1. As you are walking into work through the lobby of the hospital, you notice an elderly woman slumped over in a chair. There is no movement and she just doesn’t look right. You determine that there is nothing around that makes this scene unsafe.

What would be your next intervention?

2. You establish that this elderly woman is unresponsive. While laying her to the floor to ensure proper delivery of care, a coworker walks into the lobby and you shout for help and to get an AED.

What should be your next intervention after establishing unresponsiveness and shouting for help and a defibrillator?

3. As you check the patient for breathing, you scan the victim’s chest for rise and fall. There is NO chest rise and fall (NO breathing). Simultaneously, you check a carotid pulse.

She DOES have a palpable carotid pulse. While you are performing these checks, your coworker arrives back with emergency equipment and an AED, he turns it on and attaches it to the victim.

What will be your next intervention?

4. Rescue breathing is now being provided to this patient with a bag-mask device.

(True or False) Provide 1 breath every 6 seconds (10 breaths/min.)

5. The advanced life support team arrives from the ICU and you hand off care of this patient to them. If you would have had to continue care of this unconscious patient for a longer period of time, how often should you perform a pulse check?

6. Final Question: Overdose of what class medications should be a consideration in cases of respiratory arrest?