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YMCA BLS TEST QUESTIONS WITHCOMPLETE ANSWERS
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
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.
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.
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 have
activated EMS and/or your EAP. Other providers are on the way. You have an AED.
The patient is occasionally gasping. You do not feel a carotid pulse. What should you
do?
1. Immediately start CPR, beginning with chest compressions.
2. Power on the AED. Apply adult pads to the patient's bare chest.
3. Reassess the patient's responsiveness, airway, breathing, and pulse.
4. Open the airway and provide rescue breathing or bag-mask ventilation. - Answer-
Power on the AED. Apply adult pads to the patient's bare chest.
You are a lone BLS Provider responding to a possible cardiac arrest. The scene is safe.
You have taken standard precautions. An untrained bystander heard the person
,collapse. You have activated EMS and/or your EAP. Other providers are on the way. An
AED is located in the building, about 3 minutes away. The adult patient is unresponsive
and making gurgling sounds. You do not feel a carotid pulse. You have a CPR mask
with a one-way valve. What should you do?
1. Send the bystander to get the AED. Start high-quality CPR.
2. Get the AED. Tell the bystander to stay with the patient.
3. Open the airway and provide rescue breathing with the CPR mask.
4. Reassess the patient's responsiveness, airway, breathing, and pulse. - Answer-send
the bystander to get the AED. start high quality CPR
Four BLS Providers have been performing CPR on an adult cardiac arrest patient for 18
minutes. The last switch in roles was only about a minute ago, but the compressor says,
"I'm exhausted." What should they do?
1. Stop compressions. Continue to ventilate the patient once every 6 seconds.
2. Encourage the compressor to continue to perform high-quality compressions.
3. Stop CPR for about 2 minutes to rest.
4. Switch out the compressor. - Answer-switch out the compressor
You are using a bag-mask device to ventilate a 16-year-old in cardiac arrest who
collapsed suddenly during a soccer game. An endotracheal tube has been placed by an
advanced life support provider on the resuscitation team. Proper ventilation technique in
the situation requires that you:
1. Squeeze the bag to deliver 1 breath every 6 seconds during each pause in
compressions.
2. Squeeze the bag to deliver 1 breath when the AED is analyzing the heart rhythm.
3. Squeeze the bag to deliver 1 breath every 6 seconds.
4. Squeeze the bag to deliver 1 breath every 10 seconds. - Answer-squeeze the bag to
deliver 1 breath every 6 seconds
Which of the following best describes the use of naloxone?
1. Naloxone can cause death by slowing, and eventually stopping, a person's breathing.
2. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist; it can reverse and block the effects of opioids.
, 3. Naloxone can only be administered once because its effects last several hours.
4. Naloxone is effective for any type of illicit drug overdose. - Answer-naxolone is an
opioid antagonist. it can reverse and block the effects of opioids
Teamwork in high-performance resuscitation requires the use of
_____________________.
1. An AED
2. Two stopwatches
3. A bag-mask device
4. Clear and effective communication - Answer-clear and effective communication
The first link in the out-of-hospital pediatric chains of survival is:
1. Immediate high-quality CPR and defibrillation with an AED.
2. Prompt activation of an emergency action plan and response by medical
professionals.
3. Prevention of causes of cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, or respiratory arrest.
4. Advanced resuscitation efforts and effective post-cardiac arrest care. - Answer-
Prevention of causes of cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, or respiratory arrest.
To locate the femoral pulse:
1. Place two or three fingers in the groove on the patient's neck, between the trachea
and the muscles at the side of the neck.
2. Place two or three fingers midway between the hip bone and pubic bone, just below
the crease where the leg joins the torso.
3. Place two or three fingers on the inside of the upper arm, midway between the elbow
and the shoulder. - Answer-Place two or three fingers midway between the hip bone
and pubic bone, just below the crease where the leg joins the torso.
Fewer and shorter interruptions in chest compressions are associated with
_______________.
1. Better outcomes
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