Medical Emergencies & First Aid : Heart & Stroke CPR Guidelines

The heart and stroke guidelines vary depending on the age of the patient, and anybody over 8 is considered to be an adult. Learn about the amount of compressions that should be performed every minute during CPR with help from an EMT in this free video on CPR guidelines.

Expert: Brian Luscomb
Bio: Brian Luscomb is an EMT at the City of Humble Fire Department in Texas.
Filmmaker: Kevin Haberer

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• medical
• emergencies
• first
• aid
• emergency
• EMT
• ambulance
• CPR
• sepsis
• heatstroke
• strokes
• heart
• attacks
• brain
• injury

[dhide14]

what do you do if you "accidentally" super glue your hand to your dick?

[Arielleyy]

@sacrierofthesouth He means 30 compressions and 2 breaths for an adult, and 15 compressions and 2 breath for a child.

[sacrierofthesouth]

well im kind of lost i want to study to become an emt and by this through me a bit off... when he says 30:2 for and adult and 15:2 for a child what does he mean?

[nickyd653]

So basically what he is saying is that child is half the adult which is 30/2 and child is 15/2 thats quite smart but what is it for anybody below one ?

[dan813r]

It is one rescuer 30:2 and two rescuer is the same for adult but changes for infant and child to 15:2. Because venilations preformed via pocket mask you only producing between 10% and 16% o2 use of a bvm is prefered providing 21% o2 to the patient when an 02 cylinder is not readly available. Remeber CPR is only keeping them biologically, early defibulation is key.

[jorgereviews]

its been 15:2 for a long time

[Arielleyy]

i thought it was 30:2 for children and adults? did that change already?