EMR CPR test review questions & answers 2023/2024
while you are performing CPR on an adult, second trained responder arrives with the AED. What do you do? - ANSWER-Keep doing CPR
1st link- early recognition and early EMS
2nd- early CPR
3rd- early AED
4th- a degree in medicine? - ANSWER-P...
while you are performing CPR on an adult, second trained responder arrives with the AED. What do you
do? - ANSWER-Keep doing CPR
1st link- early recognition and early EMS
2nd- early CPR
3rd- early AED
4th- a degree in medicine? - ANSWER-Prevention NOT CORRECT?
To ensure high quality CPR for an adult, which is the MOST appropriate?
a. ventilate the patient once every 15 compressions
b. provide 4 minutes of CPR
c. check for breathing and a pulse every 2 minutes
d. minimize interruptions of chest compressions to less than 10 seconds - ANSWER-d. minimize
interruptions of chest compressions to less than 10 seconds
C is correct but D is more important
While accessing an unresponsive adult who's been pulled from the water, you find the patient has no
definitive pulse and occasional gasps. patient has no severe bleeding. Which of the following should you
do?
a. give 2 ventilations and begin CPR
b. provide abdominal thrusts
c. open airway and check for breathing
d. place in recovery position - ANSWER-a. give 2 ventilations and begin CPR
, for children and infants, or no breathing emergencies, give 2 ventilations before CPR
If there's a risk of the AED pads touching each other such as with a small child or infant, you should
what?
a. place one pad on the upper chest and one on the back
b. place one on the stomach one on chest
c. place them as usual doesn't matter if they touch
d. reverse position of pads on the chest - ANSWER-a. place on pad on the upper chest and one on the
back
Your general impression reveals severe life threatening bleeding on a patient that appears unresponsive.
What do you do?
a. immediately start chest compressions
b. leave patient to call 911 to get an AED and first aid kit
c. control the bleeding with any available resources
d. open airway and check for breathing and a pulse - ANSWER-c. control bleeding with any resources
normally we'd start CPR but they have severe LIFE THREATENING bleeding. if you start CPR first, you'd
just pump the blood out. If you leave them to call 911, they're going to continue to bleed out.
** You're about to apply AED pads to a patients chest and you notice they have a IMPLANTABLE
(pacemaker) cardioverter defibrillator. Which of the following would you do?
a. avoid placing the pads directly over the implantable device
b. Place them as you normally would
c. place one pad in the center of the chest, one in the middle of the back
d. theres no need to use an AED because of the implantable defibrillator - ANSWER-A. avoid placing the
pads directly over the device
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