Indications Flashcards
Acetaminophen
• Mild to moderate pain
• Fever
Acetylsalicyclic acid
• Chest pain and/or signs and symptoms suggestive on the acute coronary syndrome
• Abnormal ECG waveforms suggestive of the acute coronary syndrome
Activated charcoal
• Oral poisonings
• Oral overdoses
Adenosine
• Supraventricular tachycardia
• Monomorphic wide-complex tachycardia
Albuterol sulfate
• Asthma
• Bronchospasm associated with chronic bronchitis and emphysema
• Hyperkalemia
Amiodarone
• Ventricular fibrillation
• Pulseless ventricular tachycardia
• Wide complex tachycardia
Atropine sulfate
• Hemodynamically significant bradycardia
• Organophosphate poisoning
• Carbamate poisoning
• Nerve agent exposure
Bumetanide
• Pulmonary edema
• Congestive heart failure
Calcium chloride
• Hyperkalemia
• Acute hypocalcemia
• Calcium channel blocker overdose
• Beta-blocker overdose
Calcium gluconate 2.5% topical gel
Contact with hydrofluoric acid
Calcium gluconate
• Hyperkalemia
• Beta-blocker overdose
• Calcium channel blocker overdose
Dexamethasone
• Asthma
• Chronic bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Other reactive airway conditions
•Anaphylaxis
Dextrose 50%
• Hypoglycemia
• Unconsciousness of unknown etiology
Diazepam
• Seizure activity
• Status epilepticus
• Procedural sedation for rapid sequence intubation and cardioversion
• Chemical restraint for agitated (excited) delirium
• Severe anxiety
Diltiazem
• Atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate
• Atrial flutter with rapid ventricular rate
• Supraventricular tachycardia second-line to administration of adenosine
Diphenhydramine
• Allergic reaction
•Anaphylaxis
• Phenothiazine reaction with extrapyramidal symptoms
Dopamine
• Cardiogenic shock
• Hemodynamically significant bradycardia
• Hemodynamically significant hypotension
Epinephrine
• Cardia arrest with asystole, pulseless electrical activity, ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia
• Asthma
• Bronchospasm associated with chronic bronchitis and emphysema
• Allergic reaction
• Anaphylaxis
• Hemodynamically significant bradycardia
• Hemodynamically significant hypotension from a cause other than hypovolemia
Etomidate
Procedural sedation for rapid sequence intubation
Fentanyl
Pain management
Furosemide
• Pulmonary edema
• Congestive heart failure