FCCS review from Blamoun's review Exam Questions and answers. VERIFIED/

FCCS review from Blamoun's review Exam Questions and answers. VERIFIED/ if someone has a distended bladder and you put a Foley and you diurese a couple liter of fluid and the patient becomes hypertensive what is the best way to bring the patient's blood pressure up? - give them fluids in trauma if the patient is hypotensive and you see a contusion, what is the best modality that would tell you why the patient is hypotensive? - FAST exam. 4 points in the chest if the patient is on the ventilatory and they tell you that the patient is comfortable even though the patient's CO2 is high what do you do? - you leave them alone, permissive hypercapnia if someone is hyponatremic when do you give the patient 3% sodium chloride? - if they are having a seizure or have altered mental status. Everyone else you fluid restrict and it will correct itself. what is the first thing you do with a patient that you strongly suspect is having a stroke? - head cat scan to see if there is a bleed or no bleed. If there's no bleed then you tPa the patient if someone has an increased ICP how would you treat that? - raise the head of the bed, hyperventilate to lower CO2. Lower CO2 causes vasoconstriction. and decreases ICP. Administer mannitol. if someone has a tension pneumothorax what do you do? - needle decompression 2nd intercoastal space, midclavicular line what kind of fluid would you give a trauma patient and what is the ratio? - blood, PRBCs, FFT, and platelets, at a 1:1:1 ratio how would you intubate someone who has a cervical injury? - in-line stabilization which coronary artery occlusion patient do you have to take for immediate perfusion? NSTEMI or STEMI? - STEM