well every parent hopes that they will
never have to use cpr on their child or
infant it is important to know how
just in case you just don't ever know
what's going to happen joining me this
morning is christian smith from the
american red cross
to walk us through this process last
hour we talked about adults now we're
talking about infants good morning
thanks for being here of course always
appreciate it okay
so walk me through i've walked into my
child's crib for some reason and and my
child
is not responsive what should i do okay
so you tell me what you do
okay so first we're going to be really
calm right you
you check the scene you know it's safe
because it's your home right right okay
so
tap the foot tap the foot okay yeah okay
okay because that will tell me
they normally move yeah it's gonna be
very good yeah so okay unresponsive okay
so
now you want to tilt the head back
gently tilt the head back okay
and then put your head down about 10
seconds okay i don't hear any breathing
no no breathing okay i don't see any
breathing
okay so now we're going to go into we
know it's time and you're going to go
ahead and you're going to um
administer cpr okay right but what
didn't we do
you're at home so we forgot a very
important part so
we need to assign someone in the home to
call 9-1-1
very good okay but what if i'm alone
okay because now i'm worried i've got my
child here my child's not breathing do i
take the time to run and try to find my
cell phone and call 9-1-1
if you are alone you want to call 9-1-1
okay and then administer the care
okay because we want to get someone who
really knows what they're doing here as
quickly as possible okay
you got it so we're um calling assigning
someone to call 9-1-1 or i'm calling
9-1-1 what about an aed well so
most people don't have them in their
homes and they they do they're they're
they are equipped you can use them but
most people don't have them in their
homes so
in this case you know con you want to do
the the compressions you want to do the
cpr
until emergency personnel okay okay you
may have an aed but
you don't have and if you're in a
workplace maybe then that's what you do
okay so now do i
breathe first or start um okay so now
this time you're not going to use this
you're going to do two fingers
okay two fingers right underneath and
you're gonna feel it yeah right there
right here
kind of right underneath the shoulders
up just like you were before yep and
you're gonna go
one and two and three i'm pushing with
the same force okay
okay almost here it's about one and a
half you were doing about two inches
before okay
you're doing good am i going fast enough
one and two and three and four and five
and do i do thirty
and six and seven and eight and nine
okay so i do 30. yeah
okay and then after 30. arms keep your
arms okay
arm lock okay you know you're afraid
you're going to hurt this child but
you might feel some breaking bones but
it's worth it to save their life
right you keep doing your thing okay so
now you've done your 30. so then you're
going to tilt the head back
all right and then you're going to do
your two breaths okay but the breasts
are over the nose and the mouth right
perfect
good job i remember from when my kids
were young
see the chest rising okay great okay
okay what if
i'm not comfortable what if i don't want
to do breathing because this is maybe a
child i don't know or whatever i don't
know i mean there are some people who
are worried
you can well then you would just do the
just do the expressions okay but okay
it's your own child so i'm guessing you
would do that yes of course of course so
go back and then back
again do the same thirty okay thirty
and we keep bottom okay and we do this
one and a half okay and we do this until
rescue arrives now
what if i've locked the door my front
door should i have unlocked that
ahead of time we think maybe well yeah i
mean they're gonna have to be able to
get in okay right so okay you know
hopefully someone's going to be home
with you i mean that's why what you just
described is why the class is so
important because they're going to go
through all these scenarios with you
they're going to tell you hey if this
happens then do this if this happens do
this
your job is to take care and continue
providing those
until you can't do it any longer an
emergency personnel or someone like
myself i can come and take over for you
because you're so exhausted
and the most important thing of course
is making sure that you do something and
not just do nothing and waiting for
emergency personnel to get there
average time in the united states seven
minutes
it takes two minutes two minutes more
than two minutes
every second counts when it comes to
saving a life every every moment counts
so don't ever lose sight of that that's
the most important part
such vital information christian too
because i've done this for years and i
thought i knew and you've reminded me
of the importance of taking an official
cpr class and why it's so important
what we showed you here is just a place
marker basically you need to take a cpr
class red cross
offers them you can go to redcross.org
or call 800
red cross christian as always thank you
for your time this morning appreciate it