Check your knowledge: Single provider CPR/AED
What should you do if ROSC is achieved?
- Monitor the patient until the advanced cardiac life support team takes over. - Stop CPR/AED use. - Check for breathing and pulse.
The AED arrives, and you attach the pads appropriately and clear the area. When the AED is analyzing or delivering a shock what should you do?
Hover your hands over the patient's chest, taking care not to touch the patient.
If the patient is not breathing normally and has no pause, you must perform single - provider CPR. What should you do?
Perform 30 chest compressions at a rate of 100 to 120 per minute. Then deliver to ventilations, each lasting about 1 second, with a pocket mask or mouth - 2 - mouth.