Nurse Nacole
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Nacole Riccaboni is a board-certified registered nurse, blogs about advanced nursing education and being a new nurse. She posts daily nursing tips, bedside nursing resources, practices, along with advice on nursing academics, licensing exams, professionalism, and nursing school success.
Nurse Nacole
1d ago
Category: Fundamentals
Cardioversion may be extremely painful or terrifying, and patients must be adequately sedated before its use. Patients who are not adequately sedated may experience extreme anxiety and fear ..read more
Nurse Nacole
2d ago
Category: Fundamentals
Cardioversion is a direct current “shock” across the chest or directly across the ventricle to normalize the conduction pattern of a rapidly beating heart. This shock is delivered during the absolute refractory period of the ECG QRS ..read more
Nurse Nacole
3d ago
Category: Fundamentals
The most common terminal rhythms reported in children younger than 17 years are PEA, bradycardia and asystole. The etiology of these pediatric arrhythmias is most often hypoxemia, hypotension, hypoglycemia and acidemia ..read more
Nurse Nacole
4d ago
Category: Fundamentals
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is much less common in children than in adults. The etiology of VF and sudden cardiac death in children is most likely to be sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory compromise, sepsis and neurologic disease ..read more
Nurse Nacole
5d ago
Category: Fundamentals
Cardiac arrest in infants and children should initially be considered to be secondary to respiratory arrest. Sudden cardiac death, ventricular fibrillation, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia are much less likely to occur in children than in adults ..read more
Nurse Nacole
6d ago
Category: Fundamentals
Complications of defibrillation include soft tissue injury, myocardial injury and cardiac dysrhythmias. The availability of multifunctional electrode pads has decreased the potential for soft tissue injuries such as chest burns ..read more
Nurse Nacole
1w ago
Category: Fundamentals
Once an advanced airway is in, the compression and ventilation cycles are no longer delivered 30:2. Now, the compressor will continue to deliver compressions continuously at a rate higher than 100 compressions/min, without pausing ..read more
Nurse Nacole
1w ago
Category: Fundamentals
Two major types of defibrillators are available: biphasic and monophasic. The biphasic defibrillator, which is more likely to be found in the clinical setting, produces either a biphasic rectilinear waveform or truncated exponential waveform ..read more
Nurse Nacole
1w ago
Category: Fundamentals
If no pulse is present, begin a sequence of 30 chest compressions followed by 2 ventilations/breaths. Keep your hands on the lower half of the sternum and compress it at least 2 inches (5 cm) at a rate of at least 100 compressions/min ..read more
Nurse Nacole
1w ago
Category: Fundamentals
When confronted with a patient who has just become unresponsive, prepare for immediate defibrillation. As soon as the defibrillator is available and the patient is connected to the monitor, assess the rhythm ..read more