NRP EXAM Questions and Answers (2024/2025)(Verified Answers)

NRP EXAM Questions and Answers (2024/2025)(Verified Answers) what is the normal infant respiratory rate? 40-60 breaths per minute what is a normal infant heart rate? 120-160 bpm what do you do if the baby has labored breathing or persistently low oxygen saturation? CPAP can CPAP be given using a self inflating bag? No what are the 5 initial steps after birth: provide warmth, position head and neck, clear secretions if necessary, dry, and stimulate what are the 4 pre-birth questions? gestational age? clear fluid? how many babies expected? additional risk factors? the baby has been born, what 3 rapid eval questions are asked? term? muscle tone? breathing or crying? 41 week newborn with meconium-stained amniotic fluid is born and is crying upon birth, what are your initial steps? suction mouth and nose with bulb syringe, dry newborn, place skin to skin with mother, cover with warm blanket and continue ongoing eval you have a newborn with central cyanosis that is not resolving after 5 minutes and a pulse oximeter reading of 68%; they are breathing with no distress and heart rate is 140; what intervention is next? administer free-flowing oxygen A newborn is 36 weeks gestation with no muscle tone or breathing present; after the 5 initial steps the newborn is still not breathing; what is indicated? PPV what is the 1-minute pre-ductal SpO2 target? 60-65% what is the single most important and effective step in neonatal resuscitation? ventilation of the newborn's lungs after initial steps post birth, the newborn is breathing but has a heart rate less than 100 bpm; what is indicated? PPV