Perform Compression Only CPR
CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is best known as a process of mouth to mouth ventilation. However, compression only CPR is very appropriate in certain circumstances.The unconscious victim who is not breathing--regardless of what caused that condition-- needs a bystander to perform CPR if they are to have any hope of recovering from sure death.However, the fear of disease exchange, and of the intimacy associated with mouth to mouth contact, causes a growing number of bystanders to look on uninvolved, rather than perform CPR.
Instructions
1. Compression only CPR is a recent supplement to the skill sets and does not yet appear in printed curriculum. Although the CPR curriculum is revised if needed every 5 years, the results for compression only CPR was convincing enough for the American Heart Association to begin endorsing in since April 1, 2008. Compression only CPR is only appropriate in specific circumstances.
2. If CPR response is a job obligation, then failure to respond could result in charges of negligence. However, if you are responding to an accident as a Good Samaritan, then most states give you the option to assist the victim. Check your state for obligations, if any - to perform CPR to strangers if you are trained and present.
3. CPR trained responders are being taught a combination of compressions and breaths as the method of performing CPR. Compression only CPR is CPR without the pause for breaths. Basically, after assessing the victim and calling 911, push hard, push fast at about the speed of 100 compressions per minute. Continue to give compressions without any pause for breaths.
4. Not all victims meet the criteria set for compression only CPR. Children and infants for example, still require CPR including breaths as most often their issue is triggered by respiratory (breathing) failure. Compression only CPR is for adults only, and more specifically, for adults whose collapse you witnessed. So if you are called to a scene where CPR is an appropriate response and you did not observe the victim collapse, then according to Dr. Gordon A. Ewy of the Sarver Heart Center at the UA College of Medicine, conventional CPR with breaths is still recommended. Observing the victim collapse rules out respiratory complications that triggered the collapse, such as smoke inhalation drowning, and other non-cardiac related complications.
5. If possible, have someone else call 911 while CPR is performed by the trained person. If there is no one else, call 911, then start CPR. Remember, the purpose of this article is not to teach you perform CPR, but to supplement your training with the update for compression only CPR.
Tags: Compression only, else call, mouth mouth, pause breaths, Perform Compression, Perform Compression Only