American Red Cross BLS Final Assessment Test with Answers Rated A
While orienting a new medical assistant to the facili-
ty, you find a patient who is unresponsive in the exam
room. You yell to the medical assistant, "Go get the AED!" "I'll go get the AED."
Which response by the medical assistant demonstrates
closed-loop communication?
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines
she is choking. Which intervention should the nurse im- Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
plement?
After immediately initiating the emergency response sys-
tem, what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Early high-quality CPR
Chain of Survival?
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient
who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have
Use the adult AED pads.
a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What
should you do?
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they
Immediately
are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over
in her chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You
Check for responsiveness.
do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the
next appropriate action?
A well-organized team response when performing
high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch 2
ott performing compressions every minutes.
You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a
72-year-old patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr. Phillips shows At the carotid or femoral artery
signs of ROSC, where should you perform the pulse check?
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
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While orienting a new medical assistant to the facili-
ty, you find a patient who is unresponsive in the exam
room. You yell to the medical assistant, "Go get the AED!" "I'll go get the AED."
Which response by the medical assistant demonstrates
closed-loop communication?
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines
she is choking. Which intervention should the nurse im- Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
plement?
After immediately initiating the emergency response sys-
tem, what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Early high-quality CPR
Chain of Survival?
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient
who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have
Use the adult AED pads.
a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What
should you do?
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they
Immediately
are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR .
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over
in her chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You
Check for responsiveness.
do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the
next appropriate action?
A well-organized team response when performing
high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch 2
ott performing compressions every minutes.
You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a
72-year-old patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr. Phillips shows At the carotid or femoral artery
signs of ROSC, where should you perform the pulse check?
Modified jaw-thrust maneuver
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