CPR

The aim of chest compressions is to squash the heart under the chest.

Every compression 'squashes' the heart, this causes all of the blood to be pumped out of the heart and off round the body, taking the oxygen with it (assuming you're doing the breaths as well). You then come back up, allowing the heart to refill before you compress again.

In this way you are reproducing a heartbeat for someone who doesn't have one.

Red Cross Canada suggests that you should provide at least 100 beats per minute when giving CPR to any victim.

To open the airway use the head tilt chin lift method.

Each breath should take about 1 second.

You should always check the scene before entering. There could be a gas leak or other toxic chemicals in the air which caused the victim to become unconscious. You should also make sure there is no fire, or other life threatening circumstance's. Once you have checked the scene to make sure it is safe you should always wear and use protective equipment, such as gloves, goggles, scrubs, and resuscitation masks or shields. Be sure to wear or use these to protect yourself from viruses, and deceases.

A firm base is needed for chest compressions to enable the depth and ratio of the compressions to be effective. If we do not have a firm base then we would lose some of the power needed into the ground below.

In the middle of the sternum.

Imagine 2 lines; one goes across the chest joining both nipples, the other one goes top to bottom right down the middle of the chest (on the sternum - that hard bone between left ribs & right ribs). Put your hand(s) where the two meet and you'll be about right.

Current practice no longer has you tracing ribs and trying to find the right spot - it just takes too long!

It is very effective; it can sustain life until an AED becomes available or EMS arrives. Obviously, if there is a severe MI or Stroke, no amount of medical help will save the person.

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i read in wiki that:

6-30% survival rate if done to a healfy individual by a train professional, 50% of revived victims, will suffer complications later in life dude to being "out cold"

so i would say it is extremely ineffective.

Thereare 5 reasons to stop giving CPR. Continue giving CPR until one of the following occurs: * Advanced Life Support arrives and takes over (or another trained person takes over). * The scene becomes unsafe & you have to evacuate yourself and the victim. * You are too tired to continue. * The victim shows signs of life. * An AED becomes available and you stop to hook up the AED.

Usually as soon as possible when there is no heartbeat or breathing by the victim. In the case that there is breathing, although unlikely, ECC should be performed. ECC stands for Emergency Cardiovascular Care.

Re-position the head & try the breaths again. If breaths still don't go in, start the chocking sequence of steps.

When the person is out cold, turning blue under the fingernails, and has no pulse, then "immediately" is when you start chest compression. There should be around 40 or 45 compressions per minute or more. You know you are doing it right when you start bouncing up and down rhythmically on the patient's chest - that is a lot less work than the foolish way they do it in doctore/hospital shows.

By the way, the current accepted CPR in most cases is hands- only. The patient has a better chance of survival when you do not stop to give her mouth-to-mouth respirations. The chest compressions move plenty of air in and out of the lungs.

Contact your local American Red Cross. If they do not have them in stock, you can order online from a business like the one on the related link.

Premature babies are not ALWAYS sick. If they are born extremely premature then they have a higher risk for things like infection, respiratory distress, NEC, just to name a few. But older premature babies, for example a 33 week baby, may be perfectly healthy, just needs to learn how to nipple feed and gain weight before he/she goes home. A premature baby such as that would not be considered "sick".

1. The patient is successfully resuscitated, 2. Advanced life support takes over from you, 3. If you are physically exhausted, and there is nobody around to take over.---- If you are performing CPR on a hypothermic pt then the hypothermia is not a reason to stop CPR - as the previous answer states - there are only three reasons when you would stop CPR. However, Hypothermia is what is known as a reversible cause of cardiac arrest - meaning something can be done about it to improve the person's chances of survival. The best thing to do is keep the person as warm as possible with blankets/ warming the environment if inside etc. while continuing with CPR. However, good CPR is the priority and if keeping the pt warm without interrupting CPR is not possible then don't do it.

A breathing barrier device should be used if providing rescue breathing to minimize the risk of disease transmission.

Some companies will send you to a CPR class on or off site during your normal working hours. Others may have you attend a weekend class and pay you overtime to attend. In this regard they are paying you because they are paying your wage to attend the class.

No. Monitor the pulse, and give rescue breathing if needed.

*artificalrespiration or mouthtomouthrespiration*Nova Net answer;Administer back blows and abdominal thrusts.

Each compression of the heart during CPR will pump approximately the same amount of blood during a normal beat. This amount of blood, per the related link, is 2.4 ounces (70milliliters) per beat.

Not being able to breath normally. Hard breathing, also called Labored Breathing.

You should begin CPR as soon as possible once you have confirmed the casualty is unconscious and not breathing.

The longer the casualty waits without CPR being performed, the less oxygen is being transported around the body - and most importantly to the brain.

Dianne Croteau and her partner Richard Brault invented theActar 911. I can only speculate that they believed a low cost alternative mannequin was needed to allow more people to have their own mannequin during training. The cost of the Actar 911 is only 1/10 the cost of a regular mannequin (a person could by 10 Actars to 1 Laerdal mannequin).

You do not check for signs of circulation as a first aider, if they are not breathing then you perform 30 compresions at a rate of 100/minute followed by 2 rescue breaths regardless of whether they have signs of circulation (In a chilld you would also perform 5 rescue breaths before you start CPR). this is because even if they have circulation, if they're not breathing then they won't have circulation for long and CPR will do less harm than thinking there are signs of circulation when there aren't and not performing CPR.