Basic First Aid - Basic Life Support

in firstaidtraining •  7 years ago 

Would you know what to do in an emergency. Are you aware that the American Heart Association (AHA) changed algorithm for CPR in 2015? The skills required for a non medical person to confidently attend a person suffering an emergency need to be update preferably every year but really should be every year. CPR & First Aid is one of those trainings we all like to go to but never get around attending.
So here are a few tips of you come across an emergency:

  • Check for danger - make sure you are safe to attend the victim
  • Check if the victim is responding - shout & shake
  • call for help
  • If there is no response start cardiac compression at a rate around 100 per minute (to the beat of the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive)
  • do 30 compressions of the chest
  • 2 breaths - go to the airway tilt the head to open the airway pinch the nose & breath into the mouth in order to inflate the chest
  • go back to the chest & continue with another 30 compressions
    Continue this 30 compressions & 2 breaths until help arrives.
    I am sure I have you thinking about CPR & probably some first aid training.
    Check out your local first aid training centre or look online for first aid training courses - think about training for yourself & your staff.

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