CPR

Check for both a brachial pulse and carotid pulse. If pulse is present, assist ventilation. If no pulse is present, continue CPR until help arrives, the victim regains consciousness or you physically cannot perform CPR any longer. Also note if you are acting as a certified individual (First responder, EMT-B, EMT-I, EMT-P, RN, MD) You may only pass off CPR and management of the patient to someone of an equal or higher certification level.

During child CPR, if there is no pulse or the pulse is less than 60 beats per minute and the child shows signs of poor perfusion, you should begin chest compressions immediately. Use one or two hands depending on the size of the child, compressing at a depth of about 1.5 inches at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute. Continue with cycles of 30 compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths, and call for emergency help if not already done. Always ensure to use appropriate techniques tailored for the child's age and size.

Turn the AED on then follow the instructions it gives you.

CPR is only used to revive victims whose hearts are not beating properly or have stopped altogether. The condition of heart not functioning properly is tachycardia. When all electricity in the heart has ceased, the heart is in a condition called asystole. CPR can be used to revive victims of the first condition when a defibrillator is not available. CPR must be used for the second condition. The components of CPR are used in other procedures. CPR style breaths are used in rescue breathing. Rescue Breathing is used to supply oxygen to victims whose hearts are pumping efficiently but have stopped breathing. CPR style chest compressions are used to force food out of an unconscious choking victim.

2 person CPR:

Cycles of 30 compressions / 2 breaths on an adult

Cycles of 15 compressions / 2 breaths on an infant or child

Start CPR; at some point you will need to control the bleeding (hopefully someone is with you to do this). If not, make a judgment call when to stop CPR & get the bleeding under control.

use only two fingers to push, place them in the middle of the chest between the two nipples, and compress the chest firmly but gently

It is called an AED; automated external defibrillator.

first you scene safety shake the baby check breath if there no breath give two rescue breath after that check the pulse

Resuscitation is only needed when a heart goes into ventricular fibrillation (Vfib).

Many people think it's also needed when a heart goes into asystole (the well-known flat line), but it will not work then.

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.