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CPREMERGENCY FIRST AID
PETE BALLARD
• SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK• INITIAL TREATMENT FOR HEART ATTACK• PRIMARY SURVEY• CPR
COURSE AIM
Purposes of First Aid
• Preserve Life
• Prevent Deterioration
• Promote Recovery
Recognition of a Heart Attack
Could include:
• Chest pains (possibly radiating)
• Sweating
• Pale
• Nausea
• Shortness of breath
Treatment
• Sit them down• Make them comfortable• Reassurance• If the victim has medication,
they may wish to take it
Primary Assessment
• Danger
• Response
• Airway
• Breathing
• Circulation
Response “AVPU”
Alert
Voice
Pain
Unresponsive
Airway
• Check, clear, open and maintain
If the casualty is not breathing through an
OPEN AIRWAY,they have failed the primary
assessment
Get help!
If you don’t call for it, it will never arrive!
CPR FACTS
• CARDIO• PULMONARY• RESUSCITATION
CPR STANDS FOR
make Circulation
Chest compressions• Expose the chest• Place your hands in the centre
of the chest• Squash the chest by one third• Repeat to total of 30 times
Ventilations
Give 2 breath’s
But a maximum of 2 attempts
If the chest doesn’t rise, reposition the head and neck and try again
• 30 compressions- to move blood
• 2 ventilations- to put oxygen into the blood
• continue to alternate
• swap if getting tired
30 2
Automated defibrillator - designed so that it can be used by an untrained person with no first aid experience - gives audio step by step instructions in how to operate it - it will not give a shock if not required, and the operator cannot accidentally shock themselves or anyone else.
Presented by Peter Ballard