Why is it important to learn CPR and maintain knowledge of Heart Health? +10
CPR is a very important tool to know in life along with heart health. CPR could save a child’s life, or a friend or family members’. To learn CPR is to learn a life saving way that almost anyone can learn and perform. Heart Health is another important thing to know so heart attacks and other heart related problems can be less likely to occur. Knowing how the heart works and how to maintain good heart health can prevent the need for CPR and lead to a better life.
How well did I do with the physical skills of performing CPR for the adult, child, and infant? +10
My group took three days to do all the physical skills to perform CPR. However, over these three days we probably learned more in depth than the other groups. I know the difference between chest thrusts and chest compressions. The prior being when a baby is choking, the latter when the baby is unconscious. Over the course I learned how many hands or fingers it was to whom you are giving CPR to, and the age groups. I for one believe you did well and teaching us how to perform the physical skills for CPR.
Where could I use CPR in the future and what jobs would require me to have such a certification? +10
CPR can be used anywhere in the future. If your child is choking you may have to use it in your own home. Even at a business dinner party, if your boss starts choking on his meal you may be the only one certified, and they would sure be grateful to you for saving their life. Not many jobs require people to be CPR certified. However, any health professional like doctors and nurses would be required to be CPR certified at least. Other jobs would be lifeguards where if someone drowns in the pool it is up to them to bring them back to life.
Why is it important to understand CPR procedures as they apply to the different levels of CPR victims? +10
CPR is more than just pounding on someone’s chest and screaming, “Live! [Darn] you, live!” CPR takes practice and has different forms and procedures for different situations. If the victim is a baby in cardiac arrest you would not use two hands like on an adult and then swab the mouth for the object they are not choking on. Just as you could not give CPR with two fingers to a choking adult, as that would do nothing for them. Not knowing the correct procedures for CPR on different levels of victims is as bad as you killing them yourself in most cases.
Explain what you did during your activity period and how you remembered the different skills involved? +10
We did many things during the period, and took time remembering the skills. Over the three classes that we did CPR, my group did adult unconscious and choking victims. The next day we did more adult and then kid victims along with the AED. On the last day we did babies and how to do CPR for a conscious choking, unconscious choking, and cardiac arrest. To remember all the steps I would repeat them in my head and work them over. Another way I would remember is watching the other groups to see what they were doing and think of how good or bad they were doing it.
Using the heart terms presented, explain the flow of blood from non-oxygenated blood to becoming oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. (Superior Vena Cava/Inferior Vena Cava, Right Ventricle, / Pulmonary Artery, Pulmonary Veins / Left Ventricle, Aorta. +10
The blood starts throughout the body and is pumped into the heart through the vena cavas. The Superior Vena Cava pulls from the upper body as the Inferior Vena Cava pulls from the lower body. The Vena Cavas dumps the blood into the right ventricle which in turn pumps it into the Pulmonary Artery. The Pulmonary Artery pushes the blood through the lungs where it is oxygenated. The Pulmonary Veins then take the blood from the lungs and pushes it into the left ventricle. The left ventricle then pumps the blood to the Aorta where it goes out to the body. This cycle repeats with every heartbeat.