Report on Emergency Airway Management Author:American Heart Association Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: -42- If successful In removing the foreign body, perform saouth-to- aiouth ventilation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation if necessary. If the victim begins ... more »spontaneous respiration, further examination by a physician is recommended. For an unconscious, apneic victim, the rescuer should: [To determine whether maneuvers are effective or ineffective see page 38] If ine rfective Back blows (four) Manual thrusts (four) Finger probe Continue Ventilation (If pulseless, per- form CPR) If effective (I.e. if effective at any stage in the sequence) Perform artificial ventilation if apneic, or CPR, if apneic and pulseless. Further ex- amination by a physician is recommended (SEE NOTE NEXT PAGE) HOTE: 1) As the victim becomes more deprived of oxygen (anozic), the muscles will relax, and maneuvers that were previously ineffective may become ef- fective . 2) When the muscles relax or a foreign body is par- tially dislodged and the airway is partially open, slow, full, and forceful ventilation may keep a victim alive while bypassing the obstruction. 3) If there is vomitus in the mouth or throat, turn the head to the side, wipe the material out quickly, and proceed with the sequence. 4) The same sequence of manual maneuvers should be used for adult, child and infant victims of for- eign body airway obstruction. However, the po- sitioning and method of application of back blows and manual thrusts are slightly different in the infant or small child than in the adult victim. Back blows should be applied to the small child with the victim face down on the rescuer's fore- arm and with the head and chest In a dependent position. If back blows are ineffective, manual thrusts should be performed while the child is being held. chapter{Section 4By ...« less