ACLS Chapter 5 Quiz

Select the best response from the answer choices following each question.

1. An office worker chokes while eating and had been trying to relieve the obstruction for quite a while. When you see the patient, he is laying on the ground and unresponsive. His face is blue, and he appears to be gulping air. You assess that he is displaying agonal gasps. Which of the following is true regarding agonal gasps?

2. A 24-year-old man is believed to have suffered a heroin overdose. Heroin is a synthetic opioid that has been the source of an epidemic of drug abuse in the United States. What is the pharmacologic treatment of choice for opioid toxicity?

3. You are to administer naloxone to a patient with a drug overdose. Correct routes of delivery are:

4. The success of ROSC following cardiac arrest is aided by:

5. Nitrates are contraindicated in patients with acute coronary syndrome in which of the following?