Health Skills Grade 11 Term 2 Chapter 4

Health Skills Grade 11 Term 2 Chapter 4

Basic Life Support

Lesson 4.1

Cardiac Arrest

Multiple Select

Check all symptoms of a heart attack that apply

• Dizziness

• Coughing

• Shortness of breath

• Sweating

• Chest pain

Cardiac Arrest

• happens when the heart malfunctions and stops beating suddenly due to different reasons.

Cardiac Arrest in Infants and Children

Heart Attack vs. Cardiac Arrest

• Heart Attack: Circulation problem because blood flow isn't able to go through, such as a blocked artery

• Cardiac Arrest: Electrical problem, such as an arrhythmia, the heart is functioning but incorrectly (the rate or rhythm of the heart is not correct)

Chain of Survival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHoaAFR7gcw

Open Ended

'Cardiac arrest occurs for the same reasons in both adults and children’. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your answer.

Lesson 4.2

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for the one-rescuer (adult, child, infant)

Open Ended

What causes cardiac arrest?

Poll

Do you feel like you can confidently give CPR?

• Yes

• No, not yet

CPR Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hizBdM1Ob68

Case Scenario

You are attending a football game and see a parent collapse to the ground. You are the first person approaches the casualty. What steps you should follow in this situation?

Unresponsive and not breathing normally

1. Safety

2. Response

3. Airway: Head tilt/chin lift

4. Breathing: Look, listen, feel. No more than 10 seconds at a time

5. Call for help: 998 for ambulance services

Call Emergency Services

Stay with casualty, if there is someone else with you, ask them to get you an AED, but if you are alone, continue with CPR

Give 30 compressions

Start giving compressions, 30 compressions to 2 breaths

Do not give rescue breaths if you are:

• Untrained

• If there is a risk of infection

Poll

Do you feel like you can confidently perform CPR on an adult?

• Yes

• No, not yet

CPR on a Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJL3jFVKNs

Poll

Do you feel like you can confidently give CPR to an infant?

• Yes

• No, not yet

Lesson 4.3

Using an Automated External Defibrillator

Review

Basic Life Support

Notice the height difference in the heartbeats

Ventrillicular Fibrillation

• It would be similar to a lot of fireworks going off in your heart! That would disrupt the normal flow of your heart and can prevent it from supplying blood to the rest of the body, and therefore oxygen!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlwHtDszf0

Poll

Do you feel, at this moment, that you can CONFIDENTLY use an AED?

• Yes

• No, not yet

Multiple Choice

What does AED stand for?

• Automated Embellism Disorder

• Automatic Endangered Disease

• Automated External Defibrillator

• Automated Example Defibrillator

Open Ended

Why can you not touch the casualty when the AED is analyzing the casualty's heart?

How to use an AED when a casualty is not breathing properly and not responsive...

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOCSyKlu-Y

Poll

Do you feel confidently now that you can use an AED?

• Yes

• No, not quite yet

When the AED does not arrive...

• CONTINUE WITH CPR UNTIL MEDICAL SERVICES ARRIVE

Lesson 4.4

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for the two-rescuer (adult, child, infant)

Poll

Do you think it's beneficial to have two or more rescuers in an emergency case?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

Why do you think it is or is not beneficial to have two or more rescuers?

Some advantages of having two rescuers

• CPR/AED process will be performed effectively

• Less tiring for both rescuers

• Decreases the transition time between compressions and giving breaths which will increase the quality of both practices  

When arriving on the scene, this protocol must be followed

The first trained person on the scene is the first rescuer, the second person is the second rescuer

Watch this video on two rescuer CPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2driw9RN3_U

Open Ended

What are the advantages of having two rescuers for CPR?

Open Ended

There are a few reasons for stopping CPR, name one.

Two rescuer for infants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1i8-b9-d5c

AED steps for children and infants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTpY5iBK4g

PLEASE DO CHAPTER 4 REVIEW

Quiz next week