The ambulance service is in demand 24 hours a day. Every minute in the world there are emergencies that claim the lives of many people. The problem is that if the specialists arrived on time, the percentage of those saved would be much higher. That is why it is so important for any person to be able to provide first aid. Her main techniques are heart massage and artificial respiration.
Instructions
Step 1
Seeing that a person fainted, turned pale, feel his pulse. If there is no pulse, you need to urgently start chest compressions. It helps carry out the heart's main function of maintaining blood flow. Massage should be done before the complexion is restored. Artificial respiration is not stopped at the same time.
Step 2
The mechanism of indirect massage is as follows: stand to the left of the person, put one hand on the bottom of the sternum, put the other hand perpendicularly. Strongly, with the application of your own body weight (but dosing the effort), press towards the spine. Massage 60 times a second. For a child, heart massage is done 110 times a minute, and you need to press it with 1 hand, and for a baby with your fingertips.
Step 3
Artificial respiration is necessary to restore lung function, it is carried out before the victim's spontaneous inhalation. The artificial respiration mechanism is as follows:
- put the victim on the ground or table so that he is in a horizontal position;
- clean his mouth from foreign bodies, mucus, dirt and so on. Often it is the ingress of a foreign body that causes suffocation. If the victim has not regained consciousness, continue resuscitation;
- Throw back his head, cover his face with a handkerchief or gauze. Take a full breath. If this is a child, then you need to cover your mouth and nose with your mouth, if an adult - hold your nose with your hands, and close your mouth hermetically with yours. Blow air into your mouth for a second. The victim's chest should rise. If the abdomen has also risen, then press on the epigastric part of the abdomen to force air out of the stomach.
Step 4
These actions must be done 15-17 times a minute, accompanied by a heart massage. Both techniques must be done in a complex manner, otherwise there will be no effect. After taking one breath, five consecutive pressures in the area of the heart follow. It is advisable that they be done by two people. Before starting to provide assistance, it is imperative to call an ambulance. The task of the resuscitator is to make sure that the victim can hold out until her arrival. Even if, as a result of your actions, he was able to recover, his body is in a state of shock, so he will need rehabilitation in a hospital.
