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What does V-Tach and V-Fib mean?
Ventricle tachycardia and ventricle fibrilation
What is next step after ekg shows v-fib?
Cpr
If the no shock advised message is given during the first AED analysis you should?
Check for a pulse; if no pulse immediately resume CPR. The AED only shocks for 2 cases; V-Fib & V-Tach. If the problem with the sinus rhythm is not one of these two, the AED will not shock even though there is no pulse.
What can an AED do for a patient that CPR cannot do?
The AED will shock to reset the heart to bring it out of V-Fib or V-Tach.
Which heart rhythm often converts to ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular Tachycardia
Rapid and dangerously uncoordinated ventricular contractions are called?
Rapid and dangerously uncoordinated ventricular contractions is called ventricular fibrillation, or v-fib. During v-fib, the ventricle is not pumping blood to the body, and thus v-fib is known as a lethal dysrhythmia.
Can you defibrillate a patient experiencing ventricular fibrillation (V fib)?
Yes, a patient experiencing ventricular fibrillation (V fib) can be defibrillated to restore a normal heart rhythm. Defibrillation involves delivering an electrical shock to the heart to help it regain a regular heartbeat.
How do you restore a heartbeat?
CPR will not re-start the heart. An AED is needed; and if it isn't V-Fib or V-Tach drugs and defibrillation is required.
How do you restore heartbeat?
CPR will not re-start the heart. An AED is needed; and if it isn't V-Fib or V-Tach drugs and defibrillation is required.
What rhythms do AED shock?
The two rhythms an AED will only shock are Ventricular Fibrillation (V-Fib) and Ventricular Tachycardia (V-Tach).
After giving 40 units of vaspressine in cardiac arrest is there any need to give further epinephrine or no?
ACLS protocols allow for the use of vasopressin instead of the first does of epinephrine in the v-fib/pulseless v-tach algorithms. If vasopressin is used, no epinephrine is given for 10 minutes following the administration of vasopressin. After that 10 minutes, epinephrine is given every 5 minutes, as per the usual algorithm.
Does an AED deliver a shock only to two rhythms?
yes you cannot shock a patient unless there heart rhythm is in either v tach or v fib
