CPR – Components for Children
(Age 1 Year to Puberty)
Scene safety
- Check the environment – making sure it’s safe for rescuers and victims
Recognition of cardiac arrest
- Check responsiveness
- No breathing or only gasping – ie., no normal breathing
- Within 10 seconds – no positive pulse
- (You can check for a pulse and breathing simultaneously in less than 10 seconds)
Activation of the emergency response system
- Witnessed collapse
1. Leave the victim, if you’re alone without a mobile phone, and activate the emergency response system while retrieving an AED before performing CPR - Unwitnessed collapse
1. Give 2 minutes of CPR
2. Activate the emergency response system, get an AED and return to the victim
3. Resume CPR; use the AED as soon as it is available
Compression- ventilation ratio without advanced airway
- 1 rescuer 30:2
- 2 or more rescuers 15:2
Compression- ventilation ratio with advanced airway
- Chest compressions – 100-120/min
- Give 1 breath every 6 seconds (10 breaths/min)
Compression rate
- 100-120/min
Compression depth
- At least 1/3 AP diameter of the chest
- About 2 inches (5 cm)
Hand placement
- 1 or 2 hands can be used (optional for small children)
- On the lower half of the breastbone (sternum)
Chest recoil
- Make sure not to lean on the chest of the victim – Allow a full recoil after each chest compression
Minimizing interruptions
- Compression interruptions – limit to less than 10 seconds