American Red Cross BLS Final Assessment
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
"I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention
should the nurse implement? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cycles of 5 back blows and 5
abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the
Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Early high-
quality CPR
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should
begin CPR __________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Immediately
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that
providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 2
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
"I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention
should the nurse implement? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cycles of 5 back blows and 5
abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the
Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Early high-
quality CPR
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should
begin CPR __________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Immediately
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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that
providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 2
