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Collapsed patient

  1. Ensure personal safety
  2. Check for response: shake + shout
  3. Open airway, head tilt + chin lift
  4. Look into mouth (MILS)
  5. Look, listen, feel (10 seconds)
  6. Start CPR + get help
    Compress middle of sternum / lower half sternum / 4-5cm depth / 100 compressions per min
    LMA / Bag-mask / intubate - inspiratory time 1sec, avoid rapid breaths (barotrauma, pneumothorax, stomach insufflation)
  7. Attach defibrillator
    Apply pads (infra clavicular, anterior axillary / A-P / Transthoracic)
    Check rhythm
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