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Case High School senior organized Pet CPR/first aid classes to equip first responders and shelter volunteers with the know-how during a pet emergency.
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.
In a cardiac arrest, hands-only CPR can be the potentially life-saving action before other trained personnel arrive. CPR has two main skills, providing compressions and giving breaths.
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CPR involves a rescuer or bystander providing chest compressions to a patient in a supine position while also giving rescue breaths. The rescuer or bystander can also choose not to provide breaths and provide compression-only CPR. Depending on the age and circumstances of the patient, there can be variations in the compression to breath ratio ...
System Example causes Biomarker Treatment Hypoperfusion (Circulatory shock) : Haemorrhagic shock: Hypovolemia (Hypovolemic shock) : Intravascular volume status () : Heart rate (Tachycardia) / Systolic blood pressure (Hypotension) / Decreased urine output
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The CPR mask is the preferred method of ventilating a patient when only one rescuer is available. Many feature 18 mm (0.71 in) inlets to support supplemental oxygen, which increases the oxygen being delivered from the approximate 17% available in the expired air of the rescuer to around 40-50%. [12]