Artificial respiration is assisting or stimulating respiration through methods like mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Mouth-to-mouth involves placing the victim on their back, clearing their airway, tilting their head back, pinching their nose, sealing your mouth over theirs and blowing air into their lungs until they start breathing on their own or help arrives. CPR involves external chest compressions to manually pump the heart and circulate blood. The recovery position is used to place conscious victims on their side until help arrives.

1. Artificial
Resuscitation
/ Respiration

2. What is Artificial
Respiration?
• Artificial respiration is the act of assisting
or stimulating respiration, a metabolic
process referring to the overall exchange
of gases in the body by pulmonary
ventilation, external respiration, and
internal respiration.
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3. Methods
• Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- a.k.a. the “kiss of life”
• External chest compression or
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR)
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4. Mouth-to-mouth
Resuscitation
• This is an effective method of introducing
air into the victim’s lungs if the victim has
stopped breathing but still has pulse.
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5. Methods of administering
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
• Place the victim on his back. Loosen his
shirt around the neck.
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6. • Open his mouth and sweep or hook finger
deep inside to remove any debris
(blood, knocked teeth, dentures, etc.).
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7. • Hold the back of the neck with one hand.
Place the heel of your other hand on is
forehead and tilt his head as far as you
can.
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8. • Using the hand on his forehead, pinch the
nostrils. Take a deep breath and open your
mouth. Seal it over his mouth and blow.
His chest will rise as the air is forced into
his lungs.
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9. • If the victim is a child, cover his nose and
mouth with your mouth, but do not blow as
hard as you would for an adult. This is also
known as mouth-to-nose resuscitation.
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10. • Wait for the victim’s chest to fall, then
repeat the process. Do it two (2) times in
quick succession.
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11. • Continue mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
steadily at the rate of 12-20 breaths per
minute, until the victim (adult) starts
breathing or until medical help comes.
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12. • Once the victim is breathing normally, put
him in a recovery position.
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13. The Recovery Position
• The recovery position is the correct
position in which to place a victim who is
breathing while waiting for help to arrive.
• NOTE: DO NOT put a person in the
recovery position if you suspect that he
has a spinal injury or severe fracture!
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14. • If there has been or you suspect a spinal
injury and breathing failure occurs and/or if
there is no pulse, you still need to
resuscitate the casualty and keep the
airway open.
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