HEALTH BLS MIDTERM STUDY FLASH CARDS

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

6 seconds

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

About 1 ½ inches

Who on the team reports the status of the victim when EMS arrives?

The team leader

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 AED pads. What should you do?

Use the adult AED pads

Define critical thinking

When using critical thinking providers constantly identify new information, adapt to the information logically to determine the next best action.

What do you do if a task is overlooked and the team leader does not recognize it?

Alert the team leader immediately

10. You and 2 nurses have been performing CPR on a 72 year old patient. When he shows signs of ROSC where should you perform the pulse check?

Carotid or femoral artery

When should you use the modified jaw thrust maneuver to open the patient's airway?

When you suspect a neck injury

You see a patient slumped over after checking the scene, you do not see signs of bleeding, which is the next step?

Check for responsiveness

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

1 ventilation every 2-3 sec

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

10 seconds

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

100-120 compressions per minute

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

15:2

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.

After initiating the EMS 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 2-3 minutes as needed

You have assessed your patient and recognize they are in cardiac arrest. You should start CPR when?

Immediately

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

Closed loop communication

Repeat the direction back to the team leader example: Go get the AED. " I will go get the AED"

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

Someone from the age of 1 to the onset of puberty

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 health arrives?

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

Which statement about bag valve mask resuscitators is true?

The BVM ventilations should be performed as a two person technique as it provides better seal and ventilation volume

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

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

A well organized team response when performing high quality cpr includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions every____ minutes.

2 minutes