BLS course
- ✔✔✔Dispatch calls you to respond to a family's home with a 6 year old child. You are told that the
child was found unresponsive in the backyard. This scene is safe upon arrival, and you enter with your
AED (monitor/defibrillator). The child is unresponsive after you tap his shoulders and shout "Are you
okay?" He could be in cardiac arrest. What is your next step?
- if you are alone with no cellphone, leave the victim to activate the emergency response system and get
the AED before beginning CPR. Use the AED as soon as it is available
- if you are not alone, send someone to get the AED and begin CPR immediately. Use the AED as soon as
it is available - ✔✔✔witnessed vs. unwitnessed collapse: children and infants
***witness collapse
- if you are ________ with no _______ ________, leave the victim to
______________________________________________
- if you are __________, send someone to the
____________________________________________________
-left side of the back
-left side of the chest - ✔✔✔where should AED pads be placed in the anteroposterior placement for
adults and children 8 years or older?
-place one pad directly below the right collarbone
-place the other pad to the side of the left nipple, with the top edge of the pad a few inches below the
armpit - ✔✔✔Where should AED pads be placed in the anterolateral placement for adults and children
8 years or older?
-place one pad on the left side of the chest, halfway between the tip of the breastbone and left nipple
-place the other pad on the left side of the victim's back, beneath the shoulder blade, next to the nipple
- ✔✔✔where should the AED pads be placed in the anteroposterior placement for adults and children
8 years or older?
, -two life-threatening arrhythmias that can cause cardiac arrest are pulseless ventricular tachycardia
(pVT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF)
-death usually follows unless a normal heart rhythm and pulse are restored within minutes - ✔✔✔why
an AED is needed?
1) 100 to 120/min
2) approximately 2 inches (5cm)
3) 2 hands on the lower half of the breastbone
4) allow complete recoil; do not lean on chest
5) limit interruptions to less than 10 seconds - ✔✔✔critical components of chest compressions:
ADULTS
1) Rate: _________
2) Depth: ________
3) Hand Placement: ______________
4) Chest Recoil: _______________
5) Minimizing Interruption: ________________
1) 100 to 120/min
2) approximately 2 inches (5cm)
3) 2 hands or 1 hand on the lower half of the breastbone
4) allow complete recoil; do not lean on the chest
5) limit interruptions to less than 10 seconds - ✔✔✔critical components of chest compressions:
children
1) Rate: _________
2) Depth: ________
3) Hand Placement: ______________
4) Chest Recoil: _______________
- ✔✔✔Dispatch calls you to respond to a family's home with a 6 year old child. You are told that the
child was found unresponsive in the backyard. This scene is safe upon arrival, and you enter with your
AED (monitor/defibrillator). The child is unresponsive after you tap his shoulders and shout "Are you
okay?" He could be in cardiac arrest. What is your next step?
- if you are alone with no cellphone, leave the victim to activate the emergency response system and get
the AED before beginning CPR. Use the AED as soon as it is available
- if you are not alone, send someone to get the AED and begin CPR immediately. Use the AED as soon as
it is available - ✔✔✔witnessed vs. unwitnessed collapse: children and infants
***witness collapse
- if you are ________ with no _______ ________, leave the victim to
______________________________________________
- if you are __________, send someone to the
____________________________________________________
-left side of the back
-left side of the chest - ✔✔✔where should AED pads be placed in the anteroposterior placement for
adults and children 8 years or older?
-place one pad directly below the right collarbone
-place the other pad to the side of the left nipple, with the top edge of the pad a few inches below the
armpit - ✔✔✔Where should AED pads be placed in the anterolateral placement for adults and children
8 years or older?
-place one pad on the left side of the chest, halfway between the tip of the breastbone and left nipple
-place the other pad on the left side of the victim's back, beneath the shoulder blade, next to the nipple
- ✔✔✔where should the AED pads be placed in the anteroposterior placement for adults and children
8 years or older?
, -two life-threatening arrhythmias that can cause cardiac arrest are pulseless ventricular tachycardia
(pVT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF)
-death usually follows unless a normal heart rhythm and pulse are restored within minutes - ✔✔✔why
an AED is needed?
1) 100 to 120/min
2) approximately 2 inches (5cm)
3) 2 hands on the lower half of the breastbone
4) allow complete recoil; do not lean on chest
5) limit interruptions to less than 10 seconds - ✔✔✔critical components of chest compressions:
ADULTS
1) Rate: _________
2) Depth: ________
3) Hand Placement: ______________
4) Chest Recoil: _______________
5) Minimizing Interruption: ________________
1) 100 to 120/min
2) approximately 2 inches (5cm)
3) 2 hands or 1 hand on the lower half of the breastbone
4) allow complete recoil; do not lean on the chest
5) limit interruptions to less than 10 seconds - ✔✔✔critical components of chest compressions:
children
1) Rate: _________
2) Depth: ________
3) Hand Placement: ______________
4) Chest Recoil: _______________
