UNCONSCIOUS YOUNG CHILD
• Check for a response. Gently squeeze her shoulders or call out her name to see if she responds.
• Open her Airway and check her Breathing. Place two fingers under her chin and one hand on her forehead. Lift her chin and tilt her head back very slightly. Put your ear close to her mouth and feel for breaths. Look along her chest for signs of movement.
• If she is breathing, put her in the recovery position. Place her on her side on a firm surface, bend the uppermost arm and leg up and tilt her head slightly back so that any fluid in her mouth can drain easily.
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Re-check breathing few minutes until help arrives.
• If she is not breathing, begin breathing for her Artificial Ventilation. Take a deep breath, and pinch her nostrils together. Then seal your lips around her mouth. Breathe into her mouth until you see her chest rise, then remove your lips and watch the chest rise, then remove your lips and watch the chest fall. Repeat for five breaths, giving one breath every three seconds. Then check the pulse.
• Check the Circulation. Feel for a pulse in her neck (carotid pulse). Place two fingers in the groove between her windpipe and the large neck muscle beside it.
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If you have not already done so.
• If you can feel a pulse, but she is still not breathing, continue Artificial Ventilation until help arrives, re-checking the pulse every three minutes. If she starts breathing, place her in the recovery position.
• If you can’t feel a pulse, begin a combination of Chest Compressions and Artificial ventilation. To find the correct position, place two fingers on the tip of the breastbone—the bone that runs down the centre of the chest—and put the heel of your other hand next to them. Press down with the heel of your hand to a third of the depth of the chest five times (at a rate of about 100 times per minute). Then give one breath of Artificial Ventilation. Continue Chest Compressions with Artificial Ventilation until help arrives.