CPR, Heimlich, and Tracheotomy

Anybody should know how to perform these. The more so if you are a parent.

So for your convenience, here are three sites to visit, print out, and keep in your kitchen – possibly attached to your bulletin board if you have one. These save lives!

The first is a site which shows a video on how to perform CPR on a unresponsive, non-breathing child (e.g. after an electric choc). You can even download the video and keep it on your computer: http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/videodemo/child-cpr-video.html

The second site is a good explanation of how to perform the Heimlich maneuver, with several drawings. You can even learn how to do it on yourself with your fists or by leaning on a chair: http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/howtodo.html

The third site explains very clearly and concisely how to do a tracheotomy to a patient who is choking and to whom the Heimlich maneuver has not produced any result. After reading this, I think I would do it if conditions arose: http://www.tracheostomy.com/surgery/emergency.htm

I hope I will never need to do any of these. But choking is by no means a rare occurrence in children!