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AIRWAY
A. AIRWAY:
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 |
