CPR

You cannot do CPR without their consent due to liability concerns primarily unless you are in some way responsible for the child, like a teacher or caregiver.

Overall this will also depend on local laws and regulations like the Good Samaritan Law, which does vary state to state (California revised their law in 2009).

I recommend that all my students if ever faced with a situation where you have been denied the ability to help to someone in obvious need to call 911 at the very least. This way victims who later pass out, thereby implicitly giving consent, can get immediate help OR if they really don't want to go they can refuse care by EMS.

Hope this helps you.

Shah Mundell

Training Director - SoCal-CPR

30:2

An AED, or Automated External Defibrillator, is used in an attempt to shock a person's heart--who is either in ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) or ventricular fibrillation (V-fib)--into a effective heart rhythm that will cause the heart of pump blood.

CPR is a lot easier that is used to be. Here is is in simple steps.

1. Tap and shout at person....say, "Are you ok?"

2. If no response and they seem like they are not breathing, call 911!

3. If trained, tilt head, pinch nose and give 2 one second breaths.

4. In the center of the chest, push down hard and fast 2 inches, 30 times

5. Repeat the cycles of 2 breaths and 30 compressions until an aed arrives or advanced ems arrives. If you do not know how to do breaths, give 30 compressions...wait a few seconds and then do 30 more over and over again.

To see more videos, instructions and pictures of CPR and first aid, go to www.cprflorida.net

Continue CPR until:

1. EMS (or help) arrives to take over

2. An AED is ready to hook up

3. The scene becomes unsafe & you need to move yourself & the patient

4. The patient shows signs of life

5. You are too tired to continue

The only difference an advanced airway would make is that you no longer have to discontinue compressions after every 30 to administer rescue breaths. You can continue compressions at a rate of 100 per minute, and give the rescue breaths with your BVM without pausing after every 30 compressions.

Contact the American Red Cross for a CPR re-certification course. See the related link.

1 breath every 3 seconds.

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Early CPR is an important link in the cardiac chain of survival because performing CPR provides oxygenated blood to the vital organs until an AED and more advanced medical personnel become available to take over to give advanced cardiac life support.

Steps to opening an airway, shake, Look, listen and feel, first of all youconfirm person is unconscious or unable to breathe then you look at and see if the chest is rising, then you listen to the lungs to establish no rise and fall in the chest, then you take your cheek and feel for and air escaping the lungs. then you place your one hand just under the neck base and grab the under jaw and tilt the head back with a forward thrust to open airway and keep tongue from blocking, then you sweep the area of the mouth with your index finger and your middle finger to establish a clear airway. once you've done that apply your two finger tips to the neck to feel for a pulse then give 1 to 2 breaths depending on assistants. for 1 man CPR its 1 breath to 5 compressions and 2 man its 2 breaths to 15 compressions.

Don't bother, it's too much hassle. November 2005Resuscitation Council guidelines say to just put your hands in the centre of the chest in line with the nipples. The bony landmark that was used to locate the hand position in CPR is the xiphoid process.

Execute CPR as soon as a person having a heart attack stops breathing.

If you are CPR for the pro certified, the process adds a pulse check.

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.

1 rescuer CPR is 30 compressions to 1 breath.

For children and infants: once every three seconds

For adults: once every five seconds

Perform Infant CPR techniques on ages Birth to 1 year old.

put two fingers a little bit below the lower right portion of the chin

30 compressions that are done with frequency of at least 100/minute. Interupted by 2 rescue breaths

To keep the blood pumping around the body; every time the chest is compressed it contracts the heart and pumps the blood around the body (blood and oxygen is essential to ensure that people survive after the heart stops). Another reason is to keep blood pressure up while waiting for the ambulance crew/s to arrive.

If the patient is not breathing, after giving 30 chest compressions or straight away in a child or someone who has drowned

The jaw thrust maneuver is an alternative method to open the airway.

This is important because any movement of the patient will make a false reading inside the AED. The machine is actually looking for a particular rhythm while the pads are connected to the chest. What it is seeing is very much alike to what is seen on an EKG. The AED will only shock if there are 2 rhythms present: Ventricular Fibrillation, or the quivering of the heart before it actually stops; and ventricular tachycardia which is defined as over 180 beats per minute.

The law varies from state-to-state with regard to the specific scope of immunity protection granted for administrators of CPR. Federally, under the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act (11/2000), Congress granted immunity from civil damages for administering CPR and using an AED with some restrictions (i.e. immunity does not apply in cases of gross negligence and/or willful misconduct) a. The Federal Immunity protection supersedes state law if no state laws are enacted

b. All States have enacted legislation granting immunity protection * All States have enacted Good Samaritan immunity protection for rescuers administrating CPR as well as for AED programs (with some restrictions in cases of gross negligence and/or willful misconduct or for any person who receives compensation for rendering such services. * In California, for example, Good Samaritan immunity is granted to those trained in CPR and "who in good faith, renders emergency CPR at the scene of an emergency," those who provide such training ("local agencies and other organizations"), and those who provide instruction. a. The law is vague as to whether "non-certified" responders are granted immunity protection when administering CPR.

b. California's CPR Good Samaritan Law extends to those who have been trained in CPR, while California's AED law extends immunity protection to all who use an AED irrespective of training (as long as the individual, firm, or organization complied with the other statutes of the law) * Nationally, bystanders DO NOT have a duty to respond, however, common carriers and businesses have a duty to call 9-1-1 and to provide medical aid until professional services arrive.

Learn CPR You will learn the basics of how to respond to an emergency situation and what to do to potentially save a life. You will be able to practice performing life saving skills.