SJDCC EMT Entrance Exam

After establishing that an adult patient is unresponsive, you should:

• manually open the airway.

• assess for breathing and a pulse.

• immediately begin chest compressions.

• apply the AED and deliver a shock, if needed.

Which of the following is NOT a BLS intervention?

• Abdominal thrusts

• Chest compressions

• Cardiac monitoring

• Automated defibrillation

You and your partner arrive at the side of a 60-year-old woman who collapsed about 7 minutes ago. She is unresponsive, apneic, and pulseless. You should:

• begin CPR and apply the AED as soon as it is available.

• immediately apply the AED and analyze her cardiac rhythm.

• begin CPR at a compression to ventilation ratio of 15:2.

• apply the AED if there is no response after 10 cycles of CPR.

Your partner is performing one-rescuer CPR on a middle-aged woman in cardiac arrest. When you apply the AED pads, you note that she has a medication patch over the same area where one of the AED pads will be placed. You should:

• apply the AED pad at least 1 inch away from the medication patch to avoid skin burns.

• continue CPR until you can determine the name of the medication contained in the patch.

• move the patch to another area of the patient’s chest and then properly apply the AED pad.

• remove the medication patch, wipe away any medication residue, and apply the AED  pad.

A patient should be placed in the recovery position when he or she:

• is semiconscious, injured, and breathing adequately.

• has experienced trauma but is breathing effectively.

• is unresponsive, uninjured, and breathing adequately.

• has a pulse but is unresponsive and breathing shallowly.

CPR will NOT be effective if the patient is:

• prone.

• supine

• horizontal

• on a firm surface

A 60-year-old man is found to be unresponsive, pulseless, and apneic. You should:

• start CPR and transport immediately.

• withhold CPR until he is defibrillated.

• determine if he has a valid living will.

• begin CPR until an AED is available.

To ensure that you will deliver the appropriate number of chest compressions during one-rescuer adult CPR, you should compress the patient’s chest at a rate of:

• 80 to 100 compressions per minute.

• at least 120 compressions per minute.

• 100 to 120 compressions per minute.

• no greater than 100 compressions per minute.

In two-rescuer adult CPR, you should deliver a compression to ventilation ratio of:

• 5:1.

• 5:2

• 15:2

• 30:2

The proper depth of chest compressions on a 9-month-old infant is:

• one third the diameter of the chest, or about 1½ inches.

• one half to two thirds the diameter of the chest.

• one half the diameter of the chest, or about 1½ inches.

• two thirds the diameter of the chest, or about 2 inches.