Child and Infant Safety
Children are curious by nature, often adventuring out to explore the world around them. Unfortunately, their curious nature can often lead to trouble, resulting in injuries. According to the Government of Canada, unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children. Learning how to recognize, prevent, and respond in the event of an accident or emergency can make all the difference. Read on for information on how to administer first aid in critical child and baby safety situations, such as cardiac arrest, concussions, dehydration, and choking.
Child and Infant CPR
You suddenly hear the panic-stricken scream “HELP!”
You rush next door to find your neighbour her standing at the edge of the pool with her 13
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR for short, is an emergency procedure that combines rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) and chest compressions.
CPR is a vital procedure in the event of cardiac arrest, which is when there is a lack of oxygen to the heart. Cardiac arrest can occur from choking, drowning, suffocation, electrocution, and even life-threatening allergic reactions and poisoning. CPR can increase a child’s chance of survival by helping to keep the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain, heart, and other vital organs until medical help arrives.
5 simple steps to CPR:
1. Place the child or infant on a firm, flat surface
2. Position your hands or fingers on the child’s chest and give 30 compressions; push hard – push fast.
3. Tilt the head back to open the airway
4. Seal the nose and mouth and give two breaths - using just enough air to make the chest rise
5. Continue the cycle of 30 compressions and 2 breaths until help arrives, the person responds, or you physically cannot continue any longer
Depending on the child’s age, the location and method of compressions differs:
• For infants 0-12 months of age, use two fingers on the breastbone just below the nipple line to give
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St. John Ambulance has a series of child care first aid and CPR courses to accommodate different training needs - both formal and informal.
Concussions in Children
Did you know that falls are the leading cause of injury hospitalization in BC for infants and children between 1 to 9 years of age?
Falls can result in traumatic brain injury and brain damage, and can happen anywhere – whether inside or outside of the home, such as while cycling or climbing on the playground.
What is a Concussion?
A concussion is a common form of head or brain injury caused by a direct or indirect force or hit to the head. Direct force may come about from a jolt or bump to the head during a sporting activity or a car crash. Indirect force can result from an impact to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly backwards and forwards. The brain consequently bounces around and shifts inside the skull, causing damage to brain cells as well as to the brain’s chemical composition. This ultimately affects the brain’s ability to function normally for a temporary period of time, also making the brain highly susceptible to subsequent
Make sure to get the airway open especially if the person's jaw is locked shut. Then, give 30 chest compressions followed by 2 breaths.
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* Give separate and distinct, inward and upward thrusts. Continue until the obstruction is dislodged - check after each thrust. Stop if the victim becomes unconscious.
Step 3- I will perform mouth-to-mouth breathing after opening the airway. I will give two breaths and continue to chest compressions.
Adult: First check the scene to see if it is safe; second check the patient to see if they are awake by tapping their shoulder and yelling, and then checking their pulse; third call for help by calling or having someone else call 911; forth tilt head back and begin 30 chest compressions by hooking both hands together and pushing 2 inches into the center of the chest, then 2 breaths, and then repeat with 30 chest compressions until paramedics arrive.
Almost everyone who works in EMS has this one thing in common, the fear of the pediatric call. Due to those calls being few and far between, the skills needed for a pediatric call are rarely at their best. There are also some who don’t keep their pediatric skills as sharp as others, because of the low amount of calls they might run on kids. This paper will be focusing on cardiac arrests in children, and opening the reality of how common it is becoming. Everything from what causes it, what is the most common cause, and the unexplainable. The what’s, how’s and whys are all questions that we will be expected to know. There is so much that goes into these patients, physically and mentally. Knowing these things and understanding how to handle these situations is just as important as knowing the information for a registry test. In almost most of these incidents the family doesn’t care how much you know, they care about how much you care.
In order to preform CPR you must follow the following steps, First Check your surroundings, make sure there is nothing nearby that will injure your or the person in need of CPR (CPR illustrated in three simple steps) Next, check for any response from the patient, shout or shake their shoulders gently in order to check for a response (CPR illustrated in three simple steps). If there is no respond tilt there head backward to open their airway (CPR illustrated in three simple steps). Check for normal breathing by listening for breathing and
In order to make sure that the victims airway is open,place your hand on the victims forehead and two fingers on their chin and tilt the head back slightly to open the airway.Look, listen, and feel for breathing. Get close enough to the victims face to listen if victim can breath by putting you ear close to the victims mouth. At the same time ,look if victims chest is rising up.Do that for ten seconds.If you do not feel the victims breath, or cannot see the chest rising after ten seconds, continue to the next step.
Knowing CPR should be an essential part of anyone's life. We need to make sure we are able to save a life when we are needed. Although it is required for most people in the medical office to know CPR, not everyone is
As a continuation of our training on medical vocabulary and basic medical training like pulse, my class was able to learn about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) while also gaining CPR certification through the American Red Cross. During this exercise I learned how to respond and react to a choking or unconscious person or infant. Besides learning response tactics like tapping the victims hip to check for any signs of response and how to most effectively direct onlooking people, we also spend multiple days practicing response procedures. I practiced abdominal thrusts on the other students, and was able to practice CPR procedures on dummies of both adults and infants. With these dummies I was also able to practice with dummy Automated External
A. Topic introduction- Today I will instructing you in a hands on method on how to properly perform, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, also known as CPR on adults and infants.
Place one hand on top of the other and hook the fingers. Lock your elbows and using your body's weight, compress the victim's chest.
I will train my brother Miayko Robbins how to perform CPR on a child in three steps. Step one call the police, Step two pump and step three blow. My learning objective for trainng Miayko CPR follow. Step one police stage recite the steps you will take. Demonstrate proper technique of the chest compression on a child. List the components to step three blow.
According to Riley (2013) by keeping the elbows straight and fixed this will allow the pressure to exert downwards onto the chest. Without the compressions within five minutes or at all the brain can become permanently damaged following collapse (ERC, 2010). A research by Kampmeier et al (2014) showed that the European Resuscitation Council changed their minimal compression depth from 40mm in 2005 to 50mm in 2010. The results indicated that having a fixed compression rate should be further investigated; therefore, anything rate between 40mm to 50mm is suitable for the depth of compression.
In every day events, there are a huge number of people who get serious injuries that at times can cause a person to stop breathing. These circumstances need immediate action and most of the people who would and should respond are those who are knowledgeable and capable enough to provide helpful assistance.