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.
