Question

1. Which of the following should you remember when using an AED?

a. Check pulse before resuming compressions after a shock.

b. Do not place on medication patches.

c. After a shock is delivered, allow 10 seconds before resuming CPR.

d. Never place an AED pad on a hairy chest.

2. What is the proper initial sequence for BLS if the arrest is unwitnessed?

a. Locate AED and call for help, initiate compressions.

b. Check responsiveness, activate emergency response, retrieve AED.

c. Give 100 chest compressions and activate emergency response system.

d. Check the carotid pulse for 10 seconds, then begin CPR if no pulse is present.

3. Which of the following is a symptom of shock?

a. Warm skin

b. Dry skin

c. Anxiety

d. Rapid capillary refill

Answer 1

1.b

Automatic external defibrillators are defibrillators that have rhythm detection capability and the ability to advise the operator to deliver a shock using hands free defibrillator pads. After the initial shock, CPR should be started immediately beginning with the chest compressions. The medication patch worn by the patient must be removed.

2.a

If unwitnessed arrest, deliver five cyckes of CPR before using AED.

3 c

Assessment findings of shock are Restlessness, confusion, anxiety, weakness, rapid weak and thready pulse, dysrhythmias, hypotendion, nartowed pulse pressure, cool clammy skin, tachupnea, dyspnea, cyanosis, chilla, pallor and temperature dysregulation.