TEEX Paramedic Final Exam Study Guide | 200 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated & Verified | 2023 | 77 Pages

As you are administering 40 units of vasopressin to an adult woman in ventricular fibrillation, your team members continue CPR. After 2 minutes, you reassess her and determine that she is still in ventricular fibrillation. You should: - A. administer 300 mg of amiodarone while CPR remains uninterrupted. B. deliver a monophasic defibrillation with 200 joules and resume CPR. C. prepare to deliver another shock. D. instruct your team to continue CPR. The correct answer is: prepare to deliver another shock. You are dispatched to a residence for an elderly man with an altered mental status. As you are assessing the patient, his wife tells you that he goes to dialysis several times a week, but has missed his last three treatments because their car broke down. The patient's skin is yellow, his blood pressure is 98/60 mm Hg, and his pulse rate is 118 beats/min. The ECG reveals sinus tachycardia with peaked T waves. You should be MOST concerned with the potential for: - A. severe hypovolemia. B. hypokalemia-induced cardiac arrest. C. acute bradycardia or heart block. D. lethal ventricular dysrhythmias. The correct answer is: lethal ventricular dysrhythmias.