ACLS RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES
1. What interventions are appropriate at this time?
Answer: Administer bilevel positiveairway pressure (BiPAP)
2. What should the team do next?
Answer: Check for responsiveness, breathing and apulse
3. What actions are appropriate at this time?
Answer:
Ensure a patent airway
Support ventilations with a bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator
4. At what rate should ventilations be supported?
Answer: 1 ventilation every 6 seconds
5. What is the correct tidal volume to administer?
Answer: 400-700 mL
6. What actions should the team take at this time?
Answer:
Endotracheal intubation
Suction the patient
Ventilation to reduce ETCO2 to 35 to 40 mmHg
7. What does capnography measure?
Answer: Carbon dioxide in expired air
8. What is the normal range for the ETCO2 value?
Answer: 35-45 mmHg
9. Which signs of possible respiratory compromise would be noted during therapid
assessment?
Answer:
Difficulty speaking in complete sentences
Tripod positioning
Agitation
10. Which actions should be performed as part of the primary assessment of apatient
withapparent respiratory compromise?
Answer:
Establish pulse oximetry
Establish capnography
1. What interventions are appropriate at this time?
Answer: Administer bilevel positiveairway pressure (BiPAP)
2. What should the team do next?
Answer: Check for responsiveness, breathing and apulse
3. What actions are appropriate at this time?
Answer:
Ensure a patent airway
Support ventilations with a bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator
4. At what rate should ventilations be supported?
Answer: 1 ventilation every 6 seconds
5. What is the correct tidal volume to administer?
Answer: 400-700 mL
6. What actions should the team take at this time?
Answer:
Endotracheal intubation
Suction the patient
Ventilation to reduce ETCO2 to 35 to 40 mmHg
7. What does capnography measure?
Answer: Carbon dioxide in expired air
8. What is the normal range for the ETCO2 value?
Answer: 35-45 mmHg
9. Which signs of possible respiratory compromise would be noted during therapid
assessment?
Answer:
Difficulty speaking in complete sentences
Tripod positioning
Agitation
10. Which actions should be performed as part of the primary assessment of apatient
withapparent respiratory compromise?
Answer:
Establish pulse oximetry
Establish capnography
