CPR/AED

What is the purpose of Good Samaritan laws?

• To help protect people who voluntarily give care without accepting anything in return.

• To discourage people from helping others in an emergency situation.

• To protect people who give care beyond their level of training.

• None of the above

A person is responsive and showing signns and symptoms of a life-threatening condition but does not consent to care. What should you do?

• Do not give care but instead call

  9-1-1 or the designated emergency number.

• Give care and call 9-1-1 or the designated emergency number.

• Do not give care and advise the person to seek medical attention immediately.

• Give care, consent is not necessary if the person is responsive and has signs or symptoms of a life-threatening condition.

The steps to follow in an emergency are:

• Call-Check-Secure

• Care-Call-Check

• Check-Call-Care

• Check-Care-Defibrillate

In which situation should you call 9-1-1 or the designated emergency number?

• The person is having persistent chest pain.

• The person is having trouble breathing.

• The person is unresponsive.

• All of the above.

Which of the following could signal an emergency?

• Unusual behavior

• An unusual sound

• An unusual ordor

• All of the above

When wearing latex-free gloves, you should:

• Avoid touching other surfaces unnecessarily while you are wearing the gloves.

• Change gloves after providing care for one person and before providing care for the next.

• Wash your hands after removing the gloves.

• All of the above.

You see a woman collapse in front of you while entering the lobby of your office building. You check her for responsiveness, but she does not respond and she is not breathing. What should you do next?

• Have someone else call 9-1-1, get an AED and first aid kit while you begin CPR.

• Size up the scene

• Put the woman in the recovery position.

• Give two rescue breaths.

When giving a resuce breath, you should:

• Blow hard and fast.

• Blow harder if the chest does not rise.

• Blow in for about 1 second and make sure the chest clearly rises.

• Give a breath that last for several seconds.

A cycle of chest compressions and rescue breaths in CPR is:

• 15 compressions to 1 rescue breath.

• 15 compressions to 3 rescue breaths.

• 30 chest compressions to 1 rescue breath.

• 30 compressions to 2 rescue breaths.

You should continue CPR until:

• Another trained responder or EMS personnel take over.

• The person shows obvious signs of life.

• You are too exhausted to continue.

• All of the above.