UPDATE |QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS|FREQUENTLY MOST
TESTED QUESTIONS| GET IT RIGHT!!
FINAL EXAM
What is the rate in which you should be providing positive pressure ventilations with BVM? - CORRECT
ANSWERS -10-12 breaths per min
Best way to ventilate with single recuer? - CORRECT ANSWERS -pocket mask
best way to ventilate with 2 rescuers? - CORRECT ANSWERS -BVM hooked up to O2
If PT is slow to respond, little chest rise and fall and retraction? - CORRECT ANSWERS -Need to use BVM
If ventilating, and chest doesn't rise, what's the next step? - CORRECT ANSWERS -Reposition head
Where does stridor sounds come from? - CORRECT ANSWERS -High pitch, blockage in larynx/trachea
(tongue/item)
Where does wheezing sounds come from? - CORRECT ANSWERS -high pitch, constriction in smaller air
passages (asthma)
Where does Rhonchi sounds come from? - CORRECT ANSWERS -low pitch, raddling in the lungs (COPD,
emphysema, pneumonia)
, Where do rales sounds come from? - CORRECT ANSWERS -crackles/popping (fluid in lungs, pulmonary
edema secondary to left-sided CHF)
O2 levels for NC - CORRECT ANSWERS -2-6
O2 levels for NRB - CORRECT ANSWERS -10-15
O2 levels for BVM - CORRECT ANSWERS -15-25
O2 levels for NEB - CORRECT ANSWERS -6-8
Proper suctioning technique and what to do if they keep vomiting? - CORRECT ANSWERS -10-15 sec,
suction on no more than 200mLHg, roll to side if need be
What to do if choking victim - CORRECT ANSWERS -are you choking, nonresponsive/apneic start chest
compressions, responsive ab thrust, pregnant woman
Seizure PTs - CORRECT ANSWERS -Keep safe, open airway, suction airway, use NPA of needed POST
Seizure
s/s of pulmonary embolism - CORRECT ANSWERS -recent travel/surgery, skin discoloration, leg
pain/swelling
S/S of CHF - CORRECT ANSWERS -Edema, rales/crackles, feeling of drowning, can't lay flat
s/s of asthma exacerbation - CORRECT ANSWERS -Sudden onset SOB, wheezing