Basic life support

While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility you find a patient who is unresponsive in the exam room you tell the medical assistant go get the AED which response by the medical assistant demonstrates closed loop communication?

"I'll go get the AED."

During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most appropriate action?

Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has been overlooked.

How is a child is fine in terms of CPR/ AED care?

A child is defined as someone from the age of one to the onset of puberty as evidenced by breast development and girls and under arm hair development and boys

A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and correctly perform chest compressions at which rate?

100 to 120 compressions per minute

After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?

Early high-quality CPR

Your adult patient is in respiratory arrest due to an opioid overdose. The team is delivering 1 ventilation every 6 seconds. You administered the recommended dose of naloxone. How often may this dose be repeated?

Every 2 to 3 minutes as needed

You are preparing to deliver ventilations to an adult patient experiencing respiratory arrest. You should give 1 ventilation every:

Six seconds

You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?

Use the adult AED pads.

You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next appropriate action?

Check for responsiveness.

You are alone and caring for a 9-month-old infant with an obstructed airway who becomes unresponsive. Which action should you perform first?

Provide 30 chest compressions.

The code team has arrived to take over resuscitative efforts. Among the members of the BLS team, whose role is it to communicate to the code team the patient's status and the care already provided?

Team leader

Which statement about bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitators is true?

A two-person technique is the preferred methodology for bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilations as it provides better seal and ventilation volume.

You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72 year old patient then Phillips when Mr. Phillips shows signs of ROS see where should you perform the pulse check

At the carotid or femoral artery

You are providing care for Mrs. Bove, who has an endotracheal tube in place. How does this affect compressions and ventilations?

The team should provide ventilations at a rate of 1 ventilation every 6 seconds without pausing compressions.

The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should the nurse implement?

Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts

What is the correct rate of ventilation delivery for a child or infant in respiratory arrest or failure?

1 ventilation every 2 to 3 seconds

You are alone performing high-quality CPR when a second provider arrives to take over compression when switching roles you should minimize interruptions in chess compressions to less than how many seconds?

10 seconds

You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What is the compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR?

15:2

You perform a rapid assessment and determine that your patient is experiencing cardiac arrest. On the basis of your assessment findings, you begin CPR to improve the patient's chances of survival. Which term refers to clearly and rationally identifying the connection between information and actions?

Critical thinking

You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR __________.

Immediately

You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury. Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway?

Modified jaw-thrust maneuver

You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble, suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. She is 28 weeks pregnant and her fundus is above the umbilicus. Which statement is true regarding CPR and AED use for a pregnant patient?

Providers should perform high-quality CPR and continuous left uterine displacement (LUD) until the infant is delivered, even if ROSC is achieved

You are alone caring for a 4-month-old infant who has gone into cardiac arrest. Which is the most effective CPR technique to perform until help arrives?

Standing or kneeling at the side of the infant with your hips at a slight angle, provide chest compressions using the encircling thumbs technique and deliver ventilations with a pocket mask or face shield.

You are providing compressions on a 6-month-old who weighs 17 pounds. Which compression depth is appropriate for this patient?

About 1½ inches

A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes.

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