TANOG, RAFFY S.

1. What is Basic Life Support?

 It is a set of emergency procedures that consist of recognizing respiratory or
cardiac arrest and the proper application of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation.

2. How important the Basic Life Support?

 It is very important because it all about saving lives. By performing CPR in a
critical or emergency situation you can save lives before transporting it to
hospital

3. How will you recognize if someone needs help?

 You have to survey the scene first then call for help before performing CPR,
ensure the patient if it safe to perform some procedures like CPR. If the patient is
conscious you have to introduce first yourself ad stay to the side of the patient
and observe any changes and if it is unconscious you have to shake the patient if
they are okay or they can response to you, check the rub the sternum with your
knuckle and if there is no response, have no breathing or has no normal breathing
and definite pulse start performing CPR.

4. How to conduct CPR?

 Open the airway using Head-Tilt/Chin-Lift Maneuver/Jaw-Thrust Maneuver
using your hand
 In breathing, look for any chest wall movement, listened for any breath sounds
and feel for breath under nostrils and mouth.
 Place hands over the center of the chest- 2 fingers above the end of the sternum,
interlock the hand, make sure pressure is not applied to the ribs
 Before you start compressing, make sure your shoulders directly above your
hands, arms should be straight and press it down with depth of 5-6 cm.
 After 30 compressions, give 2 rescue breaths (30:2 for single rescuer, 15:2 for 2
man rescuer. Tilt head of person back and pinch their nose, take a breath in and
blow into the mouth and watch for the rising and falling of the chest. Each breath
take 1 second.

5. On recover position, what will you do?

 Bend the arm of the patient and place the back of the victim’s hand against
his/her cheek and hold there and bend the knee.
 Turn the victim towards you as one unit.