ACLS

What is the time goal for how quickly you should complete a fibrinolytic checklist once the patient arrives in the emergency department?

10 mins

What is the diastolic blood pressure threshold for withholding fibrinolytic therapy to otherwise eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke?

110 mm Hg

What is the time goal for neurological assessment by the stroke team or designee and noncontrast computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging performed after hospital arrival?

20 mins

What is the maximum time from last known normal when endovascular therapy can be preformed?

24 hours

What is the time goal for initiation of fibrinolytic therapy for patients w/o contraindications after hospital arrival

45 mins

What is the maximum time from last known normal when intra-arterial thrombolysis for select patients can be used for treatment

6 hours

What tidal volume typically maintains normal oxygenation and elimination of carbon dioxide?

6-8 mL/kg

What is the goal for first medical contact-to-baloon inflation time for a patient receiving percutaneous coronary intervention?

90 mins

What is the first-line treatment for unstable bradycardia

Atropine

which clinical finding represents a contraindication to the administration of nitroglycerin?

Confirmed right ventricular infarction

Which is a step of closed-loop communication?

Confirming task completion before assigning another task

Which is a stroke severity tool that helps EMS differentiate large vessel occlusion stroke from non-large vessel occlusion stroke

Los angles motor scale

You obtain a 12-lead ECG in a patient with retrosternal chest pain. Which ECG finding is suggestive of high risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome? ST-depression less than 0.5mm New left Bundle branch block ST-segment elevation Dynamic T-wave inversion

Dynamic T-wave inversion

Which of the following are the H causes of reversible cardiac arrest?

Hypoxia, Hypovolemia, Hyperkalemia/Hypokalemia, hypothermia, acidosis

What is the primary advantage of using a stroke severity tool

It helps identify large-vessel occlusion stroke

which signs and symptoms indicate a symptomatic bradycardia

Pulmonary edema, shortness of breath, chest pain, hypotension

Which of the following are the T causes of reversible cardiac arrest?

Pulmonary thrombosis, toxins, tension pneumothorax, coronary thrombosis, cardiac tamponade

The length of a correctly sized nasopharyngeal airway is the same as the distance from the tip of the patient's nose to the

earlobe

When performing the jaw-thrust maneuver on patients with suspected cervical spine injury, where should you place your fingers

just under the angle of the lower jaw

which class of medication commonly given to patients with acute coronary syndromes may be adversely affected by morphine administration

oral antiplatelet medications

what is the physiologic effect of nitroglycerin?

reduces preload