Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation or CPR as it is also known, it is an emergency procedure, which is used in order to save lives, usually it is applied when the person has stopped breathing or the heart stops pumping blood to the rest of the organism. These failures in the body can occur after an individual receives an electric shock, a heart attackor drowning. This resuscitation technique combines mouth-to-mouth respiration and cardiac compressions, each of them playing a role, since on the one hand, mouth-to-mouth respiration supplies oxygen to the patient's lungs, while cardiac compressions keep the oxygenated blood circulating, until it is possible to restore breathing and heart palpitations.
The stage that is most important during cardiopulmonary resuscitation is cardiac compression, since if it is carried out properly it is very likely that the chances that the affected person can survive will increase. In order for a person to be able to perform cardiac compression, it is necessary to have their arms extended with one hand on the other resting on the center of the chest between the two nipples, already in this position it is necessary to push the chest down trying to move about 5 cm in each compression, this should be done quickly trying to reach the rate of 100 per minute in cycles of 30 compressions.
On the other hand, in the case of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, it is necessary for the person who performs it to open the victim's mouth, it is necessary to remove objects such as dental prostheses or any other element that may cause any interference in the airway, Afterwards, he must occlude the nose with the fingers of one hand and proceed to inflate the air, in the largest possible quantities, according to international standards that regulate CPR, they recommend that cycles of 30 cardiac compressions be performed but alternated with 2 inflations of air.
Resuscitation must be constant and uninterrupted until the victim is able to regain consciousness, until a professional team arrives or, failing that, until she is transferred and admitted to a hospital. A correct application of CPR is one that begins as soon as possible and carried out in a timely manner, if that is the case, it is capable of saving the lives of many people.
