The document provides instructions for artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It describes artificial respiration as assisting or stimulating respiration through external means such as providing air to someone not breathing sufficiently. The steps for artificial respiration include clearing the airway, checking for breathing and pulse, performing mouth-to-mouth breathing, and repeating until the victim begins breathing on their own. It then describes CPR as an emergency procedure to manually preserve brain function until spontaneous circulation and breathing can be restored in someone with cardiac arrest, involving chest compressions with rescue breathing.
3. Artificial Respiration
is the act of assisting or stimulating respiration, a
metabolic process referring to the overall
exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary
ventilation, external respiration, and internal
respiration.
Assistance takes many forms, but generally
entails providing air for a person who is
not breathing, or is not making sufficient
respiratory effort on his/her own
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5. Make sure the airway is clear.
Do this by looking into the mouth and throat and removing any obstructing substance, solid of liquid.
Watch the patient’s chest and test the air in front of his nose and mouth with your fingers for any signs of breath.
Check wrist for a pulse
If the victim is not breathing as a result of drowning, electric shock, chemical fumes or any other cause but his
heart is still beating, apply mouth to mouth breathing.
Lay the victim on his back. Wipe any foreign matter out of his mouth with your fingers. Place one hand
under his neck. Lift up on neck and partially tilt the head back.
Pull his chin upward.
Place your mouth firmly over the victims open mouth, pinch his nostrils shut, and blow hard enough to
make his chest rise. If the victim is a small child, place your mouth cover his nose and mouth when
blowing.
Remove your mouth and listen for the sound of exhaled air. Repeat the blowing effect. If there is no
air exchange, recheck the victims head and jaw position. His tongue or something else, maybe blocking
the air passage. Try again.
If you still get no air exchange, turn the victims on his side and slap him sharply several times between the
shoulder blades in order to dislodge any foreign matter from the throat.
If the victim is child hang him momentarily head downward over your arm or lap and slap him sharply between
the shoulder blades. Wipe his mouth clear.
Resume mouth to mouth breathing. For adults, blow one vigorous breath every five seconds.
For small children, blow shallow breaths every three seconds.
Repeat the procedure until the victim begins to breath.
Place blankets or coats under over the victim for warmth, when he revives, keep him comfortable and don’t
let him up get for at least an hour.
9. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to manually preserve
intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore
spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac
arrest.
It is indicated in those who are unresponsive with no breathing or abnormal
breathing, for example, agonal respirations.
CPR is a lifesaving procedure that is performed when someone's breathing
or heartbeat has stopped, as in cases of electric shock, drowning, or heart
attack.
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11. Many restaurants will put up signs
like this one to serve as emergency
CPR instructions (view this
sign here).
Ironically, mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation, a technique