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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
You are alone on your lunch break, and as you get ready to enter the elevator to go to the lunch room, you observe a middle-aged man standing near you clutch his chest in pain and collapse. The man is now laying on the ground.
1. What should be your first intervention with this type of emergency and with any cardiac arrest emergency?
begin CPR
verify scene safety
verify unresponsiveness
get a defibrillator
2. You verify that the victim is in a safe place away from the elevator and you to begin the BLS healthcare provider adult cardiac arrest algorithm. What will you do now?
give 2 rescue breaths
check responsiveness
get a defibrillator
begin CPR
4. You push the code blue button that is nearby. No one has arrived to help yet. What should you do now since you are a single rescuer?
Get an AED or defibrillator and emergency equipment
begin CPR
go find help
call 911
If you DO NOT definitely feel a pulse within ______ seconds, you should begin CPR by starting with chest compressions.
20
15
10
5
The pulse check reveals that there is no pulse, and you begin CPR. What else should you do at this time? (Choose all correct answers)
Follow the AED instructions
b. ensure cycles of CPR are performed 15 compressions to 2 ventilations
e. compress at a rate of 90 to 100 per minute
f. allow the chest to recoil completely after each compression
The AED is turned on and you are performing high-quality CPR. Your helper places the AED pads on the patient, and you now pause chest compressions, and "clear" the victim while the AED analyzes the rhythm. The AED instructs you to provide a shock to the victim, and you provide the shock by pushing the shock button on the AED. What should you always do immediately after a shock?
turn the AED off
allow the AED to reanalyze the rhythm
begin CPR with chest compressions
chest for a pulse
begin CPR with chest compressions
check for a pulse
High-quality CPR continues. After approximately 90 seconds of continued CPR, the victim begins to moan and move their head.
Congratulations, you have performed a successful resuscitation on this patient!
Choose the two indications that allow for you to stop performing BLS CPR.
Stop when ALS providers take over
Stop when the patient has a pulse
Stop when the AED advises you to stop
Stop when the victim starts to move
A 2-year-old boy fell into a swimming pool and went unnoticed for a short period of time. Once noticed, the child was pulled out of the water by his mother who was in a panic. You are a BLS provider and you offer assistance. You first ensure that the scene is safe.
What will be your intervention at this point in the scenario?
begin CPR
check a pulse
check for responsiveness
give two rescue breaths
You establish that the child is unresponsive by tapping the child shoulder and shouting, "Are you OK?" since the child is unresponsive, what will be your next intervention?
instruct an onlooker to call 911 and get an AED
check for a pulse
give two rescue breaths
begin CPR
The onlooker calls 911 on the cell phone and then goes to find an AED. What is your next intervention?
begin CPR
wait for the AED
look for breathing and check for a pulse simultaneously
obtain a brief medical history from the mother
The child IS NOT breathing, and the pulse check reveals that the child DOES have a pulse. The heart rate is around 90/min.
(True or False) Since the heart rate is less than 100/min you should begin chest compressions.
TRUE
FALSE
As you begin rescue breathing, you remember that you need to provide one breath how often?
every 2-4 seconds
every 2-3 seconds
every 5-6 seconds
every 8-10 seconds
You are now providing rescue breaths at a rate of one breath every 2-3 seconds. You are getting good chest rise and fall with each ventilation.
How often should you re-check the pulse to ensure that cardiac arrest is not present?
continuously
every 1 minute
every 2 minutes
every 3-5 minutes
Congratulations, EMS has arrived and they take over rescue breathing and initiate transport the patient to a higher level of care.
(True or False)
Before EMS arrives, you may stop BLS rescue breathing if the patient starts to move or shows signs of regaining consciousness.
TRUE
FALSE
For the infant less than one year of age, you should perform the pulse check at which sites (choose 2):
radial artery
femoral artery
brachial artery
all of the above
