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How To Perform A Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation




When you choose your field of study, you need to know what you love and also what is your limit. You choose what you want to do again and again, day after day. After this, now you can say : this is the job a want to do for the rest of my life! After going study in it. For became a Paramedic, you need to want to do some medical process each day of work. Work with pressure and know step by step all you need to do in each intervention. Some technique is basic, a lot of people didn't do Paramedic job but know to do the process. But he have also some more difficult task. In this article, I am going to teach you step by step how to do a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

2. To perform CPR on a adult

1 - You need to know is the environment is safe for you and the patient.
2 -  Check if the patient is conscious or unconscious. For this, you can tape or shake and say hardly ''Are you OK?''
3 - Open the airway. Put the head a little bit back and open the mouth to open the airway.
4 - Try to listen to some breathing sounds to know if the person can breathe. If after maximum ten seconds the person not breath begin the CPR.
5 - Put your hand in the middle of the chest one on the top of the other and your finger up.
6 - Use all your weight to do a compression, a compression push the chest at two-inch deeps. You need to do one hundred compression each minute.
7 - You need to delivery a breath to the patient. For this the head was back and you need to close the nose. Mouth-by-mouth you puss two big breaths. When you do this, you must see the chest rise, if you don't try to see if something in the mouth of the patient can obstruct the breath.
8 - After doing two big breaths, you need to restart the compression one hundred the minute and breath until the patient give you a sign of life.

3. To perform CPR on a baby

1 - You need to know is the environment is safe for you and the patient.
2 -  Check if the patient is conscious or unconscious. For this, you can
tape or shake and say hardly ''Are you OK?''
3 - Open the airway. Put the head a little bit back and open the mouth to open the airway.
4 - View a horizontal line between the nipples of the baby. Place only two fingers just below this one in the middle.
5 - For the compression, you going to push the chest about 1.5 inch. Do also one hundred compression by minute.
6 - Do a breath to the baby. Put your mouth in his mouth and nose. Do not use all your lungs to do the breath for the baby just small breath are perfect.
7 - Give the one breath and see if the chest rise, if yes give the second breath. If not, repeat the open airway, put the head back and open the mouth.
8 - If the baby does not give some sign of life restart the compression one hundred at times and the breath.

Conclusion

To conclude, you can now do a good CPR if you see someone have trouble. Remember if you are not a medical person call the emergency to have helped and to procure the best for the person he needs to have these process. But, if you stay calm and do step by step you can save a life.


Checked and revised with the help of the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest.
Patient
a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
Conscious
aware of and responding to one's surroundings; awake.
Unconcious
not conscious.
Airway
the passage by which air reaches a person's lungs.
Breath
take air into the lungs and then expel it, especially as a regular physiological process.
Compression
the action of compressing or being compressed.
Month-by-mouth
relating to, or being a method of artificial respiration in which the rescuer's mouth is placed tightly over the victim's mouth in order to force air into the victim's lungs by blowing forcefully enough every few seconds to inflate them
Sign of life
evidence that a person is alive
Emergency
a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.

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