Unconscious Choking Adult and Child

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Unconscious Choking Adult and Child

• Skills you will need to practice and know

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Step 1 - Unconscious Choking Adult

• If breaths do not go in
• Reposition the airway and give 2 rescue breaths
  again

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Step 2 - Unconscious Choking Adult

• If breaths still do not go in
• Give 30 chest compressions
• For an adult compress 1and ½ to 2 inches, a child
  about 1 and ½ inches
• 100 compressions a minute

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Step 3 - Unconscious Choking Adult

• Look inside the victims mouth.
• Grasp the tongue and lower jaw with your thumb
  and fingers and lift the jaw.

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Step 4

• If you see the object, take it out.
• For an adult use your forefinger with a sweeping
  motion.
• A child use your little finger using a hooking
  motion.

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Step 5 - Unconscious Choking Adult

• Give 2 rescue breaths
• If the breaths still do not go in
• Repeat steps 2 through 4
• If breaths go in
• Check for signs of circulation for no more than
  10 seconds

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If There are..

• No signs of circulation
• Do CPR
• Signs of circulation but no breathing
• Do rescue breathing
• Signs of circulation and breathing
• place victim in the recovery position

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Practice Session

• Tilt give 2 rescue breaths (Breaths Dont go in)
• Give 30 chest compressions
• Look for a foreign object.
• Finger Sweep
• Give 2 Rescue Breaths
• Repeat Compressions and Foreign object sweep
• When breath goes in . . .
• Check for signs of circulation