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i had a call the other last night with my partner. 78 year old male who complained of weakness and dizziness. I took a BP and he was very hypotensive, a little diaphoretic and had a weak radial. My partner told me to apply O2 and put him on the monitor asap. I did so and the pt had a slow...

Can someone help me figure this one out? Lidocaine: 100mg mixed in a 100cc bag D5w Concentration is 1000mcg/cc Drip at 20 mcg/kg/min Its our pedi drip for Lido. How would I apply that to our select a drip setting? We have a 60 drop per cc min setting and a 10 drop per cc setting...

ACLS was offered to all providers at my service. I have a question about Antiarrhythmics. I was getting conflicting answers from some of the medics. In VF/tach if you get a pulse back after the first or second defibrillation, prior to antiarrhythmics .....are they still given once pulses...

We have a new chief at the department I work at. He is having an open forum and for Q/A. What are some good questions to ask him?

I was discussing a call with a co worker about a call he ran . He stated he had a pt in V-fib . He shocked the pt administered 1 epi and after 2 min of CPR had a rhythm change to asystole . He administered 2 more epi's then had a rhythm change to PEA . After a fluid challenge and bicarb he had...

We briefly started covering ACLS in class . I thought I had a good handle on it until after class another student posed a question to me . During pulseless fib/tac , if you get down the algorhythm to amiodarone , you give both doses with no conversion.....you get to where its time to give...