What's the setting? Is the person talking to you? Is the person unresponsive? Is the person in a clinical setting or in a remote part of a park? Are you getting ready to do CPR and wait for an AED or do you have a defibrillator right there, or are you just taking a routine set of vitals? Could be six seconds, could be ten seconds, could be thirty seconds. It all depends on the setting.
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When performing a pulse check on an Infant or Child, check for a maximum of 10 seconds. For lay CPR, no pulse check is required for an adult.
First perform an Initial Assessment. Open the airway, Check for breathing, if there is no breathing give two rescue breaths. If the rescue breaths go in and make the chest clearly rise check for a pulse. IF there is no pulse begin CPR.
The B.P. equipment can be used to check your pulse.
The B.P. equipment can be used to check your pulse.
Do not stop CPR to check for a pulse.
What is the recommended depth of chest compressions for an adult victI’m?
Pulse Polio Program PULSE stands for Post resuscitation & initial Utility in Life Saving Efforts
A pulse check is performed on the brachial artery for an infant.
A pulse is checked on an artery.
You can check your pulse at your wrists, your neck, or underarms.
A pulse check is performed on the brachial artery for an infant.
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