What is the new CPR technique?

First you open the airway and try to resuscitate the victim by giving quick breaths through the mouth. Then you move on to pumping the chest to get the heart beating again. But now the American Heart Association (AHA) is officially changing the order of CPR, and urging rescuers to start with chest compressions first.

What are various resuscitation methods Slideshare?

STEPS FOR CPR:- Airway:-Maintaining an open airway. Breathing:-Providing artificial ventilation by rescue breathing. Circulation:-Promoting artificial circulation by external cardiac compression. Defibrillation:-Restoring the heart beat.

What are the different methods of CPR?

CPR Techniques

High-Frequency Chest Compressions. High-frequency chest compression (typically at a frequency >120 per minute) has been studied as a technique for improving resuscitation from cardiac arrest.
Open-Chest CPR.
Interposed Abdominal Compression-CPR.
“Cough” CPR.
Prone CPR.
Precordial Thump.
Percussion Pacing.

What are the 2 main parts of CPR?

CPR (or cardiopulmonary resuscitation) combines chest compressions (pressing on the chest over the heart) and rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation).

What is basic CPR?

Basic CPR Instructions. CPR is used to help resuscitate people with heart failure, breathing problems, and those who may have water in their lungs from a near drowning. Rescue breathing and chest compressions are the two main components of CPR. According to Medline Plus, CPR is a critical part of first response to an emergency situation.

How to perform CPR?

Lay the patient on their back and kneel next to their neck and shoulders.

Place the heel of one hand on the center of the patient’s chest.

Place the heel of your other hand over the first and lace fingers together.

Keep your elbows straight and align your shoulders directly over your hands.

Begin compression:

What to know about CPR?

CPR stands for ‘Cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ and is a procedure used in emergencies to try and help return a patient from cardiac arrest (the point at which their heart has stopped beating sufficiently for normal blood flow) and is used when the patient is showing no signs of breathing other than gasps.

What are current guidelines for CPR?

Start by placing the heel of one hand in the center of the chest and place your other hand on top of the first.

Push down hard and fast,at the rate of about 100 compressions per minute.

Perform 30 compressions and then proceed to the next step.