With the infant facing towards you, place your arm between the infants legs and support their back with your whole hand. Then while supporting with your one arm, bend over and place the infants back on your thigh so that the infant is upside down. Find the mid-way point between the nipples and use two fingers and thrust your fingers down and up towards their mouth.
Compress the infant's chest about 1/2 to 1 inch for CPR chest compressions.
No, but why do you ask? A CHILD HAD BRUISING ON THE CHEST WITH 3 LITTLE DOTS RIGHT IN THE CENTER, LIKE WHEN YOU PERFORM CPR; I KNOW ON A TODDLER YOU CAN PERFORM CPR USING YOUR FINGERS...
No; compress at 90 degree angle to chest.
When performing infant CPR, the depth of the compression should be 1/2 to 1 inch.
Compress the infant chest 1/2 to 1 inches.
1/2 inch
Perform Adult CPR by 30 chest compressions to 2 breaths.
The rate for CPR chest compressions is 100 per minute; adult, child, and infant.
Thirty compressions and two breaths per cycle.
CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a fast acting way to save someone. You have to check for any signs of life, which will prevent you from doing CPR if it is not needed. Rescue breaths are about one second long and make the chest rise, lungs inflate, and heart pick its rhythm up. Chest thrusts done at the natural rhythm of the person's heart rate make the heart beat manually instead of by the person's will. It does not work automatically. CPR is done at the ratio 2:32. 2 breaths for every 32 chest thrusts. That's how it saves you.
No procedural changes to CPR on a pregnant woman.
30 chest compression then 2 breaths for an adult and 15 chest compression and 1 breath for an infant or child.