Assessment Quiz 5

1. Assessing for responsiveness in the adult patient involves:

2. At the emergency department, the consultant asks you to perform the primary assessment on a patient who has just presented. Who among the following healthcare providers can perform the primary assessment?

3. Beginning at 24 hours after ROSC, the radiological assessment modality of choice is:

4. Checking the patient for normal breathing is part of the:

5. Checking the patient’s glucose level is part of the:

6. Checking the patient’s neurologic function is part of the:

7. Closed-tube thoracostomy is a recommended intervention to reverse which of the following causes of cardiac arrest?

8. Coronary perfusion pressure is one of the factors that increases myocardial blood flow and the likelihood of ROSC in patients with cardiac arrest secondary to ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia. While performing CPR, what is the lowest limit (in mm Hg) of coronary perfusion pressure that one should administer to achieve ROSC?

9. 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 at:

10. ETCO2 represents: