ACLS Study Guide

1. The antiarrhythmic drug that would be utilized if the patient remained in ventricular fibrillation would be 

2. The above patient has had high quality CPR for 30 minutes. He has received multiple doses of Epinephrine and the monitor now shows Asystole. What would be appropriate at this point? 

3. You are working in an Emergency Department. Your patient is a 69 year old male who is being treated for chest pain. He has an IV in place and is on a bedside monitor. Diagnostic tests are complete and he is awaiting the arrival of the cardiac catheterization team. You go into his room to check on him and he suddenly loses consciousness. You look up at the monitor and see ventricular fibrillation. You are not sure whether you feel a pulse or not. You should immediately 

4. You are in the library when a gentleman who was standing at the desk collapses. He falls to the ground and does not appear to be breathing. You send the clerk to call 911 and to get the AED. Because he is not responding and doesn't appear to be breathing normally you should immediately

5. You have been doing compressions on the above patient for about a minute when the clerk arrives with AED. You should

6. Once the patient is defibrillated and high quality CPR is in progress, the first drug you would expect to give would be 

7.  You have turned the AED on and placed the electrodes. The AED fails to analyze the rhythm. 

8. You are responding on an ambulance to a wedding where the elderly father of the bride has collapsed while dancing. Bystanders say he was complaining of chest pain earlier but didn't want to mess up the celebration by going to the hospital. He was dancing when he suddenly lost consciousness and fell to the ground. Bystanders have started CPR. You arrived and placed the patient on the monitor. It shows Sinus Bradycardia but the patient has no palpable pulse. CPR continues with high quality compressions and ventilation. You have established IV access. The only drug appropriate in this scenario would be 

9. Because this patient has an organized rhythm on the monitor but remains pulseless, we call this rhythm