CPR is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions and rescue breaths to manually circulate blood and provide oxygen to vital organs until emergency medical personnel arrive. It should be performed on an unconscious adult victim by first calling for help, then kneeling beside the victim and placing your hands on their chest to push down firmly and quickly at a rate of 100 times per minute until help arrives. While trained personnel should perform full CPR including rescue breaths, untrained individuals should focus only on chest compressions as this can still significantly increase the victim's chances of survival.

1. How to Perform Quality Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR) on the Adult Victim
For Untrained Personnel

2. What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
(CPR)?
• Emergency life sustaining measure
• Used to regain spontaneous circulation perfusion
• Used to regain spontaneous respirations
• Combines chest compressions and rescue breaths
• Used to perfuse vital organs

3. How to Begin
• Assess victim for level of consciousness
• Assess your victim for a pulse
• Assess your victim for spontaneous breathing
• Call for help/ 911
• Request an automated external defibrillator
(AED)
• Begin compressions

4. CPR Steps
• Think C-A-B
• Circulation
• Airway
• Breathing
• Steps should
be in order
• For untrained personnel,
only do circulation

5. Circulation
• Place victim flat on hard surface
• Kneel beside victim, facing torso
• Place heel of hand on center of chest
• Place second hand over first hand
• Keep arms locked and lean forward

6. Circulation (cont.)
• Begin pushing down on victims chest
• Compress chest 2/3’s of chest depth
• Goal of 100 compressions per minute
• Continue compressions until medical personnel
arrive

7. Facts About CPR
• Ribs are commonly fractured during CPR
• Just doing compressions can save lives
• Beginning quickly increases rate of survival

8. Importance of Knowing CPR
• 88% of cardiac arrest occur at home
• CPR can double chance of survival
• Cardiac arrest is leading cause of death
• Not doing CPR could result in death
• You could save a persons life

9. How to get Certified
• American Heart
Association
n
• American
Red Cross