The staff educator is a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructor. He is presenting a health care provider CPR course and reviews the ABCDs of basic CPR. What do the ABCDs of basic CPR refer to?
A) Airway, breathing, cardioversion, and diuretics
B) Assessment, balloon pump, circulation, and drugs
C) Adrenalin, Bumex, Cardiazem, and Dobutrex
D) Airway, breathing, circulation, and defibrillation
Ans: D
Feedback: The ABCDs of basic CPR are airway, breathing, circulation, and defibrillation. Resuscitation consists of the following steps: Airway: maintaining an open airway; Breathing: providing artificial ventilation by rescue breathing; Circulation: promoting artificial circulation by external cardiac compression; administer medication therapy; Defibrillation: used for ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
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