American Red Cross CPR / AED
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What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - ✔✔-Recognize -> check -> call
What is the most important thing
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American Red Cross CPR / AED
Certification Study Guide, Questions &
Answers, 100% Answers.
What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - ✔✔-Recognize -> check -> call
What is the most important thing you can do in any emergency? - ✔✔-Call all
What are the correct steps in checking an emergency? - ✔✔-Check, Call, Care
Why should you check a scene first before providing care? - ✔✔-To ensure the scene is safe. You don't
want to place yourself in unsafe scene.
What does implied consent refer? - ✔✔-If they are unconscious of a child with no adult, you can
perform care
If a child is bleeding badly, what should you do immediately? - ✔✔-Call all and stop blood (put on
gloves)
The best way to tell if a victim is conscious is to...? - ✔✔-Tap their left shoulder, check for breathing, ask
them a question
How should you check for signs of breathing? - ✔✔-Head back, chin up, face chest, listen for breathing
watch chest, look listen and feel for 10 seconds
Best way to prevent disease transmission? - ✔✔-Use gloves or anything that is a barrier to bodily fluid
contact
How should you check a conscious child for non-life threatening emergencies? - ✔✔-From head-to-toe
talking them through with it
If you think a person is not breathing, what would you do next? - ✔✔-Call all, look, listen and feel for
breathing
A victim is found face-up. How do you know if he/she is breathing? - ✔✔-You ask then if no response
head tilt chin lift face chest and listen for breathing
When should you call 911? - ✔✔-After recognizing scene or when given the consent of a life-threatening
situation. When a person is unconscious, not breathing, or in a life-threatening emergency
How can bystanders be helpful to you while you are checking the scene? - ✔✔-They can call all, care,
provide info
Why do we tilt a victim's head back? What is that technique called? - ✔✔-To open the airway, head tilt,
chin lift
If you are the only person at a scene, the child requires urgent care, do you call first or care first? - ✔✔-
Call first, then care while help is on way Care first for a min, then call
Why is it important not to move a victim? - ✔✔-To prevent further injury
What are the barriers to action? - ✔✔-Being sued, fear of disease transmission, bystanders fear getting
sued
What are some life-threatening conditions? - ✔✔-Consistent chest pain fire, water, traffic
In checking an unconscious victim, how many initial breaths should you give? - ✔✔-0 2 after comp.
What to do if someone vomits while giving RB's? - ✔✔-roll on side, clean it and continue breaths
Adult CPR hand placement? How many hands? - ✔✔-2 hands bottom of sternum (in between nipples)
The cycle of compressions to breathe in CPR for an Adult victim is...? - ✔✔-30 comp, 2 breaths,
100/minute
CPR done on an adult should include chest compressions done at a rate of? - ✔✔-100 per minute
After giving CPR for an adult, when should you recheck pulse? - ✔✔-Never do
When giving a rescue breathe to an adult, you should give the breath over a period of _____ second/s? -
✔✔-1
What is the purpose of CPR? - ✔✔-To increase their chance of survival through keeping brain supplied
with oxygen
Where did Ms Rob play basketball in college? - ✔✔-Gonzaga
You should continue CPR until...? - ✔✔-Until a paramedic arrives + takes over, or they show signs of life
CHILD CPR --- What is Gastric Distention? When could it occur? - ✔✔-Bloating, abdomen is swollen with
air, could occur during CPR
What should you do for a choking conscious child? - ✔✔-5 black blows 5 abdominal breaths (Heimlich
maneuver)
After a minute of care, what should you do next? - ✔✔-Keep going, call all, give another minute of care
If a child's heart stops, what is it usually due to? - ✔✔-respiratory problems
How do you give CPR to a child? How many hands? Placed where? - ✔✔-same as adult but (about 2
inches), 2 hands on sternum
The ratio of compressions to breaths in a cycle of CPR for
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