Performing CPR

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Performing CPR
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Performing CPR

• Assess the patients condition
• shake gently and ask Are you okay?

• Lay patient face up on firm flat surface
  and call 995

• Open airway by tilting head back and lifting
  chin upwards

• Remove any debris in mouth or throat

Statistics show that, if correctly performed,
CPR can make a difference in saving a life
before the paramedics arrive.
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Performing CPR

• Place your cheek close to patients mouth
  and look, listen and feel for any signs of
  breathing for 10 seconds

• If patient is not breathing, pinch
  patients nose close and give two blows into
  lungs

• Patients chest should rise with each blow

Basic first aid is like a box of chocolates, you
never know when you will need it until you need
it
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Performing CPR

• Feel for a pulse at the carotid every 5 to
  10 seconds. If there is a pulse, perform
  mouth to mouth ventilation (rescue breathing)

• If there is no pulse, begin CPR as follows

Do the right thing Learn life saving skills,
the next life you save could be one dearest to
you
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Performing CPR

• Center the heel of one hand on the lower
  half of breastbone and cover this hand
  with heel of other hand.

• Keep arm straight and push down vertically
  for 4 to 5 cm and release.

• Complete 15 compressions at the rate of 100
  per minute

• Do not lift your hands in between
  compressions

The worst thing to experience is when you know
you could help but did not know how.
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Performing CPR

• Check for pulse. As soon as pulse returns,
  stop compressions and check for breathing

• Begin mouth to mouth ventilation (rescue
  breathing) until patients natural breathing
  is restored

• Continue to monitor patient until advanced
  life support is available

CPR stands for Counting on Passer-by s Rescue.
Be that passer-by.
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Performing CPR
Important!
These procedures summarize emergency measures in
CPR. A course should be taken to learn the
proper techniques and procedures to be followed
in special cases, such as neck injuries, airway
obstructions, infant CPR and others.
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Performing CPR
Want to Know More?

• Click on any of the links below

• University of Washington, School of Medicine
  (http//www.depts.washington.edu/learncpr/)

• Amherst College (http//www.amherst.edu/jaloduc
  a/cpr.html)

• American Heart Association (http//www.americanh
  eart.org)