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NREMT Paramedic Trauma Exam Prep

Category - Paramedic Trauma

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Your patient is a 31-year-old female who has sustained a blunt force trauma to the chest. There is a visible contusion over the sternum.

During transport, the patient develops ventricular tachycardia. She has a radial pulse, and her blood pressure is 110/60.

What intervention should be implemented?
  1. Perform synchronized cardioversion
  2. Perform a precordial thump
  3. Administer 150mg of amiodarone
  4. Perform unsynchronized cardioversion.
Explanation
Answer: C - This patient should be given amiodarone 150 mg over 10 minutes to treat the ventricular arrhythmia.

Per advanced cardiac life support guidelines, life-threatening dysrhythmias should be treated regardless of whether it is traumatic or medical in origin.
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