basic life support part 1

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Basic Life Support 3:

Choking Care

Lesson 7


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Lesson Objectives

1. List ways to prevent choking.

2. Demonstrate choking care for a

responsive adult, child, and infant.

3. Demonstrate choking care for an

unresponsive adult, child, and infant.


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Choking

Emergencies

Choking is a total

or partial

obstruction of

airway

Common cause of

respiratory arrest

Immediate care is

needed


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Choking Risks

> 4000 people die from choking each year

Adults > 65 are twice as likely to die as

younger people from choking

Most cases can be prevented


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Choking Risks

Trying to swallow large pieces of food that

havent been chewed sufficiently

Eating too quickly

Eating while engaged in other activities

Alcohol or drugs

Dentures


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Preventing Choking

Do not leave small objects within reach ofinfant

Feed infants soft foods

Have child sit while eating Teach children not to eat too fast or to talk or

laugh while eating

Cut up foods a child could choke on intosmall pieces

Supervise children while they eat


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Preventing Choking

Do not give a child < 3 years of age:

Peanuts

Popcorn

Grapes

Chunks of raw vegetables or

fruitMarshmallows

Gum


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Learning Checkpoint 1

1


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Common Causes of Airway

Obstruction

Food or other foreign bodies in mouth

Tongue (unresponsive victim)

Teeth or other body tissues (injury)

Vomit


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Complete Airway

Obstruction

Victim is getting no

air at all

Victim will soon

become

unresponsive

Heart will soon stop


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Partial Airway Obstruction

Victim is still getting some air into lungs

around object

Victim may be able to cough out object


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Mild Choking

Victim is coughing forcefully

Victim is getting some air

Wheezing or high pitched sounds with breath

Do not interrupt coughing or attempts to

expel object


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Severe Choking

Victim getting little air or none

Victim may look frantic and be clutching at

throat

Victim may have pale or bluish coloring

around mouth and nail beds

Victim may be coughing weakly andsilently or not at all

Victim cannot speak


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Severe

Choking

Ask victim if he or she is

choking

If victim cant answer

begin choking care


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Unresponsive Victim

Check for breathing

If victim not breathing, open

airway and give 2 rescue

breaths

If first breath doesnt go in

try again

If second breath doesnt go

in give care for choking


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Choking Care

(Responsive Adult or Child)

Responsive choking victim

who is coughing:

Encourage coughing to clear object

Call 9-1-1 if object not immediately expelled


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Choking Care

(Responsive Adult or Child)

Responsive choking victim

who cannot speak or

cough forcefully:

Give abdominal thrusts


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Choking Care

(Unresponsive

Adult or Child)

With unresponsivechoking victim (if your

rescue breaths do not

go in):

Immediately call 9-1-1

Begin CPR

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