YMCA First Aid Exam Questions and Answers
Have someone activate
EMS and get an AED, if one
1. It's a hot day, and you are
waiting to check out at the grocery
store when the woman standing
behind you
in line suddenly collapses to the floor. She is unrespon- is
available, then check for
sive and doesn't seem to be breathing. You should: a
carotid pulse
2. To "observe universal precautions" means: Managing all blood and
other body substances as
if they are infectious.
3. Air blown into the stomach while giving rescue Can limit lung movement,
breaths: cause vomiting, and re-
duce the ettectiveness of
rescue breathing.
4. For proper chest compression's, a patient should be Face-up on a firm, flat sur-
positioned: face.
5. The proper depth of chest compression in a 3-year-old 1/3 the depth of the chest
child is at least: or about 2 inches.
6. You are attending to a patient who is unresponsive Place the person in a re-
and is breathing normally. You are alone and need to covery position and then
activate EMS. You should: activate EMS.
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7. The links in the "chain of survival" in adults are: Early recognition and acti-
vation of EMS, early CPR,
early defibrillation, ear-
ly advanced life support,
and integrated post-car-
diac arrest care.
8. Place your palms and
thumbs on both sides of a
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Have someone activate
EMS and get an AED, if one
1. It's a hot day, and you are
waiting to check out at the grocery
store when the woman standing
behind you
in line suddenly collapses to the floor. She is unrespon- is
available, then check for
sive and doesn't seem to be breathing. You should: a
carotid pulse
2. To "observe universal precautions" means: Managing all blood and
other body substances as
if they are infectious.
3. Air blown into the stomach while giving rescue Can limit lung movement,
breaths: cause vomiting, and re-
duce the ettectiveness of
rescue breathing.
4. For proper chest compression's, a patient should be Face-up on a firm, flat sur-
positioned: face.
5. The proper depth of chest compression in a 3-year-old 1/3 the depth of the chest
child is at least: or about 2 inches.
6. You are attending to a patient who is unresponsive Place the person in a re-
and is breathing normally. You are alone and need to covery position and then
activate EMS. You should: activate EMS.
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7. The links in the "chain of survival" in adults are: Early recognition and acti-
vation of EMS, early CPR,
early defibrillation, ear-
ly advanced life support,
and integrated post-car-
diac arrest care.
8. Place your palms and
thumbs on both sides of a
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