FIRST AID MANUAL: CPR

FIRST AID MANUAL

FIRST AID SKILLS MASTERY APP

Must read for everybody.

American Heart Association says :
"We define first aid as the assessments and interventions that can be performed by a bystander (or by the victim) with minimal or no medical equipment. We strongly believe that education in first aid should be universal: everyone can learn first aid and everyone should"

From - 2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid

22. CPR - 1 OPERATOR

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (1-Operator CPR)
1) 15 chest compressions at the chest compression position
2) Move onto the ventilation position
3) 2 Slow breaths 1 after the other, allow air to escape between the 2 breaths, delivered
within 5 seconds
4) Move onto the chest compression position
5) Continue chest compressions
6) Continue for 4 cycles of chest compressions
7) Reassess the victim - carotid pulse felt ?
8) If no continue CPR
9) If yes stop chest compressions
10) Reassess the victim - natural breathing started ?
11) If no continue artificial respiration 12 breaths per minute
12) If yes stop artificial ventilation