Lesson 4

Question 1

6 key elements of BLS

Answer 1

❖Prompt recognition of cardiac arrest
❖ Call for urgent medical assistance
❖ Early effective CPR with an emphasis on minimal
disruptions to compressions
❖ Early defibrillation
❖ Early advanced life support
❖ Integrated post-cardiac arrest care

Question 2

CPR meaning:

Answer 2

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Question 3

Aims to keep blood and oxygen flowing
through the body when a person’s heart and breathing have stopped

Answer 3

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Question 4

The steps involved in CPR are known as DRSABCD (or ‘doctors ABCD’)

Answer 4

D – Danger
R – Response
S – Send for help
A – Airway
B – Breathing
C –CPR
D – Defibrillator

Question 5

2 types of CPR

Answer 5

Hands-only CPR
Traditional CPR with breaths

Question 6

Type of CPR that involves calling for help and then pushing on the chest in a rapid motion ie chest compressions; can prevent a delay in
getting blood moving through the body.

Answer 6

Hands-only CPR

Question 7

Alternates chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth breaths; can give the body more oxygen in the critical moments before help arrives.

Answer 7

Traditional CPR with breaths.

Question 8

Commenced when a victim/patient is unresponsive and not breathing
normally; can improve outcomes by keeping the brain and heart perfused with the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system prior to collapse.

Answer 8

Compressions only CPR

Question 9

Popular songs to keep the correct rhythm of compressions

Answer 9

❖ ‘Staying alive’ by the Bee Gees
❖ ‘Row, row, row, your boat’
❖ ‘Baby shark’.

Question 10

4 steps of CPR with breaths

Answer 10

1. Perform chest compressions.
2. Open the airway
3. Give rescue breaths
4. Alternate rescue breathing with chest compressions

Question 11

What is Basic Life Support (BLS)?

Answer 11

Performed to support the patient’s
circulation and respiration through the use of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) until advanced life support arrives.