HSI YMCA BLS EXAM – 2025 | Questions
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1. You are the only BLS provider responding to "baby not breathing."
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precautions. The
infant is unresponsive. You have activated EMS or your occupational
emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way with an AED.
You do not feel a brachial pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔
Immediately start high-quality CPR, beginning with chest
compressions.
2. Supporting a patient's physical and emotional needs that are ongoing
after hospital discharge is which link in the chain of survival? -
ANSWER ✔ Recovery
3. Your adult patient is making abnormal gasping, snoring sounds. You
definitely feel a carotid pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔
Provide rescue breathing or bag-mask ventilation.
4. To open the airway with a jaw thrust, position yourself: - ANSWER
✔ Above the patient's head.
, 5. Which link in the out-of-hospital adult chain of survival is critical to
survival when a patient's heart is in an abnormal rhythm like pulseless
ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF)? -
ANSWER ✔ Defibrillation
6. You are a lone BLS provider responding to a possible cardiac arrest.
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precautions. The
patient is unresponsive. You have activated EMS or your occupational
emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way and you have
an AED. The patient is occasionally gasping. You do not feel a carotid
pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔ Power on the AED. Apply
adult pads to patient's bare chest.
7. This technique may be useful for larger infants or when the BLS
provider has difficulty compressing the appropriate depth. -
ANSWER ✔ The Heel of One Hand technique
8. You and another BLS provider are giving CPR to a 7-year-old child
when the AED arrives. You turn on the AED, switch the AED to
pediatric energy levels, and apply the pads. The other BLS provider
should: - ANSWER ✔ BLS provider should continue high-quality
compressions while the AED is charging
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1. You are the only BLS provider responding to "baby not breathing."
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precautions. The
infant is unresponsive. You have activated EMS or your occupational
emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way with an AED.
You do not feel a brachial pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔
Immediately start high-quality CPR, beginning with chest
compressions.
2. Supporting a patient's physical and emotional needs that are ongoing
after hospital discharge is which link in the chain of survival? -
ANSWER ✔ Recovery
3. Your adult patient is making abnormal gasping, snoring sounds. You
definitely feel a carotid pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔
Provide rescue breathing or bag-mask ventilation.
4. To open the airway with a jaw thrust, position yourself: - ANSWER
✔ Above the patient's head.
, 5. Which link in the out-of-hospital adult chain of survival is critical to
survival when a patient's heart is in an abnormal rhythm like pulseless
ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF)? -
ANSWER ✔ Defibrillation
6. You are a lone BLS provider responding to a possible cardiac arrest.
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard precautions. The
patient is unresponsive. You have activated EMS or your occupational
emergency action plan. Other providers are on the way and you have
an AED. The patient is occasionally gasping. You do not feel a carotid
pulse. What should you do? - ANSWER ✔ Power on the AED. Apply
adult pads to patient's bare chest.
7. This technique may be useful for larger infants or when the BLS
provider has difficulty compressing the appropriate depth. -
ANSWER ✔ The Heel of One Hand technique
8. You and another BLS provider are giving CPR to a 7-year-old child
when the AED arrives. You turn on the AED, switch the AED to
pediatric energy levels, and apply the pads. The other BLS provider
should: - ANSWER ✔ BLS provider should continue high-quality
compressions while the AED is charging
