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Heart and lung resucitation

How to give heart and lung resucitation to your new born baby

Your observations as a parent are critically important. 
You know your child very well and therefore can be trusted to identify any abnormality in their current conditions. 
Please note, it is NOT normal for a child to breath irregular. If your child has a pause or a gap in their breathing or seems to be blue/blue tinge in the skin complexion, you must act urgently and decisively!

If your child does not breath, immediately stimulate you child by: 

  • Pick up the child and carefully rub the child’s back - along the spine or even the sternum
  • This is usually enough to get your child to breathe again.  

What not to do:

  • Do not shake your child!
  • What to expect after your child starts breathing again:
  • At the start, it will be superficial but soon after there will be a return to normal deep breathing. The color of your child will return to normal thereafter.

If your child does not respond to the stimulation: 

  • Call 112, emergency.
  • Call help from your surroundings.
  • Make sure your child has free airways, by removing the feeding tube.
  • Turn your child on its stomach.
  • Lift the torso with one hand so your child’s head is downwards.
  • Tap gently but firmly between the shoulder blades, to loosen mycoses from the airway/mouth.
  • Clean the mouth of your child with a finger, use a little cloth rapped around it if necessary.

If your child still does not breath - you have to start airway resuscitation:

  • Put your child on a firm and steady surface.
  • Put a hand on its forehead, pull the chin up and close the mouth with the other hand.
  • Take a deep breath and place your wide-open mount around your child’s nose and blow the air in gently until resistance/oppression
  • Let go and look at the torso/breast, and check movement.
  • Repeat the above.
  • After the resuscitation, it is very likely that the child will start breathing again. 
  • Look for signs of life 

If there are still no signs of life you must start heart and lung resuscitation (HLR): 

  • Place 2 fingers on the lower sternum.
  • Do compressions so the sternum moves approximately 1/3 of the chests’ depth with a speed of 100 presses a minute.
  • Continue HLR until the child shows signs of life or until the paramedic takes over.
     
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