CPR TEST-AMERICAN RED CROSS
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
How do you treat victims with agonal breathing? - Answer-Treat as if there is no
breathing at all
How do you do a primary assessment on children/infants? - Answer-Look, listen, feel
and give two rescue breaths FIRST before checking for blood
Respiratory distress - Answer-Troubled breathing
Respiratory arrest - Answer-No breathing
How to check adult/child consciousness? - Answer-Tap shoulder and shout
How to check infant consciousness? - Answer-Tap foot and shout
When is rescue breathing done? - Answer-When the victim has a pulse but is not
breathing
How is rescue breathing done on an adult? - Answer-One breath every 5 seconds
How is rescue breathing done on a child/infant? - Answer-One breath every 3 seconds
How long do you give rescue breaths for? - Answer-Two minutes, then stop and re-
assess
How are bag-valve masks (BVMs) operated? - Answer-MUST be done with two people,
one seals the mask over the airways and the other squeezes the bag.
What is the age of an infant, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-0-12
months, 1.5 in compressions
What is the age of a child, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-1-12
years, about 2 in compressions
What is the age of an adult, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-12 or
older, at least 2 in compressions.
When and how do you perform modified CPR? - Answer-On an unconscious choking
victim, give 30 chest compressions, check/finger swipe mouth, give two rescue breaths,
repeat
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
How do you treat victims with agonal breathing? - Answer-Treat as if there is no
breathing at all
How do you do a primary assessment on children/infants? - Answer-Look, listen, feel
and give two rescue breaths FIRST before checking for blood
Respiratory distress - Answer-Troubled breathing
Respiratory arrest - Answer-No breathing
How to check adult/child consciousness? - Answer-Tap shoulder and shout
How to check infant consciousness? - Answer-Tap foot and shout
When is rescue breathing done? - Answer-When the victim has a pulse but is not
breathing
How is rescue breathing done on an adult? - Answer-One breath every 5 seconds
How is rescue breathing done on a child/infant? - Answer-One breath every 3 seconds
How long do you give rescue breaths for? - Answer-Two minutes, then stop and re-
assess
How are bag-valve masks (BVMs) operated? - Answer-MUST be done with two people,
one seals the mask over the airways and the other squeezes the bag.
What is the age of an infant, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-0-12
months, 1.5 in compressions
What is the age of a child, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-1-12
years, about 2 in compressions
What is the age of an adult, and how deep do you give compressions? - Answer-12 or
older, at least 2 in compressions.
When and how do you perform modified CPR? - Answer-On an unconscious choking
victim, give 30 chest compressions, check/finger swipe mouth, give two rescue breaths,
repeat
