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thermal regulatory function of intact skin. Initial resuscitation is a susceptible period, and consideration should be given to utiliz­ing warmed fluids or an in-line fluid warmer. Subsequently, dressing changes and dressing removal are an additional vulner­ability. During the hypermetabolic phase, the inflammatory response causes an increase in the hypothalamic temperature set point, and hypermetabolism occurs to maintain this set point. Shivering increases oxygen consumption, which exacerbates catabolism in burn injury. Hypothermia below 35°C contributes to coagulopathy through platelet inhibition [10], and hypother­mia during surgery despite aggressive intraoperative warming is correlated with the development of postoperative acute lung injury (ALI). [11] Interventions to improve intraoperative body temperature maintenance include increased ambient tempera­ture (80–100 °F), use of underbody fluid warmers, forced air warming blankets, radiant warmers, intravenous fluid warmers, minimization of exposed skin, and wrapping exposed skin in plastic insulation, especially the head. Patient temperature should be communicated with the surgical and nursing teams intraoperatively, so that, if necessary, surgery may be paused to allow the patient to warm to acceptable levels.
Analgesia
Burns necessitate aggressive pain management, as many aspects of burn treatment are inherently painful, including dressing changes, excision and grafting procedures, and physi­cal and occupational therapy. Pain severity depends not only on the extent and depth of burns, but also on psychosocial factors that influence a patient’s experience of pain. Inadequate analgesia may provoke anxiety with subsequent procedures, leading to a vicious cycle of pain and anxiety. Burn patients may also develop hyperalgesia and allodynia in the affected areas of burned skin and/or skin graft donor sites, in addition to the tolerance and opioid-induced hyperalgesia that follows from prolonged opioid therapy.
Opioids are the cornerstone of pain treatment in burn patients. While long-term opioid dependence has been a con-
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cern, addiction after therapeutic use of opioids for burn pain is rare. Opioids may be delivered via continuous infusion in ventilated patients, with intermittent IV boluses, enterally, or via patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps with or with­out a continuous background rate. Opioid requirements gen­erally decrease significantly after successful wound closure, which should be targeted as early as possible.
Myriad analgesic adjuncts have been reported in the literature. Ketamine has been shown to counteract the hyperalgesic effects of upregulated N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors after burn, and it may also possess anti­inflammatory effects [12]. Ketamine may be administered as a continuous background infusion during anesthesia or in the awake patient, or it may be administered via IV bolus for painful bedside procedures. Ketamine has a superb margin of safety in terms of dosing. Methadone offers the advantage of concomitant opioid agonism and NMDA antagonism, limiting opioid tolerance and opioid-induced hyperalgesia. Methadone’s utility is limited, however, by its variable half­life due to cytochrome p450-dependent elimination and potential for drug–drug interactions [13].
Dexmedetomidine is an intravenous α2-agonist with sedative, anxiolytic, and analgesic properties; preoperative administration reduced postoperative opioid requirements in adults [14]. Dexmedetomidine use with ketamine can produce adequate sedation and analgesia for pediatric patients undergoing burn wound procedures, though its use is consistently associated with hypotension and bradycardia [15,
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Perioperative use of gabapentinoids (i.e., gabapentin, pregabalin) has an uncertain effect on pain and opioid requirements, with a higher rate of dizziness and visual disturbances [17]. Further, gabapentinoids have been associated with potentiation of the respiratory depressant effects of opioids [18, 19].
Acetaminophen has opioid-sparing effects demonstrated for burn and other types of surgery, but generally must be used in conjunction with other analgesics for all but the
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smallest burns. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are generally avoided in the acute phase due to the increased risk of peptic ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeds, and renal impairment.
Regional anesthesia should be considered in all burn patients to improve both intraoperative and postoperative analgesia and facilitate early participation in physical and occupational ther­apy. Frequently, split-thickness skin graft donor sites are more painful than the actual burn wound, which may be addressed with either tumescent local anesthesia or regional nerve blocks. The surface area covered by tumescent anesthesia is limited by maximally allowable local anesthetic dose (e.g., lidocaine with epinephrine 7mg/kg), but has been shown to be safe and effec­tive with this constraint [20]. Regional nerve block may be delivered as a single injection or via a continuous catheter. Lateral femoral cutaneous block may be particularly useful as the lateral thigh is a frequent donor site, and this block affects only sensory innervation permitting early ambulation. This block may be combined with a fascia iliaca block if coverage of the anterior and medial thigh is also desired. Epidural analgesia or truncal blocks—such as transversus abdominal plane (TAP), rectus sheath, paravertebral, pectoralis I or II, or erector spinae plane—may be utilized for wounds affecting the chest, abdo­men, or back. Meticulous care must be taken during regional anesthesia with respect to sterility and management of prophy­lactic and therapeutic anti-coagulation, according to nationally recognized guidelines [21].
