CPR or cardiopulmonary resucitation is
a basic skill that everyone should learn. It can mean the difference between
life and death. CPR can restore the flow of oxygen to the brain if the heart
has stopped breathing due to heart attack, drowning, electrical shock,
suffocation, drug overdose or for some other reason.
To know how to perform CPR correctly, you
need expert training. It takes 3 hours to learn and the essential steps can be
remembered as ABC:
Airway.
Tilt the victim’s head
back and clear the airway.
Breathing. Pinch the nose closed and perform
mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing.
Circulation. Using both hands, compress the chest at a
point where the sternum (about midpoint in the front of the rib cage) to
compress the heart and deliver blood to the body until the heart can resume
beating on its own.
Used with permission from A
Year of Health Hints by Don R Powell, PHD and the American Institute for
Preventive Medicine, copyright 2010. www.healthylife.com
