CPR Practice Test A

When chest compressions stop, blood flow _____ significantly

• Decreases

• Increases

• Improves

• Circulates

You are using a bag mask device to ventilate a 16yr old in cardiac arrest who suddenly collapsed. An endotracheal tube has been placed by an advanced life support provider on the resuscitation team. Proper ventilation technique in the situation requires that you:

• Squeeze bag to deliver 1 breath every 6 seconds

• Squeeze bag to deliver breath every 10 seconds

• Squeeze bag to deliver 1 breath. When AED is analyzing heart rhythm

• Squeeze bag to deliver 1 breath during each pause in compressions

This technique may be useful for larger infants or when the BLS provider has difficulty compressing the appropriate depth

• The 2 thumb encircling hands technique

• The 2 finger technique

• The heel of one hand technique

• The 2 hands technique

You’re the only BLS provider responding to the witnessed collapse of an 11 yr old child during a softball game. The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precaution. The patient is unresponsive and gasping occasionally. You do not feel a carotid pulse and an AED is within sight. What should you do?

• Assess for a femoral pulse and, if absent, deliver about 2 mins of CPR

• Activate EMS or your occupational emergency action plan and get the AED

• Immediately start high quality CPR, beginning with chest compressions

• Open airway and provide rescue breathing or bag mask ventilation

Answer explanation

Which link in the out of hospital adult chain of survival is critical to survival when a patients heart is in an abnormal rhythm like pulse less ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation

• Recovery

• Prevention

• Post cardiac arrest care

• Defibrilation

Supporting a patients physical and emotional needs that are ongoing after hospital discharge is which link in the chain of survival

• Recovery

• Advanced resuscitation

• Activation of emergency response

• Early recognition and prevention

Your adult patient is making abnormal gasping/snoring sounds. You feel a carotid pulse what should you do?

• Assess scene safety and take standard precautions

• Provide rescue breathing or bag mask ventilation

• Check carotid pulse about every 2 mins

• Start high quality CPR beginning with chest compressions

When assessing an unresponsive adult, child, our infant, you should take no longer than _ seconds to simultaneously assess breathing and pulse

• 3

• 1

• 20

• 10

When ventilating a child with a bag mask device, give 1 breath every 2-3 seconds. Deliver each breath over _ second(s) in length while watching chest rise

• 2

• 1

• .5

• 1.5

You are the only BLS provider responding to a baby not breathing. The scene is safe and you have taken standard precautions. The infant is unresponsive. You have activated EMS or your occupational emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way with an AED. You do not feel a brachial pulse. What should you do?

• Check brachial pulse every 2 mins until other providers arrive AED

• Provide one breath every 2-3 seconds

• Assess for a femoral pulse

• Immediately start high quality CPR, beginning with chest compressions