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YMCA BLS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
The BLS program is intended to:
1. Replace local protocols or medical direction.
2. Train BLS providers in resuscitation.
3. Train BLS providers in the context of your setting.
4. Train professional responders in advanced life
support.
5. Prepare you to recognize cardiac arrest in patients of
all ages. - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ - train BLS providers in
resuscitation
- prepare you to recognize cardiac arrest in patients of
all ages
what is BLS - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ basic life support
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When the lower chambers of the heart beat too quickly
or quiver, the heart cannot pump blood. These abnormal
heart rhythms, or dysrhythmias, are known as
___________________ and
_________________________.
1. Stroke, heart attack
2. Cardiac arrest, defibrillation
3. Secondary cardiac arrest, heart attack
4. Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular
fibrillation (VF) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Pulseless
ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF)
You are a BLS provider assessing an unresponsive adult.
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard
precautions. When you assess for breathing and pulse,
you definitely feel a pulse and see the person is
breathing normally. You should:
1. Start CPR, beginning with compressions.
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2. Provide rescue breathing.
3. Maintain an open airway.
4. Immediately use a nearby AED. - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Maintain an open airway.
When chest compressions stop, blood flow
______________________ significantly.
1. increases
2. decreases
3. improves
4. circulates - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ decreases
To open the airway with a jaw thrust, position yourself:
1. Above the patient's head.
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2. At the side of the patient, below the hips.
3. At the side of the patient, close to the chest.
4. At the side of the patient, close to the head. -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ above the patients head
Too many rescue breaths too quickly or breaths that are
too large is _______________________, which can be
harmful.
1. Respiratory distress
2. Excessive ventilation
3. Respiratory arrest
4. Bag-mask ventilation - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Excessive ventilation
You are a lone BLS Provider responding to a possible
adult cardiac arrest. The scene is safe. You have taken
standard precautions. The patient is unresponsive. You
YMCA BLS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
The BLS program is intended to:
1. Replace local protocols or medical direction.
2. Train BLS providers in resuscitation.
3. Train BLS providers in the context of your setting.
4. Train professional responders in advanced life
support.
5. Prepare you to recognize cardiac arrest in patients of
all ages. - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ - train BLS providers in
resuscitation
- prepare you to recognize cardiac arrest in patients of
all ages
what is BLS - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ basic life support
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When the lower chambers of the heart beat too quickly
or quiver, the heart cannot pump blood. These abnormal
heart rhythms, or dysrhythmias, are known as
___________________ and
_________________________.
1. Stroke, heart attack
2. Cardiac arrest, defibrillation
3. Secondary cardiac arrest, heart attack
4. Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular
fibrillation (VF) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Pulseless
ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF)
You are a BLS provider assessing an unresponsive adult.
The scene is safe, and you have taken standard
precautions. When you assess for breathing and pulse,
you definitely feel a pulse and see the person is
breathing normally. You should:
1. Start CPR, beginning with compressions.
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2. Provide rescue breathing.
3. Maintain an open airway.
4. Immediately use a nearby AED. - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Maintain an open airway.
When chest compressions stop, blood flow
______________________ significantly.
1. increases
2. decreases
3. improves
4. circulates - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ decreases
To open the airway with a jaw thrust, position yourself:
1. Above the patient's head.
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2. At the side of the patient, below the hips.
3. At the side of the patient, close to the chest.
4. At the side of the patient, close to the head. -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ above the patients head
Too many rescue breaths too quickly or breaths that are
too large is _______________________, which can be
harmful.
1. Respiratory distress
2. Excessive ventilation
3. Respiratory arrest
4. Bag-mask ventilation - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Excessive ventilation
You are a lone BLS Provider responding to a possible
adult cardiac arrest. The scene is safe. You have taken
standard precautions. The patient is unresponsive. You
