Page 116 - HS First Aid CPR & AED Student Ebook

: You need to stay on the phone until the 911 dispatcher (operator) tells you to
hang up.
Answering
Dispatcher The dispatcher will ask you about the emergency. She may also tell you how
Questions to help the infant until someone with more advanced training arrives and takes
over.
Action:
Infant CPR Answering the dispatcher's questions will not delay the arrival of help. If you
can, take the phone with you or carry the infant with you so that you're with the
Important infant while you talk to the dispatcher.

No breathing

No response + or = GIVE CPR

only gasping

The following table shows the steps for infant CPR:

Step Action
1
Make sure the scene is safe.
2
3 Tap and shout.
4
5 Yell for help.

6 Check breathing.

If the infant isn't responding and either isn't breathing or is only
gasping, give 5 sets of 30 compressions and 2 breaths, and then
phone 911 .

Keep giving sets of compressions and b reaths until the infant
starts to breathe or move, or until someone with more advanced
training arrives and takes over.

If another person is with you when you give CPR-or if you can yell for help
and get someone to come help you - then send the other person to phone 911
while you start pushing hard and fast and giving breaths. You give compres-
sions and breaths; the other person phones.

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