How many compression per minute should be given during CPR?
What is 100-120/ Min
What are 3 categories of Shock?
What is circulatory, metabolic, and hypoxic
What is commonly used deliver CRI's in the ICU?
Micro extension set and syringe
The three nerves of brachial plexus that reaches up to digit are?
Radial, Ulnar and Median
What is this?
VPC
What is it called when there is complete cessation of electrical and mechanical heart activity
What is Asystole
Why does it typically take multiple fluid boluses to return to a normal fluid balance in the body?
With 30-60 minutes of administration, 60% to 80% of crystalloids have diffused out of the vascular space and into the interstitial space.
What color tubes would you select when running a CBC/CHEM/PT/PTT?
CBC=Purple, Chem=red or green, PT/PTT=Blue
To create a 5% dextrose solution in a 500 mL bag of 0.45% NaCl, how many mL of a 50% dextrose solution must be added? (Assume that a corresponding amount of NaCl solution will be removed prior to the dextrose being added.)
What is 50mls
What does a zero reading mean on the capnograph mean?
What is not in the trachea, re intubate
Name some catecholamines can be used for cardiovascular support?
What is dopamine, dobutamine, norepinephrine, vasopressin, and epinephrine.
What devise is used in an emergency to deliver IV fluid boluses?
Acceptable answers: IV pump or Slam bag
If a patient presented with dry and retracted eyes, dry mucous membranes, weak and rapid pulses, and a significant loss of skin turgor, at what percentage of interstitial dehydration would you estimate the patient to be?
What is 8-10%
No pulse, but you see this...what is it?
Pulseless Electrical Activity
What is the percentage of circulation we are achieving if doing compressions perfectly?
What is 30%
During shock monitoring blood pressure is important. What is the percentage used when choosing a cuff size in a dog or cat?
in dogs, the cuff width should be 40% of the circumference of the leg at the chosen location; in cats, the circumference should be 30% to 40%
What is used in the ICU to score pain and where is it located?
Glasgow Pain Score and it can be located on the main island in ICU.
Urine output should be at least ___mL/kg/h when a patient is receiving fluid therapy?
1-2mls/kg/hr
What is the wireless equipment in the ICU used to monitor telemetry?
Telepak
After a CPR event what is the next step the team must make?
What is debriefing
When a cat is in compensatory shock the cat should receive isotonic replacement crystalloid fluids intravenously at a rate of?
60 mL/kg/h
In compensatory shock, or early decompensatory shock, cats should be treated with 60 mL/kg/h of isotonic crystalloid replacement fluid. Dogs are treated at a rate of 90 mL/kg/h.
What is the connector that is used to prevent animals from tangling their IV lines continually when on fluids?
What does AFAST stand for?
What is Abdominal focused assessment with sonography for trauma
What drug is typically used to treat cardiac arrhythmias in the ICU?
What is Lidocaine