The document outlines the steps for performing basic life support (BLS) on infants and children, highlighting the importance of ensuring the rescuer's safety and checking for responsiveness and signs of life. If no signs of life are evident, the document instructs on starting chest compressions and delivering rescue breaths at specified ratios, along with guidance on pulse checks. The procedure emphasizes the correct technique and timing for administering CPR, detailing the different methods appropriate for infants versus older children.

1. Infant and child Basic Life
Support

2. Infant Basic Life Support
• Ensure the safety of the rescuer and child
• Check the child’s responsiveness by gently stimulating the child and
asking loudly, ‘Are you all right?’
• Do not shake infants or children with suspected cervical spine
injuries.

3. Check for signs of a circulation (signs of life).
• take no more than 10 seconds to
check for signs of circulation such as
movement, coughing, or normal
breathing (but not agonal gasps)
• check the pulse but take no longer
than 10 seconds to do this.
in an infant check the brachial pulse

4. Check for signs of a circulation (signs of life).
If there are no signs of life
• unless you are CERTAIN that you can feel a definite pulse of
greater than 60 beats per minute within 10 seconds, start chest
compression.

5. chest compression
• compress the lower third of the sternum.
• locate the xiphisternum and compress the sternum one finger’s breadth above this
• compress the sternum by one-third of the depth of the chest or more.
• In infants, use the tips of two fingers or, if there are two or more rescuers, use the encircling technique with two
thumbs.
• In children, use the heel of one hand or, in larger children, the heels of both hands, as in adults – aim for a rate of
100–120 compressions per minute

6. chest compression
• After 30 compressions, tilt the head, lift the chin, and give 2 effective
breaths.
• Continue compressions and breaths in a ratio of 30:2.

7. To deliver rescue breaths to an infant
• ensure a neutral position of the head and apply chin lift
• take a breath and cover the mouth and nasal apertures of the infant
with your mouth, making sure you have a good seal
• blow steadily into the infant’s mouth and nose over
1–1.5 seconds so that the chest rises visibly
• maintaining head-tilt and chin-lift, take your mouth away from the
victim and watch for his chest to fall

8. Check the child’s responsiveness
• For about two minutes, execute
CPR operations of about 30
compressions and two breaths
for five cycles. Check puls again
every 2 minutes.