Sudden Cardiac Arrest
AEDS Save Lives.
If you see someone who's unconscious and not breathing normally, do the following:
· Call 911 or Emergency Medical Help. If you have access to a telephone, call 911 before beginning CPR.
· Perform CPR. Push hard and fast on the person's chest — at the rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute. If you've been trained in CPR, check the person's airway and deliver rescue breaths after every 30 compressions. If you haven't been trained, just continue chest compressions. Allow the chest to rise completely between compressions. Keep doing this until a portable defibrillator is available or emergency workers arrive.
· Use a portable defibrillator (AED), if one is available. It will give you step-by-step voice instructions. Continue chest compressions while the defibrillator is charging. Deliver one shock (if advised by the AED device) and then immediately resume CPR, starting with chest compressions, or give chest compressions only, for about two minutes.
· Continue with CPR/AED until help arrives or the person regains consciousness.
