Resuscitation Flashcards
What is the first priority when a client with and unwitnessed cardiac arrest is found?
Begin CPR.
Define myocardial infarction.
Necrosis of the heart muscle due to poor perfusion of the heart.
What criteria should alert a client with known angina who takes nitroglycerin tablets sublingually to call EMS?
Unrelieved chest pain after nitroglycerin.
After calling out for help and asking someone to dial for emergency services, what is the next action in CPR?
For adults, check carotid pulse, if no pulse, deliver C-A-B.
True or false? In feeling for presence of a carotid pulse, no more than 5 seconds should be used.
False.
Palpate for no more than 10 seconds, recognizing that arrhythmias or bradycardia could be occurring.
During one-rescuer CPR, what is the ratio of compressions to ventilations for an adult? During one-rescuer CPR, what is the ratio of compressions to ventilations for a child?
30:2 for adult
15:2 with two rescuers for child and neonate
30:2 with one rescuer for child and neonate
What is the first drug most likely to be used for an in-hospital cardiac arrest?
Epinephrine
A client in cardiac arrest is noted on bedside monitor to be in pulseless ventricular tachycardia. What is the first action that should be taken?
Defibrillation
How would the nurse assess the adequacy of compressions during CPR? How would the nurse assess the adequacy of ventilations during CPR?
Check for a carotid or femoral pulse.
Watch for chest excursion and auscultate bilaterally for breath sounds.
If a person is choking, when should the rescuer intervene?
When the person points to his or her throat and can no longer cough, talk, or make sounds.
One should never make blind sweeps into the mouth of a choking child or infant. Why?
Because the object might be pushed farther down into the throat.
