Drug Names & Terms
This kind of drug name is the brand a manufacturer gives it-like Tylenol for acetaminophen.
What is a trade (brand) name?
This is the fastest-acting route of medication administration.
What is intravenous (IV)?
This type of shock results from pump failure-the heart cannot circulate blood.
What is cardiogenic shock?
Shock is another name for this- inadequate delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cells.
What is inadequate perfusion/hypoperfusion?
After finding an adult unresponsive, check for breathing and this at the same time.
What is a pulse?
Deliver adult chest compressions at this rate, in compressions per minute.
What is 100 to 120?
A drug is described this way for a patient when it may cause harm or offer no benefit.
What is contraindicated?
Placing a tablet under the tongue to dissolve uses this route.
What is sublingual?
Low fluid volume, as from severe bleeding or dehydration, produces this type of shock.
What is hypovolemic shock?
The heart, the blood vessels, and THIS make up the three parts of the perfusion triangle?
What is the blood?
Every AED shares this component-the pads that deliver the shock.
What are defibrillator pads?
Compress the adult chest over this part of the sternum.
What is the lower half?
Drowsiness and a dry mouth after taking Benadryl are this kind of unwanted drug effect?
What is an adverse effect?
A subcutaneous injection places medication here-between the skin and the muscle.
What is the fatty (subcutaneous) tissue?
Widespread vasodilation with blood pooling in the expanded vascular beds describes this category.
What is distributive shock?
In shock, cells forced to work without oxygen switch to this kind of metabolism.
What is anaerobic metabolism?
Permanent brain damage becomes possible after this many minutes without oxygen.
What is 4-6 minutes?
Once an advanced airway is in place during CPR, give one breath every this many seconds.
What is 6 seconds?
Aspirin belongs to this class of drugs that reduce swelling and inflammation.
What is an anti-inflammatory?
Sublingual, inhalation, and rectal routes all share this trait of absorption.
What is rapid absorption?
This stage of shock is the final stage, often presenting with severe hypotension and bradycardia.
What is irreversible shock?
The early stages of shock, when the body's compensation is still holding blood pressure up.
What is compensated shock?
The maneuver used to open the airway of an unresponsive adult with no suspected spinal injury.
What is a head tilti-chin lift?
When bagging an apneic adult, deliver each breath slowly while watching for this.
What is adequate chest rise?
The branch of pharmacology describing how the body absorbs, distributes, and eliminates a drug.
What is pharmacokinetics?
Oral, subcutaneous, and transdermal routes all share this slower trait.
What is slow absorption?
Bacterial damage to the vessel wall, leaking vessels, and vasodilation best describe this shock.
What is septic shock?
Once compensation fails and blood pressure falls, shock has reached this stage.
What is decompensated shock?
The AHA name for the connected series of steps that give a cardiac arrest patient the best change of survival?
What is the chain of survival?
If two ventilation attempts fail even after repositioning the airway, do this next.
What is 30 chest compressions?