Paeds BLS Flashcards
What is an infant?
What is a child?
Infant <1 yo
Child 1-18 yo
What is different about a child’s airway?
Large tongue and head
Narrow funnel shaped trachea
Easily compressible floor of the mouth
What different about a child’s breathing?
30-40 breaths per min
Low o2 reserve with high consumption
Hypoxia very quickly
Differences in a child’s circulation? Where check pulse for child and infant?
Infant heart at 140bpm
Brachial pulse in infant
Carotid pulse in child
Give some common causes of airway obstruction
Trauma
Epiglottis
Foreign body
congenital abnormalities
What is most common paediatric cardiac arrhythmia?
Severe bradycardia deteriorating to:
- pulseless electrical activity
- asystole
Acronym for paeds bls?
SSSABCR
Safety
Stimulate
Shout
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Reassess
How check airway in infant and child?
Jaw thrust finger sweep for both
Child can do head tilt chin lift
Where should never be touched in a child during BLS?
Soft tissues under the skin
When should cpr be done on child? How?
No pulse or pulse below 60bpm
15 compressions : 2 ventilations
How deep should one compress?
Child 5cm
Infant 4cm (using two fingers)
