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BLS FINAL EXAM 2024

BLS Final Exam 2023–2024 answers for CPR, ventilation, airway, ROSC, and AED use. Great for quick review, study, and certification prep. Includes pediatric emergency response guidance.

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    BLS FINAL EXAM (2023 & 2024) 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 1. What is the correct rate of ventilation delivery 1 for a child or infant in respiratory ar rest or failure? Answer: 1 ventilation every 2 to 3 seconds 2. You suspect that an unresponsive patient has sustained a neck injury. Which technique should you use to open the patient's airway? Answer: Modified jaw-thrust maneuver 3. You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72-year-old patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr. Phillips shows signs of ROSC, where should you perforin the pulse check? Answer: At the carotid or femoral artery 4. You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin CPR . Answer: Immediately 5. You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you do?

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    Answer: Use the adult AED pads. 6. You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her chair and appears unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next appropriate action? Answer: Check for responsiveness. 7. During a resuscitation, the team leader assigns team roles and tasks to each member. You recognize that a task has been overlooked. Which is the most appropriate action? Answer: Alert the team leader immediately and identify for them what task has beer, overlooked. 8. After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? .Answer: Early high-quality CPR 9. The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should the nurse implement? Answer: Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts 10. You are working in an OB/GYN office when your patient, Mrs. Tribble, suddenly goes into car diac arrest. She is 28 weeks pregnant and her funds is above the umbilicus. Which statement is true regarding CPR and AED use for a pregnant patient?

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    Answer: Providers should perform high-quality CPR and continuous left uterine displacement (LUD) until the infant is delivered, even if ROSC is achieved. 11. A 7-year-old patient goes into sudden cardiac arr est. You initiate CPR and correctly perform chest compressions at which rate? Answer: 100 to 120 compressions per minute 12. While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient who is unresponsive in the exam room. You yel] to the medical assistant, "Go get the AED! " Which response by the medical assistant demonstrates closed-loop communication? Answer: "Ill go get the AED." 13. You are alone performing high-quality CPR when a second provider arrives to take over compressions. When switching roles, you should minimize interruptions in chest compressions to less than how many seconds? Answer: 10 seconds 14. You are alone caring for a 4-month-old infant who has gone into cardiac arrest Which is the most effective CPR technique to perform until help arrives? Answer: Standing or kneeling at the side of the infant with your hips at a slight angle, provide chest compressions using the encircling thumbs technique and deliver ventilations wldi a pocket mask or face shield.

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    15. A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that providers switch off performing compressions every minutes. Answer: 2 16. You are presiding compressions on a 6-month-old who weighs 17 pounds. Which compression depth is appropriate for this patient? .Answer: About IVi inches 17. You are presiding car e for Mrs. Bove, who has an endotracheal tube in place. How does this affect compressions and ventilations? Answer: The team should proside ventilations at a rate of 1 ventilation every 7 6 seconds without pausing compressions. 18. You ar e preparing to deliver ventilations to an adult patient experiencing respiratory arrest. You should give 1 ventilation every: Answer: 6 seconds 19. You are alone and caring for a 9-month-old infant with an obstructed airway who becomes unresponsive. Which action should you perform first? Answer: Provide 30 chest compressions. 20. The code team has arrived to take over resuscitative efforts. .Among the members of the BLS team, whose role is it to communicate to the code team the patient s status and the care already 7 provided?

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    Answer: Team leader 21. You perform a rapid assessment and determine that your patient is experiencing cardiac arrest. On the basis of your assessment findings, you begin CPR to improve the patient's chances of survival. Which term refers to clearly and rationally identifying the connection between information and actions? Answer: Critical chinking 22. How is a child defined in terms of CPR AED care? Answer: Someone from the age of 1 to che onset of puberty 23. You and your colleagues are performing CPR on a 6-year-old child. What is the compression-to-ventilation ratio during multiple-provider CPR? Answer: 15:2 24. Which statement about bag-valve-mask (BVMj resuscitators is true? Answer: A two-person technique is the preferred methodology for bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilations as it provides better seal and ventilation volume. 25. Your adult patient is in respiratory arrest due to an opioid overdose. The team is delivering 1 ventilation every 6 seconds. You administered the recommended dose of naloxone: 2 mg IN. How often may this dose be repeated? Answer: Every 2 to 3 minutes as needed

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    26. What are examples of effective team dynamics? Answer: -clear roles and responsibilities -knowledge sharing -debriefing -constructive intervention 27. assigning your team members to individual roles and outlining what each member needs to do during the resuscitation attempt is an example of what element of high-performance team dynamics? Answer: Clear roles ar.d responsibilities 28. You and your team have initiated compressions and ventilation. The AED was attached, and "no shock" was advised. Your team has continued CFR for 1 minute. You tell your team in a respectful, cleat , and calm voice ” Leslie, during the next analysis by the AED, I want you and Justin to switch positions and I want you to perform compressions for the next cycle" Lesli replies, " Got it Next time the AED analyzes, I will switch with Justin and assume the role of the compressor." This is an example of which element of high-performance team dynamics? Answ r er: Closed-loop comurmication 29. as team leader you notice that your compressor is pushing too fast. It is important to correct actions that are incorrect, but it is also important to be tactful when delivering this correction to a colleague. This is an example of what element of team dynamics?

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