Welcome to the lesson on life threatening issues. In this video, we will discuss what to do during a life threatening emergency. If at any time you determined that the child or infant is experiencing a life threatening emergency support, breathing and cardiovascular function immediately. This usually means providing high quality CPR. Well, it's important to recognize and respond to the particular cause of the problem. The time required to determine the problem should not interfere with perfusion and oxygenation for the child or the infant.

As you maintain breathing and circulation for them, determine if they're primarily experiencing respiratory distress or arrest, Radek cardio technique cardia shock or cardiac arrest. Individual pls protocols for each of these clinical situations are provided throughout the videos and corresponding pls manual. This concludes our lesson on life threatening issues. Next, we'll review resuscitation tools