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Basic Life Support Field GuideAs a responders, how should you ensure optimum performance?
1. By performing CPR with a feedback device only
2. By updating your training every 5 years
3. By ensuring that your BLS training remains up to date
4. By recording and reviewing your practice CPR sessions - answer3. By ensuring that
your BLS training remains up to date
Basic Life Support (BLS) is defined as the recognition of and initial intervention or
treatment given by pre hospital or in facility responders to which group of patient
1. Patients experiencing cardiac or respiratory arrest
2. Patients who have experienced serious traumatic injuries
3. Patients suffering from serious medical illness
4. Patients suffering from serious mental health concerns - answer1. Patients
experiencing cardiac or respiratory arrest
In what situation is consent implied - answer When you are providing care to a
unresponsive patient
What is the normal breathing rate for an adult?
1. 5-10 breaths per minute
2. 12-20 breaths per minute
3. 16-24 breaths per minute
4. 20-32 breaths per minute - answer12 to 20 breaths per minutes
What is the CPR compression depth for an infant - answer1/3 of the chest depth
What is measured by the 'chest compression' fraction - answerThe percentage of time
that compression are being performed in CPR
What is normal breathing rate for a child - answer16 to 24 breaths per minutes
What should you do while the defibrillator is charging in preparation to deliver a shock? -
answerContinue chest compression
You and your partner assess an unresponsive adult in respiratory arrest. Additional
assistance has already been summoned. What is your next intervention on the patient -
answerUsing a BVM to ventilate the patient at a rate of 1 ventilation every 5-6 seconds
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