BLS Lesson 5: Obstructed Airway
Questions and Answers | Latest Version
| 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What is the first thing you should do when you encounter a choking adult who is conscious?
✔✔ Encourage the person to cough to try to dislodge the object.
How do you perform abdominal thrusts on a conscious adult who is choking?
✔✔ Place your fist just above the person’s navel and grasp it with your other hand. Perform
quick inward and upward thrusts.
When should you call for help if someone is choking?
✔✔ If the person is unable to cough, speak, or breathe and is in distress.
What is the recommended action if a pregnant woman is choking?
✔✔ Perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts.
How should you perform the Heimlich maneuver on a child who is choking?
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,✔✔ Kneel behind the child, place your hands on their abdomen, and give quick inward and
upward thrusts.
What should you do if an infant is choking and unable to cough, cry, or breathe?
✔✔ Hold the infant face down on your forearm, give five back blows, and then five chest
thrusts.
When performing back blows on a choking infant, how should the baby be positioned?
✔✔ The baby should be face down, supported by your forearm with their head lower than their
chest.
If the object causing the choking becomes visible in the victim's mouth during the Heimlich
maneuver, what should you do?
✔✔ Attempt to remove the object carefully with your fingers, but do not perform a blind finger
sweep.
How many back blows should be given to a choking infant before switching to chest thrusts?
✔✔ Five back blows followed by five chest thrusts if the object is still not dislodged.
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, What should you do if a person becomes unresponsive while choking?
✔✔ Start CPR immediately and check the mouth for the object before giving rescue breaths.
What is the appropriate way to perform chest thrusts on a pregnant woman who is choking?
✔✔ Place your hands on the upper half of her sternum and give inward and downward thrusts.
How do you recognize a complete airway obstruction in an adult?
✔✔ The person cannot speak, cough, or breathe and may clutch their throat.
What is the key difference in how to perform abdominal thrusts on a child versus an adult?
✔✔ The thrusts should be performed with less force and at a lower position on the abdomen for
a child.
If you see a choking victim in distress but they can still cough, what should you do?
✔✔ Encourage the victim to keep coughing to try to clear the obstruction.
What should you do if a choking person collapses and becomes unresponsive?
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Questions and Answers | Latest Version
| 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What is the first thing you should do when you encounter a choking adult who is conscious?
✔✔ Encourage the person to cough to try to dislodge the object.
How do you perform abdominal thrusts on a conscious adult who is choking?
✔✔ Place your fist just above the person’s navel and grasp it with your other hand. Perform
quick inward and upward thrusts.
When should you call for help if someone is choking?
✔✔ If the person is unable to cough, speak, or breathe and is in distress.
What is the recommended action if a pregnant woman is choking?
✔✔ Perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts.
How should you perform the Heimlich maneuver on a child who is choking?
1
,✔✔ Kneel behind the child, place your hands on their abdomen, and give quick inward and
upward thrusts.
What should you do if an infant is choking and unable to cough, cry, or breathe?
✔✔ Hold the infant face down on your forearm, give five back blows, and then five chest
thrusts.
When performing back blows on a choking infant, how should the baby be positioned?
✔✔ The baby should be face down, supported by your forearm with their head lower than their
chest.
If the object causing the choking becomes visible in the victim's mouth during the Heimlich
maneuver, what should you do?
✔✔ Attempt to remove the object carefully with your fingers, but do not perform a blind finger
sweep.
How many back blows should be given to a choking infant before switching to chest thrusts?
✔✔ Five back blows followed by five chest thrusts if the object is still not dislodged.
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, What should you do if a person becomes unresponsive while choking?
✔✔ Start CPR immediately and check the mouth for the object before giving rescue breaths.
What is the appropriate way to perform chest thrusts on a pregnant woman who is choking?
✔✔ Place your hands on the upper half of her sternum and give inward and downward thrusts.
How do you recognize a complete airway obstruction in an adult?
✔✔ The person cannot speak, cough, or breathe and may clutch their throat.
What is the key difference in how to perform abdominal thrusts on a child versus an adult?
✔✔ The thrusts should be performed with less force and at a lower position on the abdomen for
a child.
If you see a choking victim in distress but they can still cough, what should you do?
✔✔ Encourage the victim to keep coughing to try to clear the obstruction.
What should you do if a choking person collapses and becomes unresponsive?
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