Focus on CPR:

It is estimated that each year in our country about 16,000 people die following a heart attack and do not receive specialist care in the minutes immediately after the attack. In many cases the victim of a heart attack just dies in that short time.

The vast majority of these deaths are due to ventricular fibrillation, i.e., the heart contracts very quickly; therefore it is as if it did, because it cannot eject blood. However, cardiac arrest may be due to other causes: trauma, drowning, drug overdose, suffocation, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc…

Whatever the cause of cardiopulmonary arrest, when a person is unconscious, not breathing and no pulse, you have to ask for help. But as it comes, try to keep the victim alive. And this is achieved by applying the CPR, the simplest of immediate emergency measures, which has as main objective to restore the flow of oxygenated blood.

 

How to do cardiac massage on an infant (child of less than 1 year)?

 

Heart massage on an infant:

 

The victim was lying on his back on a hard surface:

 

• Locate the sternum and place the infant pulp of two fingers of one hand in the axis of the sternum, one finger width below an imaginary line uniting the nipples of the child.

• Regularly compress the sternum with the pulp of two fingers, about 2 to 3 cm and a frequency of 100 per minute.

• The chest should resume its original dimensions after each compression (so that the effectiveness of chest compressions is maximum).

• Every 5 compressions, insert a blowing .

• The transition from compression to breaths and compressions to rescue breaths should be made as quickly as possible, otherwise reduce the effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

 

How to do cardiac massage for a child under 8 years?

 

Heart massage on a child of 1 to 8 years:

 

The CPR will be performed with one arm.

 

The victim should lie on his back on a hard surface:

 

• Kneel at his side and, as far as possible, strip off his chest.

• Determine the area of support as follows:
  • locate, the tip of the middle, the trough at the top of the sternum to the base of the neck
  • locate, middle on the other hand, the hollow where the ribs meet (at the bottom of the sternum)
  • Determine the center of the sternum.

• Place the heel of one hand just below the middle spotted (that is to say on the top of the lower half of the sternum). This support must be made on the midline, never on the coast. Take out the fingers do not press the ribs.

• Position yourself well above the child upright in his chest.

Push your hand down quickly, the arm taut, the elbows locked (your hand should come down from 3 to 4 centimeters), then let it rise.

 

Sure throughout the maneuver to stay vertically well above the ground and not swing your body back and forth.

 

• The hand must remain in contact with the breastbone between each compression.

• Repeat chest compressions at a rate of about 100 per minute.

• Every 5 compressions, insert a blowing.

 

The transition from compression to breaths and compressions to recue breaths should be made as quickly as possible, otherwise reduce the effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.