Drugs, drugs, drugs
The two most commonly used drugs for CPR in our clinic.
What are epinephrine and atropine?
CPR stands for.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
This is the number of compressions you should do per minute.
What is 100-150 compressions per minute?
This is the position to place a small dog or cat in for CPR.
What is lateral recumbency?
The first thing you should do if an anesthetized patient arrests.
What is turn off the isoflurane and flush the tube with oxygen?
This is the name of the drug that will reverse an opioid.
What is naloxone?
CPR is most likely going to be needed when in our clinic?
What is in an anesthetized patient?
This is the maximum amount of time you should to compressions before letting someone else take over.
What is two minutes?
This is the position place a barrel chested or brachiocephalic dog.
What is on its back? (Dorsal Recumbency)
The number of breaths per minute that should be given to an intubated patient getting CPR.
What is 10 breaths per minute?
The routes of administration that epinephrine can be given during CPR.
What are Intravenous, intratracheal, and for a bonus 100 points Intraosseous?
This is the percentage of patients that will survive an event requiring CPR.
What is 5-10%?
This is the song that can be used to keep the proper beat for our compressions.
What is staying alive?
If your patient is not intubated this is the position to best intubate it in during an event requiring CPR. Bonus if you know why.
What is lateral recumbency?
Because sitting them up will cause blood to be diverted away from the brain.
This is the order of importance for cardiopulmonary resuscitation for a patient that arrests.
What is compressions(circulation), Airway, Breathing?
This is the dose of epinephrine to give IV in mg/kg.
What is 0.01(low dose)-0.1mg/kg(high dose)?
The main indication that CPR needs to be initiated.
What is cardiac arrest/no heartbeat?
This is the maximum length of time that should pass after an arrest before compressions are initiated.
What is 15 seconds?
This is the position you should place your hands on a large breed dogs chest to do compressions.
What is over the widest part of the chest?
This is who is allowed to initiated CPR in the event of cardiac arrest.
Who is anyone that is available and is comfortable enough to start CPR?
This is the dose of atropine to be given IV in mg/kg
What is 0.04mg/kg?
This is the place to feel for a pulse during CPR.
What is the femoral triangle?
The width of the compression of the chest should be with each compression should be what width of the thoracic cavity?
What is 1/3 the width of the thoracic cavity?
This is the position your arms and hands should be in when performing CPR on a medium to large dog, and this is the position for a small dog, cat or exotic patient.
What is elbows locked and one hand over another in medium to large dogs and circumferentially in a small patient?
This is something that should be done after all events requiring CPR whether or not they were successful.
What is a debriefing and review of what was done and was done well and what could be done better in the future?