ASHI First Aid Exam (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update)
Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct|
Grade A
1. How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen
transmission when providing care? - ANSWERPPE
2. A 12-year-old child at a soccer game grabs his/her chest and begins to make
wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child's parent informs
you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby.
What care should you provide? - ANSWERSummon more advanced medical
personnel and place the victim into a position that helps breathing.
3. Your initial impression of a victim is based on: - ANSWERHow the victim appears to
you as you size up the scene.
4. You and another responder find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker
room. You size up the scene, form an initial impression and perform a primary
assessment. You find the victim is not moving or breathing, but has a pulse. You
should summon EMS personnel, then: - ANSWERGive ventilations at the ratio of 1
about every 5-6 seconds
6. When becoming aware of a person who might need assistance, which of the
following should you do first? - ANSWERSize up the scene, make sure it is safe for
you to interact.
7. As the first rescuer on the scene, you are performing CPR on an adult. When
performing chest compressions, how deeply should you compress the chest? -
ANSWERat least 2 inches
9. What is the first step of the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival? - ANSWERImmediate
recognition of cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency response system. Early
CPR with an emphasis on chest compressions. Rapid defibrillation.
10. You are providing care to a victim suspected of having a heart attack. Which of
the following would you do first? - ANSWERSumMon EMS Personell.
11. Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should:
- ANSWERApply the pads and allow the AED to analyze
the heart rhythm.
12. To ensure high-quality chest compressions, you should: - ANSWERFollow the
recommended chest compression rate of at least 100 per minute and the
, recommended depth of at least 2 inches. Allow the chest to recoil completely during
compressions.
13. You are performing CPR on a victim, and an assisting responder arrives. Which of
the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first? -
ANSWERCheck to see whether EMS personnel have been called.
14. Which of the following is most essential to use when giving ventilations to
protect you and
the victim from disease transmission? - ANSWERResurrection mask
15. While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been
rescued from the water, you find that he/she has only occasional gasps, no pulse and
no severe life-threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next? -
ANSWERContinue CPR while the 2nd responder turns on the AED and applies the
pads.
16.If there is a risk of the AED pads touching each other, such as with a small child or
an infant, you should: - ANSWERPlace one pad in the middle of the chest and the
other on the back between the shoulder blades.
17. When giving abdominal thrusts to an adult who is choking, where should you
position your fist? - ANSWERLocate the navel with one or two fingers of one hand.
Make a fist with the other hand and place the thumb side against the middle of the
person's abdomen, just above the navel and well below the lower tip of the
breastbone. Grab your fist with your other hand and give quick, upward thrusts into
the abdomen.
18. You have sized up the scene, formed an initial impression, and determined the
scene is safe. When starting the primary assessment, which of the following would
you do first? - ANSWERcheck for responsiveness
19. You are preparing to give ventilations to a 5-year-old child using a resuscitation
mask. You should give 1 ventilation about every: - ANSWER3 seconds
20. When performing chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions
at a rate of at least how many compressions per minute? - ANSWER100-120
21. An AED has advised that a shock should be given. Which of the following is
appropriate? - ANSWERTell everyone to stand clear of the victim.
22. The cycle of chest compressions and ventilations in two-rescuer CPR for an infant
is: - ANSWER30:2
23. You are using a resuscitation mask to give ventilations to a child. After you
position and seal the mask, which of the following should you do next? -
ANSWERgive two breaths
Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct|
Grade A
1. How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen
transmission when providing care? - ANSWERPPE
2. A 12-year-old child at a soccer game grabs his/her chest and begins to make
wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child's parent informs
you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby.
What care should you provide? - ANSWERSummon more advanced medical
personnel and place the victim into a position that helps breathing.
3. Your initial impression of a victim is based on: - ANSWERHow the victim appears to
you as you size up the scene.
4. You and another responder find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker
room. You size up the scene, form an initial impression and perform a primary
assessment. You find the victim is not moving or breathing, but has a pulse. You
should summon EMS personnel, then: - ANSWERGive ventilations at the ratio of 1
about every 5-6 seconds
6. When becoming aware of a person who might need assistance, which of the
following should you do first? - ANSWERSize up the scene, make sure it is safe for
you to interact.
7. As the first rescuer on the scene, you are performing CPR on an adult. When
performing chest compressions, how deeply should you compress the chest? -
ANSWERat least 2 inches
9. What is the first step of the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival? - ANSWERImmediate
recognition of cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency response system. Early
CPR with an emphasis on chest compressions. Rapid defibrillation.
10. You are providing care to a victim suspected of having a heart attack. Which of
the following would you do first? - ANSWERSumMon EMS Personell.
11. Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should:
- ANSWERApply the pads and allow the AED to analyze
the heart rhythm.
12. To ensure high-quality chest compressions, you should: - ANSWERFollow the
recommended chest compression rate of at least 100 per minute and the
, recommended depth of at least 2 inches. Allow the chest to recoil completely during
compressions.
13. You are performing CPR on a victim, and an assisting responder arrives. Which of
the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first? -
ANSWERCheck to see whether EMS personnel have been called.
14. Which of the following is most essential to use when giving ventilations to
protect you and
the victim from disease transmission? - ANSWERResurrection mask
15. While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been
rescued from the water, you find that he/she has only occasional gasps, no pulse and
no severe life-threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next? -
ANSWERContinue CPR while the 2nd responder turns on the AED and applies the
pads.
16.If there is a risk of the AED pads touching each other, such as with a small child or
an infant, you should: - ANSWERPlace one pad in the middle of the chest and the
other on the back between the shoulder blades.
17. When giving abdominal thrusts to an adult who is choking, where should you
position your fist? - ANSWERLocate the navel with one or two fingers of one hand.
Make a fist with the other hand and place the thumb side against the middle of the
person's abdomen, just above the navel and well below the lower tip of the
breastbone. Grab your fist with your other hand and give quick, upward thrusts into
the abdomen.
18. You have sized up the scene, formed an initial impression, and determined the
scene is safe. When starting the primary assessment, which of the following would
you do first? - ANSWERcheck for responsiveness
19. You are preparing to give ventilations to a 5-year-old child using a resuscitation
mask. You should give 1 ventilation about every: - ANSWER3 seconds
20. When performing chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions
at a rate of at least how many compressions per minute? - ANSWER100-120
21. An AED has advised that a shock should be given. Which of the following is
appropriate? - ANSWERTell everyone to stand clear of the victim.
22. The cycle of chest compressions and ventilations in two-rescuer CPR for an infant
is: - ANSWER30:2
23. You are using a resuscitation mask to give ventilations to a child. After you
position and seal the mask, which of the following should you do next? -
ANSWERgive two breaths
