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12th
grade
Basic Life Support Exam A (Reassessment required if score is below 80%)
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- 1. Multiple Choice
1. While performing high-quality CPR on an adult, what action should you ensure is being accomplished?
Maintaining a compression rate of 90 to 120/min
Placing hands on the upper third of the sternum
Allowing the chest to recoil 1 inch D
Compressing to a depth of at least 2 inches
- 2. Multiple Choice
Use this scenario to answer the next question:
A 53-year-old woman collapses while gardening. She is unresponsive, is not breathing, and does not have a pulse. A neighbor, who is an emergency medical technician, rushes to her with an AED.
When the AED arrives, what is the first step for using it?
Apply the pads to the patient’s chest
Clear the patient
Turn on the AED
Press the shock button
- 3. Multiple Choice
Use this scenario to answer the next question:
A 53-year-old woman collapses while gardening. She is unresponsive, is not breathing, and does not have a pulse. A neighbor, who is an emergency medical technician, rushes to her with an AED.
After the AED pads are attached to the victim’s bare chest, the AED detects ventricular fibrillation.
What is the next step when using an AED?
Check the victim for a carotid pulse
Follow the AED prompts
Clear the patient
Press the shock button
- 4. Multiple Choice
What should you do if you need to use an AED on someone who has been submerged in water?
Do not move the victim, and do not use the AED
Pull the victim out of the water, but do not use the AED
Pull the victim out of the water, and wipe the chest
Do not pull the victim out of the water, but wipe the chest before placing pads
- 5. Multiple Choice
How can rescuers ensure that they are providing effective breaths when using a bag-mask device?
Observing the chest rise with breaths
Delivering breaths quickly and forcefully
Always having oxygen attached to the bag
Allowing air to release around the mask
- 6. Multiple Choice
What ratio for compressions to breaths should be used for 1-rescuer infant CPR?
5 compressions to 1 breath
20 compressions to 2 breaths
15 compressions to 2 breaths
30 compressions to 2 breaths
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a consideration when you are using an AED?
You should never remove a transdermal medication patch before applying AED pads
On a hairy chest, the pads may not stick and may fail to deliver a shock
AEDs can be used while a victim is submerged in water
You should not use an AED on someone with an implanted pacemaker
- 8. Multiple Choice
Use this scenario to answer the next 2 questions:
A 9-year-old child has suddenly collapsed. After confirming that the scene is safe, a single rescuer determines that the child is in cardiac arrest, shouts for nearby help, and activates the emergency response system. He immediately begins performing high-quality CPR. Two additional rescuers arrive to assist in the resuscitation attempt.
What actions should occur next, to support a team-based resuscitation attempt?
2 rescuers alternate using the AED and giving breaths
1 rescuer gives CPR while the other 2 wait for advanced life support to arrive
2 rescuers alternate giving high-quality chest compressions
2 rescuers operate the AED while the third rescuer gives breaths
- 9. Multiple Choice
A 9-year-old child has suddenly collapsed. After confirming that the scene is safe, a single rescuer determines that the child is in cardiac arrest, shouts for nearby help, and activates the emergency response system. He immediately begins performing high-quality CPR. Two additional rescuers arrive to assist in the resuscitation attempt.
Two rescuers begin high-quality CPR while the third rescuer leaves to get the AED. What action supports 2-rescuer CPR?
Alternating the AED role every 2 minutes
Alternating the compressor role every 2 minutes
Alternating giving rescue breaths every 3 cycles
Alternating giving shocks every 3 cycles
- 10. Multiple Choice
“Members of the team know their boundaries and ask for help before the resuscitation attempt worsens.”
Match this statement with the most appropriate element of team dynamics listed.
Knowledge sharing
Summarizing and reevaluation
Constructive intervention
Knowing your limitations
- 11. Multiple Choice
A victim with a foreign-body airway obstruction becomes unresponsive. What is your first course of action?
Start CPR, beginning with chest compressions
Roll the victim over and perform back blows
Perform abdominal thrusts
Perform blind finger sweeps
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why is defibrillation important?
It prevents rearrest from occurring
It is not important for cardiac arrest
There is a 100% success rate in regaining a normal cardiac rhythm
It can restore a regular cardiac rhythm
- 13. Multiple Choice
You witness someone suddenly collapse. The person is unresponsive, you hear gasping sounds, and
there is no pulse. What should you do next?
Begin CPR; the gasps are not normal breathing
Give rescue breaths only; the gasps are not normal breathing
Monitor the patient; the gasps are considered normal breathing
Begin CPR, even though gasping is normal breathing
- 14. Multiple Choice
A middle-aged man collapses. You and a second rescuer go to the victim and find that he is unresponsive, is not breathing, and does not have a pulse.
Which action is most likely to positively impact this victim’s survival?
Performing high-quality CPR
Ensuring scene safety
Providing rescue breaths
Checking the pulse frequently
- 15. Multiple Choice
A middle-aged man collapses. You and a second rescuer go to the victim and find that he is unresponsive, is not breathing, and does not have a pulse.
You and another rescuer begin CPR. After a few cycles, you notice the chest compression rate is
slowing. What should you say to offer constructive feedback?
“You need to compress at a rate of 80 to 120 per minute.”
“You need to compress at a rate of at least 120 per minute.”
“You need to compress at a rate of 100 to 120 per minute.”
“You need to compress at a rate of at least 100 per minute.”
- 16. Multiple Choice
How do you perform chest compressions when providing high-quality CPR to a child victim?
By compressing the chest at least one third the depth of the chest, about 2 inches (5 cm)
By compressing the chest at least one fourth the depth of the chest, about 1.5 inches (4 cm)
By compressing the chest at least two thirds the depth of the chest, about 4 inches (10 cm)
By compressing the chest at least one half the depth of the chest, about 3 inches (8 cm)
- 17. Multiple Choice
When performing CPR on an unresponsive choking victim, what modification should you incorporate?
There are no modifications to CPR for an unresponsive choking victim
You do not give breaths to an unresponsive choking victim
Each time you open the airway, look for the obstructing object
Attempt a jaw thrust instead of a head tilt‒chin lift
- 18. Multiple Choice
An 8-month-old infant is eating and suddenly begins to cough. The infant is unable to make any noise shortly after. You pick up the infant and shout for help.
You have determined that the infant is responsive and choking with a severe airway obstruction. How
do you relieve the airway obstruction?
Encourage the infant to cough
Give sets of 5 back slaps and 5 chest thrusts
Begin 2 thumb‒encircling hands chest compressions
Give abdominal thrusts
- 19. Multiple Choice
An 8-month-old infant is eating and suddenly begins to cough. The infant is unable to make any noise shortly after. You pick up the infant and shout for help.
Which action do you perform to relieve choking in an unresponsive infant?
Perform CPR, and look in the mouth for the obstructing object
Give sets of 5 back slaps and 5 chest thrusts
Give sets of 5 abdominal thrusts and 5 back slaps
Attempt a blind finger sweep when giving breaths to remove the obstructing object
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which victim requires high-quality CPR?
A victim who is unresponsive, has a strong pulse, and is breathing adequately
A victim who is unresponsive with no normal breathing and no pulse
A victim who is responsive, has a pulse, and is having trouble breathing
A victim who is responsive, is having trouble breathing, and has a pulse less than 60/min
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