- Positive self at victim’s side
- Victim should be placed on flat and firm surface, face up.
- Position hands and body
- Hands: heel of one hand at center of victim’s chest in lower half of breastbone while heel of second hand on top of first
- Straighten arms
- Position shoulders directly above hands
- Compress chest with rate of 100 to 120/min
- Maintain chest compression depth of at least 5 cm
- Allow chest recoil
- Minimize interruptions
Alternate technique
- Put first hand on victim’s breastbone
- Grasp wrist of first hand with the second hand
- Compress chest
Pregnant Women
- Place victim face up on flat, firm surface
- Manually perform lateral uterine displacement to relieve pressure on large blood vessels
- Perform CPR
- If more than 1 rescuer:
- Continuously perform lateral uterine displacement
- Rescuer 2 provides high quality CPR
- If victim achieves ROSC, place victim on left side for better circulation
Giving Breaths: two techniques
Head tilt-chin lift
- Place hand on victim forehead. Push with palm the head back
- Place fingers of other hand under chin
- Lift jaw until chin is forward
- Position self at victim’s head
- Place each hand on each side of victim’s head
- Place fingers under angle of lower jaw and lift the jaw forward
- If lips remain closed, push lower lip
