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First Aid - Infant:
Infant Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
In this video, you will learn to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on an infant under the age of one.
If the baby has lost consciousness, Call the emergency services.
Position the baby on their back
First Aid Techniques:
Infant breathing normally?
Check for breathing by placing one hand on the baby’s forehead and the fingers of the other under their chin
Tilt the head into the NEUTRAL position to open the airways
If you see no chest movement, hear no breath sounds and do not feel their breath on your cheek, the baby is not breathing
2 - Alert emergency services
Alert the emergency services
3 - Defibrillator
If you have access to a defibrillator near to you, go and fetch it, or otherwise ask somebody else present to look for it
4 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
If there is no defibrillator or while waiting for one, start cardiopulmonary resuscitation
To do this, Place two fingers in the middle of the baby’s chest.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
30 chest compressions
Perform 30 chest compressions, pressing down to a third of the depth of the chest
maintain a rate of 2 compressions per second
2 Rescue Breaths
Alternate cycles of 30 compressions with 2 rescue breaths, if you know how to give mouth-to-mouth breathing.
Or
Chest Compressions
If not, do chest compressions only.
If you give rescue breaths, put the baby’s head in the neutral position before doing so, place your mouth over the baby’s nose and mouth and check that the chest inflates.
Continue CPR without stopping until the infant begins to breathe normally, medical help arrives or a defibrillator is ready to use
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants
In the first few minutes after cardiac arrest, the victim may breathe weakly or take occasional gasps.
These are known as gasps and should not be confused with normal breathing.
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