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| What is the first priority when a client with an unwitnessed cardiac arrest is found? |
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| Define myocardial infarction |
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| Necrosis of the heart muscle due to poor perfusion of the heart |
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| What criteria should alert a client with known angina who takes nitroglycerin tabs sublingually to call the EMS? |
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| Unrelieved chest pain after nitroglycerin |
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| After calling out for help and asking someone to dial emergency services, what is the next action in CPR? |
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| Call for help and begin CPR for unresponsive infants and child, CPR should be performed for 1 min before placing a 911 call for help |
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| True or False: in feeling for presence of a carotid pulse, no more than 5 seconds should be used. |
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| FALSE> palpate for no more than 10 seconds, recognizing the arrhythmias or bradycardia could be occuring |
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| During one rescure CPR, what is the raito of compressions to ventilations for an adult? During one rescues CPR what is the raiton of compressions to ventilation for a child? |
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| 30:2 X 5 cycles; For a child or neonate with two resucuers |
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| What is the first drug most likely to be used for an in hospital cardiac arrest |
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| A client in cardiac arrest is noted on BS monitor to be pulseless ventricular tachycardia. What is the first action that should be taken? |
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| True or False: A precordial thump is a routine activity for an in hospital cardiac arrest |
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| FALSE. A thump is indicated only in pulseless VT or VF or when ventricular asystole on monitor responds to a thump with a QRS complex |
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| How would the nurse assess the adequacy of compression during CPR? How would the nurse assess the adequacy of ventilation during CPR? |
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Definition
| Check for a pulse. watch for chest excursion and ausculate bilaterally for breath sounds |
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| If a person is choking when should the rescuer intervene? |
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| When the person points to his or her throat and can no longer cough, talk or make sounds |
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| One should never make blind sweeps into the mouth of a choking child or infant why? |
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| Because the object might be pushed farther down into the throat |
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| Why do the ACLs guidelines recommend a decreased relaince on the use of bicarbonate during adult CPR? |
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| Because acidosis should be relieved with improved ventilation; bicarbonate can actually contribute to increased CO2. |
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