Heartcode PALS 2025 Exam (2023/ 2024 Latest Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

Heartcode PALS 2025 Exam (2023/ 2024

Latest Update) Questions and Verified

Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

Q: In the primary assessment, how should you open the airway of a child who is not suspected

of having a cervical spine injury?

A) with ET intubation

B) with a jaw thrust

C) by flexing the neck

D) with a head tilt-chin lift

Answer:

With a head tilt-chin lift

Q: In infants, the abdomen may move the chest

Answer:

more than

Q: What is a characteristic of normal chest rise?

Answer:

Symmetrical during inspiration

Q: is usually high-pitched breathing during inspiration, whereas

 is usually during expiration

Answer:

Stridor, wheezing

Q: Snoring and gurgling are a result of airway obstruction.

Answer:

Upper

Q: Crackles happen during , and grunting happens during .

Answer:

Inspi- ration, expiration

Q: Oxygen saturation less than indicates low oxygen saturation, which is known as

hypoxemia.

Answer:

94%

Q: Pulse oximetry indicates oxygen , but not oxygen delivery.

Answer:

 -

Saturation

Q: Conditions that air resistance lead to increased respiratory

 .

Answer:

Increase, effort

Q: What are signs of increased respiratory effort that can lead to fatigue and respiratory failure?

Answer:

- Nasal flaring

- Retractions

- Head bobbing

- Seesaw respirations

Q: Determine the respiratory rate by counting the number of times the chest rises in seconds

and multiplying by .

Answer:

30, 2

Q: Tachypnea is often the first sign of respiratory in infants.

Answer:

Dis- tress

Q: Hypotension for children 1 to 10 years of age is a systolic blood pressure of less than:

A) 50 + (2 x age in years) B) 40 + (2 x age in years) C) 70 + (2 x age in years)

D) 60 + (2 x age in years)

Answer:

70 + (2 x age in years)

Q: Automated blood pressure cuffs may provide readings when the child is in

shock.

Answer:

Inaccurately high

Q: What does a prolonged capillary refill time indicate? A) low cardiac rate

B) increased stroke volume

C) increased cardiac output

D) low cardiac output

Answer:

Low cardiac output

Q: Normal capillary refill time is _ second(s) or less.

Answer:

2

Q: What pulses should be assessed to monitor systemic perfusion in a child? A) carotid and

brachial

B) pedal and radial

C) peripheral and central

D) femoral and carotid

Answer:

Peripheral and central

Q: What do weak central pulses indicate a need for immediate intervention to prevent?

A) hypovolemia

B) sepsis

C) respiratory arrest

D) cardiac arrest

Answer:

Cardiac arrest

Q: When oxygen delivery to the extremities becomes inadequate, the

 and the are the first to exhibit signs.

Answer:

Hands, feet

Q: What should be used to assess skin temperature?