PALS HEARTCODE REAL EXAM100+
QUESTION & A+ GRADED ANSWERS
2025/2025
1. Where can you check a pulse on an infant and child?
A)Infant - brachial
B)Child - femoral
2. What are signs of increased respiratory effort that can lead to fatigue and respiratory failure?
i) Nasal flaring
ii) Seesaw respirations
iii) Retractions
iv) Head bobbing
3. Determine the respiratory rate by counting the number of times the chest rises in _____ seconds and
multiplying by _____.
30
2
4. Tachypnea is often the first sign of respiratory ______ in infants
Distress
5. Hypotension for children 1 to 10 years of age is a systolic blood pressure of less than
70mmHg + 2 x age in years
6. What sequence is used when care for a seriously ill or injured child to help determine the best treatment or
intervention? The __________ ___________
____________ Sequence
Evaluate Identify Intervene
7. Automated blood pressure cuffs may provide _________ ________ readings when the child is in shock.
Inaccurately high
8. The primary assessment included the ABCDE approach. What does it assess?
Airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure
, PALS HEARTCODE REAL EXAM100+
QUESTION & A+ GRADED ANSWERS
2025/2025
9. What does a prolonged capillary refill time indicate?
Low cardiac output
__10. _ is usually high-pitched breathing during inspiration, whereas ___________ is usually
during expiration
Stridor
Wheezing
11. Normal capillary refill time is _____ seconds or less
2
12. What pulses should be assessed to monitor systemic perfusion in a child?
Peripheral and central
13. What do weak central pulses indicate a need for immediate intervention to prevent?
Cardiac arrest
14. When oxygenation delivery to the extremities becomes inadequate, the _______ and ________ are the
first to exhibit designs.
Hands
Feet
15. What should be used to assess skin temperature?
The back of the hand
16. What is the preferred technique for infant compressions when there are 2 or more rescuers present?
2 thumb-encircling hands technique
17. If pupils to not _________ in response to light consider increased _____________ pressure
Constrict
Intracranial pressure
QUESTION & A+ GRADED ANSWERS
2025/2025
1. Where can you check a pulse on an infant and child?
A)Infant - brachial
B)Child - femoral
2. What are signs of increased respiratory effort that can lead to fatigue and respiratory failure?
i) Nasal flaring
ii) Seesaw respirations
iii) Retractions
iv) Head bobbing
3. Determine the respiratory rate by counting the number of times the chest rises in _____ seconds and
multiplying by _____.
30
2
4. Tachypnea is often the first sign of respiratory ______ in infants
Distress
5. Hypotension for children 1 to 10 years of age is a systolic blood pressure of less than
70mmHg + 2 x age in years
6. What sequence is used when care for a seriously ill or injured child to help determine the best treatment or
intervention? The __________ ___________
____________ Sequence
Evaluate Identify Intervene
7. Automated blood pressure cuffs may provide _________ ________ readings when the child is in shock.
Inaccurately high
8. The primary assessment included the ABCDE approach. What does it assess?
Airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure
, PALS HEARTCODE REAL EXAM100+
QUESTION & A+ GRADED ANSWERS
2025/2025
9. What does a prolonged capillary refill time indicate?
Low cardiac output
__10. _ is usually high-pitched breathing during inspiration, whereas ___________ is usually
during expiration
Stridor
Wheezing
11. Normal capillary refill time is _____ seconds or less
2
12. What pulses should be assessed to monitor systemic perfusion in a child?
Peripheral and central
13. What do weak central pulses indicate a need for immediate intervention to prevent?
Cardiac arrest
14. When oxygenation delivery to the extremities becomes inadequate, the _______ and ________ are the
first to exhibit designs.
Hands
Feet
15. What should be used to assess skin temperature?
The back of the hand
16. What is the preferred technique for infant compressions when there are 2 or more rescuers present?
2 thumb-encircling hands technique
17. If pupils to not _________ in response to light consider increased _____________ pressure
Constrict
Intracranial pressure
