AHA ACLS (Latest 2024 - 2025) 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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