This information is much appreciated!
Erika
--- John Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Welcome to the list and to emergency medicine.
>
> As far as the First Aid Manual is concerned, and for
> me as a first aider
> that is my sole guideline, chest thrusts are used on
> a choking baby aged up
> to 1 year. For a child of the same age range, CPR is
> performed if the pulse
> rate has dropped below 60 beats per minute with the
> fingers in the same
> position as above.
> For a choking conscious child aged 1 to
> (approximately) 7 then abdominal
> thrusts are used after five unsuccessful back slaps.
> For an unconscious
> child aged 1 to 7, then it is five back slaps
> followed by a single handed
> abdominal thrust with the heel of the hand midway
> between the navel and the
> breastbone.
> Children aged 8 and over are treated as adults.
> The guiding light though has to be the relative size
> of the child, for
> example a small 9 year old would be better treated
> as a seven year old and a
> large seven year old may be better treated as an
> eight year old. To some
> extent it is down to your own judgement.
>
> The differences are due to the size of the casualty
> in relation to the size
> of the first aider/rescuer/parent and the delicacy
> of the casualty's body.
> If an adult did the same amount of rescue breathing
> into a baby as they do
> for an adult then the baby's lungs would probably
> rupture.
>
> I apologise for any repeated information and for the
> less technical
> observations.
>
> John Collis,
> Principal Software Engineer and FAW,
> Racal Defence Electronics Limited,
> Scudamore Road,
> Leicester,
> Leics
>
> Tel: 0116 2594253
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> corporate website : www.rdel.co.uk
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Erika Kovannin
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 16:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Infants - abdominal thrusts
>
>
> New to the list, fairly new to emergency
> medicine...
>
>
> The question pertains to finger positioning for
> abdominal thrusts on an infant. According to the
> reference books, finger placement is in precisely
> the
> same position as for external chest compressions for
> CPR. It has been mentioned that to perform CPR on
> an
> adult whilst the heart is beating could in fact put
> the heart in arrest. Does this differ in infants?
> Why
> the same finger positioning? Perhaps someone can
> help
> me with this one?
>
> Eva
> (BCAS)
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