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    The document outlines the skills and steps for performing basic life support on an adult or older child. It includes 9 key skills: 1) ensuring safety, calling for help if needed; 2) opening the airway with head tilt or jaw thrust; 3) assessing breathing and inserting an airway if needed; 4) assessing breathing by looking, feeling, and listening; 5) giving 5 rescue breaths if not breathing; 6) reassessing and ventilating with a bag valve mask if needed; 7) starting chest compressions at 100/min if pulse is absent or less than 60/min; 8) doing compressions and breaths at a 30:2 ratio for adults or 15:2 for

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    The document outlines the skills and steps for performing basic life support on an adult or older child. It includes 9 key skills: 1) ensuring safety, calling for help if needed; 2) opening the airway with head tilt or jaw thrust; 3) assessing breathing and inserting an airway if needed; 4) assessing breathing by looking, feeling, and listening; 5) giving 5 rescue breaths if not breathing; 6) reassessing and ventilating with a bag valve mask if needed; 7) starting chest compressions at 100/min if pulse is absent or less than 60/min; 8) doing compressions and breaths at a 30:2 ratio for adults or 15:2 for

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    Basic Life Support

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    Felix Simuchimba
    The document outlines the skills and steps for performing basic life support on an adult or older child. It includes 9 key skills: 1) ensuring safety, calling for help if needed; 2) opening the airway with head tilt or jaw thrust; 3) assessing breathing and inserting an airway if needed; 4) assessing breathing by looking, feeling, and listening; 5) giving 5 rescue breaths if not breathing; 6) reassessing and ventilating with a bag valve mask if needed; 7) starting chest compressions at 100/min if pulse is absent or less than 60/min; 8) doing compressions and breaths at a 30:2 ratio for adults or 15:2 for

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    Clinical Skills Basic Life Support (Adult/Older Child)

    Student Name: _______________________________________________Computer#_____________________Gp #_______

    Examiner (Print) ________________________________________________________ Final Score______ /18= _______%

    Complete/ Incomplete/ Not Done Comments


    Skill Demonstrated Correct Incorrect
    (2 marks) (1 mark)
    1. Ensures safety of both candidate and the patient
    2. Calls out to the patient, stimulates, if no response
    calls for help
    3. Airway maneuvres; chin lift, head tilt (verbalizes; in
    none cervical spine injury), Jaw thrust (in Cervical
    spine injuries), suctions.
    Assess (Look/ feel/ listen)
    4. Picks appropriate size of Guedel (oropharyngeal
    airway) or Naso-pharyngeal airway, demonstrates how
    to assess correct size and how to insert it correctly.
    Inserts Guedel (oropharyngeal airway) or naso-
    pharyngeal airway.
    5. Assess; Looks/Feels/Listens; verbalizes as candidate
    puts their ear to the patient’s mouth to feel/listen for
    breath sounds, while looking for chest rise and palpate
    for the carotid.
    6. If not breathing, gives 5 rescue breathes with bag-
    valve mask (BVM) /Ambu bag. AA to explain how to
    assess correct size of BVM
    Reassess (Look/feel/listen)
    If no response, ventilates patient with BVM while
    assessing whether patient needs CPR or not.
    7. If pulse <60/min or absent, starts cardiopulmonary
    resuscitation (CPR). Identifies land marks for cardiac
    compressions (in adult lower half of the sternum)
    Give 5cm depth of compressions.
    8. Cardiac compressions: ventilation breathes at ratio of
    30:2 adults, 15:2 in children.
    Verbalizes rate of cardiac compressions at 100/min.
    9. Verbalizes to continue CPR until patient wakes up or
    help arrives to move onto advanced life support.

    Total Score /18

    Further reading:
     What is Basic Life Support?
     Basic life support vs Advanced life support?
     Factors that improve the effectiveness of Basic Life Support?
     Glasgow coma scale (SCS)
     4Hs and 4Ts of cardiac Arrest.

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