Complete Heart Block Interventions

[filthy]

Hello,

I would like some help on figuring out some nursing interventions for a complete heart block.

Thanks in advance!

[hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN]

Nursing interventions?

Grab the zoll, slap defib/pace patches on the patient, and call the doctor. If symptomatic (and of decreased loc), start the pacing while someone else calls the doctor. Make sure to ask the doc for some sedation if the patient is alert as the doc will inevitably forget to order. That and a stat cardiology consult.

Other than that, put the patient on oxygen. Make sure you have good IV access.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

complete heart block is a medical diagnosis. you can find all kinds of medical interventions for it on the internet. see these websites:

• family practice notebook (use search box and input a disease) http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm
  
• emedicine http://www.emedicine.com/
  
• merck manual of diagnosis and therapy http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
  

nursing interventions would be done for the symptoms the patients is experiencing that we, as nurses, can treat both independently of physician's orders and collaboratively with physicians. you can find the symptoms of complete heart block on the above websites.

[hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN]

complete heart block is a medical diagnosis. you can find all kinds of medical interventions for it on the internet. see these websites:

• family practice notebook (use search box and input a disease) http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm
  
• emedicine http://www.emedicine.com/
  
• merck manual of diagnosis and therapy http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
  

nursing interventions would be done for the symptoms the patients is experiencing that we, as nurses, can treat both independently of physician's orders and collaboratively with physicians. you can find the symptoms of complete heart block on the above websites.

well actually, it's an ekg interpretation and separately a medical diagnosis.

more importantly, however, it's a condition that may be in need of acls. cardiac arrest is technically a medical diagnosis, too, but the nurse would lose her license by waiting to start cpr and acls.

[filthy]

Thank you very much!