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How can you best protect yourself from possible bloodborne pathogen transmission when providing care? - ✔✔Use personal protective equipment (PPE), such as disposable gloves and a breathing barrier, when providing care. A 12-year-old child at a swim meet grabs their chest and begins to make wheezing noises. After you obtain consent to provide care, the child's parent informs you that the child has a history of asthma, but does not have an inhaler nearby. What care should you provide? - ✔✔Summon more advanced medical personnel and place the victim into a position that helps breathing. Your initial impression of a victim is based on: - ✔✔How the victim appears to you as you size up the scene. You and another lifeguard find an unresponsive adult on the floor in the locker room. You activate your facility's EAP, size-up the scene, form an initial impression and perform a primary assessment. You find the victim is not moving or breathing, but has a pulse. You should summon EMS personnel, then: - ✔✔Give ventilations at a rate of 1 about every 5-6 seconds. You arrive on the scene where a patron appears to be injured. Before approaching the victim, which of the following will you NOT do as you size-up the scene? - ✔✔Begin performing the primary assessment. When providing care during an emergency, which of the following should you do first? - ✔✔Size-up the scene while forming an initial impression. As the first rescuer on the scene, you are performing CPR on an adult. When performing chest compressions, how deeply should you compress the chest - ✔✔At least 2 inches but no more than 2.4 inches CPR should be performed on which of the following victims? - ✔✔One who is in cardiac arrest What is the first step of the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival? - ✔✔Recognition of a cardiac emergency and activation of the emergency response system. You are providing care to a victim suspected of having a heart attack. Which of the following would you do first? - ✔✔Summon EMS personnel. Once you have turned on the automated external defibrillator (AED), you should: - ✔✔Apply the pads and allow the AED to analyze the heart rhythm. To ensure high-quality CPR and high-quality chest compressions, you should: - ✔✔Expose the victim's chest to ensure proper hand placement and full chest recoil. You are performing CPR on a victim and an assisting responder arrives. Which of the following is most appropriate for the assisting responder to do first? - ✔✔Check to see whether EMS personnel have been called. Which of the following is most essential to use when giving ventilations to protect you and the victim from disease transmission? - ✔✔Resuscitation masks You are providing care to a facility maintenance worker who has fallen off the top of a ladder. The victim is responsive. Which of the following should you do first? - ✔✔Obtain consent from the victim to provide care. For which of the following should you summon EMS personnel? - ✔✔A victim with an open leg wound with the bone protruding While performing a primary assessment on an unresponsive adult who has been rescued from the water, you find that they have only occasional gasps, no pulse and no severe life-threatening bleeding. Which of the following should you do next? - ✔✔Give 2 ventilations and begin CPR

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