Heart & Stroke CPR Guidelines

Video Transcript

"The heart and stroke CPR guidelines vary from the age of the patient, where one to eight is considered a child. Anybody over eight is considered an adult and anything less than one year is considered an infant. American Heart Association change the guidelines on several occasions over the past years. So it's highly recommended that you keep up your CPR card and renew your CPR card as recommended by the American Heart Association. As far as guidelines are concerned, for the adult patient for two-rescuer CPR, the compression to ventilation ratio is thirty to two. You'll perform the compressions themselves with one hand, with the heel of your hand over the sternum. The other, the other hand over the top of that hand. And you'll compress the chest at a depth of one and a half to two inches or enough to provide a palpable carotid pulse. Ventilations are performed ten to twelve breaths per minute, in the absence of chest compressions. And for a child from the age of one to eight years with two-rescuer CPR, they'll be performing ventilation to chest compressions at a rate of fifteen compressions to two ventilations. You're shooting for a hundred compressions every minute, and for a child between the ages of one to eight years, the depth of compressions will be between, will be between one third to one half the depth of the chest."