QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ASSURED SUCCESS
When chest compressions stop, blood flow
___________significantly.
Decreases
You are the only bls provider responding to witnessed collapse of a
11-year-old child during a softball game. The scene is safe, and you
have taken standard precautions. The patient is unresponsive and
gasping occasionally. You do not feel a carotid pulse and an aed is
within sight. What should you do?
Activate ems or your occupational emergency action plan and get
the aed.
Supporting a patient's physical and emotional needs that are ongoing
after hospital discharge is which link in the chain of survival?
Recovery
Your adult patient is making abnormal gasping, snoring sounds. You
definitely feel a carotid pulse. What should you do?
Provide rescue breathing or bag-mask ventilation.
, To open the airway with a jaw thrust, position yourself:
Above the patient's head.
Which link in the out-of-hospital adult chain of survival is critical to
survival when a patient's heart is in an abnormal rhythm like
pulseless ventricular tachycardia (vt) and ventricular fibrillation (vf)?
Defibrillation
You are a lone bls provider responding to a possible cardiac arrest.
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precautions. The
patient is unresponsive. You have activated ems or your occupational
emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way and you have
an aed. The patient is occasionally gasping. You do not feel a carotid
pulse. What should you do?
Power on the aed. Apply adult pads to patient's bare chest.
This technique may be useful for larger infants or when the bls
provider has difficulty compressing the appropriate depth.