LAST
This is what the acronym LAST means.
This is the medication primarily used to treat Malignant Hyperthermia.
What is Dantrolene Sodium?
This is what should be done every time we change oxygen delivery routes.
What is 'tracing the line'?
This is the correct number of compressions to breaths during 2-rescuer pediatric resuscitation.
What is 15-2?
This acronym refers to the initial assessment that must be performed on any patient suspected of having a stroke.
What is BE FAST?
This is the primary treatment for LAST syndrome
What is 20% Lipid Emulsion
What is sterile water for injection?
This checklist aids in reducing errors during handoff between stages of care in surgery or other procedural areas.
What is the WHO Safety Checklist?
These are the two rhythms that can be treated with unsynchronized defibrillation.
The maximum amount of time it should take a patient to appropriately emerge from anesthesia.
What is 30-45 minutes?
Staff should notify this team if a severe LAST event occurs.
What is the Cardiopulmonary Bypass Team
This is the proper dose for the medication primarily used to treat MH.
What is 2.5 mg/kg as fast as possible?
The piece of monitoring equipment that will best reflect a patient's ventilatory status.
What is an End Tidal CO2 Monitor?
This cardiac dysrhythmia is normally treated with IV magnesium.
What is Torsades de Pointes?
When administering cold IV fluids during an MH crisis, you may not use these two routes of administration.
What are subclavian and internal jugular?
Staff should use this antiarrhythmic medication for patients in LAST syndrome.
What is Amiodarone?
This is the type of antiarrhythmic you must not use when treating MH?
What is a Calcium Channel Blocker
These are 3 signs that a patient may be experiencing a complication related to their local anesthetic nerve block.
What are (tinnitus, perioral numbness, metallic taste, agitation, seizure activity, tachycardia, Hyper/Hypotension, cardiac arrest)? *Any 3 of these*
This is the dose of epinephrine for pediatric resuscitation patients.
What is 0.01mg/kg?
This is a specific indicator of normal respirations in a patient with a chest tube.
What is tidaling?
This local anesthetic is considered highest-risk secondary to its highly lipophilic nature.
What is bupivacaine?
This drug combination may be used in an MH Crisis if hyperkalemia occurs.
What is glucose and insulin?
These are 2 ways that PeriAnesthesia staff can reduce the incidence of Surgical Site Infections.
What are (hand hygiene, clean linens, Triple AIM preparation, maintaining normothermia, timing of antibiotic prophylaxis, patient education)? *Any 2*
These are the two key interventions proven to increase survivability of cardiac arrest.
What are high quality CPR and early defibrillation (of shockable rhythms)?
Three specific symptoms that may indicate internal bleeding in a robotic surgery patient.
What are (abdominal distention, increasing pain, Grey Turner's Sign / flank bruising, drop in H&H)? *Any three*