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bobbie

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on: Jul 16, 2018
Your patient is experiencing bronchospasm secondary to asthma and is unresponsive to bronchodilator therapy. Her current medications include propafenone, lidocaine, and albuterol. Which of these medications could be contributing to her unresponsiveness to
 
  a. Propafenone
  b. Lidocaine
  c. Albuterol
  d. None could cause this unresponsiveness

Question 2

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are indicated for the following conditions: 1. Cardiac arrest caused by pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) 2. Spontaneous sustained VT
 
  3. Asystole
  4. Pulseless electrical activity
  5. Electrophysiologica lly inducible VT or ventricular fibrillation (VF) not suppressed by class I antiarrhythmics
 
  a. 1 only
  b. 1, 2, and 5 only
  c. 1, 2, 3, and 4 only
  d. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5


akudia

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B


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