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Learn CPR
MSL two005
What if your dad falls off the roof after being electrocuted while trimming tree branches?
Or your boyfriend gets stung by a bee and goes into shock? Or if a friend passes out after
bingeing on alcohol or drugs?
What if a teammate just falls over during a game? You
think that you’ll never be in a life or death situation, that it will happen to somebody else,
or somebody else will step up and know what to do and how to help. But wouldn’t it feel
good to know that you will know what to do, that you know how to help? You know to
call 911, but 911 takes time. There’s traffic and distance and the human body can only
survive 4-6 minutes without oxygen before risking brain damage; if they survive. CPR
buys time.
The American Heart Association posts on their website that the sooner CPR is
administered by a bystander, the greater chance of survival. When CPR is not
administered, survival rate is 1-2%. They estimate that up to 200,000 lives could be saved
each year if CPR were administered soon enough. Because of this, I am thankful that I
know CPR. I learned when I was fifteen to become a lifeguard, and I have been re-
certified every year since.
Today, I am going to demonstrate for you the basics of CPR. I am only going to show you
one situation of adult CPR and I am not going to do into depth about different life saving
techniques. It is important for you to more extensively learn CPR through Red Cross or
school and only by practicing CPR supervised by trained professionals can you learn
proper life saving techniques. The two things I?m going to show you are: first, how to
assess the situation, figure out what’s going on and what’s needed and second, how to
administer CPR if it’s needed; because knowing something is better than knowing
nothing.
So, let’s imagine. You walk into your room and your roommate is lying on the floor. The
first thing to do is to survey the scene. You want to figure out if it’s safe to take another
step because you don’t want to end up lying on the floor too. You gotta make sure there’s
no electrical fires behind the fridge, there’s no electrical current running through the
room, there’s no fog of gaseous smoke in the room [laughs]. So take a moment, figure out
what’s going on.
Once you figure out if its safe you want to figure out if your friend is OK, if they are
conscious. You run up to them and you ask, “Are you OK? Are you OK?” because they
could just be really tired after studying all night, or maybe they’re playing a practical joke
on you, so you gotta check.
So after you figure this out and you ask, shake a little bit, and you figure out they’re not
responding what you want to do is call 911. This is the time to call 911. Call, make the
call yourself, or go get someone else to do it. That’s even better, go tell someone, “Hey,
my friend isn’t responding, they’re not OK, call 911.” When you do that, after that’s taken
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care of, you want to check and see if they’re breathing. To do this, you’re gonna look,
listen and feel. You watch for their chest to rise, you listen for their breath, and you feel
for it on your cheek and you do that for 10 seconds. Once you’ve done that, and you’ve
figured out that they?re not breathing, you want to get them some breaths, you want to get
them some air. To do this, you going to give them two rescue breaths. To do this, you lift
their chin, hold on to their forehead, you pinch their nose, and you’re going to give them
good, slow deep breaths. [breathes into CPR dummy] You want to watch to see if their
chest rises. [breathes into CPR dummy] Once you’ve done this you want to see if they
have a pulse. You put you fingers on their neck and you wait for a full 10 seconds
because it could be really shallow and really slow, and trust me if they don’t need CPR
they don’t want it. [laughs] So you wait. In this situation, there is no pulse. And now we
are done assessing the situation.
We figured out it was OK for you to be there and safe to
be in the room. They’re not OK, they’re not breathing, and they don’t have a pulse. Now
you’re really glad that 911 is already on the way. But now you’re friend could use your
help. What you need to do is start administering CPR.
To administer CPR you do fifteen compressions and two breaths. To do the compressions
you want your knees facing the body, you want your shoulder and chest over their chest.
You want to have your arms straight, your hands overlapped, your fingers interlaced.
You’re going to put the palm of your hand on their chest in between their nipples. To do
the compressions you want to use your body weight, not your arms because you want to
go about two inches deep and it will look like this [performs CPR on the dummy while
counting] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You do that up to fifteen times, and then you do two more breaths.
Just like before, lifting their chin, pinching their nose, long slow breaths [breathes into
CPR dummy] watching for their chest to rise [breathes into CPR dummy] and then you
go back and do fifteen more compressions and two more breaths. You keep doing this
cycle for about 1 minute or about 4 cycles of fifteen and two, and then you recheck for a
pulse on their neck just like before for a full 10 seconds. If they don’t have a pulse you
keep going; fifteen compressions, two breaths, rechecking the pulse. You keep doing CPR
until either they regain a pulse, the paramedics arrive, or it becomes too dangerous to
continue; like if you were in the wilderness and there was hail, lightning or on coming
traffic.
So now I’ve shown you how to assess the situation, how to figure out what’s going on; are
they OK, are they breathing, do they have a pulse? And how to administer CPR with
fifteen compressions and two breaths. I hope that you never have to face a life or death
situation; that you never have to remember CPR. But I hope that my demonstration
makes you more familiar with these techniques and even better motivated to learn what
you can do in those “what if” situations.
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