CPR Test
A well organized team response when performing high quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions every _________ minutes?
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You are preparing to deliver ventilations to an adult experiencing respiratory arrest. You should give 1 ventilation every:
5-6 seconds
You are providing compressions on a 6 month old who weighs 17 pounds. Which compression depth is appropriate for this patient?
About 1/2 inches
A patient is in cardiac arrest. You suspect that your patient has overdosed on an opioid. When should you administer intranasal naloxone?
After initiating CPR
How is a child defined in term of CPR care?
Age 1 to onset of puberty
During a resuscitation, the team leader roles and tasks each member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the best appropriate action?
Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has been overlooked
The systematic and continuous approach to a life threatening emergency?
Approach, Respond, Care
While performing CPR, the victim begins to show ROSC, where should you perform the pulse check?
At the Cartoid or femoral artery
You find a victim slumped over and does not appear to be breathing. You perform a visual survey and check scene safety. Which is the next appropriate action?
Check for responsiveness
You perform an assessment and determine your patient is experiencing cardiac arrest. On the basis of your findings, you begin CPR. What term refers to clearly and rationally identifying the connection between information and actions?
Critical thinking
You find a victim unresponsive. After immediately initiating the EMS, what is your next action according to the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival
Early CPR
You suspect an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury. Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway?
Modified jaw thrust
A 9 month old infant with an obstructed airway who becomes unresponsive. Which action should you perform first?
Provide 30 chest compressions
When using a BVM during multiple provider CPR, what statement correctly describes the technique for operating the BVM?
Seal the mask using the E-C technique
A 4 month old goes into cardiac arrest. Which is the CPR technique for an infant?
Standing to the side of the infant, provide chest compressions using two finger technique and deliver ventilations with a pocket mask or face shield
You and another responder are providing ventilations, the victim moves and appears to be breathing. What is the correct course of action?
Stop CPR, check for breathing and pulse and monitor victim until advance cardiac team takes over
The code team has arrived to take over resuscitative efforts. Among the members the BLS team, whose role is it to communicate to the code team the patient's status and the care already?
Team Leader
A victim goes into cardiac arrest, while preparing the AED, someone states the victim is pregnant. Which statement is true regarding the use of the AED on a pregnant patient?
The AED is safe to use on pregnant patients
What is the reason you would choose to perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrust for an adult with an obstructed airway?
The patient is in a wheel chair
You are providing high quality CPR to a 6 year old who weighs 44 pounds. The AED does not have pediatric pads. What should you do?
Use the adult pads
You are performing CPR on a child. What is the compression to ventilation ratio during multiple provider CPPR
15:2
A child goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and correctly perform chest compressions at which rate?
100-120 compressions per minute
You find a patient who is unresponsive in a room. You yell at the medical assistant, "Go get the AED!" Which response by the person demonstrates closed loop communication?
"I'll go get the AED"
A victim has an endotracheal tube in place. How does this affect compressions and ventilations
1 ventilation every 6 seconds without pausing compressions
You are alone performing high quality CPR when a second responder arrives to take over compressions. When switching roles, you should minimize interruptions in chest compressions to less than how many seconds?
10 seconds
