CPR for the Unresponsive / Pulseless Patron
Child (1 year- Adolescence/7 years old) / Infant (birth- 1 year)
FIRST AID
- Complete primary assessment- normal breathing absent; pulse absent.
- Activate EAP, Get AED- utilize AED as soon as possible. When alone, for an infant or a child, provide 2 minutes of care first.
- Give chest compressions and rescue breaths
- 30 chest compressions (SINGLE Rescuer) 15 chest compressions (2 Rescuers)
- Infant: 1.5 inch depth
- Child: 2 inch depth
- Hard and fast
- Allow full recoil
- 100-120x/ minute
- Hand position: tips of two fingers on the breastbone, just below the nipple line
- Can use one or two hands or encircling thumbs technique
- Give 2 Rescue Breaths
- Tilt head or jaw thrust (suspected spinal injury)
- Give each breath over 1 second- puff for infants
- Visible chest rise
- 30 chest compressions (SINGLE Rescuer) 15 chest compressions (2 Rescuers)
- Perform compressions for 2 minutes
- Recheck pulse, taking no more than ten seconds.
- If there is no pulse, continue CPR and AED until help arrives; (30 compressions to two breaths)
- If there is more than one rescuer, rotate positions every two minutes.