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BLS Hospital Corpsman Questions with Explanations of Answers | latest upate 2024
BLS Hospital Corpsman Questions with Explanations of Answers | latest upate 2024
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BLS Hospital Corpsman(ROSC) -✅✅-return of spontaneous circulation
Abandonment - ✅✅-Discontinuing care once it has begun.
Abdominal thrusts - ✅✅-Inward and upward thrusts just above the navel to
force an object out of the airway when a person is choking.
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Administration of naloxone for a patient experiencing an opioid overdose is
recommended during respiratory arrest, but not cardiac arrest. - -FALSE:
It is recommended for both respiratory and cardiac arrest.
Adolescent - ✅✅ -In the context of CPR, someone from the onset of puberty
(as evidenced by breast development in girls and underarm hair development
in boys-usually around the age of 12) through adulthood.
Advance directive - ✅✅ -Written instructions that describe a patient's wishes
(or the wishes of the parent and/or legal guardian) regarding medical
treatment or healthcare decisions.
Agonal Breaths - ✅✅-isolated or infrequent gasping that occur in the
absence of normal breathing in an unconscious patient.
Agonal breaths - ✅✅ -Isolated or infrequent gasps that occur in the absence
of normal breathing in an unconscious patient; can occur after the heart has
stopped beating and are considered a sign of cardiac arrest.
Airway obstruction - ✅✅-Blockage within the airway that can prevent
inhalation or ventilation.
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An AED should be used when caring for a patient in cardiac arrest as a result
of traumatic injury. - -TRUE: When a patient is experiencing cardiac
arrest as a result of traumatic injuries, an AED should still be used following
facility protocols. Often traumatic events are preceded by medical events.
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An AED should be used when caring for a patient in cardiac arrest as a result
of traumatic injury. - -TRUE: When a patient is experiencing cardiac
arrest as a result of traumatic injuries, an AED should still be used following
facility protocols. Often traumatic events are preceded by medical events.
, Assess, Recognize and Care Concept - ✅✅-A systematic, continuous
approach for quick and accurate assessment, rapid recognition and immediate
care in emergency situations.
Automated external defibrillator (AED) - ✅✅ -A portable electronic device
that automatically analyzes a patient's heart rhythm and provides defibrillation,
an electrical shock that may help the heart re-establish a perfusing rhythm;
delivers defibrillation to patients with ventricular fibrillation and ventricular
tachycardia.
Back blows - ✅✅ -Blows between the scapulae to force an object out of the
airway when a person is choking.
Bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator - ✅✅ -A handheld device used to
ventilate a patient through the delivery of ambient air, thereby providing a 20%
to 21% concentration of oxygen.
Battery -✅✅ -The unlawful, harmful or offensive touching of a patient without
the patient's consent.
BVM resuscitator is? - ✅✅ -handheld device used to ventilate patients during
respiratory arrest or multiple- provider CPR.
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Call First or Care First - -Care first for an unresponsive child or infant
whom you did not see collapse. Provide 2 minutes of care based on the
conditions found.
Capnography - ✅✅ -A noninvasive way of measuring end-tidal carbon
dioxide (CO,) level.
Cardiac arrest -✅✅ -Cessation of heart function. A patient who is not
breathing normally (or only gasping) and has no pulse is in cardiac arrest.
Chest compression - ✅✅ -During chest compressions, you press down on
the person's chest. This squeezes (compresses) the heart between the
breastbone (sternum) and spine, moving blood out of the heart and to the
brain and other vital organs.
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