Jim: This is the BabySim from METI. This is actually a simulator of a baby. This is what actually allow the medical students and the doctors are using to train while we are going to pretend he is a real baby, so are you ready. So we come across him and we notice he is not breathing. So oh my gosh, we got to do something we are going to grab him out of this carrier, perhaps once move that thing and put him on a nice hard surface. He is obviously not breathing; for having a heart beat so first thing we want to do is give him a couple rescue breaths all right.
Male Speaker 2: And an easy way to tell if an infant is breathing is if you get down next to him, you don’t see that chest rise you don’t feel any air against your cheek then you know the baby is not breathing.
Male Speaker 1: Often times you might take a look in his mouth see if there is something that is choked on if there is something you can see you grab it if there isn’t you don’t do a blind sweep. So you have done the two rescue breathes. Then we are going to start since he doesn’t have a pulse either we are going to start chest compressions, make a line between his nipples which are about here, take three fingers for a baby of this size and this is kind of a bigger baby some body use two hands and about a 100 per minute I like to sing the song stand alive, stand alive, stand alive gives you a nice rhythm. You do about 30 compressions and you give another two rescue breathes. For a baby this size, you probably need to plug the nose, oh he started, oh he woke up. He started to cry and breathe so that’s good. We are going to check his pulse in his arm or his leg that’s one of the difference between with adult usually check in the neck but if they are baby use check in the arm and the leg. Obviously if a baby is crying that’s a most guarantee that he is breathing and has a pulse.
Female Speaker: That’s good, okay, now is there is it possible to do it too hard because my baby is really, really tiny right now.
Male Speaker 1: You know baby’s ribs are actually very soft. So it would be unusual on a baby to do it too hard. You are actually going to be pressing down about a third of the chest wall.
Male Speaker 2: You know you are not worried about hurting your baby because you can’t hurt a baby more than death and you want to save your baby’s life, all CPR is for everyone at home is you are artificially giving breathes, filling the lungs with oxygen and then when you press on the chest you are sending that oxygen in the blood to the brain and other organs.
Male Speaker 1: The sooner you start CPR the better chances of the baby coming back because often times it just takes a couple of breaths to get the breathing going and then he will come back.
Male Speaker 2: And in a baby one important point is we actually recommend that you perform CPR for 1 to 2 minutes, if you by yourself before you call 911 because sometimes you can get your baby, baby’s vital signs back within a minute.
Female Speakers: So two rescues breathes, 30 compressions and --
Male Speaker 1: And keep on back, back and froth until he wakes up, do it for a minute or two then call 911 if he hasn’t revived and then just keep going. You can do this for a long time and keep the vital functions going even if he is not waking up until help arise.
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