Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) questions and answers

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
questions and answers
No pulse = - ✅✅no perfusion



What is the pulse generated by? - ✅✅Blood flow

-NOT electrical potential



Can we have electrical activity with no muscle contraction? - ✅✅Yes

-leads to no pulse



What does a cardiopulmonary arrest require? - ✅✅Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)



What does CPR do? - ✅✅Provide tissue perfusion by external chest compression

Establishment of airway and delivery of oxygen



What are the 4 types of arrest? - ✅✅Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT)

Ventricular fibrillation (VFib)

Pulseless electrical activity (PEA)

Aystole



Which types of arrest are shockable (heart is moving but not moving blood)? - ✅✅pVT

VFib



Which types of arrest are not shockable? - ✅✅PEA

Asystole



Which types of arrest have a big QRS that covers up the P wave? - ✅✅pVT

, VFib



pVT - ✅✅Rapid ventricular contraction insufficient to allow adequate ventricular filling and
meaningful cardiac output

-Ventricles beat faster than atria

-Not getting blood thru



VFib - ✅✅Rapid, uncoordinated, fluttering contractions of the ventricles leading to cessation of
isolated ventricular contraction and blood flow

-Blood stands still



PEA - ✅✅Electrophysiologic state demonstrating impulse on ECG w/o resultant ventricular
contraction



Aystole - ✅✅A condition of weakening or cessation of ventricular contraction

-flat-line



VFib ECG: - ✅✅Irregular



pVT ECG: - ✅✅Organized



PEA ECG: - ✅✅



Asystole ECG: - ✅✅



What are the most common types of arrest? - ✅✅Asystole-39%

PEA-37%



What are the most common causes of an arrest? - ✅✅Arrhythmia-34%