GUIDE REVIEW / EXPERT VERIFIED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS FOR GUARANTEED PASS |
NEWEST UPDATE, 2025-2026.
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respiratory alkalosis high pH, low CO2
pH: 7.35-7.45 acidic-basic HCO3:
21-28 acidic-basic
CO2: 45-35 acidic-basic
metabolic acidosis low pH, low HCO3
pH: 7.35-7.45 acidic-basic HCO3:
21-28 acidic-basic
CO2: 45-35 acidic-basic
respiratory acidosis low pH, high CO2
pH: 7.35-7.45 acidic-basic HCO3:
21-28 acidic-basic
CO2: 45-35 acidic-basic
high pH, high HCO3
metabolic alkalosis pH: 7.35-7.45 acidic-basic HCO3:
21-28 acidic-basic
CO2: 45-35 acidic-basic
, ▪ change in condition make Priority questions...something to
take priority over ABCs (ex: consider
post op bleeding is priority
over an O2 Sat% of 90%)
▪ pick the patient that is
going to die first
You walk into your patient's room and
they don't have a pulse, what are you
CPR, press the code button going to do?
You walk into your patient's room and
they are not breathing but have a pulse,
bag resuscitation, press the what are you going to do?
code button
▪ unconscious, pulseless If you walk into a room with a patient
▪ shock them with the AED! that is in ventricular fibrillation (v fib)
▪ How will they present?
▪ What must we do to get them out of
that state?
▪ make them bear down If you walk into a room and a patient is
(valsalva maneuver) ▪ make alert and oriented, speaking to you, has
them cough (vagal a pulse, but their cardiac monitor shows
maneuver) they are in ventricular tachycardia ▪
What are you going to do?
Which cardiac rhythm requires the
patient to take adenosine?
Supraventricular
Tachycardia (SVT)