PAEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT

I N FA N T
Basic Life Support
Help!

if < 60/min.
Call for help
Wake up!
Fill in local emergency No.

Check Open airway and Give 2 effective Check pulse/signs Compress chest
responsiveness check breathing breaths of a circulation and continue CPR
Fetch
CHILD if < 60/min.
1. Oxygen
Help! 2. Resuscitation equipment
Are you 3. Defibrillator
all right?

Oxygenate - Ventilate Give oxygen

Attach defibrillator-monitor

Assess rhythm
O2

+ Check pulse
-
Secure airway

VF / VT Non VF / VT
(Asystole - PEA)

Defibrillate Epinephrine
as necessary Secure intraosseous access
During CPR
Correct reversible causes*

Attempt/verify
airway and O2
CPR vascular/intraosseous CPR
1 min access 3 min
Check electrode/paddle
positions & contact

Give epinephrine (adrenaline)

every 3 min
OR
Consider antiarrhythmics
buffers IV access

*Potentially reversible causes

Hypoxia Tension pneumothorax
Hypovolaemia Tamponade
Hyper/hypokalaemia Toxic/therapeutic disturbances
Hypothermia Thrombo-emboli

Designed and illustrated by Laerdal - HE 0039 rev C ERC Secretariat

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