American Red Cross - McLean County Unit District No. 5



American Red Cross

CPR for the Professional Rescuer

Review Information

| |Rescue Breathing |Obstructed Airway |CPR |CPR |

| | | |1-Person |2-Person |

|Adult |1:5 | |30:2 |30:2 |

| | |Unconscious |1.5 to 2 inches deep |1.5 to 2 inches deep |

| | |5 Chest thrusts | | |

| | | | | |

| | |Conscious | | |

| | |5 Back blows | | |

| | |5 Abdominal thrusts | | |

|Child |1:3 | |30:2 |15:2 |

| | |Unconscious |to 1.5 inches deep |1.0 to 1.5 inches deep |

| | |5 Chest thrusts |*Can use 1-handed method as well as a| |

| | | |2-hand compression method | |

| | | | | |

| | |Conscious | | |

| | |5 Back blows | | |

| | |5 Abdominal thrusts | | |

|Infant |1:3 | |30:2 |15:2 |

| | |Unconscious |½ to 1 inch deep |½ to 1 inch deep |

| | |5 Chest thrusts |*1 hand on forehead and fingers on |Two-Thumbs, Encircling Hands |

| | | |chest – do not pick up fingers when | |

| | | |giving a breath | |

| | | | | |

| | |Conscious | | |

| | |5 Back blows | | |

| | |5 Chest thrusts | | |

|Common |*Perform Rescue Breathing for |*Look before you sweep, then give 2 |*Compress at a rate of 100 |*Change after 2-minutes of care to |

| |2-minutes, stop, check then continue |breaths to assess if the airway was |compression per minute |prevent fatigue |

| |if necessary |opened | |*100 compression per minute of care |

| |*1-second in length |*Obtain consent for all conscious | | |

| |*Makes chest clearly rise |victims or minors | | |

| | |*Adult & Child – use index finger to | | |

| | |sweep | | |

| | |*Infant – use pinky finger to sweep | | |

| | |*Chest compression depths are the | | |

| | |same as CPR | | |

|When performing an initial assessment on a conscious victim us the SAMPLE Method: |When dealing with a suspected stroke use the FAST procedure: |

|Signs & Symptoms |Facial Expressions |

|Allergies |Arms |

|Medication |Speech patterns |

|Pertinent Past History |Time – note for EMT’s |

|Last oral intake | |

|Events leading up to injury | |

|Cardiac Chain of Survival |Abnormal Heart Rhythms: |

|Early recognition of the emergency and early access to EMS |Ventricular Fibrillation (V-fib) – disorganized electrical activity in the heart, results in fibrillation|

|Early CPR |or quivering of the ventricles which in turn prevents blood from being pumped through the body |

|Early Defibrillation |Ventricular Tachycardia (V-tach) – rapid contraction of the ventricles, the rhythm is normal but too |

|Early advanced medical care |fast, the ventricles do not have time to fill with blood prior to contracting |

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|Signs & Symptoms of a Heart Attack | |

|Discomfort, pressure or pain in chest | |

|Pain that comes and goes | |

|Trouble breathing – usually faster than normal | |

|Pale or ashen skin usually around the face | |

|Sweating heavily | |

|Dizziness | |

|Additional Signs & Symptoms in a Women: | |

|Shortness of breath | |

|Nauseas or vomiting | |

|Back or jaw pain | |

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