CPR EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. What is the best action to relieve severe chocking in a responsive infant? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Begin with 5 back slaps and 5 chest thrusts
2. What is the rate for performing chest compressions for a victim of any age? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 100 compressions per minute
3. Which of the following best describes how you and a second rescuer can give
CPR to an infant victim using 2-thumbs encircling hands technique? -
CORRECT ANSWERS You switch to cycle of 15 compressions and 2
breaths with one rescuer giving chest compressions and the other giving breaths.
4. A choking victim becomes unresponsive while you are doing abdominal
thrusts for severe choking. You ease the victim to the floor and send someone to
activate emergency response system. What should you do next? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Begin CPR. When you open the airway, look for and remove
the object (if seen) before giving rescue breaths.
5. Why is it important to give early defibrillation to an adult? - CORRECT
ANSWERS The probability of successful defibrillation diminishes
rapidly over time.
6. After you open the airway and pinch the nose of an unresponsive adult or
child, which of the following describes the best way to give mouth-to-mouth
breaths? - CORRECT ANSWERS Seal your mouth over the victim's
mouth and give 2 breaths, watching the chest rise
7. What might happen if you touch the victim while the AED is delivering a
shock? - CORRECT ANSWERS The AED could shock you while it
shocking the victim.
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. What is the best action to relieve severe chocking in a responsive infant? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Begin with 5 back slaps and 5 chest thrusts
2. What is the rate for performing chest compressions for a victim of any age? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 100 compressions per minute
3. Which of the following best describes how you and a second rescuer can give
CPR to an infant victim using 2-thumbs encircling hands technique? -
CORRECT ANSWERS You switch to cycle of 15 compressions and 2
breaths with one rescuer giving chest compressions and the other giving breaths.
4. A choking victim becomes unresponsive while you are doing abdominal
thrusts for severe choking. You ease the victim to the floor and send someone to
activate emergency response system. What should you do next? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Begin CPR. When you open the airway, look for and remove
the object (if seen) before giving rescue breaths.
5. Why is it important to give early defibrillation to an adult? - CORRECT
ANSWERS The probability of successful defibrillation diminishes
rapidly over time.
6. After you open the airway and pinch the nose of an unresponsive adult or
child, which of the following describes the best way to give mouth-to-mouth
breaths? - CORRECT ANSWERS Seal your mouth over the victim's
mouth and give 2 breaths, watching the chest rise
7. What might happen if you touch the victim while the AED is delivering a
shock? - CORRECT ANSWERS The AED could shock you while it
shocking the victim.
