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What element of a system of care is represented by properly functioning resuscitation equipment?
System
Structure
Process
Patient outcom
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What element of a system of care is represented by properly functioning resuscitation equipment?
System
Structure
Process
Patient outcome - ✔✔-Structure
What is the first link in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) chain of survival?
Activation of emergency response
Defibrillation
Advanced resuscitation
High-quality CPR - ✔✔-Activation of emergency reponse
What are signs of clinical deterioration that would prompt the activation of rapid response system?
Symptomatic hypertension
Seizure
Unexplained agitation
Diastolic blood pressure greater than 60 mm Hg or less than 100 mm Hg - ✔✔-Symptomatic
hypertension
Seizure
Unexplained agitation
What is the primary purpose of a rapid response team (RRT) or medical emergency team (MET)?
To provide diagnostic consultation to emergency department patients
To improve care for patients admitted to critical care units
To improve patient outcomes by identifying and treating early clinical deterioration
To provide online consultation to emergency medical services personnel in the field - ✔✔-To improve
patient outcomes by identifying and treating early clinical deterioration
What happens when teams rapidly assess and intervene when patients have abnormal vital signs?
Morbidity and mortality rates are maintained
The number of out of hospital cardiac arrest increases
The number of in hospital cardiac arrest decreases
Morbidity and mortality rates increase - ✔✔-The number of in hospital cardiac arrest decreases
In addition to decreased IHCA, what are some other benefits of implementing a rapid response system?
Select all that apply
Decreased ICU length of stay
Decreased emergency department admissions
Increased ICU admissions
Increased Hospital Length of Stay
Decreased in total hospital length of stay - ✔✔-
Which is the main advantage of effective teamwork?
Early defibrillation
Division of tasks
Mastery or resuscitation skills
Immediate CPR - ✔✔-Division of tasks
Which is the best example of a role of the team leader?
Proficient at endotracheal intubation
Does not over ventilate the patient
Performs within scope of practice
Models excellent team behavior - ✔✔-Models excellent team behavior
Which is the best example of a role of a team member?
Monitors individual team members
Helps train future team leaders
Focuses on comprehensive patient care
Prepared to fulfill their role responsibilities - ✔✔-Prepared to fulfill their role responsibilities
What is the primary purpose of the CPR coach on a resuscitation team?
Recording CPR data
Resolving team conflicts
Increasing CPR quality
Giving encouragement - ✔✔-Increasing CPR quality
What are the 6 positions for high performance teams in resuscitation? - ✔✔-Team leader
Airway
Timer/recorder
Compressor (rotate every 2 minutes)
Monitor/defibrillator/cpr coach
IV/IO/Medications
Which member of the high performance team has the responsibility for assigning roles (positions)?
Compressor
Time/recorder
Airway
Team leader - ✔✔-Team leader
Which high performance team member is part of the resuscitation triangle?
Timer/recorder
Monitor/defibrillator/Cpr coach
IV/IO/medications
Team leader - ✔✔-Monitor/defibrillator/cpr coach
Which is an example of knowledge sharing by a team leader?
Changing a treatment strategy when supported by new information
Maintaining an ongoing record of treatments
Asking for suggestions about interventions
Asking the compressor to decrease or increase rate - ✔✔-Asking for suggestions about interventions
Which is an example of summarizing and reevaluating?
"1mg of epinephrine given"
Questioning a colleague who is about to make a mistake
"Compressions are at a good rate"
Increasing monitoring if the patients condition deteriorates - ✔✔-Increasing monitoring of the pati
Which is a step of closed-loop communication?
Confirming task completion before assigning another task
Encouraging all team members to speak clearly
Abandoning ego
Using distinctive speech and a controlled voice - ✔✔-Confirming task completion before assigning
another task
Which are examples of mutual respect? Select all that apply:
Acknowledging correctly completed task in a positive way
Requesting a clear response and eye contact from the team member
Giving drugs only after verbally confirming the order
Ensuring that only 1 person talks at a time - ✔✔-Acknowledging correctly completed tasks in a positive
way
Ensuring that only one person talks at a time
What are the components of high quality CPR? Select all that apply:
Synchronous ventilation with chest compressions
Avoiding excessive ventilation
Compression rate around 10/min
Complete chest recoil after each compression
Interruptions limited to less than or equal to 10 seconds
Low coronary perfusion pressure
Switching compressors every 2 minutes
Compression depth of at least 2 inches (5cm) - ✔✔-Compression depth of at least 2 inches (5cm)
Switching compressors every 2 minutes
Avoiding excessive ventilation
Complete chest recoil after each compression
Interruption limited to under 10 seconds
How do you calculate the chest compression fraction (CCF)? What is ideal percentage? - ✔✔-Divide
chest compression time by total code time. You want this at least 60% but ideally greater than 80%
Which component of effective high-performance teams is represented by the use of real-time feedback
devices?
Quality
Administration
Timing
Coordination - ✔✔-Quality
How do you calculate Coronary Perfusion Pressure (CPP)? - ✔✔-Aortic diastolic pressure "minus" Right
Atrial Diastolic Pressure
How do interruptions in chest compressi
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