By now, we all know that performing CPR as soon as possible can double or even triple a victim’s possibility to survive cardiac arrest. Just go through these CPR instructions to make out what you can do if somebody ever experiences a serious emergency like heart attract. Contact a trained CPR professional if you are seriously in danger and need help immediately.
Instructions before Carrying Out CPR
- First and foremost, you need to check the person and their sense. Here, it is important to confirm that the scene is safe and sound, after that you should tap that person on the shoulder and ask them in high volume if they are Okay. This way, you can verify that the person needs your assistance.
- Once it is confirmed that the person needs aid, immediately dial on 911for help. You can also ask someone passing or standing by you to do that. In case, there is no one nearby, stay there with the victim only, call on the number mentioned above and start arranging help.
- After that keep the person vigilantly on their back and go down on your knees next to their chest. Tilt their head back a little by picking up their chin. Then open their mouth and look for any stumbling block, like food or vomit. Take out any hitch if it is movable. If you can’t remove it, strive to grab it, this may drive it farther into the airway.
- In the last, before you start doing CPR, check for breathing. Pay attention vigilantly for 10 seconds maximum. Remember that infrequent wheezing sounds are not breathing. And finally, if you don’t find any breathing, just embark on CPR.
Here’s how you should do CPR
- You need to push firmly and quickly. For this, just put your hands (one on top of the other) in the centre of the chest. With the help of your body weight to compress the chest 2 inches deep as a minimum. The compression should be given at a rate of no less than 100 compressions per minute.
- Here, it is also vital to give the rescue breaths. With the victim’s head slanted back to some extent and the chin lifted, close the nose by pinching it. Once done keep your mouth over the victim’s mouth and seal it totally. After that blow into the victim’s mouth as this will make their chest ascend. Give 2 rescue breaths, and after that keep on compressing. You can do this set of thirty chest compressions and two rescue breaths again until the victim begins to breath or help gets there. In case, you don’t see chest rising up after giving the first rescue breath, then tilt their head again prior to giving the next breath.
- Go on with CPR steps. Keep carrying out the set of chest compressions and breathing until the sufferer shows the signs of life like breathing, the help comes there or a qualified medical professional reaches there. Stop repeating the cycles if the scene becomes risky or you think you are not able to keep on doing CPR because of tiredness. Here, the steps will be different based on whether the sufferer is a baby, teenager, or grown-up. But, the indispensable set of chest compressions and rescue breaths will be similar.
Last but not least, you should make use of CPR only when a grown-up person has stopped breathing. Look for the victim if they react to what you say and do prior to starting CPR.
