QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | ADVANCED
CARDIOVASCULAR LIFE SUPPORT CERTIFICATION – FINAL
ASSESSMENT
Sinus Tachycardia - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the best
single answer.
Sinus Bradycardia - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the best
single answer.
Atrial Fibrillation - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the best single
answer.
Course Ventricular Fibrillation - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting
the best single answer.
Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by
selecting the best single answer.
Second-degree AV block (Mobitz I Wenchebach) - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the
rhythm by selecting the best single answer.
Normal Sinus Rhythm - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the best
single answer.
Pulseless electrical activity - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the
best single answer.
Course Ventricular Fibrillation - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting
the best single answer.
, Reentry supraventricular tachycardia - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by
selecting the best single answer.
Fine Ventricular Fibrillation - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the
best single answer.
Atrial Flutter - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by selecting the best single
answer.
Second-degree AV block (Mobitz II block) - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by
selecting the best single answer.
Reentry supraventricular tachycardia - CORRECT ANSWERS-Please identify the rhythm by
selecting the best single answer.
Perform immediate electrical cardioversion - CORRECT ANSWERS-A 57-year-old woman has
palpitations, chest discomfort, and tachycardia. The monitor shows a regular wide-complex QRS at a rate
of 180/min. She becomes diaphoretic, and her blood pressure is 80/60 mm Hg. The next action is to:
Give normal Saline 250 mL to 500 ml fluid bolus - CORRECT ANSWERS-A patient with a
possible acute coronary syndrome has ongoing chest discomfort unresponsive to 3 sublingual
nitroglycerin tablets. There are no contraindications, and 4 mg of morphine sulfate was administered.
Shortly afterward, blood pressure falls to 88/60 mm Hg, and the patient has increased chest discomfort.
You should:
Amiodarone 300 mg - CORRECT ANSWERS-A patient is in pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
Two shocks and 1 dose of epinephrine have been given. Which is the next drug/dose to anticipate
administering?
150 mg IV push - CORRECT ANSWERS-A patient is in refractory ventricular fibrillation and has
received multiple appropriate defibrillation shocks, epinephrine 1 mg IV twice, and an initial dose of 300
mg amidarone IV. The patient is intubated. A second does of amiodarone is now called for. The
recommended second dose of amiodarone is