2. What does CPR stand for?
• Cardio = Heart
• Pulmonary = Lungs
• Resuscitation = to restart or revive
3. How does CPR work?
• CPR keeps a person’s brain and heart supplied with blood
and oxygen until medical help arrives
4. Why take CPR?
• IS anyone certified in CPR?
• For your own knowledge and benefit
• Knowledge is Power!
• To help family members at risk of heart disease
• For employment reasons
• What other types of occupations require CPR training?
• Interested in health care
5. CPR Facts
• 70% of sudden cardiac arrests are at home
• Cardiac Arrest – when heart stops beating which means it is no
longer pumping blood to the rest of the body
• Most people will perform CPR on someone they know
• Victims will not get up and walk away after CPR – THEY
NEED MEDICAL CARE!
• Why?
• Lifestyle changes can decrease CVD
• CVD – Cardiovascular Disease
• Examples?
• Heart Disease and Stroke are leading causes of death in
Canada!
• Stroke – when an artery gets clogged therefore blood and oxygen
cannot get to the brain
6. Risk Factors you
CAN change!
• Smoking
• High Blood Pressure
• Lack of Exercise
• Stress
• Obesity & Eating Habits
7. Risk Factors you CAN’T
change!
• Genetics
• Heredity
• Age
• Gender
• Race
9. The Circulatory System
• All cells in our body need oxygen
• The heart pumps oxygen from the
lungs to the cells in the body
10. The Heart
Structure
• It is a muscular pump; about the size of your fist
• It is in the center of chest protected by your rib cage
• It is two sided and has
4 chambers
11. The Heart Function
• The right side receives blood from the body (oxygen
poor) and pumps it to the lungs to pick up more oxygen
• The left side of your heart gets oxygenated blood and
pumps it to the rest of your body
• HEART – LUNGS – HEART – BODY
• Your heart beats 60 – 100 times/ minute
• Blood Pressure is how much pressure the blood puts on
the walls of the arteries
13. Blood Circulation
Diagram
• Blue Blood is in the veins – they
are oxygen deprived and they are
the vessels that take blood back to
the heart
• Red Blood is in the arteries,
capillaries, etc. because they are
oxygen enriched
14. Purpose of Lungs?
• To take in oxygen
• To filter waste from the body and environment
• Example: carbon dioxide
• To separate oxygen from the other components of air
15. Warning Signs of a Heart
Attack
The 5 P’s
1. Pain
2. Puffing
3. Pale
4. Pooped
5. Puking
16. Warning Signs of a Stroke
Must act FAST:
F – Face – Does it look uneven?
A – Arm – One arm hanging down?
S – Speech – Slurred speech?
T – Time – Call 911!
17. Helping a Potential Victim
• Survey the scene
• No fire, no wire, no gas, no glass, no thugs, no drugs
• Determine unresponsiveness
• Call EMS
18. What will EMS ask?
CALL 911
• Location
• Telephone Number
• What you think happened
• Person’s approx. age
• Person conscious or unconscious
• Person breathing or not
• DO NOT HANG UP UNTIL HELP ARRIVES
19. Perform CPR
ABCD’s
• A – Airway – Check if something is blocking and get it
out
• B – Breathing – Mouth to Mouth
• C – Circulation – Start Chest Compressions
• D – Defibrillation – When help arrives
Deliberator – a small computerized device which delivers a
special shock to the heart, which tries to kick start the heart
21. Process of CPR
If someone collapses:
1. Check for hazards
2. Assess Responsiveness
3. Call 911
4. Check for Breathing (10 seconds)
a) Look – chest for movement
b) Listen – sounds of breathing
c) Feel – exhaled breath on your cheek
5. Give 2 breaths
6. Landmark for chest compressions
7. Give 30 compressions and 2 breaths
22. When can you
stop CPR?
• When the person has visible signs of circulation or has
resumed breathing on their own
• EMS arrives
• Another trained rescuer can take over
• Unsafe environment for rescuer
24. Process for Choking
• If someone is choking
1. Assess the airway blockage
2. Call 911
3. Give abdominal thrusts
4. Repeat abdominal thrusts in rapid sequence
5. * If unconscious start CPR
6. * Not choking any longer. Place in Recovery Position
25. Abdominal Thrusts
1. Stand behind the person and wrap arms around their
waist
2. Make a fist with one hand
3. Find their belly button and move hand one fist above it
4. Place other hand on top of fist
5. Press inward and upward simultaneously with a sudden
thrust
