Paediatric CPR;RE: ABS is now CAB

[Guest guest]

Sorry sir, I was wrong in my earlier mail about paediatric cpr.

ABC has been changed to CAB for all age group including Children and Infants

(excluding newly born where its still ABC)

Kindly refer my attachments from the Journal Circulation in which the latest

guidelines have been published.

Sanjay

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To: mgims

Sent: Wed, 27 October, 2010 7:31:19 PM

Subject: Re: ABC IS NOW CAB

You are right. This is for adults though. For children it is still ABC - as in

children airway is of prime importance. The conventional teaching is that in

children the primary cause of cardiac arrest is respiratory failure while in

adults it is arrythmias from an MI.

It is going to be confusing to teach to lay people : where they will have to

remember two different sequences !

I had CPR recertification a few months back and it was still the ABC sequence

for both adults and children.

Ashok 1984

Subject: ABC IS NOW CAB

To: mgims , MGIMS93

Date: Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:04 AM

Hello everyone,

The new AHA guidelines on CPR are out and earlier what used to be ABC of

life is now CAB.

Chest compression should be started immediately even before airway management.

Check the video on You tube.

Sanjay

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