Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

One of the most important things to learn when working with kids is cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, also known as CPR, is a technique used in emergencies where someone’s breathing or heartbeat has stopped. Some situations that require this is after someone has had a heart attack or a near drowning experience. Whether you are performing the cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique on a child or an adult, the series of events that make up the technique are quite similar. Before you even consider to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation, you need to assess the scene. When you begin to assess a scene, you need to assess not only the person, but you also need to assess the surround area around the person. There are three things to consider when assessing if the scene is safe: is the person unconscious, do they respond, and is their chest rising and falling normally. If the person is unconscious, does not respond, and is not breathing, you move on to the next step of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but if the person does not present any one of these three do not move on to the next step. After assessing the scene is safe and the person is in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, you need to move on to …show more content…
To check the airway and give rescues breaths, you will perform the head-tilt chin-lift maneuver. The head-tilt chin-lift maneuver is performed by placing your hand on the unconscious person’s forehead and tilt the head back, and with the same hand you will pinch the person’s nose closed. Then you place the other hand on the chin and gently tilt the chin to open the mouth. This maneuver will open the airway and allow you to give two rescue breaths. When giving rescue breaths, blow two short breaths into the unconscious person’s mouth with enough force to see the chest