If you have witnessed a cardiac arrest, your actions can save life. Here’s to do
Isabelle Gallant | CBC News | Posted: March 9, 2024 9:00 am | Last Updated: March 9, 2024
CPR start and using an AED is the key to keeping someone alive
Cardiac arrest can occur at any time with almost anyone, and experts say that the actions of a bystander can explain the difference between life and death.
You don’t have to have official CPR training to jump and help, said Tisha White, Resuscitation Program Manager for Atlantic Canada with a heart and stroke.
“We want people to do something than nothing,” said white.
“Every minute continues we don’t do something with hands-in compressions or AEDs, the moment of survival of someone.”
What is cardiac arrest?
The number of out-of-hospital arrests with cardiac breathes over the past few years, which is part of more accurate estimates. Other reasons for increasing become an older population, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the crioid crisis, speak experts.
The cause of heart catch is a problem with electricity that prevents the heart from beating.
This is different from the heart attack, which is a blockage of one of the blood vessels of the heart.
If someone has experienced a cardiac arrest, it is the key to acting quickly, saying experts, which is the cause of the steps to get before the steps to steps:
- Learn cardiac arrest and call 911.
- Start CPR with weight in chest compressions.
- Easily defibrillate using an automated external defibrillator or aed.
‘Unreliable and non-breathing’
How do you know someone can be in the heart catch?
“They will be destroyed. They will give up unreliable and not breathing. And when they breathe, they have sounds that you can hear,” Sandhu, a professor of cardiac sciences at the University of Calgary.
If you see the signs, call 911 and if something else is near, shout for them to bring an AED if there is, he says. Devices, which are typically found in sports facilities and some businesses, analyze the rhythm of one’s heart and administer an electric shock if necessary.
Step 2: Start CPR to man right away.
“CPR can save lives. And you’re not going to do any harm to these people by doing CPR until Professional arrives,” Said Dr. Sean Van Diepen, a Cardiologist and Intensivist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
How to do cpr
Most facilities are not trained in the chin resuscitation, say white, which is why it does not include the steps to do for basic CPR.
Although it is not, chest compressions are to keep blood flowing and other important organs, as experts.
“You put the heel in your hand at the center of the chest, you put your fingers on your other hand on top, and you push,” Sandhu said.
Compressions should be about five centimeters deep, as white, or the height of a credit card.
“You want to focus your shoulders on top of someone and push your upper body, as opposed to allowing your arms every time,” he said.
Press a quick rhythm, about 100 to 120 beats per minute. Stay in time, sing Lives’ alive in your head – or a song with the same beat.
Continue to go – even if you are worried that you don’t do it right, Van Diepen said.
“Although not as easy as a professional, you have done and you have drawn the blood flow and oxygen of the brain,” he said.
How a Defibrillator works
If someone brings you an AED, stop compressions and start using it, experts say.
AEDs checked the rhythm of the human heart and shocked the heart if necessary.
The device has an audio substance walking to you by using it, as white, as well as pictures where one person’s chest pads are placed.
“I think many times the fear is that, ‘Well, what if I had something and I did wrong.’ But AEDs became very good that it won’t shock someone unless they need it, “says white.
AED also tells you when to keep compressions on the chest – you have to do until the ambulance comes.
Not balance with gender
“There’s a doubt for people to put women’s hands, especially in women’s breasts,” he said.
“There’s a level like, ‘I don’t have to do it because it’s a girl.’ And at the end of the day actually affects us as women and our safety rates from catching the heart. ”
White hope by raising awareness of this issue, many people can recognize the importance of doing CPR no matter what gender.
Others may be worried about human hurting – no matter how gender – by being too close or deep in their chest, but experts say the benefits of providing CPR.
Multiple Education Required
For those who want to learn more about CPR and basic life support, there are many types of training available, including classes from classes from heart and stroke and stroke.
White hopes more education about Cardiac catch and CPR will make more aware of young people.
“If we have a generation of children growing aware and who is comfortable to know what to do in that situation, I think it’s a great start,” he said.
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