American Red Cross BLS Final Assessment
Exam Questions and Answers
1.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?
ANS "I'll go get the AED."
2.The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking.
Which intervention should the nurse implement?
ANS Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
3.After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the
next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
ANS Early high-quality CPR
4.You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44
1/
8
, pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes
only adult AED pads. What should you do?
ANS Use the adult AED pads.
5.You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in
cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .
ANS Immediately
6.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?
ANS Check for responsiveness.
7.A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR in-
cludes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions
every
minutes.
ANS 2
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8
Exam Questions and Answers
1.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?
ANS "I'll go get the AED."
2.The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking.
Which intervention should the nurse implement?
ANS Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
3.After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the
next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
ANS Early high-quality CPR
4.You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44
1/
8
, pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes
only adult AED pads. What should you do?
ANS Use the adult AED pads.
5.You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in
cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .
ANS Immediately
6.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?
ANS Check for responsiveness.
7.A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR in-
cludes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions
every
minutes.
ANS 2
2/
8
