First Aid Unconscious and Not Breathing

What is your key action if someone is unresponsive and not breathing?

• Give chest compression

• Raise their feet above their head

• Try to breathe into their mouth

Why is it important to start chest compressions as quickly as possible, if someone is unresponsive and not breathing?

• You may wake them up, and they will start to breathe again

• The rhythmic action can be reassuring to a person who needs help

• A person’s brain and other vital organs cannot survive for long without a supply of blood

Your granddad has collapsed in the lounge and you don’t think he is breathing. You can tell this because his ‘what’ are not moving?

• His stomach and shoulders

• His shoulders and neck

• His mouth and cheeks

• His chest and stomach

If someone is unresponsive and not breathing, how long should you give chest compressions for?

• Until you have done 100 compressions

• Until help arrives and someone else takes

• Until your arms get tired

Someone is unresponsive and not breathing and you call 911, should you….what?

• answer the call handler’s questions as fully as possible and stay on the phone until help arrives

• give the call handler a quick summary of what’s happened and hang up straight-away

• tell the call handler as much information as possible and hang up

• give the call handler as much information as possible and try to stay on the phone until help arrives.