Now let's say that we're doing one rescuer, lay rescuer, CPR on the infant, but we have an AED available immediately,
or someone brought it in to us.
As a child day care provider or a school, these are going to become more and more prevalent.
It's being encouraged a lot more, and if you don't already have one, they really should be included in part of your
core equipment for emergency medical response.
They are phenomenal. They save lives.
But let's just look at this now from the approach that we're going to integrate the AED into the infant CPR.
When the AED has infant size pads or pediatric size pads, it automatically now regulates
the amount of joules of electricity appropriate to the size of the patient.
So that's good news for the ability to at least put the pads on, and if it's a shockable rhythm, or disrhythmia rather, it will shock.
If not, it will tell you to continue CPR, and we'll just continue.
It's not anything negative, it's just that we'll continue doing what we've always done.
So, scene is safe, our gloves are on, shield is available.
AED is available.
So, if I bring this AED in immediately, which is what the scenario is going to be,
I don't even start CPR, I just turn the AED on.
The scene is safe for an AED, there's no combustibles, no standing water, no standing liquids.
(Remove clothing from person's chest.)
Remove the clothing.
(Attach pads firmly to person's chest, as shown.)
Grab the pediatric pads.
And then they have diagrams right on them as to how to place them.
One on the back.
(Plug in connector.)
And one on the front.
(Check connector and pads.)
And now we're gonna plug the connector into the AED.
(Analyzing rhythm, everyone stand clear.)
Clear, everybody's clear.
(Shock advised, charging, everyone stand clear.)
(Beeep)
(Everyone stand clear.)
(Push the shock button.)
(Shock delivered.)
(Begin five cycles of CPR.)
Gonna go right into CPR, 30 compressions to 2 rescue breaths, and I'm gonna continue that until the AED interrupts me,
and then I'm gonna follow the promptings of the AED.
I'm not going to remove anything.
I'm going to wait for emergency medical services to respond.
Remember, as soon as we knew that this baby was unconscious, unresponsive, no breathing, we've activated emergency medical services.
Regardless of whether we've got an AED on scene or not.
So now we're just going to follow the prompts of the AED.
(1 minute and 30 seconds of CPR remain.)
And wait for EMS to arrive.
Baby baby, are you alright, are you okay?
The scene is safe, my gloves are on, my shield is available.
Baby! There's no response, the baby does not appear to be breathing normally, and they're not responsive.
You in the plaid shirt, go call 911 and come back!
I've got an AED present, I'm gonna turn it on.
No standing water, no combustibles.
(Remove clothing from person's chest.)
Take the onesie off.
(Attach pads firmly to person's chest, as shown.)
Attaching the pads as they show right on the pad itself, one on the front, one on the back.
(Plug in connector.)
Plugging in the connector.
(Analyzing rhythm, everyone stand clear.)
Clear. Nobody's touching the baby.
(Shock advised. Charging. Everyone stand clear.)
(Beeep.)
Clear.
(Everyone stand clear.)
(Push the shock button.)
(Shock delivered.)
(Begin five cycles of CPR.)
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
27, 28, 29, 30.
Two breaths went in. Thirty more compressions.
I'm going to do my thirty compressions followed by two rescue breaths, followed by thirty compressions, by two rescue breaths.
I'm going to do that until the AED interrupts me, or until advanced life support arrives.