#398: Mock Code Blue - Put Your ACLS Skills to the Test

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, we delve into a simulated emergency scenario to refresh and reinforce Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) skills. The setting involves Mr. Williams, a 63-year-old with multiple comorbidities, who presents to the ER with heart palpitations that escalate into a much more severe condition. The episode covers the progression of his condition and escalation of care that includes things like synchronized cardioversion, defibrillation and medications. If you are nervous about your ACLS certification, want to refresh your memory, or simply want to understand what’s happening during a code, you definitely want to hit play on this episode! ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references Tips for your first code blue - Not sure you’ll survive your first code? Boost your confidence with these tips! Review pacemakers - Get a concise but effective overview of pacemakers in this episode. FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Med Surg Solution - Are you looking for a more effective way to learn Med Surg? Enroll in Med Surg Solution and get lessons on 57 key topics and out-of-this-world study guides. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.6	Well, hello there. I'm Nurse Moe, and this is the Straight A Nursing podcast where I teach nursing concepts and share tips to help you thrive in nursing school and at the bedside.
1:21.0	Now, I just recently attended my ACLS recertification class and it got me thinking about running mock codes, which is something
1:31.8	that I'm looking at doing in the hospital. And I wondered if I could run a mock code on the podcast.
1:37.2	So that is what we're doing today. We're going to be going through what is called a mega code
1:41.9	scenario where we have a patient who does all kinds of crazy things
1:46.5	with their cardiac rhythms. So we have to adjust and do all the different treatments according
1:52.3	to the ACLS guidelines. So if you're about to take ACLS and you're nervous about it or you just
1:58.7	want to refresh because it does, you know, your knowledge
2:01.6	kind of falls off after you take that class because it is a two-year cycle.
2:06.0	Your cert is good for two years.
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