What do you do when someone is unconscious?

What do you do when someone is unconscious?

Call or tell someone to call 911. Check the person’s airway, breathing, and pulse frequently. If necessary, begin CPR. If the person is breathing and lying on their back, and you do not think there is a spinal injury, carefully roll the person toward you onto their side.

Why do you place a patient on the left side?

Transport to Medical Care. Patients should be transported to a hospital as quickly, but as passively, as possible. They should be placed on their left side in the recovery position to prevent aspiration of vomit.

Why is it important to place unconscious casualties in the recovery position?

The recovery position is used when a casualty becomes unconscious. The position can help keep the airway open and allow vomit or blood to flow freely away from the casualty.

What is the best recovery position for an unconscious person?

If someone is unconscious but you’re sure they are breathing normally; the best way to keep the airway open is to roll them onto their side, in the recovery position. This will encourage their tongue to flop forward and allow the contents of their stomach to drain.

What is the difference between unconscious and unresponsive?

If a person is not breathing, it may be necessary to perform CPR. Unconsciousness is an unresponsive state. A person who is unconscious may seem like they are sleeping but may not respond to things like loud noises, being touched, or being shaken.

How long can you be unconscious for?

It depends on the severity of the injury. If you lose consciousness briefly, and suffer a concussion, 75 to 90 percent of people will fully recover in a few months. But severe damage to the brain can cause unconsciousness for days, weeks, or even longer.

What to do if someone is unconscious but breathing?

If the person is unconscious but still breathing, put them into the recovery position with their head lower than their body and call an ambulance immediately. Continue watching the patient to ensure they don’t stop breathing and continue to breathe normally.

How do you wake up someone who is unconscious?

Overview

1. Check the person’s airway, breathing, and circulation.
2. If you do not think there is a spinal injury, put the person in the recovery position: Position the person lying face up. Turn the person’s face toward you.
3. Keep the person warm until emergency medical help arrives.

What should you do if a person is choking but is still able to speak or breathe?

If the Person Is Conscious but Not Able to Breathe or Talk:

1. Give Back Blows. Give up to 5 blows between the shoulder blades with the heel of your hand.
2. If Person Is Still Choking, Do Thrusts.
3. Give CPR, if Necessary.
4. Follow Up.

What to do if someone is choking and unconscious?

What should I do if a choking adult becomes unconscious?

1. If a conscious choking adult becomes unconscious, carefully lower the person to the ground, open the mouth and look for an object.
2. If an object is seen, remove it with your finger.
3. Open the person’s airway by tilting the head and try to give 2 rescue breaths.

What to do if someone is choking but coughing?

If the person is able to cough forcefully, the person should keep coughing. If the person is choking and can’t talk, cry or laugh forcefully, the American Red Cross recommends a “five-and-five” approach to delivering first aid: Give 5 back blows. Stand to the side and just behind a choking adult.

What is the first thing you should do when someone is choking?

Learn first aid for someone who is choking

1. If someone is choking, encourage them to cough.
2. Bend them forwards and give up to 5 back blows to try and dislodge the blockage.
3. If they are still choking, give up to 5 abdominal thrusts: hold around the waist and pull inwards and upwards above their belly button.

What are the three P’s in first aid?

The aims of First Aid can be remembered by thinking of the three Ps:

• Preserve Life.
• Prevent The Situation Worsening.
• Promote Recovery.

Should you drink water when choking?

Don’t drink any water to try forcing the food down—that can actually make it worse, Dr. Bradley notes. Yes, it’s the same action you’d use to help someone else choke, but you’d be doing it on yourself.

What are three signs of choking?

What Are Choking Symptoms and Signs?

• Coughing or gagging.
• Hand signals and panic (sometimes pointing to the throat)
• Sudden inability to talk.
• Clutching the throat: The natural response to choking is to grab the throat with one or both hands.
• Wheezing.
• Passing out.

Can you talk if you are choking?

Mild choking: encourage them to cough If the airway is only partly blocked, the person will usually be able to speak, cry, cough or breathe. They’ll usually be able to clear the blockage themselves.

What to do if someone is choking on fluid?

Step-by-step instructions for helping choking adults:

1. Determine the severity. Ask, “Are you choking?” before performing any first aid.
2. Call 911.
3. Begin back blows.
4. Begin Heimlich maneuver or abdominal thrusts.
5. Repeat 5-and-5.
6. Begin CPR.
7. Begin chest compressions.
8. Give two rescue breaths.