YMCA FIRST AID Questions And Answers
You are attending to a patient who is unresponsive and is breathing normally. You are alone and
need to activate EMS. You should: Place the person in a recovery position and then
activate EMS.
The links in the "chain of survival" in adults are: Early recog...
You are attending to a patient who is unresponsive and is breathing normally. You are alone and
need to activate EMS. You should: Place the person in a recovery position and then
activate EMS.
The links in the "chain of survival" in adults are: Early recognition and activation of EMS,
early CPR, early defibrillation, early advanced life support, and integrated post-cardiac arrest
care.
During CPR, you are opening the airway of a person who you suspect has had significant trauma
to the head, neck, and back. You should: Place your palms and thumbs on both sides of a
CPR mask, hook your fingers underneath the angles of the jaw, and displace the jaw with your
fingers, moving it upward without lifting the head.
You are providing care to a 23-year-old found unresponsive at a party. She is breathing normally
and has a pulse. You should immediately: Place the patient in the recovery position.
A roofer was electrocuted when his aluminum ladder contacted an energized power line. The
scene has been made safe. An AED has been attached to the patient. The AED has analyzed the
heart and a shock is advised. You should: clear the patient and deliver the shock
, YMCA FIRST AID Questions And Answers
During CPR, if a child's chest does not rise with the first rescue breath you need to?
Reposition the airway and give a second rescue breath.
You are performing CPR on an adult man who has collapsed. EMS has been activated and
another provider shows up with an AED. She turns on the device and the voice prompts begin.
What is the next step? Cut open or tear away the patient's shirt to allow for the application
of the defibrillation pads to a bare chest.
The proper hand position for chest compression on a 7-year-old child is: Lower half of the
breastbone, 1 or 2 hands.
You are attending to an adult who has fallen off a ladder from the roof of a nearby house. She is
unresponsive, does not appear to be breathing, and has no palpable carotid pulse. To open the
airway to give rescue breaths during CPR you should: Use a jaw-thrust without head-tilt.
The links in the "chain of survival" in children are: Prevention, early CPR, early activation
of EMS, early pediatric advanced life support, and integrated post-cardiac arrest care.
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