I believe that everyone should know how to save a life...

I believe that everyone should know how to save a life during a choking event. The best method is to join a 'hands on class'. However,this may not be available or within our time contraints. This being said, we can still learn by watching 'how to' on UTube. Did this tutorial help or do you have another you can recommend?

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00:01 Hello students in this question you have been told that you're shopping at oliver's market and you pass through the cheese section and they are giving out free cheese samples so you take one and consider buying a chunk of cheese when you notice an elder an older gentleman clutching his throat coughing in distress.

00:32 He's standing right next to the person giving out the samples so assuming he's choking on some cheese, what are the steps that you're going to take? so firstly since you are considered or believed to be a professional medical professional so you are going to use safety measures so if the ppe kit is available to you and you can go for that if not, you can use a mask and a sanitizer to clear up your to clear up any contamination that you might be carrying and look around if there is any potential hazard for you as well as for the person who is getting choked so who's get who's being choked? so once you have clarified that you can id yourself to the person and ask for their consent for your help once the consent is obtained what you can do is you can provide your assistance by firstly asking help from the emergency medical services around the area and then identifying that there is a complete airway obstruction for the person.

02:02 You're going to begin the abdominal thrust abdominal thrust to dislodge the obstruction stand behind the patient place your hand above their navel and deliver upward thrust if you see that the patient has become unconscious you will gently bring them to the ground and begin cpr cpr immediately beginning with chest compressions.

02:45 So what? will happen you have to ensure that the patient is gently put on the ground and their head is supported supported and the airway remains open check for signs of breathing or you can do that by looking or listening or feeling any air movement in the lungs, then if the patient is not breathing or only gasping start cpr immediately begin with chest compression by placing the heel of one hand at the center of the chest interlocking the other hand on top and delivering compressions at the rate of 100 to 120 per minute...

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