Child CPR course St. Albert

Statistically, it has been shown that it takes around 8 minutes for the ambulance to arrive at an emergency scene, while your child's brain dies within 4 to 6 minutes if deprived of oxygen.

london, United Kingdom (prHWY.com) March 25, 2013 - Statistically, it has been shown that it takes around 8 minutes for the ambulance to arrive at an emergency scene, while your child's brain dies within 4 to 6 minutes if deprived of oxygen. As a parent, are you prepared to come to the rescue of your unconscious child? The child CPR course St. Albert will make sure that you are. If those dreaded 4 to 6 minutes will ever become a reality, you will learn how to keep death away from your baby.


It's important to know that it's much more difficult to help children than adults during emergencies, since they are unable to identify or express what they feel. If you're daily involved in working with children, it's probably common knowledge that they are hard to be calmed down, and due to their energy and lack of experience, they are the most prone to accidental falls, choking, food allergies, fever and possibly as a consequence of these, heart beat and breathing problems. If you're working in a nursery, or you're a future parent, a baby CPR course Edmonton is a necessity for successfully being able to deal with such problems.

Hypoxia or the insufficient oxygenation of the body's tissue due to airway obstruction is a common risk for children. This may be caused by the inhalation of different objects; the blockage caused by the tongue, blood or vomit while a victim is unconscious; internal swelling of the throat occurring with burns, stings, scalits or anaphylaxis; injuries of the face or jaw; an asthma attack in which the small airways in the lungs constrict or peanuts which swell in contact with bodily fluids, being able to completely block a small child's airways. The child CPR course St. Albert can teach you how to help a choking or unconscious child.

In case of choking, if the child loses consciousness, then the throat muscles may relax and the airway may open enough for you to perform CPR. However, if the child is still conscious, but cannot speak, cough or breathe, you should first try to perform back blows with the heel of you hand between the child's shoulder blades and if these fail, then you should try the abdominal thrusts,also known as the Heimlich manoeuvre. For an infant, it's necessary to lay him face down on you forearm and perform up to five back blows and then turn him and remove any obstruction from his mouth. If these fail, you should give him up to five chest thrusts using two fingers and pushing inwards and upwards.

In the case of unconsciousness, as you will learn in your baby CPR course Edmonton, you should immediately start performing CPR. If you happen to be alone, you should alternate 30 chest compressions with 2 breaths for one minute and only then stop to call the ambulance. You should always treat a child or an infant from the same side during the different stages of CPR and although the use of an AED is acceptable for children, in the case of infants you should use a manual defibrillator.

In your baby CPR course Edmonton, you will find out that there are considerable differences between the way you deliver CPR to children or infants and to adults. These are mostly due to the physiological differences between the body of the adult and the child. A child's organism may be more resilient than that of an adult, but CPR should be performed immediately.
When performing the head-tilt-chin-lift maneuver, you should keep in mind that children and infants have more fragile airways and it's also recommended that you perform the chest compressions only with one hand. All in all, Child CPR course St. Albert is meant to teach you how to save children and offer them the best CPR.
For more information about the differences between a child CPR course St. Albert http://www.drbonescpr.com/parents/ and a standard adult first aid course, you should visit our website. If you are in the fortunate situation of expecting a child, you may also want learn more about baby CPR course Edmonton http://www.drbonescpr.com/parents/.

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