PALS Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
first rescuer at the scene should do what? - Correct Answer✔️✔️--verify scene safety
-check for responsiveness
-shout for help- activate EMS
-assess the infant of child for normal breathing and pulse
take no more than _____ seconds to check for breathing and pulse - Correct Answer✔️✔️-10
The appropriate rate for compressions for children is 100 to 120. What is the correct depth for
children? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-approximately 2 inches (one third AP diameter)
If the AED indicates no shock advised, what should be the next action? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
start chest compressions
What should you do to check for breathing? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Look for chest rise and fall
What is the preferred technique for infant compressions when there are 2 or more rescuers present?
- Correct Answer✔️✔️-2 thumb-encircling hands technique
Evaluate components - Correct Answer✔️✔️-primary assessment
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,secondary assessment
diagnostic assessment
Primary Assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-a rapid hands on ABCDE approach to evaluate
respiratory, cardiac, and neurologic function, includes assessment of vital signs and pulse oximetry
secondary assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-a focused medical history and a focused physical
exam
diagnostic assessments - Correct Answer✔️✔️-lab, radiographic, and other advanced tests that help
identify the child's
What does PAT stand for? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pediatric Assessment Triangle
ABC's of Pediatric assessment triangle - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A- appearance
TICLS(tone, interactiveness, consolability, look/gaze, speech/cry)
B- breathing
C- circulation (color_
In the primary assessment, how should you open the airway of a child who is not suspected of
having a cervical spine injury - Correct Answer✔️✔️-with a head tilt chin lift
How is the airway assessed? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Determining if the airway is open/patent
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, What is a characteristic of normal chest rise? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-symmetrical during
inspiration
Stridor sound - Correct Answer✔️✔️-coarse, usually higher pitched breathing sound typically
heard on inspiration, though you may hear it during both inspiration and expiration
it is a sign of upper airway obstruction and may indicate that the obstruction is critical and requires
immediate intervention
Snoring and gurgling are a result of ______ airway obstruction - Correct Answer✔️✔️-upper
conditions that _______ air resistance lead to increased respiratory _______ - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-increase
effort
AVPU pediatric response scale - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Alert (awake, active), Voice (Childs
responce to voice) Painful (response to pain) Unresponsive
When is the Pediatric assessment triangle performed to make an initial assessment? - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-During the "from the doorway" observation
What does SAMPLE stand for? in secondary assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Signs and
symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last meal, events lead to current state.
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first rescuer at the scene should do what? - Correct Answer✔️✔️--verify scene safety
-check for responsiveness
-shout for help- activate EMS
-assess the infant of child for normal breathing and pulse
take no more than _____ seconds to check for breathing and pulse - Correct Answer✔️✔️-10
The appropriate rate for compressions for children is 100 to 120. What is the correct depth for
children? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-approximately 2 inches (one third AP diameter)
If the AED indicates no shock advised, what should be the next action? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
start chest compressions
What should you do to check for breathing? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Look for chest rise and fall
What is the preferred technique for infant compressions when there are 2 or more rescuers present?
- Correct Answer✔️✔️-2 thumb-encircling hands technique
Evaluate components - Correct Answer✔️✔️-primary assessment
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,secondary assessment
diagnostic assessment
Primary Assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-a rapid hands on ABCDE approach to evaluate
respiratory, cardiac, and neurologic function, includes assessment of vital signs and pulse oximetry
secondary assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-a focused medical history and a focused physical
exam
diagnostic assessments - Correct Answer✔️✔️-lab, radiographic, and other advanced tests that help
identify the child's
What does PAT stand for? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pediatric Assessment Triangle
ABC's of Pediatric assessment triangle - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A- appearance
TICLS(tone, interactiveness, consolability, look/gaze, speech/cry)
B- breathing
C- circulation (color_
In the primary assessment, how should you open the airway of a child who is not suspected of
having a cervical spine injury - Correct Answer✔️✔️-with a head tilt chin lift
How is the airway assessed? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Determining if the airway is open/patent
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, What is a characteristic of normal chest rise? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-symmetrical during
inspiration
Stridor sound - Correct Answer✔️✔️-coarse, usually higher pitched breathing sound typically
heard on inspiration, though you may hear it during both inspiration and expiration
it is a sign of upper airway obstruction and may indicate that the obstruction is critical and requires
immediate intervention
Snoring and gurgling are a result of ______ airway obstruction - Correct Answer✔️✔️-upper
conditions that _______ air resistance lead to increased respiratory _______ - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-increase
effort
AVPU pediatric response scale - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Alert (awake, active), Voice (Childs
responce to voice) Painful (response to pain) Unresponsive
When is the Pediatric assessment triangle performed to make an initial assessment? - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-During the "from the doorway" observation
What does SAMPLE stand for? in secondary assessment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Signs and
symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last meal, events lead to current state.
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