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Pick the best description of the rhythm from the following list.

You are dispatched at 4AM to a call for a “man who cannot breathe”. The wife tells you that her 58-year-old husband suffers from “heart and lung problems”. His history includes smoking three packs/day for the last twenty years. He has always had a chronic cough which has gotten much worse since he caught a “cold” last week. The last two nights he has had to sit up in order to breathe. You find the husband sitting bolt upright in a kitchen chair. He is an obese man, cyanotic, laboring to breathe. He appears agitated and confused. His pulse relates to the EKG strip above, respirations are 32 and shallow; BP is 100/62. You notice that there are retractions in his supraclavicular and intercostal muscles during respiration. His neck veins are distended. There are fine crackles in both lung bases and wheezes that are more pronounced on exhalation. There is 4+ pitting edema of both feet. The EKG rhythm and field impression is:

Per ACLS, epinephrine may be administered IV push in the treatment of (select all that apply): 

Which of the following solutions is considered the most hypertonic?

Amiodarone:

In Lead III the electrode on:

Each endotracheal intubation attempt should be limited to a maximum of ___ seconds.

If ST segment elevation is noted in Leads V4, V5, and V6, this finding is indicative of:

The condition characterized by increased reactivity of the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles to internal or external stimuli with reversible narrowing of the airways is:

A 35-year-old male is complaining of a sudden onset of excruciating flank pain radiating around to his abdomen and into his groin. His blood pressure is 158/88, pulse 124, respiration 18. The patient’s skin is cool, clammy, and pale. He is irritable and extremely restless. You suspect: