AMERICAN RED CROSS FINAL EXAM BLS QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
You and your colleagues have been providing high-quality CPR for and using the
AED on Mr. Sauer. While providing ventilations, you notice that Mr. Sauer moves
and appears to be breathing. What is the correct course of action?
Stop CPR, check for breathing and a pulse and monitor Mr. Sauer until the advanced
cardiac life support team takes over.
Upon entering Mr. Cohen's room, you find him on the ground, unresponsive. After
immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is your next action
according to the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
Early CPR
The systematic and continuous approach to providing emergent patient care
includes which three elements?
Assess, Recognize, Care
You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury. Which
technique should you use to open the patient's airway?
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble, suddenly
goes into cardiac arrest. While preparing the AED, your colleague reminds you
, that Mrs. Tribble is 28 weeks pregnant. Which statement is true regarding the use
of an AED on a pregnant patient?
AED use is safe for pregnant patients. Ya'll better know that.
You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What is the
compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR?
In both children and infants, the compression-to-ventilation ratio is 30:2 during single-
provider CPR and 15:2 during multiple-provider CPR.
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice her lunch splattered on the floor. She is
slumped over the bedside table and does not appear to be breathing. You
perform a visual survey and determine that the scene is safe. Which is the next
appropriate action?
Check for responsiveness
A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and
correctly perform chest compressions at which rate?
100 to 120 per minute.
During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each
member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most
appropriate action?
Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has been overlooked.
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?
VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
You and your colleagues have been providing high-quality CPR for and using the
AED on Mr. Sauer. While providing ventilations, you notice that Mr. Sauer moves
and appears to be breathing. What is the correct course of action?
Stop CPR, check for breathing and a pulse and monitor Mr. Sauer until the advanced
cardiac life support team takes over.
Upon entering Mr. Cohen's room, you find him on the ground, unresponsive. After
immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is your next action
according to the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival?
Early CPR
The systematic and continuous approach to providing emergent patient care
includes which three elements?
Assess, Recognize, Care
You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury. Which
technique should you use to open the patient's airway?
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble, suddenly
goes into cardiac arrest. While preparing the AED, your colleague reminds you
, that Mrs. Tribble is 28 weeks pregnant. Which statement is true regarding the use
of an AED on a pregnant patient?
AED use is safe for pregnant patients. Ya'll better know that.
You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What is the
compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR?
In both children and infants, the compression-to-ventilation ratio is 30:2 during single-
provider CPR and 15:2 during multiple-provider CPR.
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice her lunch splattered on the floor. She is
slumped over the bedside table and does not appear to be breathing. You
perform a visual survey and determine that the scene is safe. Which is the next
appropriate action?
Check for responsiveness
A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. You initiate CPR and
correctly perform chest compressions at which rate?
100 to 120 per minute.
During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each
member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most
appropriate action?
Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has been overlooked.
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?
