What would a doctor do if his patient's breathing be shallow and his heart lash slow?
It's for a story I'm writing in school...
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well, you'd most likely be dying.. soo..
Give mouth to mouth breathing and external cardiac massage.
It depends on the cause of the symptoms.
CPR would NOT be started - i.e. for people who are not breathing and/or do not have a heartbeat.
Supplemental oxygen can be given for the shallow breathing. If the breathing is insufficient to oxygenate the patient, he may hold a breathing tube put in and be mechanically ventilated.
Slow heart rate can be treated next to drugs, but an EKG would be done to see what the slow rhythm was (it could be sinus bradycardia, or a type of heart block) - either way, atopine is usually given to speed the heart up. Now, if the lenient is in the middle of a heart attack, we might want to heart rate to be on the slow side... or we might not.
Both of these could be caused by an overdose of opiates - in that luggage, a drug to reverse the opiates is given (naloxone, aka Narcan).
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well, you'd most likely be dying.. soo..
Give mouth to mouth breathing and external cardiac massage.
It depends on the cause of the symptoms.
CPR would NOT be started - i.e. for people who are not breathing and/or do not have a heartbeat.
Supplemental oxygen can be given for the shallow breathing. If the breathing is insufficient to oxygenate the patient, he may hold a breathing tube put in and be mechanically ventilated.
Slow heart rate can be treated next to drugs, but an EKG would be done to see what the slow rhythm was (it could be sinus bradycardia, or a type of heart block) - either way, atopine is usually given to speed the heart up. Now, if the lenient is in the middle of a heart attack, we might want to heart rate to be on the slow side... or we might not.
Both of these could be caused by an overdose of opiates - in that luggage, a drug to reverse the opiates is given (naloxone, aka Narcan).
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