Checking the casualty’s breathing

VIDEO 7 - CASUALTY NOT BREATHING 2 CPR AND RESCUE BREATHS

 

Begin immediately to carry out the above mentioned objectives as quickly as possible

Checking the casualty’s breathing

  1. Check for breathing by opening the airway and placing your cheek just above the casualty’s mouth and nose.
  2. Look at the chest and watch for movement.
  3. Listen for breathing.
  4. Feel for breath against your cheek.
  5. Check for 10 seconds only.

What can cause someone to stop breathing normally?

  1. One of the most common causes of not breathing and unconsciousness in an adults is heart attack (see Unit 22); in babies and children it is a breathing problem, like choking (see Unit 7).
    Not breathing may also be the result of:
  2. the tongue rolling back in an unconscious person - you need to open his or her airway
  3. a constriction of the airway (it becomes too narrow), caused by strangulation or hanging (see below)
  4. breathing in gases or fumes
  5. head injury or stroke
  6. shock
  7. conditions such as asthma.
  8. If the victim becomes unconscious, keep his airway open. Give artificial respiration or CPR as soon as possible.

Not breathing, or not breathing normally, is treated differently in adults and children because of these different causes.

How can you tell that someone is not breathing normally?

He or she may:

  1. be breathing much more slowly or quickly that normal (see Unit 3)
  2. be giving short gasps for air every now and then.
  3. be unconscious
  4. have no signs of breathing.
  5. His or her skin will become more and more blue or grey in colour.

 

VIDEO 6 - CASUALTY NOT BREATHING

 

 

VIDEO 8 - CPR AND CHEST PUMPS AND RESCUE BREATHS

 

 

VIDEO 9 - HOW TO DO CPR, CHEST PUMPS AND RESCUE BREATHS

 

 

VIDEO 10 - HOW TO DO CPR, CHEST PUMPS AND RESCUE BREATHS