Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation: How is it performed?

Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is an emergency medical procedure used to resuscitate a person who stopped from breathing, in which the rescuer will press the mouth against the mouth of the victim and blowing air into the lungs.

Here on how you can perform mouth to mouth resuscitation:

• To see if the patient is conscious, tap or shake the shoulder lightly and shout “Hey are you ok?” But if the person did not response that’s the time that you need to perform the mouth to mouth resuscitation.

• Tilt the persons head and place your hand in the forehead and chin lift maneuver with the two fingers of your other hand.

• Look, listen and feel for breathing, place your ears near the nose of the patient to listen the breathing, and keep your cheek near the mouth of the victim to feel for air from the patient’s mouth.

• If you don’t feel air, see if there’s any obstruction in the patient’s airway. Using your two fingers perform a sweep of the patient’s mouth while tilting the head back to see if there is anything caught in the air passageway.

• If the patient is not breathing, take a deep breath pinch the nose closed with your hand holding the forehead give 2 slow, long, full breaths just enough to make chest visibly rise using a mouth to mouth ventilation or mouth to nose ventilation.

• Always look to see if the chest of the patient is rising and falling to make sure that your breath are getting through.