CPREMERGENCY FIRST AID

PETE BALLARD

• SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK• INITIAL TREATMENT FOR HEART ATTACK• PRIMARY SURVEY• CPR

COURSE AIM

Purposes of First Aid

• Preserve Life

• Prevent Deterioration

• Promote Recovery

Recognition of a Heart Attack

Could include:

• Chest pains (possibly radiating)

• Sweating

• Pale

• Nausea

• Shortness of breath

Treatment

• Sit them down• Make them comfortable• Reassurance• If the victim has medication,

they may wish to take it

Primary Assessment

• Danger

• Response

• Airway

• Breathing

• Circulation

Response “AVPU”

Alert

Voice

Pain

Unresponsive

Airway

• Check, clear, open and maintain

If the casualty is not breathing through an

OPEN AIRWAY,they have failed the primary

assessment

Get help!

If you don’t call for it, it will never arrive!

CPR FACTS

• CARDIO• PULMONARY• RESUSCITATION

CPR STANDS FOR

make Circulation

Chest compressions• Expose the chest• Place your hands in the centre

of the chest• Squash the chest by one third• Repeat to total of 30 times

Ventilations

Give 2 breath’s

But a maximum of 2 attempts

If the chest doesn’t rise, reposition the head and neck and try again

• 30 compressions- to move blood

• 2 ventilations- to put oxygen into the blood

• continue to alternate

• swap if getting tired

30 2

Automated defibrillator - designed so that it can be used by an untrained person with no first aid experience - gives audio step by step instructions in how to operate it - it will not give a shock if not required, and the operator cannot accidentally shock themselves or anyone else.

Presented by Peter Ballard