EMR Professional Rescuer CPR

If you find a patient whose muscles are stiff and the areas of his body closest to the ground are purple what should you do?

• Not start CPR
• Perform CPR until EMT's arrive
• Call the funeral home
• Apply the AED

Your assessment of an adult male reveals that he is unresponsive and not breathing.  After instructing a bystander to cal 911 you should:

• perform 30 chest compression's followed by two slow breaths
• check for a femoral pulse for 15 seconds
• check for a radial pulse for 10 seconds
• check for a carotid pulse for up to 10 seconds

The correct sequence for a patient with unwitnessed cardiac arrest is:

• Check for a pulse for up to 10 seconds, attach the AED and defibrillate once if indicated, and perform 10 cycles of CPR
• Begin CPR, attach the AED and defibrillate once if indicated, resume CPR, and reassess in 2 minutes

Which of the following is an example of abandonment?

• A licensed physician orders you to stop CPR
• you turn over care of your patient to a paramedic
• you are too physically exhausted to continue CPR
• you discontinue CPR before paramedics arrive

If you are unable to open the airway of an unresponsive injured person with the jaw-thrust maneuver you should perform the head tilt-chin lift maneuver?

• False
• True

Ribs or cartilage are never broken with good CPR technique?

• True
• False

Which of the following is NOT a sign of effective CPR?

• The chest visibly rises during ventilations
• the patient's skin color turns from blue to pink
• a carotid pulse can be felt during chest compressions
• compressions are delivered at a rate of 80 per minute

Which chamber of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs?

• left atrium
• right atrium
• right ventricle

CPR by itself is often enough to resuscitate a patient in cardiac arrest

• True
• False

Regarding two-rescuer adult CPR it is important to never switch roles every two minutes because you will never get tired

• True
• False, switching roles every 2 minutes will minimize rescuer fatigue