You are going to administer 5 mg of Diazepam to your patient for sedation. You have a vial of diazepam which contains 20 mg in 5 ml. How many milliliters of diazepam will you give for the dose of 5 mg?
What is 1.25 mL
100
Amiodarone
What are
Known hypersensitivity
Cardiogenic shock
Severe sinus bradycardia
Advanced AV block
100
How many degrees celcius is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit?
What is 37
100
Cordarone is a trade name of what medication?
What is amiodarone
100
Binds to ACh, causing transient contractions and fasciculations, but prohibiting further depolarization of skeletal muscles. This results in systemic flaccid paralysis.
What is succinylcholine
200
You are preparing to intubate a head injury patient who weighs approximately 180 lb. Your protocol calls for lidocaine 1.5b mg/kg prior to intubation attempts to reduce intracranial pressure. The lidocaine is packaged in a prefilled syringe of 100 mg in 10 mL. How much volume will you administer?
What is 12.3 mL
200
Calcium Chloride
What are
Hypercalcemia
V-fib
Digitalis toxicitye
200
How many micrograms is 5.5 milligrams?
What is 5500
200
Intropin is a trade name of what medication?
What is dopamine
200
Acts as a vital coenzyme in the metabolism of glucose to energy. Absorption is impaired with chronic alcohol use.
What is thiamine
300
You are going to infuse 1 L of normal saline over 4 hours using a macrodrip administration set that provides 10 gtt/mL. What is your gtt/min rate?
What is 42
300
Diazepam
What are
Hypersensitivity
Shock
Hypotension
Coma
Obstetrical patients, and infants <1 mo. old
300
What does the abbreviation qid mean?
What is quarter in die (four times a day)
300
Trade name of etomidate
What is amidate
300
Acts directly on smooth muscle receptors to produce potent nonadrenergic vasoconstriction
What is vasopressin
400
A 7-year-old girl requires 0.02 mg/kg of atropine to treat symptomatic bradycardia. You have a prefilled syringe of atropine containing 1 mg in 10 mL. Your patients weighs 60 lb. How many milligrams will you give and how much volume will you give to achieve the required dose?
What is 0.5mg / 5 mL
400
Lidocaine
What are
Hypersensitivity
2nd, and 3rd degree heart block
PVC’s associated with bradycardia
Idioventricular rhythm
Junctional bradycardia
400
What does the abbreviation IC mean (NOT incident commander!)?
What is intracardiac
400
What is a trade name of Fentanyl Citrate?
What is Sublimaze
400
CNS depressant. Decreases acetylcholine released from motor nerve synapses. Depresses functions of smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle.
What is Magnesium Sulfate
500
You have a 70-kg patient who requires a continuous dopamine infusion at 5 micrograms/kg/min. You have 800 mg of Dopamine that will be added to a 500-mL bag of normal saline. You have a microdrip (60 gtt/mL) set. What is your gtt/min rate?
What is 13.2 (rounded to 13) gtt/min
500
Vasopressin
What are
Ischemic heart disease
Advanced arteriosclerosis
During labor
500
How do you abbreviate hora somni (at bedtime)?
What is Hs
500
Name 3 trade name of procainamide
What are
Procan
Promine
Procanbid
Pronestyl
500
Shifts potassium back into cell to prevent intravascular hyperkalemia