If you find a collapsed person, find out if he is conscious by shaking the
shoulders and shouting "are you all right?" If there is no
response, send someone to call a doctor or your local emergency telephone number
and say cardiac emergency. If the person is not lying flat on his back, roll him
over, moving the entire body at one time, as a total unit. Then open the airway.
To open the airway, lift
the chin gently with one hand,
while pushing down on the
forehead with the other to tilt the head back. Once the airway is open, place
your ear close to the casualty's mouth:
- LOOK- at the chest
and stomach for movement.
- LISTEN - for sounds
of breathing.
- FEEL - for breath on
your cheek.
If none of these
signs is present, the person is not breathing. If opening the airway does not
cause the person to begin to breathe spontaneously, you must provide rescue
breathing. Go to B
of the ABC's
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