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Your patient is a 22-year-old female who has increased her daily dose of lithium without her physician's knowledge. She is complaining of generalized weakness, vomiting, and diarrhea. You notice that her speech is slurred. Heart rate = 68 and irregular, respirations = 16, blood pressure = 104/70, SaO2 = 97 on room air, and the monitor shows a sinus rhythm with PACs and PJCs. Which of the following would be most beneficial to this patient?
 
  A) Oxygen
  B) Magnesium sulfate
  C) Calcium chloride
  D) Sodium bicarbonate

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a reason that an AED may indicate that there is no shock advised?
 
  A) The patient's heart has no electrical activity; he is flat line, or in asystole.
  B) The patient's heart rhythm is normal.
  C) The patient is in ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
  D) The patient has organized electrical activity in the heart but no pulse.


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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C



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