General
How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen transmission when providing care?
Use personal protective equipment (PPE), such as disposable gloves and a breathing barrier, when providing care
You are preparing to give ventilations to a 5-year-old child using a resuscitation mask. You should give 1 ventilation about every
3 seconds.
When performing chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions at a rate of at least how many compressions per minute?
Between 100 and 120
An AED has advised that a shock should be given. Which of the following is appropriate?
Tell everyone to stand clear of the victim
When giving abdominal thrusts to an adult who is choking, where should you position your fist?
In the middle of the abdomen, just above the navel
You have sized up the scene, formed an initial impression and determined the scene is safe. When starting the primary assessment, which of the following would you do first?
Check for responsiveness.
What is most essential tool that we use when giving ventilations to protect you and the victim from disease transmission?
Resuscitation masks
To ensure high-quality CPR and high-quality chest compressions, you should
Expose the victim’s chest to ensure proper hand placement and full chest recoil.
Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should
Apply the pads and allow the AED to analyze the heart rhythm.
As the first rescuer on the scene, you are performing CPR on an adult. When performing chest compressions, how deeply should you compress the chest?
At least 2 inches but no more than 2.4 inches
When providing care during an emergency, which of the following should you do first?
Size up the scene while forming an initial impression.
You and another responder find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker room. You size up the scene, form an initial impression and perform a primary assessment. You find the victim is not moving or breathing, but has a pulse. You should summon EMS personnel, then:
Give ventilations at a rate of 1 about every 5-6 seconds
The cycle of chest compressions and ventilations in two-rescuer CPR for an infant is
15 chest compressions and 2 ventilations.
If there is a risk of the AED pads touching each other, such as with a small child or an infant, you should:
Place one pad in the middle of the chest and the other on the back.
The cycle of chest compressions and ventilations in two-rescuer CPR for an Adult is:
30 chest compressions and 2 ventilations
You arrive on the scene where an adult appears to be injured. Before approaching the victim, which of the following will you NOT do as you size up the scene?
a. Begin performing the primary assessment.
b. Use all your senses to determine if the scene is safe.
c. Form an initial impression.
d. Put on appropriate PPE.
Begin performing the primary assessment.
You are using a resuscitation mask to give ventilations to a child. After you position and seal the mask, which of the following should you do next?
Tilt the victim’s head back to open the airway
Where should you place your hands when giving chest compressions to an infant during CPR?
One hand on the forehead and two or three fingers on the center of the chest
What is the AED analyzing?
Shockable heart rhythms:
Ventricular fibrillation
Ventricular tachycardia
You are providing care to a patron who started choking on some food. The victim becomes unresponsive. Which of the following should you do first?
Lower the victim to the ground and begin CPR starting with chest compressions.
Your initial impression of a victim is based on
How the victim appears to you as you size up the scene.
A 12-year-old child at a soccer game grabs their chest and begins to make wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child’s parent informs you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby. What care should you provide?
Summon more advanced medical personnel and place the victim into a position that helps breathing.
You are performing CPR on a victim and an assisting responder arrives. Which of the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first?
Check to see whether EMS personnel have been called.
What's the first thing you should do when using and AED?
Turn it on...duh
While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been rescued from the water, you find that they have only occasional gasps, no pulse and no severe life threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next?
Give 2 ventilations and begin CPR.