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WHAT TO DO & WHEN
The Defibrillator is installed on the outside wall of Leighton Village Hall near the entrance to the kitchen from the
car park. The 4 figure pin number to open the cabinet is easy to remember — it’s the year the LVH was opened.
The chest needs to be pushed down about 5 - 6 cm
(2 ). This is hard work as we found out when we
were practising dummies for just a minute at a time.
Another helper kneeling at the opposite side can take
it in turns to maintain the rhythm for a few minutes
at a time.
The CPR is intended to try and restart the heart and
also to work the lungs so that oxygen still in the
blood will get to the brain. Performed correctly CPR
often causes broken ribs — but the patient’s life is
saved.
AED = Automatic Electronic Defibrillator. It not STAGE 2 – USING THE AED
only speaks its instructions but has on-screen Switch on with the top left button. Listen
illustrations to follow. An AED is used when someone to the prompts: steps 1 -5 will already
suffers a Cardiac Arrest. This is when the heart have been completed in the Stage 1 CPR.
suddenly stops beating and immediate emergency
action is essential. A cardiac arrest can happen to If the patient is a child press the button
anyone at any age. It is not the same as a heart attack bottom left. If this is not pressed the device
which has different symptoms and treatment. continues with instructions for adults.
[See the notes on the next page]
Remove the pack from the back of
STAGE 1 – START CPR IMMEDIATELY the AED. Use the scissors to cut
CPR = Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. away clothing to expose the bare
chest. Use the razor to shave away
The patients’ chance of survival drops by 10% for any hair from areas where the pads
every minute CPR is delayed. Turn the patient onto will be attached.
their back. Check for responses by shouting into
each ear “CAN YOU HEAR ME”. Stick the pads to the patient’s
chest. The purple pad is placed in
Call for help – hopefully there will be the position for CPR compression.
someone else around to phone for an The round green pad is placed
upper right below the collar bone.
ambulance and fetch the AED. This is the opposite side from any
pace-makers fitted. The blue pad
Open the airway by tipping the head is placed lower left below the ribs.
backwards and lifting the jaw to close
the mouth. For child patients the pad place-
Listen for any breathing.
DON’T waste time feeling for a pulse. ments should be turned upside
Start CPR. Kneeling at the side of the down. The round green pad goes
patient, lock the fingers of both your hands together.
Keep your arms straight and start compressions in the lower left under the ribs and then
centre of the chest level with the armpits. Press up and
down at a rate of 100 - 120 time a minute – about twice the child is turned
a second.
over. The rectangular
pad is put in the
over and the blue centre of of the back
as in the diagrams.
[CPR on a child
should be with
fingers only]
WHAT TO DO & WHEN
The Defibrillator is installed on the outside wall of Leighton Village Hall near the entrance to the kitchen from the
car park. The 4 figure pin number to open the cabinet is easy to remember — it’s the year the LVH was opened.
The chest needs to be pushed down about 5 - 6 cm
(2 ). This is hard work as we found out when we
were practising dummies for just a minute at a time.
Another helper kneeling at the opposite side can take
it in turns to maintain the rhythm for a few minutes
at a time.
The CPR is intended to try and restart the heart and
also to work the lungs so that oxygen still in the
blood will get to the brain. Performed correctly CPR
often causes broken ribs — but the patient’s life is
saved.
AED = Automatic Electronic Defibrillator. It not STAGE 2 – USING THE AED
only speaks its instructions but has on-screen Switch on with the top left button. Listen
illustrations to follow. An AED is used when someone to the prompts: steps 1 -5 will already
suffers a Cardiac Arrest. This is when the heart have been completed in the Stage 1 CPR.
suddenly stops beating and immediate emergency
action is essential. A cardiac arrest can happen to If the patient is a child press the button
anyone at any age. It is not the same as a heart attack bottom left. If this is not pressed the device
which has different symptoms and treatment. continues with instructions for adults.
[See the notes on the next page]
Remove the pack from the back of
STAGE 1 – START CPR IMMEDIATELY the AED. Use the scissors to cut
CPR = Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. away clothing to expose the bare
chest. Use the razor to shave away
The patients’ chance of survival drops by 10% for any hair from areas where the pads
every minute CPR is delayed. Turn the patient onto will be attached.
their back. Check for responses by shouting into
each ear “CAN YOU HEAR ME”. Stick the pads to the patient’s
chest. The purple pad is placed in
Call for help – hopefully there will be the position for CPR compression.
someone else around to phone for an The round green pad is placed
upper right below the collar bone.
ambulance and fetch the AED. This is the opposite side from any
pace-makers fitted. The blue pad
Open the airway by tipping the head is placed lower left below the ribs.
backwards and lifting the jaw to close
the mouth. For child patients the pad place-
Listen for any breathing.
DON’T waste time feeling for a pulse. ments should be turned upside
Start CPR. Kneeling at the side of the down. The round green pad goes
patient, lock the fingers of both your hands together.
Keep your arms straight and start compressions in the lower left under the ribs and then
centre of the chest level with the armpits. Press up and
down at a rate of 100 - 120 time a minute – about twice the child is turned
a second.
over. The rectangular
pad is put in the
over and the blue centre of of the back
as in the diagrams.
[CPR on a child
should be with
fingers only]
