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Patient presents to ED with ACS. What are initial steps? - ANSWER-Assessment for perfusion (mental status, skin signs, chest pain, shortness of breath) Place on cardiac monitoring. Make sure patient has IV access. What do you treat the ACS patient with? - ANSWER-Oxygen Nitroglycerin Aspirin Morphine What are the doses of what you treat the ACS patient with? - ANSWER-Oxygen (nasal cannula 4-6 liters per minute or mask 10-12 liters/min) Nitroglycerin (partially relieves pain (1/150 or 400 mcg- three sprays) q 3-5 minutes Aspirin (160-325 mg) chewed for rapid absorption Morphine (2 mg increments assuming SBP 90-100) Then patient passes out, unconscious, only agonal breathing. Initial rhythm: Ventricular fibrillation. What do you do next? - ANSWER-Call for manual or automatic external defibrillator (AED). Start chest compressions.


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