PALS Review Questions

16. Describe the location for placing the defibrillator pads
Anterior/posterior
Apex/right chest wall

17. AVPU describes what?
Describes the patient's level of consciousness.
Alert
Responds to voice
Responds to pain
Unresponsive

18. What is meant by the term decompensated shock?
When their are clinical signs of poor systemic perfusion accompanied by hypotension

19. Describe sinus tachcardia.
Sinus tachycardia is a nonspecific clinical sign; often related to a specific cause: fever, pain, activity;  P aves are normal and present; heart rate below 180 for a child and 220 for an infant

20 What is the initial joule setting in the treatment of pediatric SVT?
0.5-1J/kg

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