American Red Cross BLS Final Assessment questions
and answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
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?
- correct answer "I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should the
nurse implement?
- correct answer Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult In-
Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
- correct answer Early high-quality CPR
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It
does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?
- correct answer Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR
__________.
- correct answer Immediately
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?
- correct answer Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers
switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes.
- correct answer 2
and answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
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?
- correct answer "I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should the
nurse implement?
- correct answer Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult In-
Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
- correct answer Early high-quality CPR
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It
does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?
- correct answer Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR
__________.
- correct answer Immediately
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?
- correct answer Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers
switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes.
- correct answer 2