Echocardiography andPoint ofCare Ultrasonography (POCUS)
Point of care ultrasonography (POCUS) and echocardiography have many uses in the perioperative care of severely burned patients. To date, small studies have examined the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) on burn patients. These studies have reported reduced left ventricular (LV) systolic function, impaired diastolic function, valvular vegetation (i.e., with bacteremia), pulmonary hypertension, pericardial effusion, fluid overload, and right heart failure
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[22, 23]. TEE overcomes the challenges of access to the chest in patients with anterior chest and abdominal burns, yet placement of the TEE probe is invasive and may be difficult in patients with acute facial burns. Transthoracic echocar­diography (TTE) is more readily available at the bedside in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and in many ORs.
Increasing attention has been given to perioperative use of POCUS, with recent recommendations published by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) for use of POCUS by anesthesiologists [24]. The ASRA recommendations include acquiring competency in airway evaluation (for confirmation of endotracheal, orogas­tric, and nasogastric tube placement), lung evaluation (for diagnosis of pneumothorax, complicated and uncomplicated effusions, interstitial fluid, diaphragmatic paresis), cardiac evaluation (as above), gastric ultrasound (for unknown fasting status, characterization of stomach contents, and aspi­ration risk), and FAST examination (Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma, for presence of abdominal fluid). Gastric ultrasound, in particular, may be an important tool to assess patients’ gastric volume and stratify risk of aspiration. This evaluation may safely allow enteral nutrition to be continued with shorter required fasting times preop­eratively for nutritionally vulnerable burn patients.
Perioperative Communication andTeamwork
The critical nature of extensive burn injury makes interprofessional communication and collaboration between surgery, anesthesiology, and nursing clinicians essential. Structured handoff procedures should be utilized for critically ill patients preoperatively and postoperatively to ensure that all essential information is conveyed and that the receiver is adequately prepared to assume clinical responsibility for the patient. During prolonged procedures, regular communica­tion as to the progress of the surgical procedure, the patient’s hemodynamic, fluid, and temperature status, and any recent laboratory analysis should occur. This dialogue allows for shared decision-making, for example—as to whether ongoing
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F . Intraoperative cognitive aid for burn anesthesia. Cognitive aids standardize intraoperative approaches to management of the critically ill burn patient and facilitate regular intraoperative communications between surgical, anesthesia, and nursing teams to align on patient status and inform shared clinical decision-making
debridement will be tolerated or should be terminated, or whether a brief pause to allow for further fluid resuscitation and active warming may occur. Cognitive aids posted in the
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OR or embedded in the medical record may help facilitate these communications. (See Fig.22.1.)
Anesthesia Implications, by System
Cardiovascular
Cardiac output is reduced immediately following a major burn due to (1) a decline in effective blood volume secondary to insensible and intravascular fluid loss from the burn in the first 24–36h after major burn, (2) a decrease in venous return due to circumferential burns of the chest and abdomen, (3) impaired cardiac contractility, and (4) increased systemic vascular resistance (SVR) [25, 26]. TEE may be a useful adjunct to guide fluid resuscitation and administration of vasopressors or inotropes in the acute setting [23]. In scenar­ios where adequate fluid resuscitation fails to normalize the cardiac output, the impairment is likely due to a combination of inflammation-mediated myocardial depression and ele­vated SVR due to release of endogenous vasopressin, pain­or anxiety-induced catecholamines, and elevated viscosity due to hemoconcentration [25]. Early burn wound excision may help to attenuate these inflammatory-mediated changes and development of hypermetabolism [27].
Cardiac output in patients with substantial burns (e.g., involving more than 40% TBSA) evolves into a hypermeta­bolic phase within 3–5days following an acute burn [28]. A deviance from these expected trends should prompt investi­gation into other causes of decreased cardiac output such as persistent hypovolemia or a stress-induced cardiomyopathy. Hypertension may occur during this phase due to increased catecholamines (pain- or anxiety-induced), angiotensin II, neuropeptide Y, vasopressin, and activation of the renin– angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) [25, 29, 30]. Adrenergic antagonists, such as propranolol, have been found to modulate the hypermetabolic response in burn injury and may be initiated early in the acute phase [31]. Elevated oxy-
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gen consumption associated with hypermetabolism is reduced following complete excision and closure [32], but cardiac output may continue to be elevated for up to 24months fol­lowing injury [28].
Pulmonary
The American Burn Association’s National Burn Repository reports a 10.3% incidence of inhalation injury among burn patients, although this figure is likely higher in those who present for anesthetic care in the acute phase [33, 34]. Mortality increases more than ten-fold in those patients with some degree of inhalation injury, and this fact has not changed despite advances in diagnosis and treatment [35]. Thermal damage is generally confined to the upper (supraglottic) airways as heat is effectively dis­sipated in the oropharynx and nasopharynx, and the vocal cords tend to close preventing heat from reaching the lower airways [34, 36]. However, supraglottic edema occurs within hours following injury, leading to airway obstruction and difficult intubation. “Thermal epiglottitis” may develop after intraoral scalds or ingestion of a toxic agent [37, 38].
