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You are providing care for an adult patient in respiratory arrest. Which actions demonstrate appropriate care?

-Deliver 1 ventilation ever 6 seconds-Continue to check breathing and pulse every 2 minutes. if pulse becomes absent, start CPR.

You are evaluating the quality of CPR provided by the BLS team. Which methods could you use for this evaluation?

1. Chest compression fraction2. Capnography3. Feedback device4. Visual observation

You demonstrate high-quality CPR by keeping interruptions in CPR to less than _____ seconds.

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You are caring for a pregnant patient (30 weeks gestation) in cardiac arrest. The patient's fundus is above the umbilicus. Which of the following steps are appropriate?

Activate maternal and neonatal resuscitation teams. Correct Provide continuous high-quality CPR and left uterine displacement. Correct Make sure AED pads do not incorporate any breast tissue. Perform resuscitative cesarean delivery (RCD), if trained, within 5 minutes from the time of arrest.

You are working with a BLS team performing CPR on a 62-year-old female patient. Which actions demonstrate high-quality CPR?

Allow for full chest recoil after each compression. Deliver smooth ventilations that last about 1 second each and make the chest begin to rise. Compress the chest at a rate of 100 to 120 per minute.

Identify the situations in which it is safe to use an AED.

If the patient has a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), providing the AED pads are not placed directly over the device Correct If the patient is wearing jewelry or has body piercings, providing the AED pads are not placed directly over any metallic jewelry or piercings If the patient is pregnant, providing the AED pads do not incorporate any breast tissue If the patient is lying on a metal surface, providing the AED pads do not touch the surface and no one is touching the patient during shock

An adult patient with an endotracheal tube (ET) in place experiences cardiac arrest and requires CPR. Which of the following statements are true when performing high-quality CPR with an ET tube in place?

the provider performs continuous compressions without pausing for ventilation and the provider delivers 1 ventilation every 6 seconds


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