What is CPR
In emergency situations, CPR-cardiopulmonary resuscitation-can be the most helpful lifesaving technique. Because of its efficiency and its significant role in any first aid course, everyone should know how to perform CPR. How does CPR save lives? Well, CPR provide the means to sustain one's life long enough to receive professional medical attention. Between the time between when someone else goes out to get help, the person's life is at your hands. Medical attention can be too late if CPR is not performed. The longer that a human being goes without oxygen, the more likely severe damage- and even death- can occur. Considering the relatively simple steps of performing CPR, there is no good enough reason why anyone should learnt this skill if it means the difference between someone's life and death.
Causes of cardiac arrest
A cardiac arrest can be caused by:
How is CPR performed?
Proper CPR is performed with alternating chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth breathing. This process helps push oxygen into the lungs so that it can go to the brain and keep a person alive. The most common CPR technique that is taught at first aid courses around Australia involves thirty chest compressions and two deep breaths. This is one "cycle". It is required that the person performing CPR does 5 full cycles within 2 minutes. It cannot be earlier than 1m 50 seconds or later than 2 min 10 seconds. The pattern is maintained until proper help arrives, or after you hear the person breathing regularly. It may sound simple, but in real life situations, stress can lead you to forget a step, or to perform it too quickly/late. So the only good way to learn CPR performance is by being taught at a first aid class, with a lot of practice.
Basic steps of CPR
1.Danger
2. Response
3. Airway
4. Breathing
5. CPR
6. Defibrillator
When is it necessary?
CPR can be used in a vast array of different emergency situations. When someone has been drowning, for example, another person can perform CPR on them until the ambulance or other help gets there. A massive heart attack that has rendered a person incapable of breathing can be counteracted using CPR. Drug overdoses are another instance where CPR can save a life. There are literally hundreds of different times when this technique can make a difference. The whole point is to keep oxygen flowing in the injured party's body long enough for them to get to a hospital.
In emergency situations, CPR-cardiopulmonary resuscitation-can be the most helpful lifesaving technique. Because of its efficiency and its significant role in any first aid course, everyone should know how to perform CPR. How does CPR save lives? Well, CPR provide the means to sustain one's life long enough to receive professional medical attention. Between the time between when someone else goes out to get help, the person's life is at your hands. Medical attention can be too late if CPR is not performed. The longer that a human being goes without oxygen, the more likely severe damage- and even death- can occur. Considering the relatively simple steps of performing CPR, there is no good enough reason why anyone should learnt this skill if it means the difference between someone's life and death.
Causes of cardiac arrest
A cardiac arrest can be caused by:
- Heart disease – this is the most common cause of cardiac arrest and is the leading cause of death in Victoria
- Drowning
- Suffocation
- Poisonous gases
- Head injury
- Drug overdose
- Electric shock.
How is CPR performed?
Proper CPR is performed with alternating chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth breathing. This process helps push oxygen into the lungs so that it can go to the brain and keep a person alive. The most common CPR technique that is taught at first aid courses around Australia involves thirty chest compressions and two deep breaths. This is one "cycle". It is required that the person performing CPR does 5 full cycles within 2 minutes. It cannot be earlier than 1m 50 seconds or later than 2 min 10 seconds. The pattern is maintained until proper help arrives, or after you hear the person breathing regularly. It may sound simple, but in real life situations, stress can lead you to forget a step, or to perform it too quickly/late. So the only good way to learn CPR performance is by being taught at a first aid class, with a lot of practice.
Basic steps of CPR
1.Danger
2. Response
3. Airway
4. Breathing
5. CPR
6. Defibrillator
When is it necessary?
CPR can be used in a vast array of different emergency situations. When someone has been drowning, for example, another person can perform CPR on them until the ambulance or other help gets there. A massive heart attack that has rendered a person incapable of breathing can be counteracted using CPR. Drug overdoses are another instance where CPR can save a life. There are literally hundreds of different times when this technique can make a difference. The whole point is to keep oxygen flowing in the injured party's body long enough for them to get to a hospital.