CPR Basics

The immediate care that you give a person with an illness or injury before rescuers with more advanced training arrive and take over

started by anyone in any situation.

• CPR

• First Aid

• Splint

• Sprain

What is the Good Samaritan Law?

• A law that protects most people from lawsuits if medical complications arise after they have administered first aid correctly

• A law that requires you to administer aid to an injured person regardless of your medical training

• A law that prevents firefighters, policemen, and others from being sued over their job performance

• A code of behavior in the U.S. that says you shouldn't sue someone who tried to help you during an emergency

Someone who is "this", will move, speak, blink or otherwise react to you when you tap and ask, "are you ok?"

• Unresponsive

• Alert

• With it

• Responsive

Quickly drawing in air, mouth may be open and jaw may be moving.

sign of cardiac arrest

this is not breathing!

needs help!

• Hyperventilate

• Jaw Thrusts

• Agonal Gasps

• Agonal Thrust

Can double or triple chances of survival

• First Aid

• Checking the Scene

• Tournequette

• CPR

Lightweight, portable device that detect an abnormal cardiac rhythm, and will deliver shock to convert rhythm back to normal.

• IUD

• AED

• AUD

• IED

After puberty and older.

• Adult

• Child

• Infant

• Millennial living in Mom's Basement

1 year to puberty.

• Infant

• Teen

• Child

• Adult

Less than 1 year.

• Tomato

• Infant

• Toddler

• Child

1. Recognize that an emergency Situation exists.

2. Make sure the scene is safe for you and the ill or injured person.

3. Call 911

4. Provide care until someone with more advanced training arrives and takes over.

• Roles as a 1st Responder

• Role as an administrator

• Roles as 2nd Responder

• Role of a CPR administer