Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

• Presented
• By
• Tammie Barnes

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Table of Contents

• Chains of Survival
• Signs/symptoms
• CPR
• Choking

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How often will CPR succeed? Despite best efforts,
successful CPR only happens about 50 of the
time. This is with an AED on the victim within 5
min. of arrest

• FACT

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Choices Life or Death

• You can increase the chance of survival for
  victims of life-threatening emergencies if you
  act quickly

• Your success will be measured by the fact that
  you made a choice to help another human being

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Survival Tips

• Learn about your role in the chain of survival
• Learn to recognize 4 life threatening emergencies
  in adults
• Learn to recognize signs of life threatening
  emergencies in infant and children
• Learn how to perform CPR

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Chains of Survival

• To ensure that survival from cardiovascular
  emergencies is as high as possible, the chain of
  survival must be as strong as possible

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Adult Chain of Survival

• Each link in the chain identifies a critical
  intervention

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Pediatric Chain of Survival

• For Pediatric victims, the links of survival are
  slightly different

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The four life threatening emergencies

• Heart attack
• Cardiac arrest
• Stroke
• Choking

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Heart attack signs and symptoms

• Chest discomfort pressure that last more than a
  few minutes/goes and come back
• Discomfort in other areas of the body
• Shortness of breath
• Breaking out in a cold sweat nausea
  lightheadedness

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Cardiac arrest signs and symptoms

• Sudden loss of responsiveness
• No normal breathing
• No signs of circulation movement or coughing

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Stroke signs and symptoms

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face
• trouble seeing
• Sudden severe headache
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking

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CPR Facts

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the
  most successful public health initiatives of the
  past 3 decades.
• Hundreds of thousands of physicians, nurses,
  allied healthcare providers, and emergency
  medical personnel have learned basic life support.

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The ABCs of CPR

• Airway Open the airway with the head tilt-chin
  lift (jaw thrust)
• Breathing Look, listen, and feel for breathing
• Circulation check for a pulse, or signs of
  movement

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Choking signs and symptoms

• Cant speak
• Breathing with high pitch noise
• Universal distress signal (both hands around neck)

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Relief of Choking For Adult/Child

• For an adult or child choking perform the
  Heimlich and abdominal thrust
• If no signs of breathing, give two slow breaths,
  call 911
• If no signs of circulation, start chest
  compressions, and continue rescue breathing

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Relief of choking in an infant

• Position infant head down (supporting the
  infants jaw and head) and deliver up to 5 back
  blows
• Turn the infant over and give up to 5 chest
  thrust using 2 to 3 fingers
• Alternate 5 back blows and 5 chest compressions
  until item is dislodge. DO NOT PERFORM ABDOMINAL
  THRUST ON INFANTS

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Unresponsive Infant

• If a choking infant becomes unresponsive, PHONE
  911
• attempt CPR.
• During CPR, each time you open the airway to
  provide rescue breaths, look for the foreign
  body-if you see it, remove it

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You could save victims of heart attack, cardiac
arrest, stroke, or choking if you or others at
the scene act quickly to start the Chain of
Survival.Learn how to provide CPR, and start
saving lives.

• FACT

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Credits / Reference

• Heart Attack, Stroke Cardiac Arrest Warning
  Signs. Retrieved September 05, 2003 from the
  world wide web
• http//www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml
• First on the scene. Retrieved September 05, 2003
  from the world wide web http//my.webmd.com
• American Heart Association (2002). CPR for Family
  and Friends