This page will help you prepare for and perform CPR correctly.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving emergency procedure performed when the heart stops beating. CPR helps restore the heart and lung function by promoting blood and oxygen flow throughout the body.
What are the Symptoms?
- Loss of consciousness.
- Loss of pulse.
- Loss of breathing.
How Do you Perform it?
- Ensure the area and overall are safe.
- Check the victim’s responsiveness by speaking loudly to them and gently shaking their shoulders. If there is no response, check for breathing and a pulse.
- If the person is unresponsive and not breathing or has no pulse, or is only gasping, call the emergency number in your country.
- Carefully place the victim on their back on a flat, stable surface. If a spinal injury is suspected, seek professional help to move the person and keep the head and neck aligned.
- Begin chest compressions (center of the chest) 30 times:
- Interlock your hands and position your shoulders directly above them.
- Place your hands in the middle of the chest.
- Begin chest compressions, ensuring a depth of 4 cm is reached.
- Perform compression at a rate of at least 100-120 times per minute.
- Allow the chest to fully recoil between compressions.
- Do not lean on the chest between compressions.
Give rescue breaths twice by:
- Opening the airway: lift the chin with two fingers while placing your other hand on the forehead to tilt the head back.
- Checking for breathing: look for chest movement, listen for breath sounds near the mouth and nose, and feel for air on your cheek.
- If the victim is not breathing, give one breath lasting one second, watch for chest rise, allow it to fall, and then give a second breath.
Make sure to lift the chin and tilt the head during rescue breaths.
- Continue CPR with 30 chest compressions followed by two rescue breaths until the victim recovers or the emergency services arrive.
Emergency Numbers in the Gulf Countries:
– Oman: 9999.
– Saudi Arabia: 997.
– Kuwait: 112.
– Qatar: 999.
– UAE: 998.
– Bahrain: 999.
– Yemen: 195.
