Pediatric Basic Life Support(BLS) Special situations
Special situations[1]
Resuscitation in special circumstances:
- Child with a tracheostomy tube or stoma.
- The caregiver (Parents, nurse, or teacher) should be trained in how to use the tracheostomy tube.
- If there is a cardiac arrest in a child with a tracheostomy start immediately CPR with compressions followed by ventilation of 2 rescue breaths.
- Ventilation-
- Give rescue breaths from mouth to a tracheostomy tube, if the chest does not rise suction the tube, if still there is not chest rise then can give mouth to stoma ventilation or bag-mask ventilation if available.
- Child with spinal trauma
- Child drowning.
- ↑ Berg MD, Schexnayder SM, Chameides L, Terry M, Donoghue A, Hickey RW; et al. (2010). "Part 13: pediatric basic life support: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care". Circulation. 122 (18 Suppl 3): S862–75. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.971085. PMC 3717258. PMID 20956229.