CPR AND FIRST AID COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When is it time to call 911? - ✔✔when the situation has become one of the
emergency situations or you recognize emergency conditions in play
✔✔What are the clues that an emergency has happened? - ✔✔unusual sounds, sights,
odors, and behaviors.
✔✔What are PPE's? - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment, such as gloves, breathing
barriers, hand washing, etc.
✔✔If a victim is responsive what 2 skills do you do? - ✔✔Interview the person and do a
head to toe check. Roll the person into the recovery position.
✔✔How long and how do you check for breathing? - ✔✔No more than 5-10 seconds.
Head tilt chin lift, ear to mouth look towards sternum.
✔✔How do you give rescue breaths? - ✔✔Head tilt chin left, breath in until you see
chest plate rise. In intervals of 2.
✔✔What leads to cardiac issues in infants & children? - ✔✔
✔✔What is cycle for CPR and how long do you do it? - ✔✔2 rescue breaths for every
30 Chest compressions. Continue until exhaustion, more trained professional takes
over, scene becomes unsafe, or person shows obvious signs of life.
✔✔What if a responsive, child, infant, or adult is choking? - ✔✔5 abdominal thrusts and
5 back blows for adults and children. For an infant, put the infant in a secure position
alternating between legs to rest the infant on and do 5 chest thrusts and 5 back blows
✔✔How do we know somebody is having a breathing emergency? - ✔✔Panicked,
surprised, or confused facial expression, holding throat with both hands, trying to
forcibly cough, initially flushed skin but turning pale rapidly.
✔✔Where do you place hands during CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant? -
✔✔Child and adult: two hands interlocked w/ one on top of the other in the center of the
chest, infant: two fingers on center of chest just below the nipple line.
✔✔What are effective compressions? - ✔✔Forcible compressions of at least 2 inches
for an adult, about 2 inches for a child and about 1 1/2 inches for an infant.
✔✔What do we do if air does not go in an unresponsive adult, child, or infant? - ✔✔Give
CPR with one modification: after each set of compressions and before giving rescue
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When is it time to call 911? - ✔✔when the situation has become one of the
emergency situations or you recognize emergency conditions in play
✔✔What are the clues that an emergency has happened? - ✔✔unusual sounds, sights,
odors, and behaviors.
✔✔What are PPE's? - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment, such as gloves, breathing
barriers, hand washing, etc.
✔✔If a victim is responsive what 2 skills do you do? - ✔✔Interview the person and do a
head to toe check. Roll the person into the recovery position.
✔✔How long and how do you check for breathing? - ✔✔No more than 5-10 seconds.
Head tilt chin lift, ear to mouth look towards sternum.
✔✔How do you give rescue breaths? - ✔✔Head tilt chin left, breath in until you see
chest plate rise. In intervals of 2.
✔✔What leads to cardiac issues in infants & children? - ✔✔
✔✔What is cycle for CPR and how long do you do it? - ✔✔2 rescue breaths for every
30 Chest compressions. Continue until exhaustion, more trained professional takes
over, scene becomes unsafe, or person shows obvious signs of life.
✔✔What if a responsive, child, infant, or adult is choking? - ✔✔5 abdominal thrusts and
5 back blows for adults and children. For an infant, put the infant in a secure position
alternating between legs to rest the infant on and do 5 chest thrusts and 5 back blows
✔✔How do we know somebody is having a breathing emergency? - ✔✔Panicked,
surprised, or confused facial expression, holding throat with both hands, trying to
forcibly cough, initially flushed skin but turning pale rapidly.
✔✔Where do you place hands during CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant? -
✔✔Child and adult: two hands interlocked w/ one on top of the other in the center of the
chest, infant: two fingers on center of chest just below the nipple line.
✔✔What are effective compressions? - ✔✔Forcible compressions of at least 2 inches
for an adult, about 2 inches for a child and about 1 1/2 inches for an infant.
✔✔What do we do if air does not go in an unresponsive adult, child, or infant? - ✔✔Give
CPR with one modification: after each set of compressions and before giving rescue
