HEALTH CARE PROVIDER CPR FINAL EXAM A
Mark the correct answer on the answer sheet provided.
1. The initial care that health care personnel provide, which can play an important role in patient outcome, is called:
A. rehabilitation.
B. basic life support.
C. bystander support.
D. advanced life support.
2. On which of the following patients should you perform the Heimlich maneuver?
A. Responsive adult with a severe airway obstruction
B. Unresponsive child with a severe airway obstruction
C. Responsive adult with a mild airway obstruction
D. Unresponsive infant with a severe airway obstruction
3. Which of the following is an example of a bloodborne disease?
A. HIV
B. Herpes
C. Meningitis
D. Tuberculosis
4. Equipment that provides a barrier between you and the patient is referred to as:
A. isolation suits.
B. universal isolation.
C. turnout gear.
D. personal protective equipment (PPE).
5. All of the following are risk factors for cardiovascular disease that you can control except for:
A. gender
B. smoking
C. high cholesterol
D. high blood pressure
6. Which of the following lists, in the correct order, the links in the chain of survival?
A. Early defibrillation, early CPR, early access to care, early advanced cardiac life support, integrated post-arrest care
B. Early CPR, early access to care, early defibrillation, integrated post-arrest care, early advanced cardiac life support
C. Early access to care, early CPR, early defibrillation, early advanced cardiac life support, integrated post-arrest care
D. Early advanced cardiac life support, early access to care, early CPR, early defibrillation, integrated post-arrest care
7. For each minute that defibrillation is delayed, a victim’s chance of survival is decreased by as much as:
A. 10%.
B. 15%.
C. 20%.
D. 25%.
8. Without oxygen, brain cells begin to die within:
A. 4 to 6 minutes.
B. 6 to 8 minutes.
C. 8 to 10 minutes.
D. 10 to 12 minutes.
9. Upon arriving at an emergency scene, your initial priority is:
A. patient assessment.
B. scene safety.
C. applying an AED.
D. notifying the hospital.
10. Determine unresponsiveness by:
A. briskly rubbing the sternum with your knuckles.
B. tapping the patient and shouting, “Are you okay?”
C. placing towels with ice cold water on the patient’s cheeks.
D. rolling the victim onto his or her side (recovery position).
11. The pulse of an infant is best felt at the:
A. temporal artery.
B. femoral artery.
C. carotid artery.
D. brachial artery.
12. When assessing an unresponsive adult, you find that the patient is not breathing. You should:
A. begin CPR.
B. provide two breaths.
C. reposition the patient’s head.
D. assess for a carotid pulse.
13. When performing chest compressions on an adult, place your hands:
A. on the highest part of the sternum.
B. directly over the xiphoid process.
C. in the center of the chest, between the nipples.
D. just below the xiphoid process.
14. When performing two-person CPR on an adult without an advanced airway device inserted, give ___ breath(s) after every ___ compressions.
A. 1, 5
B. 2, 5
C. 2, 15
D. 2, 30
15. CPR can be discontinued in all of the following situations except when:
A. the patient shows signs of life.
B. another provider arrives with an AED.
C. you are too exhausted to continue.
D. cardiac arrest lasts longer than 5 minutes.
16. The most common cause of airway obstruction in an unresponsive adult is:
A. spasms.
B. the tongue.
C. swelling.
D. foreign bodies.
17. If an adult or child patient is responsive, grasping his or her throat, and unable to breathe, cough, or speak, you should:
A. perform abdominal thrusts.
B. ask the patient to try to cough.
C. perform 5 to 10 chest thrusts.
D. look in the mouth for an object.
18. Chest thrusts should be performed to remove a foreign body airway obstruction if the patient is:
A. in the late stages of pregnancy.
B. severely underweight.
C. older than 65 years of age.
D. less than 6’ tall.
19. After performing chest compressions on an unresponsive adult with an airway obstruction, you should:
A. attempt to ventilate.
B. check for a carotid pulse.
C. open the airway and look in the mouth.
D. sweep the patient’s mouth with your finger.
20. Chest compressions on a child should be performed to a depth that is:
A. ½”.
B. ⅓ the depth of the chest.
C. ¾ the depth of the chest.
D. 2”.
21. Check the pulse of an unresponsive adult or child on the:
A. neck.
B. wrist.
C. upper arm.
D. lower leg.
22. If after repositioning the head, you still cannot breathe into an unresponsive infant, you should:
A. perform a finger sweep of the mouth.
B. deliver five back slaps and five chest thrusts.
C. perform abdominal thrusts until successful.
D. perform chest compressions.
23. When performing two-person infant CPR, you should:
A. deliver one breath after every 30 compressions.
B. check for a pulse after every 2 or 3 cycles of CPR.
C. apply the AED only after performing CPR for 5 minutes.
D. deliver two breaths after every 15 chest compressions.
24. During your assessment of an unresponsive patient, a bystander tells you that the patient collapsed about 10 minutes ago. The patient is not breathing and is pulseless. You should:
A. begin CPR and attach the AED as soon as it is available.
B. not attempt resuscitation since the patient will not survive.
C. attach the AED after performing 5 minutes of high-quality CPR.
D. perform 5 minutes of CPR and then cease resuscitation if unsuccessful.
25. When delivering rescue breaths to any non-breathing patient, you should:
A. deliver one breath every 2 seconds.
B. avoid using the jaw-thrust maneuver.
C. deliver at least 24 breaths per minute.
D. ventilate until the chest visibly rises.
© 2013 Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC (www.jblearning.com)