Basic Life Support Field Guide
As a responders, how should you ensure optimum performance?
1. By performing CPR with a feedback device only
2. By updating your training every 5 years
3. By ensuring that your BLS training remains up to date
4. By recording and reviewing your practice CPR sessions - Answers-3. By ensuring that your BLS training
remains up to date
Basic Life Support (BLS) is defined as the recognition of and initial intervention or treatment given by pre
hospital or in facility responders to which group of patient
1. Patients experiencing cardiac or respiratory arrest
2. Patients who have experienced serious traumatic injuries
3. Patients suffering from serious medical illness
4. Patients suffering from serious mental health concerns - Answers-1. Patients experiencing cardiac or
respiratory arrest
In what situation is consent implied - Answers-When you are providing care to a unresponsive patient
What is the normal breathing rate for an adult?
1. 5-10 breaths per minute
, 2. 12-20 breaths per minute
3. 16-24 breaths per minute
4. 20-32 breaths per minute - Answers-12 to 20 breaths per minutes
What is the CPR compression depth for an infant - Answers-1/3 of the chest depth
What is measured by the 'chest compression' fraction - Answers-The percentage of time that
compression are being performed in CPR
What is normal breathing rate for a child - Answers-16 to 24 breaths per minutes
What should you do while the defibrillator is charging in preparation to deliver a shock? - Answers-
Continue chest compression
You and your partner assess an unresponsive adult in respiratory arrest. Additional assistance has
already been summoned. What is your next intervention on the patient - Answers-Using a BVM to
ventilate the patient at a rate of 1 ventilation every 5-6 seconds
What is the correct rate of assisted ventilation for an adult? - Answers-1 ventilation every 5 to 6 seconds
What is the minimum CPR compression depth for an adult? - Answers-5cm
What rhymes is considered to be a non-shockable rhythm *2 - Answers-Pulseless electrical activity (PEA)
Asystole
Why would you place a blanket or cushion under a pregnant patient's right hip during CPR? - Answers-To
help blood return to the heart
As a responders, how should you ensure optimum performance?
1. By performing CPR with a feedback device only
2. By updating your training every 5 years
3. By ensuring that your BLS training remains up to date
4. By recording and reviewing your practice CPR sessions - Answers-3. By ensuring that your BLS training
remains up to date
Basic Life Support (BLS) is defined as the recognition of and initial intervention or treatment given by pre
hospital or in facility responders to which group of patient
1. Patients experiencing cardiac or respiratory arrest
2. Patients who have experienced serious traumatic injuries
3. Patients suffering from serious medical illness
4. Patients suffering from serious mental health concerns - Answers-1. Patients experiencing cardiac or
respiratory arrest
In what situation is consent implied - Answers-When you are providing care to a unresponsive patient
What is the normal breathing rate for an adult?
1. 5-10 breaths per minute
, 2. 12-20 breaths per minute
3. 16-24 breaths per minute
4. 20-32 breaths per minute - Answers-12 to 20 breaths per minutes
What is the CPR compression depth for an infant - Answers-1/3 of the chest depth
What is measured by the 'chest compression' fraction - Answers-The percentage of time that
compression are being performed in CPR
What is normal breathing rate for a child - Answers-16 to 24 breaths per minutes
What should you do while the defibrillator is charging in preparation to deliver a shock? - Answers-
Continue chest compression
You and your partner assess an unresponsive adult in respiratory arrest. Additional assistance has
already been summoned. What is your next intervention on the patient - Answers-Using a BVM to
ventilate the patient at a rate of 1 ventilation every 5-6 seconds
What is the correct rate of assisted ventilation for an adult? - Answers-1 ventilation every 5 to 6 seconds
What is the minimum CPR compression depth for an adult? - Answers-5cm
What rhymes is considered to be a non-shockable rhythm *2 - Answers-Pulseless electrical activity (PEA)
Asystole
Why would you place a blanket or cushion under a pregnant patient's right hip during CPR? - Answers-To
help blood return to the heart
