What is lay person CPR for infants?
• CPR is also called cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CPR is used when a person stops breathing and his heart has stopped beating. Infant CPR should be used on children who are about one year old and younger. “Lay person” refers to anyone who is not a trained healthcare worker. If you start CPR early and do it correctly, you may be able to save someone from dying. Practice the steps of CPR and know them well. • Rescue breathing means breathing into the mouth, nose, or both of an infant who is unable to breathe well enough on his own. A chest compression is the placement of pressure on and off the chest of an infant with your fingers. A compression presses the heart between the spine (backbone) and sternum (breastbone). This forces blood out of the heart and into the rest of the body. Chest compressions done with rescue breathing is called CPR. Why might an infant need CPR? • SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). • Foreign body airway obstruction (an object blocking the airway), suffocatio
