A patient is in ventricular fibrillation that has failed to respond to several defibrillations or lidocaine. What is the treatment?

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1. A patient is in ventricular fibrillation that has failed to respond to several defibrillations or lidocaine. What is the treatment?

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Following the secondary survey for airway management and CPR, amiodarone 300 mg IVP, followed by 150 mg IVP every 3–5 minutes up to a maximum dose of 2.2 g IV per 24 hours. Procainamide 50 mg/min IV infusion (urgent situation) up to total dose of 17 mg/kg and/or magnesium sulfate IVP can be given. Bretylium use is no longer recommended.
Synchronized cardioversion Synchronized cardioversion. (The rhythm seen above shows supraventricular tachycardia.)
cPR . intubate and establish IV . check blood flow . consider causes: hypovolemia (volume infusion), hypoxia (ventilate), cardiac tamponade (pericardiocentesis), tension pneumothorax (needle decompression), hypothermia (rewarming), massive pulmonaryembolism (surgery, thrombolytics), drug overdose (charcoal, lavage), hyperkalemia (calcium chloride, insulin, glucose, bicarb, sodium polystyrene, dialysis), acidosis (bicarb), or massive MI (thrombolytics, PTCA) . epinephrine 1 mg IVP q 3–5 minutes or may give 1 dose of Vasopressin 40 UIV/IO to replace first or second dose of epinephrine . if rhythm shows bradycardia, or asystole, consider givingatropine 1 mg IV/IO give atropine 1 mg IVP q 3–5 minutes to total of 0.03–0.04 mg/kg.

A patient is in ventricular fibrillation that has failed to respond to several defibrillations or lidocaine. What is the treatment?

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