RHYTHMS
Actions During a Code Blue
P & P
CPR
DEFIBRILLATOR
100

Sinus Rhythm

What is the normal rhythm of the heart

100

Blue Button on the wall by the anesthesia back cart

Code Button

100

Located in PACU and the cart hallway in OR.

Where is the Crash Cart located

100

30:2

What is ration of compressions to breaths

100

BIPHASIC

Zoll Defibrillator

200

May feel like a fluttering or racing heart and may be harmless.

What are abnormal heart rhythms.

200

Surgeon

Who starts chest compressions

200

Pharmacy

Where do the used crash carts go?

200

100 per minute

What is the compression rate

200

Brain death

What will occur in 4-10 minutes

300

A rapid totally inordinate contraction of the ventricular fibers; clinically the patient has no pulse

What is Ventricular Fibrillation

300

Crash Cart

What is the cart utilized in a code

300

Checked once per day

What is Checking a Crash Cart

300

15:2

Child and infant two man CPR

300

CPR with out use of this______works only 3-4% of the time

What is an AED

400

Ventricular Contractions

Ventricular Tachycardia

Ventricular Fibrillation

Asystole

What are the 4 lethal heart rhythms?

400

Front and back left side

Where are the pads placed

400

Green plastic lock

What color plastic lock is used to lock the medication drawer in the crash cart

400

A breath every five to six seconds

What are ventilations
400

TRANSCUTANEOUS EXTERNAL PACEING

What is used for emergency pacing

500

A blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle

What is a heart attack

500

200

What is the initial setting for the Zoll Defib

500

Anesthesia

Who runs the code in the operating room

500

Check for a pulse after this

What are five cycles

500

ARTIFACT

What is an inability to interpret the rhythm