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Saturday, July 07, 2012

Open airway for the injured and dead-end conscious (an infant less than a year).

Steps to open the blocked airway for the injured.

1 - Note the difficulty of breathing on the baby with the change to blue, to ascertain if the airway blocked by a foreign body.
2 - ask for help from the one next to you to ask for help.
3 - separated between the thighs of the child, and face-down so that the head at a lower level of the trunk, as gravity helps expel body in this situation.
4 - Place the baby on your forearm, and has been given by the thigh, to avoid the occurrence of your hand.
5 - Make (5 hits) on the back firmly between the shoulders by following the inspiration of
the hand.
 
 
6- Turn the baby on his back while maintaining the head put in a lower level of the trunk, as gravity will help to attract foreign body to the bottom.
 
7- Put two or three fingertips on the middle of the breastbone between the nipples.
8- Click on the chest of an infant five quick strokes inside, so move the air inside the trachea to expel the foreign body .
 
 

9- Repeat steps (4: 7) that pronounces foreign body to the outside.

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