CPR/AED
The ratio of compressions to breaths for an adult victim?
What is 30:2
160 mg - 325 mg
What is the aspirin does for an MI pt.
Arteries take blood ___ from the heart, veins take blood __ the heart?
What is away and to
Age, family history, smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes.
What are the risk factors for an MI.
Methamphetamine: meth, cocaine?
Cause of a coronary artery spasm.
The compression to breaths ratio for an infant?
What is 15:2
Dilation of the coronary arteries, increasing blood flow to the myocardium.
What is nitroglycerin
Blood is leaving the right atrium, it will pass through the _______ valve and enter the ____ ________?
What is the "tricuspid" and "right ventricle".
Chest pain that is relieved by rest or Nitro?
What is "Angina".
CHF
Congestive heart failure
The word that should be shouted out prior to "shocking" a victim using an AED?
What is "clear"
Erectile dysfunction medication
What is a possible contraindication to nitro
Waste filled blood (C02) is leaving the big toe, and will return to the heart through the _____ ____ ____?
What is the inferior vena cava.
A hospital that is prepared to care for cardiac patients 24 hrs a day, and where all suspected cardiac patients should be transported?
What is a "STEMI" center, or cardiac cath lab.
High cholesterol?
Causes plaque build up in the coronary arteries.
Ventricular Fibrillation
What is the most common cause of cardiac arrest due to an MI.
Recent GI bleeding?
What is a contraindication to Aspirin
Oxygen rich blood is leaving the alveoli; this blood will return to the heart via the ______ ____, and dump into the ____ _______?
What is the "pulmonary vein" and "left atrium".
Ruptured plaque in a coronary artery. A build up of plaque in a coronary artery. A spasm of a coronary artery.
What are causes of an MI.
Ischemia?
What is a "lack of oxygen to body tissue".
Every 2 minutes
What is switch compressors and check pulse
Slows platelet formation during an MI?
What is Aspirin
The only vein that carries oxygen rich blood to the heart?
What is the "pulmonary vein".
OPQRST
Onset, Provoked, Quality, Radiation, Severity, Time.
An acronym used to assess pain.
The "widow maker"?
MI involving the left anterior descending artery.