Conversely, subglottic inhalation injury typically arises from the inhalation of noxious chemicals such as halogen acids, unsaturated aldehydes, and formaldehydes, depending on the type of product burnt. Inhaled nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide form nitric and sulfuric acid, respectively, causing damage to the distal bronchi and alveoli. Hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and phosgene exist as aerosols and can themselves reach the distal tracheobronchial tree and cause disruption of surfactant and produce direct injury to the alveolar membrane. These substances inflict direct irritation and trigger inflammation via neuropeptide production lead­ing to hyperemia, mucosal sloughing, loss of surfactant, impaired mucociliary function, bronchospasm, and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activation impairing hypoxic
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pulmonary vasoconstriction [39]. Cast formation can occur due to the sloughing of damaged mucosal epithelium, together with impaired mucociliary clearance; inhaled hepa­rin and acetylcysteine have been studied to reduce airway cast formation and mucous plugging, with mixed reports of their efficacy [40].
Physical examination findings such as presence of facial burns, singed nasal hairs, or carbonaceous sputum have tradi­tionally been associated with inhalation injury, however, these signs have poor discriminative value in predicting patients with inhalation injury and poor agreement with bronchoscopic diagnosis [41]. Clinical interventions for inha­lation injury should rather be considered given a comprehen­sive assessment including estimated length of exposure, degree of enclosure, type of material burned, and any accompanying mental status changes. Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a useful adjunct to evaluate for inhalation injury, and more limited indirect (fiberoptic) laryngoscopy may help to evaluate for laryngeal edema. Xenon-133 scan is also a validated tool for diagnosis of inhalation injury, which measures the delayed clearance of Xenon-133 via damaged terminal airways, but its clinical utility is limited [42, 43].
Difficulty ventilating patients may arise due to reduced chest wall compliance from circumferential chest or abdomi­nal burns and rarely pleural effusion [26]. Optimization of the functional residual capacity (FRC) through best positive end­expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration and recruitment maneu­vers may improve ventilation-perfusion mismatching, but escharotomy may ultimately be necessary to relieve elevated thoracic or abdominal compartment pressures precluding adequate ventilation. Hypoxemia may also develop in the absence of direct inhalation injury, through the development of cardiogenic or noncardiogenic pulmonary edema due to fluid resuscitation or blood product transfusion (i.e., transfusion- associated circulatory overload (TACO)), or transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI). Acute respi­ratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may also occur indepen-
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dent of inhalation injury. The PaO2/FiO2 ratio at presentation predicts burn-related mortality [44].
Systemic poisoning from carbon monoxide (CO) or cyanide may drive tissue hypoxia. Diagnosis may be challenged by non-specific symptoms causing a delay in diagnosis, and thus CO poisoning should be suspected in enclosed (e.g., house) fires.
Renal
A variety of mechanisms may lead to acute kidney injury (AKI) following substantial burns. Myoglobinuria is more common following electrical burns and is associated with high-voltage exposure, prehospital cardiac arrest, full­thickness burns, and compartment syndrome [45]. Patients may present with some degree of prerenal AKI due to vol­ume depletion and peripheral vasoconstriction caused by catecholamine surge, activation of the RAAS, upregulation of vasopressin receptors, and release of endothelin-1 and vaso­pressin [46]. Persistence of hypovolemia, hypotension, and hypoxemia may lead to acute tubular necrosis (ATN) mani­festing as intrinsic renal injury.
Initial fluid resuscitation and the release of these mediators result in fluid retention commonly being seen in the first 2–5days following a burn, which is followed by diuresis and an increase in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) concomitant with the increase in cardiac output and basal metabolic rate. However, this increase in GFR occurs even in the presence of hypovolemia, as the tubular dysfunction may limit the ability to concentrate urine. Thus, urine output may be a poor indicator of intravascular volume status. This may be reflected by a blood urea nitrogen (BUN) to creatinine ratio greater than 20.
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Hepatic
Early liver injury may represent ischemic hepatopathy or “shock liver” because of hypoperfusion, direct injury from inhaled toxins, or reperfusion injury once intravascular vol­ume has been adequately restored. Later liver injury may occur as a sequelae of the proinflammatory cytokine cascade. Functional assays such as the plasma disappearance rate of indocyanine green (PDR static laboratory tests in predicting mortality [47].
The hypermetabolic response to burns is characterized by increased hepatic blood flow, hepatic oxygen uptake, synthe­sis of acute phase reactants, and gluconeogenesis [48, 49]. Other etiologies of later hepatic impairment include iatro­genic drug toxicity, blood transfusions, or sepsis. Fatty liver may also develop due to peripheral lipolysis induced by the hypermetabolic response, including in the absence of total parental nutrition [50].
Alterations to the hepatic clearance of common anesthetic medications are important to consider. Increased hepatic blood flow and enzyme induction in the hypermetabolic phase may decrease the half-life of perfusion-dependent (e.g., lidocaine, fentanyl) and enzyme-dependent (methadone, diazepam) drugs [51]. Variation among many factors, includ­ing magnitude of burn, timeframe following burn injury, co­administration, degree of protein-binding, and volume of distribution, make clinical studies of these drugs challenging to interpret.
) may offer an advantage over
ICG
Central Nervous System
Central nervous system (CNS) injury may occur in burn patients due to neurotoxin inhalation, hypoxic encephalopa­thy, sepsis, electrolyte abnormalities (particularly in the set-