1. Chapter 3
AED

2. AED
AED is a portable electronic device that analyzes the hearts rhythm and delivers and electric shock called defibrillation.
-Defibrillator – sends electronic shock threw the chest. The shock enables the heart to begin beating properly again.

3. Video
Using an AED (4:45)

4. Breathing Emergencies
Chapter 4:
Breathing Emergencies

5. Life Threatening Emergencies
Unconscious
Not breathing
Breathing with difficulty
No Pulse
Severe Bleeding

6. General Facts: Call for help
Person vomits – roll onto side and clear mouth and throat
Stops breathing place on back

7. Breathing Emergencies:
Things that make breathing more difficult:
Damage to the bones of the chest
Electrical Shock
Drowning
Reaction to poisons, drugs, insect bites, food
Asthma- more common in children/young adults (wheezing noise)

8. 5 Signals of a breathing emergency(p.58)
Breathing is……
slow or rapid
Deep or shallow
Gasping for breath
Wheezing, gurgling, high pitched noises
Skin is usually moist
Skin is flushed, pale or bluish
Feels short of breath
Dizzy or light headed
Pain in the chest, tingling in extremities

9. Breathing Breathing requires a constant supply of oxygen to survive
Airway – nose and mouth to lungs
Oxygen in air is transferred to the blood
To brain and heart as well as other parts of the body
Unless brain gets oxygen within minutes of when breathing stops – brain damage or death will occur.

10. Time is Critical
Refer to page 55

11. Choking –Common Causes
Trying to swallow large pieces of poorly chewed food
Drinking Alcohol before or during a meal
Eating too fast
Wearing Dentures- can not sense whether food is being swallowed
Walking, playing, or running with food or objects in the mouth

12. If a Person is Choking… Airway may be partially blocked
Partially – still can breath
Coughing – may be able to cough out the object (call for an ambulance if it doesn’t come out)
Give several quick hand thrusts to the abdomen (Heimlich Maneuver)
Put pressure on the lungs and airway

13. If Alone and Choking…
Lean over and press your abdomen against any firm object (back of a chair, railing, sink)

14. Prevention: Choking Chew food properly before swallowing
Don’t eat too fast
Don’t eat while walking, playing, or running with food or objects in your mouth
Don’t leave small objects in the reach of small children
Don’t drink alcohol while eating

15. Choking Video’s (2) Conscious Choking – Adult and Child (2:25)
Conscious Choking – Infant (1:56)

16. Checking an Unconscious Person (p. 17)
Know your ABC’s
A stands for airway- Open airway
B stands for breathing – Check for movement or breathing
C stands for circulation – Check for signs of life, including a pulse for a child or infant, and sever bleeding
Chapter 1

17. Checking the victim Step 1 Tap and shout to see if the person responds
A bystander has been sent to call the emergency #
Chapter 1

18. Checking the Victim Step 2
Look, listen and feel for breathing for about 5 seconds
Chapter 1

19. Checking the Victim Step 3
Position the victim on back, while supporting the head and neck
Chapter 1

20. Checking the Victim
Step 4
Tilt head back and lift chin

21. Checking the Victim Step 5
Look, listen and feel for breathing for about 5 seconds
….IF NOT BREATHING

22. Checking Unconscious Victim (P.17)
Are they breathing?
Put head near nose and mouth
Look, Listen and feel for breathing for about 5 seconds.
Watch chest to see if it rises
If face down – gently roll the victim onto back
Keep head and back in a straight line
Tip Victims head back, lift chin, re-check breathing
NOT BREATHING – immediately give a couple of breaths

23. If a Person is NOT breathing:
A person stops breathing, breathing for them supplies oxygen to stay alive.
Tilt the victims head back,
Lift chin, pinch nose shut
Give 2 slow breaths
Breath until chest gently rises
Check for Pulse
Pulse is present but not
breathing

24. Checking the Victim Give slow breath every 5 seconds
(count 1,1000, 12/minute)
-Recheck breathing and pulse every minute

25. Check Head and Pulse (p. 31)
Pulse Locations:

26. Adult or Child
Feel front of the neck for adams apple and slide fingers into the groove next to it in the side of the neck

27. Baby
Feel in the arm midway between the elbow and the shoulder – 5 seconds to feel pulse

28. Recovery Position
Placing a person without a suspected spinal injury in a recovery position. This will help airway to remain open and clear incase of vomit.
Chapter 1

29. Concerns
Getting air into the stomach – vomiting – get into lungs (too hard, too long, don’t open airway)
Head, Neck and Back Injuries:
Lift chin without tilting head
Chapter 1

30. If Air Does not go in…(p. 59-70)
Give up to 5 abdominal thrusts and trying to sweep the obstruction out with finger -Straddle one or both of the victims legs -Place the heel of one hand on the middle of the abdomen, just above the navel -Place the other hand on top of the fist -Point fingers toward the victims head

31. Person is in Cardiac Arrest, unconscious and not breathing:
Absence of pulse in the main signal of cardiac arrest. Need CPR at ONCE!! (combination of check compressions and rescue breathing) Absence of a pulse means that the heart is not circulating oxygen to the body threw the blood Heart is NOT beating, chest compressions are need to circulate oxygen.

32. CPR
CPR takes over for Heart and Lungs CPR provides only about 1/3 the normal blood flow to the brain Medical attention is need at ONCE!

33. CPR Positions Victim flat on their back on a level surface
Kneel beside the victim midway between head and chest (easy to move between compressions and breaths)
Find the notch at the lower end of the victims breastbone where the ribs meet the breastbone
Place heel of the hand about this notch

34. CPR Positions
5. Place the other hand, directly on top of it 6. Compress chest by pressing down 7. Push straight down; don’t rock 8. Allow chest to return before giving another breath compressions in 10 seconds 10. Re-tilt head – lift the chin- 2 slow breaths 11. Check Pulse 12. Continue if no pulse

35. CPR Positions
-Give quick thrusts toward the victims head -Lift Victims lower jaw and tongue with finger and thumb -Slide one finger down the inside of the victims cheek -Repeat 2 breaths