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Vfib/Vtach drugs used according to ACLS

"Every Little Boy Must Pray":
Epinephrine
Lidocaine
Bretylium
Magsulfate
Procainamide
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---Midnight Medic Paramedic in Texas

Shock: signs and symptoms

TV SPARC CUBE:
Thirst
Vomiting
Sweating
Pulse weak
Anxious
Respirations shallow/rapid
Cool
Cyanotic
Unconscious
BP low
Eyes blank
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---Anonymous Contributor

Acute LVF management

LMNOP:
Lasex (frusemide)
Morphine (diamorphine)
Nitrates
Oxygen (sit patient up)
Pulmonary ventilation (if doing badly)
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---Graeme Little University College London

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) causes

BATS:
Berry aneurysm
Arteriovenous malformation/ Adult polycystic kidney disease
Trauma (eg being struck with baseball bat)
Stroke
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---Cusano and Mamta SGUSOM

Ventricular fibrillation: treatment

"Shock, Shock, Shock, Everybody Shock, Little Shock, Big Shock, Momma Shock, Poppa Shock":
Shock= Defibrillate
Everybody= Epinephine
Little= Lidocaine
Big= Bretylium
Momma= MgSO4
Poppa= Pocainamide
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---Anonymous Contributor

Chest pain treatment, for nurses

"MOVE your patient!":
Monitor: put patient on cardiac monitor
Oxygen: put patient on O2
Venous: gain large bore venous access
EKG: 12 lead EKG
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---R. Stilts, S.N. Senior Nursing Student

Endotrachial tube deliverable drugs

O NAVEL:
Oxygen
Naloxone
Atropine
Ventolin (albuterol)
Epinephrine
Lidocaine
· If you can't get IV access established, and have necessity to administer resuscitative meds, remember you have the airway and can give the above drugs.
· Drug delivery is enhanced if diluted with 10cc NS and rapid introduced for aeresolization.
· Alternatively, bare bone version is ALE, as above.
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---Robert Lueken and Marc Eastern Virginia Medical School

Syncope causes, by system

HEAD HEART VESSELS:
· CNS causes include HEAD:
Hypoxia/ Hypoglycemia
Epilepsy
Anxiety
Dysfunctional brain stem (basivertebral TIA)
· Cardiac causes are HEART:
Heart attack
Embolism (PE)
Aortic obstruction (IHSS, AS or myxoma)
Rhythm disturbance, ventricular
Tachycardia
· Vascular causes are VESSELS:
Vasovagal
Ectopic (reminds one of hypovolemia)
Situational
Subclavian steal
ENT (glossopharyngeal neuralgia)
Low systemic vascular resistance (Addison's, diabetic vascular neuropathy)
Sensitive carotid sinus
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---Bill Young MD University of Kentucky Dept of Emergency Medicine

Atrial fibrillation: causes of new onset

THE ATRIAL FIBS:
Thyroid
Hypothermia
Embolism (P.E.)
Alcohol
Trauma (cardiac contusion)
Recent surgery (post CABG)
Ischemia
Atrial enlargement
Lone or idiopathic
Fever, anemia, high-output states
Infarct
Bad valves (mitral stenosis)
Stimulants (cocaine, theo, amphet, caffeine)
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---Sam LaCapra, M.D., F.A.C.E.P. Emergency Physician

Malaria: complications of falciparum malaria

CHAPLIN:
Cerebral malaria/ Coma
Hypoglycemia
Anaemia
Pulmonary edema
Lactic acidosis
Infections
Necrois of renal tubules (ATN)
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---Dr. Harsh Sharma BJMC, Pune, India