Breathing Arrest

Symptoms

Person isn't conscious or not breathing

What to do

IMMEDIATELY begin heart-lung resuscitation!

Cardiac massage and artificial respiration = heart-lung resuscitation

At a rhythm of 30:2, do the following: 30 times cardiac massage, 2 times mouth-to-nose or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then check their breathing. If it hasn't started immediately, repeat this heart-lung resuscitation again immediately!

Heart-lung resuscitation

If two people are available, you can divide the tasks and your energy. One person can do the resuscitation and the other can do the cardiac massage, do this in turns. Do this pattern until the doctor comes or until the unconscious person begins breathing again on their own!

Mouth-to-nose resuscitation

Lay the unconscious person on his/her back on the floor, kneel down to the side. Take any foreign objects from the mouth of the person. Gently pull back the head of the person, so that the airways aren't blocked by the tongue. Push their jaw up and close the mouth. Inhale deeply and exhale into the nose of the unconscious person, as fast and often as you normally breathe. Keep checking if the chest of the unconscious person starts going up and down. Repeat! Keep resuscitating until the doctor comes or the person begins breathing again.

Cardiac massage

The person has to be lying on a stable and hard surface. Put one palm on top of the other, and put them both in the middle of the chest in the lower third of the breastbone. Spread your fingers along the chest and with your arms out straight, push the breastbone (not the whole chest) straight down 3-5 cm - quickly, but firmly. Repeat this slightly faster than the second hand of a clock between 80-100 times per minute.Do the cardiac massage and heart-lung resuscitation one after the other, at a quick pace: 30 times cardiac massage, then 2 resuscitations - until the doctor arrives!