CPR Review

What is the first step in Primary Assessment?

• Assess Breathing

• Activate EMS

• Control Bleeding

• Scene Safety

Why do we use barriers/gloves?

• EMS requires us to do so

• To protect us from diseases of the blood

• To protect us from lawsuits

• The CPR instructor told us to do so

True or False: The rescuer can use “compression only” CPR when the patient is unconscious and not breathing.

• True

• False

To control serious bleeding from a vein, you should

• a. Take the patient’s blood pressure and report to EMS

• b. Use gloves to protect yourself.

• c. Use direct pressure over the wound.

• d. Both B and C are correct.

You would place the patient in the Recovery Position,

• To allow yourself to go for help and call 911

• a. So the patient can sleep.

• a. Before you give your medical statement.

• a. To perform an illness assessment.

If you are alone and choking, you should

• Call 911.

• Jump up and down

• Drink some water.

• Fall on a chair/couch/counter

1. If the patient is pregnant and choking, you should

• Perform a jaw thrust.

• Perform chest thrusts.

• Perform abdominal thrusts.

• Perform back blows.

1. What takes place during a concussion?

• The brain impacts the skull

• The lungs shut down.

• The brain shrinks.

• The heart swells.

1. What two questions simplify all of the emergency response training?

• a. Is the patient drowning and can the patient hear me?

• a. Is the patient conscious and is the patient breathing?

• a. Is 911 available and is there an AED available?

• a. Is the patient hurt or is the patient sick?

1. When performing Adult CPR, compress the chest

• .5 - 1 inch.

• 1 - 1.3 inches.

• 2 - 2.4 inches.

• 4 - 5 inches