American Red Cross Final Exam BLS

A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and correctly perform chest compressions at which rate? - 100 to 120 per minute. A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes. - 2 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? - Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has been overlooked. How is a child defined in terms of CPR care? - C. someone from the age of 1 to the onset of puberty The code team has arrived to take over resuscitative efforts. Among the members of the BLS team, whose role is it to communicate to the code team the patient's status and the care already provided? - team leader The systematic and continuous approach to providing emergent patient care includes which three elements? - Assess, Recognize, Care 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? - Early CPR What is a reason you would choose to perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts for an adult with an obstructed airway? - The patient is in a wheelchair. While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient