When you perform CPR, you provide blood, oxygen, and life to the heart and brain.
Do not change the way you perform CPR for someone with recent heart bypass surgery.
Yes you can perform CPR on a person with an artificial heart valve. There is no difference on the CPR procedure with an artificial valve.
Yes it is OK to do CPR after open heart surgery.
cardiac arrest, such as heart attack
Yes, a trained individual can and should start CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on a person who has just had a heart attack. The goal of CPR is to restore blood and oxygen circulation throughout the body, and in a heart attack the heart stops pumping oxygenated blood throughout the body.
Call 911, then begin CPR
CPR is used by First Aiders when someone has a heart attack and has no pulse, or when it is suspected that this is the case.
No he is obviously breathing and his heart must be beating for that to happen
No you do not perform CPR when a dog is conscious.
Cardiac catheterization or an Angiography
CPR continues the pumping action of the heart by compressing it between the backbone & breastbone. The rescue breaths supply oxygen to the lungs. CPR circulates oxygenated blood throughout the body supplying needed oxygen to vital organs tosustain life.