Sim Lab #3 Flashcards
What is DEFG?
don’t ever forget glucose
DRS ABCDEFG
Danger Response Airways, Breathing, Circulation, Disability Environment Glucose
how to assess response quickly?
Neuro, AVPU (GCS), push, pull
are they in danger? 3 categories?
a) ok
b) Sick
c) critical
for fluid resus, use hartmann’s of plasma expanders?
Hartman’s or Normal Saline cause it’s cheaper and just as good
whe give 5% dextrose?
maintenance fluids if they are Nil By Mouth
how to infuse someone who is hypovolaemic without cardiac probs?
with cardiac probs?
500ml Bolus then check, then 500ml Bolus, then check again
with cardiac probs:
give instead 250ml bolus
3 buckets of someone who is hypovolaemic?
hole in the bucket
bucket got bigger
pump in the biggest is stuffed
what can cause and what fluid could spring a leak in the ‘bucket’
blood serum urine diarrhoea vomitting excessive sweatering ascites: fluid in wrong area
what can cause bucket to get bigger?
anaphylaxis shock
neurogenic shock
septic shock
what can cause the pump to fail in the bucket?
obstructive shock AMI Tamponade restrictive pericarditis tension pneumo PE