First Aid, CPR, AED Questions and Answers
Thoroughly answer each of the following questions using the provided
American Red Cross attachment.
Chapter 1 Before Giving Care
1. List four basic steps in understanding your role in the EMS system.
Recognizing that an emergency exists
Deciding to act.
Activating the EMS system.
Giving care until EMS personnel take over.
2. What are four signs of an Emergency?
Unusual Sounds
3. What are six different fears and concerns that may keep people
from deciding to act during an emergency?
Being uncertain that an emergency actually exists.
Being afraid of giving the wrong care or inadvertently causing the
person more harm.
Assuming that the situation is already under control.
Fear of catching a disease
queamishness related to unpleasant sights, sounds or smells
Fear of being sued.
4. What is the Good Samaritan Law and what is the legal standard use
to determine whether a citizen is protected by this law?
The good Samaritan law prevents you from getting sued for saving
someone and is determined by if the person used common sense.
5. In a life-threatening emergency, what is the most important thing
for you to do?
6. What are three reasons to stop giving appropriate care to an injured
person?
You see a sign of life, such as breathing.
EMS personnel take over.
You are too exhausted to continue.
7. What are five things to do when obtaining consent from a person to
provide care.
State your name. State the type and level of training that you have
Explain what you think is wrong. Explain what you plan to do. Ask if
you may help.
8. What is implied consent?
When a person cant move or speak to give consent its assumed they
would have.
9. Describe five effective measures or standard precautions to prevent
disease transmission.
Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, masks,
eyewear).
Respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette.
Sharps safety (engineering and work practice controls).
Safe injection practices (i.e., aseptic technique for parenteral
medications).
Sterile instruments and devices.
10. Describe in detail Check, Call, and Care of the victim.
CHECK the scene and the person.
CALL 9-1-1 or the designated emergency number.
CARE for the person.
11. What do you look for in shock and explain what to do until help
arrives?
Lay the person down and elevate the legs and feet slightly, unless
you think this may cause pain or further injury. Keep the person still
and don't move him or her unless necessary.
12. What are six things to remember to share with the 911 or
emergency personnel dispatcher?
The location of the emergency.
The nature of the emergency.
The telephone number of the phone being used.
A description of what happened.
The number of injured or ill people.
What help, if any, has been given so far, and by whom.
13. When should you hang up with the 911 operator?
Until the dispatcher tells him or her it is all right to hang up.
14. What should avoid doing when providing care to the victim?
Doing any further harm.
Chapter 2 Checking an Injured or Ill Person
1. When interviewing the Person that is injured or sick, explain how
the mnemonic SAMPLE is used to gather important information.
It gives you a list of things to check and ask the victim for.
2. How long should you check for responsiveness and breathing?
5 to 10 seconds.
Chapter 3 Cardiac Emergencies
1. Describe what happens during a heart attack.
What are ten signs or symptoms of a heart attack?
Chest pain
Discomfort or pain that spreads to one or both arms, the back, the
shoulder, the neck, the jaw or the upper part of the stomach
Dizziness or light-headedness
Trouble breathing, including noisy breathing, shortness of breath or
breathing that is faster than normal
Nausea or vomiting
Pale, ashen (gray) or slightly bluish skin, especially around the face and
fingers
Sweating
A feeling of anxiety or impending doom
Extreme fatigue (tiredness)
Unresponsiveness
3. How long should the symptoms last to give you reason to call 911?
Immediately
4. For each minute that CPR and use of an AED are delayed, the
person’s chance for survival is reduced by 10 percent.
5. Define and describe the five links of the cardiac chain of survival.
Recognition of cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency medical services
(EMS) system.
Early CPR.
Early defibrillation
Early advanced life support.
Integrated post–cardiac arrest care.
6. Describe the steps in giving CPR to an adult.
Position your hands.
Give a set of 30 compressions.
Give a set of 2 rescue breaths.
7. When do you stop giving CPR?
Until You see an obvious sign of life.
8. Explain how an AED works on a victims’ heart.
It shocks the heart and helps it get its rhythm back.
9. List nine considerations for safe and effective AED Use.
Flammable or combustible materials
Metal surfaces.
Water
Inclement weather.
Pregnancy
Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
Transdermal medication patches.
Chest hair.
Jewelry and body piercings.
10. Describe seven steps to using an AED.
Turn on the AED and follow the voice prompts.
Remove all clothing covering the chest and, if necessary, wipe the chest dry
Place the pads.
Plug the connector cable into the AED, if necessary
Prepare to let the AED analyze the heart’s rhythm.
Deliver a shock, if the AED determines one is needed.
After the AED delivers the shock, or if no shock is advised
Chapter 4 Choking
1. When an adult or child is choking give a combination of 5 back
blows and 5 abdominal thrusts.
2. True or False? You should give back blows and abdominal thrusts to
an adult or child that is coughing? True
3. Where specifically should you place your fist when giving
abdominal thrusts? On the navel
4. Where specifically should you hit the heel of your hand when giving
back blows? Between the shoulder blades.
Chapter 5 Sudden Illness: Stroke
1. What are the symptoms of a stroke using the mnemonic:
“F.A.S.T.”?
Face dropping Arm dropping downward Trouble Speaking and Time.