American Red Cross BLS Final
Assessment Exam Questions and
Answers
1. 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?: "I'll go get the AED."
2. The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is
choking. Which intervention should the nurse implement?: Cycles of 5 back
blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
3. After immediately initiating the emergency response system,
what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?:
Early high-quality CPR
4. You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who
weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric
setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?: Use the
adult AED pads.
5. You have assessed your patient and
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, recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .:
Immediately
6. You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her
chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs
of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next appropriate action?:
Check for responsiveness.
7. A
well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR
includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions
every min-
utes.: 2
8. You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72-year-old
patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr. Phillips shows signs of ROSC, where
should you perform the pulse check?: At the carotid or femoral artery
9. You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck
injury. Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway?:
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
10. You are alone caring for a 4-month-old infant who has
gone into cardiac arrest. Which is the most effective CPR technique
to perform until help arrives?-
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Assessment Exam Questions and
Answers
1. 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?: "I'll go get the AED."
2. The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is
choking. Which intervention should the nurse implement?: Cycles of 5 back
blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
3. After immediately initiating the emergency response system,
what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?:
Early high-quality CPR
4. You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who
weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric
setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?: Use the
adult AED pads.
5. You have assessed your patient and
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6
, recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .:
Immediately
6. You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her
chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs
of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next appropriate action?:
Check for responsiveness.
7. A
well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR
includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions
every min-
utes.: 2
8. You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72-year-old
patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr. Phillips shows signs of ROSC, where
should you perform the pulse check?: At the carotid or femoral artery
9. You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck
injury. Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway?:
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
10. You are alone caring for a 4-month-old infant who has
gone into cardiac arrest. Which is the most effective CPR technique
to perform until help arrives?-
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