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RESUSCITATION TECHNIQUES

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4Give rescue breaths

• Give the victim two rescue breaths( p. 16).

Pinch the nose and tilt the chin before placing your mouth over the victim’ s

5Repeat CPR cycles

• Continue giving cycles of 15 chest compressions and two rescue breaths until help arrives.

• If the circulation returns or the victim starts breathing at any time, stop CPR and place him in the recovery position( pp. 14 – 15).

• Stay with the victim and monitor his breathing( p. 68), pulse( p. 68), and level of consciousness( p. 12) until help arrives.

GIVING CPR( children 1 – 7)

BEFORE YOU START

Make sure that you have carried out the following steps:

• Checked for consciousness but had no response( p. 12).

• Opened the victim’ s airway( p. 13).

• Checked for breathing but found no signs( p. 14).

• Given two effective rescue breaths and checked for signs of circulation

but found none( p. 16) OR

• Attempted two rescue breaths and checked for signs of circulation but

found none( p. 16).

1 Find compression point

• Lay the child on a firm surface.

• Find the base of the breastbone( see opposite), then position one hand on the lower half of the child’ s breastbone.

Position one hand ready for compressions

2Give compressions

• Kneel upright with your shoulders directly above the child’ s chest and your elbow locked straight.

• Press downward, so that you are depressing the breastbone by one-third of the depth of the chest, then release the pressure without removing your hands.

• Compress the chest five times at a rate of about 100 compressions per minute, keeping an even rhythm.

• Give one rescue breath.

3Repeat CPR cycles

• Continue giving cycles of five chest compressions to one rescue breath.

• If the child’ s circulation and / or breathing return, place

him or her in the recovery position( pp. 14 – 15).

• Stay with the child and monitor his or her breathing( p. 71), pulse( p. 70), and level of consciousness

( p. 12) until help arrives.