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BSAC Dive Leader Training

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

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Lesson Outline

• BLS skills
• Essential rescue skills
• Deteriorate quickly if not frequently exercised
• Advice/techniques evolve
• Basis on which to build oxygen-enriched RB
• Will inevitably be needed while equipment is
  readied
• Will form basis of oxygen-enriched basic life
  support

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Assessing the Need
Indicators of the need for BLS

• No response
• No chest movement
• No feel of air movement

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Priorities

• Danger to casualty and rescuer
• Response
• A Alert
• V Responds to Voice
• P Responds to Pain
• U Unresponsive
• Airway clear of obstructions

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Clear Airway
Foreign objects Tongue
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Priorities

• Danger to casualty and rescuer
• Response
• A Alert
• V Responds to Voice
• P Responds to Pain
• U Unresponsive
• Airway clear of obstructions

Breathing check for normal breathing (10
secs.) Circulation Cardiac Compressions
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BLS Decision Process
No
Unresponsive
Leave Casualty and get help
Yes
Shout for Help, open up airway
No
Leave Casualty and get help, return and give 30CCs
Breathing Normally?
Yes

• Stop to recheck only if breathing resumes, else
  continue until
• Qualified help arrives
• Normal breathing
• You are exhausted

Recovery Position
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Rescue Breathing (RB)

• Monitor effectiveness

• Sight
• Feel
• Sound
• Appearance

Dont over ventilate
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Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Monitor effectiveness

• Sequence of 30 compressions/ 2breaths
• Rate of 100 compressions/minute
• 45cm compression
• Stop if normal breathing resumes/medical
  assistance arrives

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Summary

• In any real life emergency basic life support
  skills will be needed initially
• Unaided BLS techniques form the basis of
  oxygen-enriched BLS
• Regular practice is needed as unexercised skills
  will quickly deteriorate
• Practical session will
• Practice unaided BLS
• Introduce the use of the Pocket Mask

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