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Highly excitable fibers that electrically stimulate the ventricles of the heart
What are the Purkinje Fibers?
These three things must be intact for good perfusion.
What is the pump, the the fluid and the container
Heart
blood
vessels
This device's batteries might be low after years of use, the patient may be syncopal/dizzy
What is a pacemaker?
Your patient is a 1 month old in cardiac arrest. This is the optimal procedure to deliver a defibrillation.
Manual monitor. 2 jules per kilo
Pediatric AED
Adult AED
Stroke symptoms that resolve within 24 hours.
What is a transient ischemic attack?
Just below the elbow, the brachial artery divides into these arteries.
What are the ulnar and radial arteries?
This is a build up of calcium and cholesterol in the arterial walls
What is atherosclerosis?
This device helps a diseased heart flow blood and emits a humming sound
What is a left ventricular assist device?
This link in the chain of survival is the most important
What is defibrillation?
Bleeding into the brain due to burst aneurysm
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
In most people, this supplies the RA, RV and the inferior part of the heart.
What is the R. Coronary Artery?
The inside diameter of artery.
What is the lumen?
Blue gel seen under the large pads means this device has already delivered a shock
What is an external defibrillator vest?
You should only apply an AED to this type of patient.
What is a pulseless patient?
A clot that keeps blood flowing to downstream vessels in the brain
What is an ischemic stroke?
The Right and Left these supply the head and brain with nutrients and oxygen.
What are the R. and L. carotid arteries?
Daily Double: How much do you want to risk?
This is the primary cause of most dissecting aortic aneurysms
What is hypertension?
A blood vessel from the chest or leg is sewn to a coronary artery beyond the obstruction
What is a Coronary Artery Bypass graph
CABG
Daily Double
What is the ultimate timing goal that the US Food and Drug administration asks of AED users
What is, that a shock, if needed be delivered within 1 minute of placement?
3 mimics of stroke
Name 2
Hypoglycemia
poetical state following seizure
subdural or epidural brain bleeds (this blood collects near the skull and puts pressure on the brain)
This is where you will find the Peroneal artery.
Where is the lower leg?
This medication causes dilation of the vessels and is given sublingually
What is Nitroglycerin?
This procedure dilates coronary arteries.
What is angioplasty?
AED's differ in design, features and operation. This should be the first thing the user should do.
What is power on?
Then follow prompts
RACE score of 5 or more with symptoms that started within 24 hours
Large Vein Occlusion
Take to a comprehensive stroke center