Angie M-Resident Care Manager, Carol G-CPR Instructor, Christine N-Resident Care Manager, Mery M-Resident Care Manager, Nora E-Assistant Administrator & Lilian M-Resident Care Manager

Although AED is not generally used in adult foster care homes our team is still trained

Christine N-Practicing chest compressions

Lynn Bartlett (my sister) from Kindred Hearts Care Home

The End........Back to work!

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 

(CPR) is an emergency procedure for people in cardiac arrest or, in some circumstances, respiratory arrest. CPR is performed both in hospitals and in pre-hospital settings.

CPR involves physical interventions to create artificial circulation through rhythmic pressing on the patient's chest to manually pump blood through the heart, called chest compressions, and usually also involves the rescuer exhaling into the patient (or using a device to simulate this) to ventilate the lungs and pass oxygen in to the blood, called artificial respiration. Some protocols now downplay the importance of the artificial respirations, and focus on the chest compressions only (CCR).

Despite its name, CPR is unlikely to restart the heart; its main purpose is to maintain a flow of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart, which are both the most essential organs to human life and the most vulnerable to damage from lack of oxygen (hypoxia). Effective CPR helps by delaying tissue death and extending the brief window of opportunity for a successful resuscitation without permanent brain damage.

Some of our clients choose not to have CPR and this is referred to as do not resuscitate (DNR). For more information go to our "Rescources" tab. Select POLST Information link.