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What are the current ACLS guidelines regarding administering these drugs? If you have a patient with a known overdose on potassium supplements who presents with V-Fib as in my original post, does the order of medications make sense?

Howdy, I was wondering what you guys thought about treating dialysis patients in cardiac arrest. Our local protocols call for 1 gram of calcium chloride, and 50 mEqs of Bicarb for a dialysis patient in cardiac arrest: "administer after first shock and first eppie in VF/VT or after first eppie...

Thank you for clarifying. This is my point exact. I dont know if a rate of around 100 is fast enough to cause a severe decrease in cardiac output to the point of pulselessness by itself. It seems the general consensus is that a pulseless wide complex rhythm above 100 BPM should be defibrillated.

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Agreed on drug administration! My question was more along the lines of shocking a slower ventricular tachycardia then what is typically presented during classroom megacodes. An atypically slow VT presentation if you will. My thoughts are, if we shock tachyarrhythmias due to a decreased...

Merry Christmas Everyone! I am hoping for some insight, forgive me if this is a stupid question. Pretend you are working a code, and the presenting rhythm is VF, you administer 1 shock and 2 minutes of CPR, you do a rhythm check and find a wide complex, regular rhythm at a rate between...