Let's hope you are never in a situation where someone is in need of CPR. CPR stands for "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation". If you are CPR certified, you then have the ability to save an individuals life. As an Emergency Medical Technician,I went through special training, where I was required to have learn how to preform CPR.
Idealistically, CPR should be performed only by people who have received proper training, however, brain damage can occur within minutes without oxygen. If no one else can help, follow these instructions to perform CPR.
The first lesson that I have learned in the beginning of the EMT course is safety. If there is a situation where someone needs your help is unconscious,it is your duty to check if the scene is safe.Then ask yourself, are you safe .Take a look around. If the victim is in a dangerous scene, help him/her to escape to a safer environment.If the scene is too dangerous, it is better to wait for a rescue,fire, and police. Do not risk your own life,or else you are going to put yourself in danger.If you have a chance to secure yourself and the ill victim, do not wait too long and check if the person is able to respond.
The next step would be to check the victim for consciousness by shaking or tapping their shoulder and saying in a loud, clear voice, "Are you okay? Are you okay?"If they do not respond call for help or ask some one to do it for you. Call 911 or the local rescue number . Analyze the situation.The more help available for this step the better, however, it can be easily done alone. This way you will make sure you specifically sent for help. If you are alone, preform CPR for one minute (which is about two to three cycles of CPR) call the EMS, then resu...
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...about two minutes. It is about one hundred chest compressions a minute.After you are done with 5 cycles check if the victim is breathing, If the victim is not breathing continue CPR and wait until help arrives or victim will begin breathing. If the victim is breathing make sure to place him on his/her safety position, which would be rolling the victim onto his/her side, facing you. Make sure to monitor their breathing. When help arrives shortly describe where and in which condition you found your victim.
Knowing these simple steps can save any one in critical situations. As an EMT, I recommend you and your family members to take CPR courses, especially if you have someone in your family who has respiratory problems such as asthma. I have faced families that failed to save their loved one,because of one simple fact, they did not know how to preform CPR.
The roles and responsibilities of an EMT is to be on time to the job and have a positive attitude when you come to work. EMTs work with different, that have very different attitudes and people sometimes aren’t that nice in the ambulance and sometimes, if not most of the time, can or are very rude so I have to be ready to deal with all types of people while I’m on the job. EMTs have to know what type of care to give the victim weather it is giving an IV or simply taking blood. They have to know all these things.
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Despite the fact that from May 2009 - February 2010, in Contra Costa County alone, there were 9 sudden cardiac arrests experienced by children and youth, there is no standard curriculum in place at school for youth and their parents to learn lifesaving CPR skills. The youngest was 10 years of age and the oldest was 17, which resulted in 4 deaths and 5 saved lives (Darius Jones Foundation, 2011). In each case, there was a direct correlation between bystander use of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and those children who survived.
Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. Some of the best lessons in life are learned from making a mistake. But in the healthcare world making mistakes means losing lives. This has started to happen so frequently there has been a term coined – Failure to Rescue or FTR. Failure to rescue is a situation in which a patient was starting to deteriorate and it wasn’t noticed or it wasn’t properly addressed and the patient dies. The idea is that doctors or nurses could’ve had the opportunity to save the life of the patient but because of a variety of reasons, didn’t. This paper discusses the concept of FTR, describes ways to prevent it from happening; especially in relation to strokes or cerebrovascular accidents, and discusses the nursing implications involved in all of these factors.
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4. Watch the video How to perform ABC'c of CPR, and answer the following questions.
I took a deep breath and told myself it wasn’t going to be that bad and I could just use my instincts. As soon as I turned around the woman fainted, but luckily she was still breathing. She woke up about 30 seconds later and she asked what was going on, I tried to explain as much as I could, but I was just as lost as she was. I started asking all the appropriate questions and this time she had the energy to answer
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...at is required, give him/her something to eat or drink and get medical help. Always remain calm, help the person to remain calm (as much as possible), and stay with the person until medical help arrives.
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