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Heartcode BLS Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: When preforming high-quality CPR on a child, what is the correct depth of
compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Approximately 2 inches (5 cm)
Q: When preforming chest compressions for an infant, you can use 2 thumbs or put 2
_________ in the center of the chest, just below the _______ line.
ANS 🗹🗹: fingers; nipple
Q: When should the rescuer operating the AED clear the victim?
ANS 🗹🗹: During AED analysis and before shock deliver.
Q: To avoid fatigue, when should team roles alternate providing compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Every 5 cycles or 2 minutes.
Q: What is the correct order of steps of the Pediatrics Out-of-Hospital Chain of survival?
ANS 🗹🗹: Prevention, Activation of emergency response system, High-quality CPR,
Advanced Resuscitation, Post-cardiac arrest care, & Recovery.
Q: Why is an AED needed?
ANS 🗹🗹: To analyze the heart rhythm and provide a shock.
Q: Which team role keeps track of interruptions in compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Timer/Recorder
Q: After assessing a victim is not breathing and has no pulse, what do you instruct you
colleague to do?
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ANS 🗹🗹: Activate the emergency response system and get the AED.
Q: While performing high-quality CPR, when do pauses in compressions typically
occur?
ANS 🗹🗹: Pulse checks, compressor switches, intubation, defibrillation, & rhythm
analysis.
Q: What is recommended to minimize interruptions in compressions when using an
AED?
ANS 🗹🗹: Continue with high-quality CPR until an AED prompts to clear, when 2 or
more rescuers are present one should continue compressions while the other
prepares AED, & if no shock is advised and after any shock delivery immediately
resume high-quality CPR starting with compressions.
Q: What are examples of effective team dynamics?
ANS 🗹🗹: Knowledge sharing, constructive intervention , debriefing, & clear roles
and responsibilities.
Q: What is the indication for mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths?
ANS 🗹🗹: When a barrier device is not available.
Q: A bag-mask device is used to provide _________ to a victim who is not breathing or
not breathing normally.
ANS 🗹🗹: positive-pressure ventilation.
Q: You begin CPR, starting with chest compressions, and are about to deliver breaths by
using mouth-to-mouth breaths. What is the sequence of your next actions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Open airway (head tilt-chin lift), pinch nose and seal your lips around the
victim's mouth, give 1 breath and blow for about 1 sec., watch for chest rise while
giving breath, & give second breath (blowing for 1 sec, watching chest rise)
Q: How do you open the airway for breaths if a single rescuer is present?
ANS 🗹🗹: Head tilt-chin lift
Q: How is CPR preformed differently when an advanced airway is in place?
Heartcode BLS Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: When preforming high-quality CPR on a child, what is the correct depth of
compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Approximately 2 inches (5 cm)
Q: When preforming chest compressions for an infant, you can use 2 thumbs or put 2
_________ in the center of the chest, just below the _______ line.
ANS 🗹🗹: fingers; nipple
Q: When should the rescuer operating the AED clear the victim?
ANS 🗹🗹: During AED analysis and before shock deliver.
Q: To avoid fatigue, when should team roles alternate providing compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Every 5 cycles or 2 minutes.
Q: What is the correct order of steps of the Pediatrics Out-of-Hospital Chain of survival?
ANS 🗹🗹: Prevention, Activation of emergency response system, High-quality CPR,
Advanced Resuscitation, Post-cardiac arrest care, & Recovery.
Q: Why is an AED needed?
ANS 🗹🗹: To analyze the heart rhythm and provide a shock.
Q: Which team role keeps track of interruptions in compressions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Timer/Recorder
Q: After assessing a victim is not breathing and has no pulse, what do you instruct you
colleague to do?
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ANS 🗹🗹: Activate the emergency response system and get the AED.
Q: While performing high-quality CPR, when do pauses in compressions typically
occur?
ANS 🗹🗹: Pulse checks, compressor switches, intubation, defibrillation, & rhythm
analysis.
Q: What is recommended to minimize interruptions in compressions when using an
AED?
ANS 🗹🗹: Continue with high-quality CPR until an AED prompts to clear, when 2 or
more rescuers are present one should continue compressions while the other
prepares AED, & if no shock is advised and after any shock delivery immediately
resume high-quality CPR starting with compressions.
Q: What are examples of effective team dynamics?
ANS 🗹🗹: Knowledge sharing, constructive intervention , debriefing, & clear roles
and responsibilities.
Q: What is the indication for mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths?
ANS 🗹🗹: When a barrier device is not available.
Q: A bag-mask device is used to provide _________ to a victim who is not breathing or
not breathing normally.
ANS 🗹🗹: positive-pressure ventilation.
Q: You begin CPR, starting with chest compressions, and are about to deliver breaths by
using mouth-to-mouth breaths. What is the sequence of your next actions?
ANS 🗹🗹: Open airway (head tilt-chin lift), pinch nose and seal your lips around the
victim's mouth, give 1 breath and blow for about 1 sec., watch for chest rise while
giving breath, & give second breath (blowing for 1 sec, watching chest rise)
Q: How do you open the airway for breaths if a single rescuer is present?
ANS 🗹🗹: Head tilt-chin lift
Q: How is CPR preformed differently when an advanced airway is in place?
