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Infant CPR, The Rules, and Instruction...
Important Rules to Follow..
1. Do Not do CPR before making sure it is needed.
2. Do not practice on a baby. Practice weekly on a doll.
3. Be prepared to give accurate directions to your home or notify the ambulance company in advance of your location
4. Keep the ambulance company phone number or #911 near or on the phone
5. If you donot have a phone and you are alone, take the baby with you to the nearest phone. Make arrangements now with person(s) who owns the phone you will be using.
6. If there are other children in the home, make arrangements in advance for their care in an emergency.
7. Always place baby on a hard surface such as a table, the floor, etc.
8. Keep baby's head level with his body and with his nose pointing straight up.
9. Puff gently when blowing air into baby.
10. Do Not take time to remove clothing from the baby. Open the clothing to uncover the chest area only.
11. When doing chest compressions, check position of fingers often.DO NOT move form original positon.
12. When baby begins to breathe, it should still be checked by a doctor immediately.
13. Always position baby on it's tummy or propped on it's side for 1/2 to 1 hour after feeding
Steps for doing CPR.... Follow carefully
1. Shake baby or flick the feet, say the baby's name. If no response:
2. Open airway by pulling head back slightly with hand on forehead or under neck.
3. Place you cheek over baby's mouth- Feel and listen for air- look at the baby's chest.
4. If you do not feel and/or hear air, move the baby to a hard surface. Open the baby's airway (Step#2), then:
5. Cover the baby's mouth and nose with your mouth.
6. Give two slow puffs- baby's chest should rise.
7. Feel for brachial pulse. If you feel none:
8. Place two or three fingers on the baby's chest below the nipples with one finger directly on the nipple. Move to center of chest and raise the finger nearest the nipple. Press downward 1/2" to 1" five times rapidly.Then:
9. Cover baby's nose and mouth with your mouth. Puff one time.
10. Repeat Steps #8 & #9 for one minute (20 times), then check for breathing and pulse. If none:
11. Pick baby up, do Steos #8 & #9 on the way to and from the phone to call the ambulance, or call #911
12. Return the baby to a hard surface. Check for breathing and pulse.
13. Continue Steps #8 & #9, if needed.
14. Stop to check pulse and breathing frequently.
15. If at anytime you feel a pulse, but the baby is not breathing:
16. Puff- count 1,2,3,4,5,- puff.
17. Continue to do CPR until help arrives or the baby is breathing on his own
*If there are other people in the house, yell for them to call #911 or the ambulance after Step #3
1. Support the baby's head with one hand on the baby's chin
2. Place you arm down the front of the baby's body
3. Place the baby's face at about a 45 degree angle, rseting on your thigh
4. Give five back blows, forcefully, between the baby's shoulder blades with the heel of the hand. If nothing comes out,
5. Place the hand you gave blows with on the baby's head and roll the baby over, resting on your thigh, at the same angle, then,
6. Give five thrusts with two fingers just below the nipple line
7. Check mouth often but do not put your fingers in the baby's mouth to remove anything
8. Stop occasionally and attempt to blow air into the baby's mouth and nose. If unable to, repostion the baby's head and try again. If unable to do so,
