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You are providing bag-mask ventilations to a patient in respiratory arrest. How often should you provide ventilations? About every 5-6 seconds A 45-year-old woman with a history of palpitations develops light headedness and palpitations. She has recieved adenosine 6 mg IV for the rhythm shown here, without conversion of the rhythm. She is now extremely apprehensive. Her blood pressure is 128/70 mm Hg. What is the next appropriate intervention? Administer adenosine 12 mg IV A patients 12-lead ECG is transmitted by the paramedics and shows a STEMI. When the patient arrives in the emergency department, the rhythm shown here is seen on the cardiac monitor. The patient has resolution of moderate (5/10) chest pain after 3 doses of sublingual nitroglycerin. Blood pressure is 104/70 mm hg. Which intervention is most important in reducing this patient's in hospital and 30 day mortality rate? Reperfusion therapy