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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: If Rescue Breaths Cannot Be Delivered, Chest Compressions Should Be Given Continuously

The document provides guidelines for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), detailing the sequence of chest compressions and rescue breaths, as well as the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). It emphasizes the importance of ensuring safety, checking for consciousness, and maintaining an open airway while administering CPR until emergency services arrive. Additionally, it instructs on the proper technique for chest compressions and the use of personal protective equipment during resuscitation efforts.

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: If Rescue Breaths Cannot Be Delivered, Chest Compressions Should Be Given Continuously

The document provides guidelines for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), detailing the sequence of chest compressions and rescue breaths, as well as the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). It emphasizes the importance of ensuring safety, checking for consciousness, and maintaining an open airway while administering CPR until emergency services arrive. Additionally, it instructs on the proper technique for chest compressions and the use of personal protective equipment during resuscitation efforts.

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Rescue breaths • Chest

Cardiopulmonary compressions alternate with


rescue breaths so that you give
resuscitation two breaths after every 30
! Make sure you, the victim and bystanders are safe compressions. •
CONSCIOUSNESS Check for consciousness If rescue breaths cannot be
Gently shake the shoulders and ask loudly: - Are you delivered, chest compressions
alright? should be given continuously
AIRWAY Clear the airway • As soon as the AED arrives or is immediately available
If there is no reaction, lay the injured person on his at the site of the cardiac arrest, turn it on. • AED
back. • Using the palm on the forehead and the electrodes should be applied to the victim's chest as
fingertips of the other hand under the chin, gently lift marked on the device or on the electrodes. • If more
the chin and tilt the victim's head back to open the than one rescuer is providing assistance, continue CPR
airway of the injured person. while applying electrodes. • Follow the AED's voice
BREATH (and / or visual) prompts. •
Look for, listen to and feel for breath for no longer Make sure no one is touching the casualty while the
than 10 seconds • A victim who is barely breathing or AED is analyzing the rhythm. • It is advisable to
makes rare, slow and loud sighs, is not breathing discharge, make sure that nobody is touching the
properly injured person. Press the shock button as instructed by
If breathing is absent or abnormal, ask a bystander to the AED.
call an ambulance or do it yourself • Stay with the Thereafter, CPR should be resumed immediately,
victim if possible • Activate the loudspeaker or starting with 30 compressions. •
speakerphone on the phone so that you can conduct
CPR while talking to the dispatcher If no shock is indicated, resume
CPR immediately, starting with 30
If possible, send someone to find and bring compressions. •
the AED. • If you are alone, DO NOT leave In any of the above cases, continue with CPR as
the victim, but start CPR directed by the AED.
After a period of CPR performance (typically two
• Begin chest compressions as soon as possible. minutes), the AED will again instruct you to interrupt
Kneel next to the CPR for a rhythm analysis.
victim • Place
the heel of one When conducting CPR, use personal protective
hand in the equipment - disposable gloves and masks for artificial
center of the respiration
victim's chest - Resuscitation should be carried out until the arrival of
this is the lower half of the sternum • the emergency services, the rescuer falls out of the
force of the rescuer, or when the victim starts to react -
he will move, open his eyes and begin to breathe
properly .

Place the heel of


the other hand on top of the first and clasp the fingers
• Keep the elbows straight •

victim 's chest and put pressure on it by at least 5 cm


(but not more than 6 cm).

• After each compression,


release the pressure without
losing contact of your hand with
your chest. • Repeat at a rate of
100–120 compressions / min.

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