Heartcode PALS 2025 Exam (2023/ 2024 Latest Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

Heartcode PALS 2025 Exam (2023/ 2024 Latest Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

Heartcode PALS 2025 Exam (2023/ 2024
Latest Update) Questions and Verified
Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A
Q: In the primary assessment, how should you open the airway of a child who is not suspected
of having a cervical spine injury?
A) with ET intubation
B) with a jaw thrust
C) by flexing the neck
D) with a head tilt-chin lift
Answer:
With a head tilt-chin lift
Q: In infants, the abdomen may move the chest
Answer:
more than
Q: What is a characteristic of normal chest rise?
Answer:
Symmetrical during inspiration
Q: is usually high-pitched breathing during inspiration, whereas
is usually during expiration
Answer:
Stridor, wheezing
Q: Snoring and gurgling are a result of airway obstruction.

Answer:
Upper
Q: Crackles happen during , and grunting happens during .
Answer:
Inspi- ration, expiration
Q: Oxygen saturation less than indicates low oxygen saturation, which is known as
hypoxemia.
Answer:
94%
Q: Pulse oximetry indicates oxygen , but not oxygen delivery.
Answer:
–
Saturation
Q: Conditions that air resistance lead to increased respiratory
.
Answer:
Increase, effort
Q: What are signs of increased respiratory effort that can lead to fatigue and respiratory failure?
Answer:

• Nasal flaring
• Retractions
• Head bobbing
• Seesaw respirations
  Q: Determine the respiratory rate by counting the number of times the chest rises in seconds
  and multiplying by .
  Answer:
  30, 2
  Q: Tachypnea is often the first sign of respiratory in infants.
  Answer:
  Dis- tress
  Q: Hypotension for children 1 to 10 years of age is a systolic blood pressure of less than:
  A) 50 + (2 x age in years) B) 40 + (2 x age in years) C) 70 + (2 x age in years)
  D) 60 + (2 x age in years)
  Answer:
  70 + (2 x age in years)
  Q: Automated blood pressure cuffs may provide readings when the child is in
  shock.
  Answer:
  Inaccurately high
  Q: What does a prolonged capillary refill time indicate? A) low cardiac rate
  B) increased stroke volume
  C) increased cardiac output
  D) low cardiac output
  Answer:
  Low cardiac output

Q: Normal capillary refill time is _ second(s) or less.
Answer:
2
Q: What pulses should be assessed to monitor systemic perfusion in a child? A) carotid and
brachial
B) pedal and radial
C) peripheral and central
D) femoral and carotid
Answer:
Peripheral and central
Q: What do weak central pulses indicate a need for immediate intervention to prevent?
A) hypovolemia
B) sepsis
C) respiratory arrest
D) cardiac arrest
Answer:
Cardiac arrest
Q: When oxygen delivery to the extremities becomes inadequate, the
and the are the first to exhibit signs.
Answer:
Hands, feet
Q: What should be used to assess skin temperature?
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