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2. Doctors Share Lifesaving Steps to Take During a Medical Emergency

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   Learn more: The American Red Cross provides more detailed instructions, a video demonstration, and training classes searchable by location. Life-threatening bleeding

3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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   Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure consisting of chest compressions often combined with artificial ventilation, or mouth to mouth in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.

4. Basic life support - Wikipedia

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   The American Heart Association highlights the most important steps of BLS in a "five-link chain of survival." [11] The chain of survival includes early recognition of an ongoing emergency, early initiation of CPR by a bystander, early use of a defibrillator, and early advanced life support once more qualified medical help arrives. Qualified ...

5. Advanced cardiac life support - Wikipedia

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   Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical guidelines established by the American Heart Association (AHA) for the urgent and emergent treatment of life-threatening cardiovascular conditions that will cause or have caused cardiac arrest, using advanced medical procedures, medications, and techniques.

6. History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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   In 1962, CPR was formally endorsed by the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, and the Industrial Medical Association, but with the caveat that it should be applied only by carefully trained personnel, and training should not at that time be extended to the general public. [48]

7. Basic airway management - Wikipedia

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   Treatment includes several procedures aiming at removing foreign bodies from the airways. Most modern protocols, including those of the American Heart Association, American Red Cross and the European Resuscitation Council, [4] recommend several stages, designed to apply more pressure increasingly. Basic treatment includes several procedures ...