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Red Cross CPR/AED, First Aid ~Questions With Verified Answers
How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen transmission when
providing care? Correct Ans - Use personal protective equipment (PPE), such as
disposable gloves and a breathing barrier, when providing care.
A 12-year-old child at a swim meet grabs their 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?
Correct Ans - Summon more advanced medical personnel and place the victim into a
position that helps breathing.
Your initial impression of a victim is based on: Correct Ans - How the victim
appears to you as you size up the scene.
You and another lifeguard find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker room. You
activate your facility's EAP, 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: Correct Ans - Give ventilations at a rate of 1
about every 5-6 seconds.
You arrive on the scene where a patron appears to be injured. Before approaching the
victim, which of the following will you NOT do as you size-up the scene? Correct Ans -
Begin performing the primary assessment.
When providing care during an emergency, which of the following should you do first?
Correct Ans - Size-up the scene while forming an initial impression.
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 Correct Ans - At
least 2 inches but no more than 2.4 inches
CPR should be performed on which of the following victims? Correct Ans - One who
is in cardiac arrest
What is the first step of the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival? Correct Ans -
Recognition of a cardiac emergency and activation of the emergency response system.
You are providing care to a victim suspected of having a heart attack. Which of the
following would you do first? Correct Ans - Summon EMS personnel.
, Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should:
Correct Ans - Apply the pads and allow the AED to analyze the heart rhythm.
To ensure high-quality CPR and high-quality chest compressions, you should: Correct
Ans - Expose the victim's chest to ensure proper hand placement and full chest recoil.
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? Correct Ans -
Check to see whether EMS personnel have been called.
Which of the following is most essential to use when giving ventilations to protect you and
the victim from disease transmission? Correct Ans - Resuscitation masks
You are providing care to a facility maintenance worker who has fallen off the top of a
ladder. The victim is responsive. Which of the following should you do first? Correct
Ans - Obtain consent from the victim to provide care.
For which of the following should you summon EMS personnel? Correct Ans - A
victim with an open leg wound with the bone protruding
While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been rescued
from the water, you find that they have only occasional gasps, no pulse and no severe life-
threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next? Correct Ans - Give
2 ventilations and begin CPR
If there is a risk of the AED pads touching each other, such as with a small child or an infant,
you should Correct Ans - Place one pad in the middle of the chest and the other on
the back.
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?
a Correct Ans - Check for responsiveness
Which of the following statements about bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) is most
accurate? Correct Ans - Ventilations are more effective when two rescuers operate
the BVM.
You are preparing to give ventilations to a 5-year-old child using a resuscitation mask. You
should give 1 ventilation about every Correct Ans - 3 seconds.
When performing chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions at a rate
of at least how many compressions per minute? Correct Ans - Between 100 and 120
An AED has advised that a shock should be given. Which of the following is appropriate?
Correct Ans - Tell everyone to stand clear of the victim.
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