Post Cardiac Arrest In Hospital


The quiz
You are an emergency department registered nurse at a large university hospital. You have just finished successfully resuscitating a 48-year-old man who was brought to you after having chest pain and collapsing at home. He arrived in ventricular fibrillation but after an extensive resuscitation is currently in sinus tachycardia with a blood pressure of 102/70. He currently requires no vasopressor medications to maintain his blood pressure. He remains unresponsive despite being normotensive and having normal blood glucose.


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