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A series of video demonstrations for daily living skills for the blind and visually impaired, presented in conjunction with The Washington State School for the Blind.
In this clip Cathlene Cover, a registered nurse on staff at the Washington State School for the Blind, and WSSB student Dalton, demonstrate how life saving CPR can be administered by a blind or visibly impaired person.

Cathlene:  “Hello and welcome, I’m Cathlene a Register nurse at the Washington State School for the Blind, here with Dalton one of our students. Today we are going to discuss the steps for Adult CPR.  For the purposes of adult CPR, a person over the age of 8 is considered an adult.  The acronym AED will be used in this video.  AED stands for Automated External Deliberator. An AED delivers an electrical shock to the heart in an effort to get the heart beating again.  We will discuss and review the steps of an AED in another CPR training episode.  Let’s get started by breaking it down step by step.
Step 1: Check for scene safety.

Dalton: The scene is safe.

Cathlene: You can not help a victim if you yourself are hurt. Utilize your sense of smell and hearing as well as knowing your surroundings and location. Is something burning? Do you hear noise from a busy street?  Are bystanders available to give you a sighted assessment of the scene?

Step 2: Ask the victim if they are ok.  Do this by touching the victim on the arm or shoulder and tapping or gently shaking them.

Dalton: Are you ok? Are you ok?

Cathlene:  Step 3:  If there is no response, yell out for help.  When help arrives instruct them to call 911 and get the AED.

Dalton: Help! Help!  Call 911!  Get an AED!  

Cathlene: If no helps arrives you must call 911 and get the AED immediately.

Step 4: Check for breathing performing a head tilt chin lift.  To do this, place your hand closest to the victim’s forehead, on their forehead palm side down.  Place the first two fingers of your other hand on the boney under part of the victim’s chin. Gently tilt the chin towards the direction of the forehead.  This will position the victim’s head as though they were looking up to the sky or sniffing something.  By doing this it opens the victim’s airway.  Next, place your ear near the victim’s nose and mouth.  You want to turn your head to be facing down the victim’s body.  Feel with your ear and cheek.  If there is any air coming out of the victim’s mouth or if you hear any breaths. Next, look by placing your hand gently on the victim’s chest and see if you can feel the chest rise or fall with breathes coming in and going out.  Remember gasps are not breaths. Check for breathing for 5 seconds to no more then 10 seconds.

Step 5: If the victim is not breathing give 2 breaths.  Be sure to maintain the head tilt chin lift.  Pinch their nose the thumb and index finger of the hand that is on the forehead.  If the nose is not pinched air could come right back out the nose and not get into the lungs. Each breath should be 1 to 2 seconds in length.

Step 6: Next give 30 compressions.  Locate the appropriate landmark by reaching across the victim’s chest with your middle finger locating the nipple and sliding back across the chest toward you. Locate the victim’s other nipple with the palm of your hand. Return your palm of your hand to the midpoint between both nipples.  If you are unsure to the location you can take your hand and place it under the victim’s underarm furthest from you. Slide your hand across the victim’s chest to the half way point and start compression. Remember to keep your arms nice and straight as you do compressions and be directly over the victim.  Press hard and fast with a depth equal to 1 ½ to 2 inches.

Step 7: Continue the cycle of 2 breaths and 30 compressions until help arrives.

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Cathlene: Now we will have Dalton go through the steps of CPR in it entirety.

Dalton: Checking to see if the scene is safe.

Cathlene: The scene is safe.

Dalton: Are you ok? Are you ok?

Cathlene: No response.

Dalton: Help! Help! Call 911!  Get an AED!

Cathlene: Ok I will.

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Cathlene: I brought the AED.



Dalton: Thank you


Cathlene: This concludes our video clip on blindness clips. We hope you feel more confident if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to use CPR. Thank you Dalton for helping today with the demonstration and thanks for watching.

Announcer: More video clips for blindness tips are available from the Washington State School for the Blind at wssb.wa.gov.