ASSESSMENTS
This is represented as M in the SAMPLE assessment.
What is Medication?
This is defined as a state in which the heart is no longer pumping blood.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
This medication/dosage/route should be applied to conscious patients with cardiac symptoms.
What is 15L of oxygen via non-rebreather mask?
This is the full name of the AED device used to achieve successful resuscitation.
What is Automated External Defibrillator?
This is defined as a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute.
What is tachycardia?
This is represented as Q in the OPQRSTI assessment.
What is Quality?
An acutely aware responder, avoiding perceptual narrowing, will know that this is the most important first step in the care of a cardiac arrest patient.
What is scene safety?
An AED should be applied to a cardiac arrest patient and reassessed after this many cycles of CPR.
What is 5 cycles or 2 minutes?
An AED recognizes this category of symptoms, including ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
What are cardiac dysrhythmias?
These three key features will help a responder identify a cardiac arrest patient.
What are Unresponsiveness, Apnea, and Absence of Pulse.
This is represented by A in the SAMPLE assessment.
What is allergies?
Effective CPR in an adult patient should reach this depth to effectively squeeze blood out of the heart and lungs and create a negative pressure sufficient enough to draw blood back into the heart priming the pump for the next squeeze.
What is 2 inches?
Responders can assist a patient experiencing chest pain or tightness in taking their supply if this medication if their systolic blood pressure is above 100.
What is nitroglycerine?
AED pads should be applied to this location on the cardiac arrest adult patient.
What is the bare chest?
Pain or tightness in this region may be an indication of cardiac origin.
What is the chest?
This is represented by P in the OPQRSTI assessment.
What is Provocation?
For infants, children, and adults, the chest should be compressed at this rate per minute to attain high-performance CPR.
What is 100-120 compressions per minute?
These are contraindications for providing patients with Aspirin.
What are active ulcer disease, asthma, and allergies to aspirin?
This item should be applied to the AED when providing cardiac arrest care to a pediatric patient.
What is the pediatric key?
Either of these locations is the best spot to check for an infant or small child's pulse in a cardiac assessment.
What are the brachial or femoral arteries?
This is represented as E in the SAMPLE assessment.
What is Events Leading To The Incident?
What is 2 ventilations to 30 compressions?
Symptoms including substernal chest pain, tightness in the chest, shoulder and/or arm pain, and diaphoresis indicated the responder should provide this medication, dosage, and route.
What is 324mg of Aspirin by mouth (PO)?
This rhythm, described as the absence of electrical activity, is not a rhythm that defibrillation can not fix.
What is Asystole?
Patients with a systolic blood pressure reading greater than 140 are described with this medical term.
What is hypertensive?