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How to Give CPR

Last Update: September 18, 2008

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The need to perform CPR on an adult may occur at anytime. Learn how to do CPR on an adult in this first aid video.

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Ask if victim is okay
Call for help immediately
Tilt head & lift chin
Check for chest rise
Give 2 breaths for 1 second each

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Captain Joe Bruni has over 30-years experience as a street firefighter and company officer. He also completed a great deal of research with other instructors who have co-authored articles with him. He has experience as a department training officer in the Fire and Rescue Safety & Training Division. He receives a great deal of pleasure and gain's excitement from watching firefighters put learned skills into practice. "I strive to touch the future of the fire service by passing on my experience, knowledge, and techniques that I have learned over the years. I have written several articles for Fire Engineering Magazine which are available upon request. In today's firefighting world, the amount of actual structure fires has dropped almost 50 percent. I believe training efforts have to be increased at all levels using experienced instructors who can pass on the knowledge."

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CAPT. JOE BRUNI: Hi. I am Captain Joe Bruni with over 30 years of firefighting and EMS experience. What I am going to cover is the basic steps to performing adult CPR. The very first step that we want to take is ensure scene safety as we approach the victim to make sure that we do not have any hazards that is going to cause you to become a victim yourself. After we ensure scene safety, we are going to approach the victim and we are going to determine their responsiveness. We will shake and shout by tapping on the shoulders and you asking "Are you okay?" looking for a response. If we do not have any response, the very next thing that we may want to do for the adult CPR situation is you offer help. If someone can activate the emergency response system that is close by, you can continue with further evaluation of the patient. If no one is present with you and the victim with an adult, call the emergency response system before beginning the steps of CPR. After the emergency response system has been activated, you can return and evaluate the patient by doing the head tilt-chin lift maneuver tilting the head back and lifting on the chin being careful to keep the fingers away from the soft fleshy tissue under the chin. We want to lift the chin protruding the jaw and then look, listen, and feel as we are watching to see for chest rise. If the patient is truly in respiratory and cardiac arrest, we will give two breaths approximately 1 second each by maintaining our fingers on the chin, pinching of the nose, covering the victims' mouth with our mouth and giving two breaths approximately one second each as we watch for the chest to rise. After we perform our two rescue breaths, we will bare the chest of any clothing that may be in the way and perform chest compressions by placing the hands between the nipple line and pushing the chest one-third to one-half its depth. After a rate of 30 compressions, we will give two rescue breaths that is known as a set of compressions in the adult rescuer situation of CPR. We want to cover scene safety is the patient really responsive or unresponsive, activate the 911 system in the adult CPR situation, look, listen and feel to determine if they are truly in respiratory arrest and if they are, start with rescue breathing of two breaths and move on to chest compressions of 30 to 2 breaths.