ACLS review

246.  List four currently recommended medications in the ventricular fibrillation algorithm.

Epinephrine

Amiodarone

Lidocaine

Magnesium

247.  You have been called to a patient in cardiac arrest.  You find a 53 year old male who is unresponsive, pulseless and apneic.  CPR is being properly performed. As the crash cart arrives you quick-look and see ventricular fibrillation.  What is the next appropriate intervention?

Charge the paddles and defibrillate the patient with 200 J if using a biphasic defibrillator or 360 J if using a monophasic defibrillator.

248. You are the team leader for the code team.  As you observe the team members performing compressions you want to evaluate both the rate and depth of compressions. What is the correct rate and depth of compression in adult CPR?

100 compressions per minute

A compression depth of at least 2- 2.4 inches (5cm).

249. Match the correct dosages with the five currently recommended medications in the ventricular fibrillation algorithm.

Epinephrine                                                          300mg IV/IO                                                    

Amiodarone                                                          1-1.5mg/kg  IV/IO

Lidocaine                                                              1-2g IV/IO

Magnesium                                                           1mg IV/IO

250.  What two rhythms can be defibrillated?

Pulseless ventricular tachycardia

Ventricular fibrillation

Reviewed 2/28/16