First Aid and CPR Summative Review

A pt with diabetes should limit their intake of

• Carbohydrates

• salt

• potassium

• dairy

To assist someone who is having a seizure you should?

• Hold their head still so they do not bang it

• gently assist them to the ground and turn them on their left side

• hold them as tight as possible to stop the shaking

• nothing, you will do more harm trying to help

Cardiac arrest occurs

• each time someone has a heart attack

• during a hypotensive attack

• when someone is pulseless

• when someone is found unresponsive

The heart’s electrical system sends out signals that tell the lungs to pump

• blood

• oxygen

• co2

• electricity

The Good Samaritan law protects people

• who give care to someone in an emergency within their training and that does not cause unnecessary harm

• who get into an automobile accident that ends with someone getting a broken arm

• who respond to an emergency on a plane by performing surgery after watching a video "how to"

• who get injured on the job and require medical attention

When you checking for breathing and pulse you should check

• for 5-10 seconds

• as long as it takes to determine if someone is breathing

• the radial pulse

• the color of the patients lips to see if they are getting oxygen

You can shock a patient

• if they are in vfib

• if they are in a heart block

• if they are in afib

• if they are in normal sinus rhythm

When delivering chest compressions to an infant you should deliver

• 100-120 per minute

• 90-100 per minute

• 80-120 per minute

• 100-150 per minute

What is the compression to breath ratio for adults with one rescuer present?

• 30:2

• 15:2

• 2:30

• 2:15

 When you deliver the first rescue breath, what should you do if the victim’s chest does not rise?

• Switch immediately to a finger sweep

• attempt a cardiac thump

• begin a thoracotomy

•  Head, tilt- chin lift and give another breath