Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Learn which drugs to use to resuscitate your patient in cardiopulmonary arrest and how each drug works to restore normal sinus rhythm and circulation, raise blood pressure, or lower critically high potassium levels. In just 30 minutes, you'll learn: ?h how to administer epinephrine by I.V. bolus, I.V. infusion, or endotracheal intubation ?h why vasopressin may be used instead of epinephrine to divert blood to the coronary and cerebral blood vessels and preserve circulation to the heart and brain ?h how amiodarone works with defibrillation to suppress ventricular fibrillation and prevent new arrhythmias from occurring ?h how to assess for adverse effects of norepinephrine therapy, such as peripheral ischemia and GI bleeding ?h how calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and regular insulin with glucose work to help correct hyperkalemiaBlanchard and Loeb Publishers Staff is the author of 'Cardiopulmonary Arrest' with ISBN 9781930138148 and ISBN 1930138148.