AMERICAN RED CROSS FINAL EXAM BLS|
QUESTIONS & CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATE 2025
1. You and your colleagues have been providing high-quality CPR for and
using the AED on Mr. Sauer. While providing ventilations, you notice that
Mr. Sauer moves and appears to be breathing. What is the correct course of
action? ANS >> Stop CPR, check for breathing and a pulse and monitor Mr. Sauer
until the advanced cardiac life support team takes over.
2. Upon entering Mr. Cohen's room, you find him on the ground, unresponsive.
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is your next
action according to the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? ANS >>
Early CPR
3. The systematic and continuous approach to providing emergent patient
care includes which three elements? ANS >> Assess, Recognize, Care
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, 4. You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury.
Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway? ANS >>
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
5. You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble,
suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. While preparing the AED, your colleague
reminds you that Mrs. Tribble is 28 weeks pregnant. Which statement is true
regarding the use of an AED on a pregnant patient? ANS >> AED use is safe
for pregnant patients. Ya'll better know that.
6. You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What
is the compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR? ANS
>> In both children and infants, the compression-to-ventilation ratio is 30 ANS >>
2 during sin- gle-provider CPR and 15 ANS >> 2 during multiple-provider CPR.
7. You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice her lunch splattered on the floor. She
is slumped over the bedside table and does not appear to be breathing. You
perform a visual survey and determine that the scene is safe. Which is the next
appropriate action? ANS >> Check for responsiveness
8. A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and
correctly perform chest compressions at which rate? ANS >> 100 to 120 per
minute.
9. During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each
member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most
appropriate action? ANS >> Alert the team leader immediately and identify for
them what task has been overlooked.
10. While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient
who is unresponsive in the exam room. You yell to the medical assistant,
"Go get the AED!" Which response by the medical assistant demonstrates
closed-loop communication? ANS >> "I'll go get the AED."
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QUESTIONS & CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATE 2025
1. You and your colleagues have been providing high-quality CPR for and
using the AED on Mr. Sauer. While providing ventilations, you notice that
Mr. Sauer moves and appears to be breathing. What is the correct course of
action? ANS >> Stop CPR, check for breathing and a pulse and monitor Mr. Sauer
until the advanced cardiac life support team takes over.
2. Upon entering Mr. Cohen's room, you find him on the ground, unresponsive.
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is your next
action according to the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? ANS >>
Early CPR
3. The systematic and continuous approach to providing emergent patient
care includes which three elements? ANS >> Assess, Recognize, Care
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, 4. You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury.
Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway? ANS >>
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
5. You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble,
suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. While preparing the AED, your colleague
reminds you that Mrs. Tribble is 28 weeks pregnant. Which statement is true
regarding the use of an AED on a pregnant patient? ANS >> AED use is safe
for pregnant patients. Ya'll better know that.
6. You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What
is the compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR? ANS
>> In both children and infants, the compression-to-ventilation ratio is 30 ANS >>
2 during sin- gle-provider CPR and 15 ANS >> 2 during multiple-provider CPR.
7. You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice her lunch splattered on the floor. She
is slumped over the bedside table and does not appear to be breathing. You
perform a visual survey and determine that the scene is safe. Which is the next
appropriate action? ANS >> Check for responsiveness
8. A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and
correctly perform chest compressions at which rate? ANS >> 100 to 120 per
minute.
9. During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each
member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most
appropriate action? ANS >> Alert the team leader immediately and identify for
them what task has been overlooked.
10. While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient
who is unresponsive in the exam room. You yell to the medical assistant,
"Go get the AED!" Which response by the medical assistant demonstrates
closed-loop communication? ANS >> "I'll go get the AED."
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