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Beck first used the technique successfully on a 14-year-old boy who was having his breastbone separated from his ribs because of a congenital growth disorder, causing breathing problems. The boy's chest was surgically opened, and manual cardiac massage was undertaken for 45 minutes until the arrival of the defibrillator.
Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given full medical care by advanced life support providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians or any trained general personnel).
A defibrillator is a machine that produces a defibrillation: electric shocks that can restore the normal heart function of the victim. The common model of defibrillator out of an hospital is the automated external defibrillator (AED), a portable device that is especially easy to use because it produces recorded voice instructions.
Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic and advanced life support procedures; however, basic life support is sometimes provided at the scene of an emergency by family members or bystanders ...
Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, can save the life of someone in cardiac arrest, but they're rarely used, new research has found. (Getty Images) (Jackyenjoyphotography via Getty Images)
Although the use of mouth-to-mouth ventilation as a resuscitative technique dates back virtually to the beginning of recorded history, [1] it seems to have fallen out of favor in the late 19th century with the widespread adoption of Silvester's method (the chest-pressure and arm-lift technique). Silvester's method remained the most widespread ...
A breathing technique called 4-7-8 has been linked to relaxation and sleep. But how do you do 4-7-8 breathing and does it work? Experts break it down.
Airway: attempt to open the airway (using a head-tilt and chin-lift technique; not in the case of babies, which require avoid tilting the head). Breathing or Rescue Breaths. Defibrillation: use of an automated external defibrillator to recover heart function.