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When giving ventilations to an adult patient in
cardiac arrest with an advanced airway in place:
a. Provide 30 chest compressions, then pause to
allow for the 2 ventilations.
b. Provide continuous compressions with 1
ventilation every 8 to 10 seconds.
c. Ventilations are not required once an advanced
airway is in place.
d. Provide continuous compressions with 1
ventilation every 6 seconds.
D.
Provide continuous compressions with 1
ventilation every 6 seconds.
All of the following are components of a scene
size-up, except:
a. Gathering a general impression of the
situation.
b. Checking for responsiveness.
c. d. Calling for additional resources as needed.
Looking for situations that are hazardous.
B. Checking for responsiveness.
Your general impression of a patient is based on:
a. How the patient appears to you as you size up
the scene.
b. d. The patient’s initial vital signs.
c. The patient’s SAMPLE history.
What you have been told about the patient.
A.
How the patient appears to you as you size up
the scene.
While assessing an unresponsive adult who has
been pulled from the water, you find that the
patient has only occasional gasps, no definitive
pulse and no severe, life-threatening bleeding.
Which of the following should you do next?
a. Provide 5 abdominal thrusts.
b. Give 2 ventilations and then begin CPR.
c. Open the airway and check for breathing.
d. Place the patient in the recovery position.
B. Give 2 ventilations and then begin CPR.
To ensure effective high-quality CPR for an adult,
which of the following is most appropriate?
a. Check for breathing and a pulse every
2 minutes.
b. Minimize interruptions to chest compressions
to less than 10 seconds.
c. Ventilate the patient once after every
15 compressions.
d. Provide continuous chest compressions for
the first 4 minutes of CPR.
B.
Minimize interruptions to chest compressions
to less than 10 seconds.
You are performing chest compressions on a
6 year old. You should be compressing the chest
to which of the following depths?
a. About 2 inches
b. At least 1 inch
c. About 1½ inches
d. At least 2 inches
A. About 2 inches
You happen to be at the mall when you notice a
9 year old and their 16-year-old sibling near the
candy store. The 9 year old cannot cough, speak
or make any sound, and appears to be choking.
Which of the following is the most appropriate
statement?
a. You should begin care immediately because
consent is implied.
b. You should have the sibling contact a parent to
give you consent to help.
c. You should call and wait for more advanced
medical personnel because you do not have
expressed consent.
d. You should get expressed consent from the
older sibling.
A.
You should begin care immediately because
consent is implied.
The cycles of chest compressions and ventilations
in two-responder CPR for a 6 year old are:
a. 30 chest compressions and 1 ventilation.
b. 15 chest compressions and 1 ventilation.
c. 30 chest compressions and 2 ventilations.
d. 15 chest compressions and 2 ventilations.
D. 15 chest compressions and 2 ventilations.
How should you place your hands when giving
chest compressions to an infant during CPR with
two trained responders?
a. Two fingers on the breastbone just below the
nipple line
b. Encircling thumbs technique, with thumbs on
the nipple line
c. Encircling thumbs technique, with thumbs just
below the nipple line
d. Two fingers on the breastbone at the nipple
line
C.
Encircling thumbs technique, with thumbs just
below the nipple line
An adult choking patient becomes unresponsive
after you provide several abdominal thrusts.
You lower the patient to the floor. Your next step
should be:
a. Reassess the patient for breathing and a pulse.
b. Start chest compressions.
c. Open the airway and look for the obstruction.
d. Open the airway and give 2 ventilations.
B. Start chest Compressions
Your general impression reveals severe, life-
threatening bleeding in an adult patient who appears
to be unresponsive. Your next step should be:
a. Open the airway and check for breathing and
a pulse.
b. Leave the patient to call 9-1-1, and to get an
AED and a first aid kit.
c. Control the bleeding with any available
resources.
d. Immediately start chest compressions.
C.
Control the bleeding with any available
resources.
When possible, two-responder ventilation with a
bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator is preferred
because:
a. It allows one responder to create and maintain
a mask seal.
b. It prevents the responder giving ventilations
from becoming fatigued as quickly.
c. It allows the responder to ventilate at a faster
rate.
d. It can allow higher ventilation volumes.
A.
It allows one responder to create and maintain
a mask seal.
Full chest recoil is necessary for a successful
resuscitation as it:
a. Increases intrathoracic pressure and coronary
blood flow.
b. Allows the responder doing compressions to
conserve energy.
c. Allows blood to flow back into the heart
between compressions.
d. Gives blood in the lungs time to exchange
CO2 and oxygen.
C.
Allows blood to flow back into the heart
between compressions.
You are caring for an infant who is apneic (not
breathing) and without a pulse. Another responder
is doing compressions. There is no advanced
airway in place. You need to ventilate:
a. 1 time after every 30th compression.
b. 2 times after every 30th compression.
c. 1 time after every 15th compression.
d. 2 times after every 15th compression.
D. 2 times after every 15th compression
Which of the following is not a step in the Adult
Cardiac Chain of Survival?
a. Integrated post-cardiac arrest care
b. Early defibrillation
c. Prevention
d. Early CPR
C. Prevention
When using an AED:
a. Never use adult pads on a child, even if
pediatric pads are not available.
b. Pediatric pads may be used on an adult if adult
pads are not available.
c. Pediatric pads may only be used on a child
older than 1 year of age.
d. Adult pads may be used on an infant if
pediatric pads are not available.
D.
Adult pads may be used on an infant if
pediatric pads are not available.
While you are performing CPR on an adult, a
second trained responder arrives with an AED.
Which of the following should you do?
a. Continue CPR while the second responder
turns on the AED and applies the pads.
b. Stop CPR and rest while the second responder
turns on the AED and applies the pads.
c. Stop CPR and assist the second responder
with the AED pad placement.
d. Continue CPR until you have completed 5
cycles of 30 compressions and 2 ventilations
(approximately 2 minutes), then apply the AED.
A.
Continue CPR while the second responder
turns on the AED and applies the pads.
Which of the following is the most appropriate
compression rate for an 8 year old?
a. 114 compressions per minute
b. 132 compressions per minute
c. 98 compressions per minute
d. 124 compressions per minute
A. 114 compressions per minute
You are about to apply AED pads to a patient’s
chest when you notice that the patient has an
implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Which
of the following should you do?
a. Apply the pads as you normally would.
b. There is no need to use the AED because
the patient has an implantable cardioverter-
defibrillator.
c. Avoid placing the pads directly over the
defibrillator.
d. Place one pad in the center of the chest and
one pad in the middle of the back.
C.
Avoid placing the pads directly over the
defibrillator.
If there is risk of the AED pads touching each
other, such as with a small child or an infant, you
should:
a. Reverse the position of the pads on the chest.
b. Place one pad in the middle of the chest and
the other on the back.
c. Place one pad on the stomach and one pad on
the chest.
d. Place them as usual. It does not matter if the
pads touch each other
B.
Place one pad in the middle of the chest and
the other on the back.