Oh My ECG
Sawtooth pattern.
What is atrial flutter?
The stage when kidney compensation begins.
What is the compensatory stage?
Two most common aortic aneurysm locations.
What are thoracic and abdominal?
An ACLS medication that is in three different rhythm algorithms?
What is epinephrine?
Hypovolemia, tension pneumothorax, hypoxia, tamponade, hypothermia, thrombosis.
What are H's and T's?
Causes a spike before P wave.
What is an atrial pacemaker?
MAP equation.
Another name for a saccular aneurysm.
What is a berry aneurysm?
The most common fluid replacement in shock syndromes.
What is normal saline?
Non-shockable rhythm(s).
What are asystole and pulseless electrical activity?
Chaotic, rapid, and lethal.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
Definition of obstructive shock.
What is a physical impairment that obstructs blood flow to the heart?
Also except: What is the inability of heart to fill properly d/t problem outside of heart?
The aortic abdominal aneurysm triad.
What are abdominal pain, hypotension, and pulsatile abdominal mass?
What are vasopressors?
Always performed immediately before shock.
What is I'm clear, you're clear, we're all clear!?
What are the signs and symptoms of decreased cardiac output?
The stage when organs experience hypoxia?
What is the progressive stage?
Two interventions for aortic aneurysms.
What are hypertensive medications and surgical resection?
A class of drugs that can be used to increase contractility of the heart?
What are inoptropes?
Shockable rhythm(s).
What are V-Fib and pulseless V-tach?
This rhythm puts the patient at risk for cardiogenic shock.
Supraventricular Tachycardia
AKA third spacing.
What is relative hypovolemia?
Kidney injury is a complication of.
What is abdominal aortic resection?
A drug that decrease inflammation and clotting.
What is activated protein C (drotrecogin alpha)?
The first thing an RN does when noting a rhythm change.