AHA ACLS Latest - Review Questions

AHA ACLS (Latest - ) Review Questions

(ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• What is your priority in care for a pulseless patient?:

Compressions • What is the compression to ventilation ratio for the pulseless patient

without advanced airway?:

-30:2

• How often do we switch CPR compressors?:

-Every 2 minutes (or 5 cycles)

-This helps improve the quality of the compression and eliminates rescuer exhaus- tion.• What is the maximum off chest time for the pulseless patient?A commonerror

in CPR is....:

<10 seconds

-Common error in CPR: too much time off the chest. 1 / 2

• How do you know how much air to ventilate your patient?:

-Watch for chestrise.

Enough to make chest rise, 500-600 ml.

• What happens if you over-ventilate (hyperventilate) your pt?:

Excessiveventilation = gastric inflation (positive ventilation if forceful, lungs won't take it), patient throws up = aspiration

increased intrathoracic pressure = decrease in venous return because veins being squeezed = decreased cerebral perfusion (long term) and CO2 falls = alkaline= brain alkalosis.

Also heart is squeezed with pressure + decreased venous return = decreased cardiac output (short term) • After you determine your patient is unresponsive and call for what is yournext

assessment?:

Start CPR and call for an AED

• Best way to minimize interruption in chest compressions (time off chest)?-

: -High quality CPR minimize interruption in compressions.

Max Time off chest= 10 seconds

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