10. BLS Health Care Provider AdultCardiac
ArrestAlgorithm
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness and breathing
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY&VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
11. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness and breathing
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
12. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness and breathing
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
13. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
14. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive feltin
10 seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
15. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
16. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for BREATHING
Look for PULSE – is it definitive felt in10
seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY &VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
17. • Site- 2 hands on
the lower half of
the breastbone
(sternum)
• Rate- 100-120 per
ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for BREATHING
Look for PULSE – is it definitivefelt
in 10 seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY&
VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
18. • Chest compressions of adequate rate, 100-
120, with 120/min being the maximum
• Chest compressions of adequate
depth (maximum of 6cm or 2.4
inches)
• Allowing full chest recoil in between
compressions, avoid leaning on victims
chest
Increased emphasis on high
quality CPR
19. Increased emphasis on
high quality
CPR
• Minimizing interruptions in between
compressions as shorter pauses are
associated with greater success
• Avoiding excessive ventilation
20. • Head tilt
• Chin lift
• Jaw
thrust
ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response
System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for BREATHING
Look for PULSE – is it definitive
felt in 10 seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY&
VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
24. ALGORITHM
Verify Scene Safety
Check for Unresponsiveness
Shout for HELP!!
Activate Emergency Response
System
AED & Emergency Equipment
Look for BREATHING
Look for PULSE – is it definitive
felt in 10 seconds
Start CHEST COMPRESSIONS
Maintain AIRWAY&
VENTILATION
Early Defibrillation orAED
25. SHOCK first OR CPR first
• In an witnessed cardiac arrest, if AED is
immediately available, reasonable to use
AED as soon as possible
26. When to STOP!!
• Return of spontaneous
circulation
• Until help arrives
• Physical fatigue.
• Obivious Death
34. CHEST COMPRESSIONS
RATE: DEPTH:
100 to 120 / min (≥ 1/3 of anteroposterior
diameter of chest)
Infants – 1.5 inches (4 cm)
Children – 2 inches (5 cm)
Adolescents – at least 2 inches
(5 cm) but not greater than
2.4 inches (6 cm).
39. PLACEMENT OF PADS OR PADDLES
Children (>1 yr; >10 kg – adult size)
Right upper chest below the clavicle
Lateral to the left nipple below the axilla
Infants (<1 yr; <10kg – infant size)
Sternum below the mammary line
Back between two scapulae