasodilator prostaglandin and EDRF (endothelium-derived relaxing factor). Canine tibia were perfused through the nutrient artery at a constant flow rate, and the increases in perfusion pressure caused by standard doses of norepinephrine were recorded first under control conditions and then during acetylcholine infusion. Acetylcholine attenuated the norepinephrine pressure responses (-62 +/- 3%). This attenuating effect of acetylcholine was partially abolished by inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis (-20 +/- 6%) and completely abolished by inhibition of EDRF synthesis (+73 +/- 43%) or combined inhibition of prostaglandin and EDRF synthesis (+134 +/- 30%). These results are statistically significant (p less than 0.0001) and suggest that both EDRF and vasodilator prostaglandin are synthesized by intraosseous endothelial cells, and can modify long bone vascular resistance. Thus, as in other organs, intraosseous endothelial cells may provide bone with an autoregulatory control mechanism and enable it to respond to a diverse group of vasodilator stimuli.
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