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HANDS –ONLY

CPR
Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
LEGAL BASES

• RA 10871 – AN Act requiring Basic Education


Students to undergo Age Appropriate Basic
Life Support

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
GENERAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of the training, participants will be able to


acquire knowledge, skills and attitude necessary in
an emergency to help sustain life and minimize the
consequences of respiratory and cardiac emergencies
until more advanced medical help arrives.

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
Cardiac Arrest

• is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood


round your body, commonly because of a
problem with electrical signals in your heart.
• When your heart stops pumping blood, your
brain is starved of oxygen.
• This causes you to fall unconscious and stop
breathing.

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR)

is a series of assessments and interventions using


techniques and maneuvers made to bring victims
of cardiac and respiratory arrest back to life.

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
CPR SEQUENCE

The C-A-B
• Core concept: Oxygen to the Brain!
• In order: Compression-Airway-Breathing
• Compressions create blood flow by increasing intra-
thoracic pressure and directly compress the heart;
generate blood flow and oxygen delivery to the
myocardium and brain.

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
EMERGENCY ACTION PRINCIPLES 1

SURVEY THE SCENE


Once you recognized that an emergency has occurred and decide
to act, you must make sure the scene of the emergency is safe for
you, the victim/s, and any bystander/s.

Elements of Survey the Scene


• Scene safety.
• Mechanism of injury or nature of illness.
• Take standard precautions.
• Determine the number of patients
• Consider additional/specialized resources.

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
WHEN TO START CPR

If you see a victim who is:

1. Unconscious/Unresponsive
2. Not breathing or has no normal breathing (only gasping)
3. No definite pulse

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
WHEN NOT TO START CPR
All victims of cardiac arrest should receive CPR unless:

1. Patient has a valid DNAR (Do Not Attempt


Resuscitation) order.

2. Patient has signs of irreversible death (Rigor


Mortis, Decapitation, Dependent Lividity).

3. No physiological benefit can be expected


because the vital functions have deteriorated as
LIVOR
in septic or cardiogenic MORTIS
RIGORshock.
MORTIS
DECAPITATION

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
WHEN NOT TO START CPR

4. Confirmed gestation of < 23 weeks or birth weight <


400 grams, anencephaly.

5. Attempts to perform CPR would place the rescuer


at risk of physical injury.

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Basic Life Support Training
WHEN TO STOP CPR?

S SPONTANEOUS signs of circulation are restored


T TURNED over to medical services or properly trained and
authorized personnel

O OPERATOR is already exhausted and cannot continue CPR


P PHYSICIAN assumes responsibility (declares death, takes over,
etc.)

S SCENE becomes unsafe (such as traffic, impending or ongoing


violence—gun fires, etc)

S SIGNED waiver to stop CPR


Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
3 C’s on Hand Only CPR

1.Check theScene and Responsiveness of


the Victim

2.Call for Help

3.Compress

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
1. CHECK THE SCENE SAFETY AND
VICTIMS RESPONSIVENESS

a. SURVEY THE SCENE

b. Check responsiveness of the victim

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
2. CALL FOR HELP

Ask for help from the nearest police


station or rescue team. You can use
yore cellphone to call for Help.

TARSIER 117
Police 911 www.illustrationsource.com

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Basic Life Support Training
3. COMPRESSION
Proper Position in Performing CPR

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Basic Life Support Training
3. COMPRESSION
• Kneel facing the victim’s chest
• Place the heel of one hand on the center of the chest
• Place the heel of the second hand on top of the first
so that the hands are overlapped and parallel.

• Do the compression at 100-120 compression per


minute at a depth of 2-2.4inches

• Continue on doing this until rescue team arrives

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training
END

Department of Health
Basic Life Support Training

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