Adjunct Techniques and Interventions Quiz

1. During CPR, positive pressure ventilation via a bag-mask connected to an oxygen supply is administered at the rate of 2 ventilations for every 30 chest compressions. At the beginning of CPR, the team should give supplementary oxygen:

2. How does one provide ventilation on an intubated patient in a multiple rescuer scenario?

3. If, after 20 minutes of resuscitation, the end-tidal carbon dioxide remains < 10 mm Hg, the provider can assume:

4. In the adult patient requiring medications, the preferred order for administration routes is:

5. Quantitative waveform capnography is:

6. The most accurate way to monitor the adequacy of ventilation and oxygenation in a patient with cardiac arrest is by:

7. Which of the following basic airway adjuncts is most useful for an unconscious patient with an absent gag reflex in respiratory distress? The head tilt-chin lift and jaw-thrust maneuvers are unable to open the patient’s airway.

8. Which of the following is the role of end-tidal carbon dioxide during resuscitation?