PALS Chapter 5 Quiz

Select the best response from the answer choices following each question.

1. Improved survival rates to hospital discharge are most common for:

2. Aside from respiratory failure, the most common cause of cardiac arrest in pediatric patients is:

3. Which of the following medical conditions can cause hypoxic arrest?

4. Which of the following cardiac arrest rhythms is a nonshockable rhythm?

5. Cardiac arrest in infants and children from respiratory failure and shock is also known as which one of the following medical conditions?

6. Increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest in infants and children is likely to be observed in which of the following pediatric patients?

7. The absence of mechanical activity of the heart and blood circulation is known as:

8. Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that appears to twist along the isoelectric line is also known as: