ACLS - The Systematic Approach
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To support and restore effective oxygenation, ventilation, and circulation with return of intact
neurologic function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the primary goal of the high-performance
team's interventions for a patient in respiratory or cardiac arrest?
ROSC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is an intermediate goal of resuscitation?
-BLS Assessment
-Primary Assessment (ABCDE)
-Secondary Assessment (SAMPLE, H's and T's) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The actions of
resuscitation used during cardiac arrest/in the unstable patient are guided by 3 systematic
approaches. Name the 3 Systematic Approaches.
Assess SCENE SAFETY - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the very first step a provider takes before
conducting any assessment on a patient?
Start with BLS assessment for initial eval - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔If a patient is appears
unconscious what systematic approach should the provider begin with?
Start with the Primary Assessment (ABCDE) for initial eval - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔If a patient
appears conscious, the provider should initiate which systematic approach for the initial
evaluation?
Start chest compressions and rescue breathing! Initiate chain of survival. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔While grocery shopping at Kroger you see several people standing around a person
, who appears to be unconscious, lying on the ground. Since you just got your ACLS card
yesterday, you go over to the patient and begin assessing the patient with the BLS Survey. After
confirming the patient is unconscious, you simultaneously check for breathing and pulse. The
patient is not breathing, but while feeling for a pulse you are not sure if you can feel a pulse or
not in the patient's neck. What should you do?
Early CPR and early defibrillation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The BLS survey is a systematic
approach to basic life support that any trained healthcare provider can perform. What
interventions does this approach stress?
False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔True or False: The BLS primary survey includes performing
interventions such as intubating your patient and giving cardiac medications.
Agonal gasps - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔You are assessing a patient who collapsed in front of you
in the ticket line at the movie theater - aside from missing out on buying tickets to the greatest
movie ever made: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II - because you are providing excellent patient
care; you note the patient's mouth is open and he appears to have weak, slow gasps of air that
sound like a snort or groan. From your training you realize these respirations are not normal
breathing and this type of breathing pattern is called:
Check breathing and pulse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔You witness a person collapse in the pew in
front of you at church Sunday morning. You check the patient's responsiveness and he is
unresponsive, you then shout to the pastor's wife to "call 911 and get an AED". According to the
BLS Survey 2015 Guidelines your next step would be to:
-Check responsiveness
-Recruit assistance / Call 911
-Check breathing and pulse
-Defibrillation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What are the 4 basic steps of the BLS survey?
Exam 2025 With 100% Correct
Answers
To support and restore effective oxygenation, ventilation, and circulation with return of intact
neurologic function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the primary goal of the high-performance
team's interventions for a patient in respiratory or cardiac arrest?
ROSC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is an intermediate goal of resuscitation?
-BLS Assessment
-Primary Assessment (ABCDE)
-Secondary Assessment (SAMPLE, H's and T's) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The actions of
resuscitation used during cardiac arrest/in the unstable patient are guided by 3 systematic
approaches. Name the 3 Systematic Approaches.
Assess SCENE SAFETY - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What is the very first step a provider takes before
conducting any assessment on a patient?
Start with BLS assessment for initial eval - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔If a patient is appears
unconscious what systematic approach should the provider begin with?
Start with the Primary Assessment (ABCDE) for initial eval - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔If a patient
appears conscious, the provider should initiate which systematic approach for the initial
evaluation?
Start chest compressions and rescue breathing! Initiate chain of survival. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔While grocery shopping at Kroger you see several people standing around a person
, who appears to be unconscious, lying on the ground. Since you just got your ACLS card
yesterday, you go over to the patient and begin assessing the patient with the BLS Survey. After
confirming the patient is unconscious, you simultaneously check for breathing and pulse. The
patient is not breathing, but while feeling for a pulse you are not sure if you can feel a pulse or
not in the patient's neck. What should you do?
Early CPR and early defibrillation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The BLS survey is a systematic
approach to basic life support that any trained healthcare provider can perform. What
interventions does this approach stress?
False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔True or False: The BLS primary survey includes performing
interventions such as intubating your patient and giving cardiac medications.
Agonal gasps - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔You are assessing a patient who collapsed in front of you
in the ticket line at the movie theater - aside from missing out on buying tickets to the greatest
movie ever made: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II - because you are providing excellent patient
care; you note the patient's mouth is open and he appears to have weak, slow gasps of air that
sound like a snort or groan. From your training you realize these respirations are not normal
breathing and this type of breathing pattern is called:
Check breathing and pulse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔You witness a person collapse in the pew in
front of you at church Sunday morning. You check the patient's responsiveness and he is
unresponsive, you then shout to the pastor's wife to "call 911 and get an AED". According to the
BLS Survey 2015 Guidelines your next step would be to:
-Check responsiveness
-Recruit assistance / Call 911
-Check breathing and pulse
-Defibrillation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔What are the 4 basic steps of the BLS survey?
