CPR AED FIRST AID TEST AMERICAN RED
CROSS VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ If a victim is responsive what 2 skills do you do?
Answer: Interview the person and do a head to toe check. Roll the
person into the recovery position.
◉ How long and how do you check for breathing?
Answer: No more than 5-10 seconds. Head tilt chin lift, ear to mouth
look towards sternum.
◉ How do you give rescue breaths?
Answer: Head tilt chin left, breath in until you see chest plate rise. In
intervals of 2.
◉ What leads to cardiac issues in infants & children?
Answer:
◉ What is cycle for CPR and how long do you do it?
, Answer: 2 rescue breaths for every 30 Chest compressions. Continue
until exhaustion, more trained professional takes over, scene
becomes unsafe, or person shows obvious signs of life.
◉ What if a responsive, child, infant, or adult is choking?
Answer: 5 abdominal thrusts and 5 back blows for adults and
children. For an infant, put the infant in a secure position alternating
between legs to rest the infant on and do 5 chest thrusts and 5 back
blows
◉ How do we know somebody is having a breathing emergency?
Answer: Panicked, surprised, or confused facial expression, holding
throat with both hands, trying to forcibly cough, initially flushed skin
but turning pale rapidly.
◉ Where do you place hands during CPR for an adult, a child, and an
infant?
Answer: Child and adult: two hands interlocked w/ one on top of the
other in the center of the chest, infant: two fingers on center of chest
just below the nipple line.
◉ What are effective compressions?
Answer: Forcible compressions of at least 2 inches for an adult,
about 2 inches for a child and about 1 1/2 inches for an infant.
CROSS VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ If a victim is responsive what 2 skills do you do?
Answer: Interview the person and do a head to toe check. Roll the
person into the recovery position.
◉ How long and how do you check for breathing?
Answer: No more than 5-10 seconds. Head tilt chin lift, ear to mouth
look towards sternum.
◉ How do you give rescue breaths?
Answer: Head tilt chin left, breath in until you see chest plate rise. In
intervals of 2.
◉ What leads to cardiac issues in infants & children?
Answer:
◉ What is cycle for CPR and how long do you do it?
, Answer: 2 rescue breaths for every 30 Chest compressions. Continue
until exhaustion, more trained professional takes over, scene
becomes unsafe, or person shows obvious signs of life.
◉ What if a responsive, child, infant, or adult is choking?
Answer: 5 abdominal thrusts and 5 back blows for adults and
children. For an infant, put the infant in a secure position alternating
between legs to rest the infant on and do 5 chest thrusts and 5 back
blows
◉ How do we know somebody is having a breathing emergency?
Answer: Panicked, surprised, or confused facial expression, holding
throat with both hands, trying to forcibly cough, initially flushed skin
but turning pale rapidly.
◉ Where do you place hands during CPR for an adult, a child, and an
infant?
Answer: Child and adult: two hands interlocked w/ one on top of the
other in the center of the chest, infant: two fingers on center of chest
just below the nipple line.
◉ What are effective compressions?
Answer: Forcible compressions of at least 2 inches for an adult,
about 2 inches for a child and about 1 1/2 inches for an infant.
