CPR, EKG & ACLS QUESTIONS?????

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hello everyone how goes it out there. well i am planning on going in to either CTU or CCU and to get my cpr updated my ekg cert. and acls cert. i have the oppertunity to take the cpr on 10/10 which is not an issue. but i want to sign up for the basic EKG class on 10/16 then sign up for the ACLS class on the 10/22-23rd. the question is does this schedule seem workable? just dont know how much info is in the acls class. you see after i pay and sign up they send me pre study material. just want to know if there is enough time to finish all the material needed for the pre study stuff between the EKG class and the ACLS class. any thoughts or input for anyone who has taken it before??

well hello again. how are you? ok on this mono poly thing. i thought that mono there is only one pacer site and with poly there is more than one, with torsades the pacer site twirls around the ventricles. then you try mag. or lidocaine or other med that does not prolong the QT(in torsades).

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they must have heard you. going, going, gone.:p
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they must have heard you. going, going, gone.:p

:rotfl: just had to gloat, didn't cha???:rotfl:

we let ya'll win.

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so I have been studying the acls manual, and frankly, it is playing with my mind...I have a lousey memory.....so I resort to the strangest methods:

Cardiac Noir...

Throm remembered the first time they met, back in 02. Things were different now. Kay was cold and acidy. She was always a little hyper, now she was just the opposite. As she poured herself some tamponade, she told Throm he could take a bus to Coronary, or Polmonary, she could care less....He saw the hankerchief thrown carelessly on the chair with the initials M. T. He sensed tension as he asked if she knew Mo Thorax. She flatly denied knowing him as she slipped a couple tablets into Throm's drink...

How many differential diagnosis are in this paragraph?

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so I have been studying the acls manual, and frankly, it is playing with my mind...I have a lousey memory.....so I resort to the strangest methods:

Cardiac Noir...

Throm remembered the first time they met, back in 02. Things were different now. Kay was cold and acidy. She was always a little hyper, now she was just the opposite. As she poured herself some tamponade, she told Throm he could take a bus to Coronary, or Polmonary, she could care less....He saw the hankerchief thrown carelessly on the chair with the initials M. T. He sensed tension as he asked if she knew Mo Thorax. She flatly denied knowing him as she slipped a couple tablets into Throm's drink...

How many differential diagnosis are in this paragraph?

Hypoxia

Hypothermia

Acidosis

Hyperkalemia

Hypokalemia

Cardiac tamponade

Coronary thrombus (MI)

Pulmonary embolus

Tension Pneumo

Drug overdose

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Hi, chadash,:balloons:

You are a hoot. I see you are hooked on this stuff. How about going to nursing school?

If you were trying to remember PEA, I have a fairly easy way, too. It is actually the old way of remembering this pneumonic.....

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Hey! too late for nursing school for me...just trying to be a good CNA....

heres a question on how the dosing goes:If Atropine is give 1mg IVP for bradycardia every 3-5 mins up to .03-.04 mg/kg of body weight, would Some one weighing 150 pounds only have 2 1mg doses? I know I will never use this, but would like to understand what is going on...

THANK YOU!

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Oh yeah! give me any memorization aids you have!

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oh yeah! give me any memorization aids you have!

the pea pneumonic is:

hey, hey, hey that's emd

hey=hypoxia

hey=hypovolemia

hey=hypothermia

t=tension pneumothorax

h=hyperkalemia (or hypokalemia)

a=acidosis

t=cardiac tamponade

s----the s is silent

e=massive pulmonary embolus

m=massivie mi

d=drug overdose

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Hey! too late for nursing school for me...just trying to be a good CNA....

heres a question on how the dosing goes:If Atropine is give 1mg IVP for bradycardia every 3-5 mins up to .03-.04 mg/kg of body weight, would Some one weighing 150 pounds only have 2 1mg doses? I know I will never use this, but would like to understand what is going on...

THANK YOU!

Hello, chadash,:balloons:

You must be looking in the PEA or Asystole protocol. Atropine is given in increments of 1mg every 3-5 minutes in PEA or Asystole. Now, in PEA, after giving epi, atropine is ONLY given if the RATE on the MONITOR is slow ('cause there is no pulse even though it may show a bradycardia on the monitor). In asystole it is given after the epi.

The max dose is up to 0.4 mg/kg. This normally is around 3 mg. total for the adult.

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Thanks! This is such a help...

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There are so many tachycardias I could scream! What really happens in the ACLS class? Also, what ekg readings should I recognize? totally new to me, and the heart blocks and stuff like ST elevation and 12 lead ekg to identify infarct location .....oh dear.....give me asystole or VF....puleeze!

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