Artificial respiration

Artificial respiration is an artificial ventilation procedure that replaces the patient's own breathing. It is used in case of accidents (drowning, poisoning with sleeping pills, narcotics and other means), craniocerebral trauma, stroke, and also when a foreign body enters the respiratory tract. Artificial respiration is widely used both in resuscitation and anesthesiology, with the intentional shutdown of the patient's respiratory and skeletal musculature. The procedure over a long period (from several days to several years) can be used for lesions of the roots and the spinal cord itself (with poliomyelitis, myelitis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

If breathing stops on the beach, on the street, at home and in other public places, artificial respiration from the mouth to the nose or mouth is most effective. During the first minute, the person performing the procedure should breathe more often and deeper.

How to do artificial respiration?

The lower jaw of the patient is taken with the left hand, the right hand should take the parietal part of the head or pinch the victim's nose. The head of the patient should be thrown back as much as possible. Thus, the best position is created, releasing the respiratory tract from the impinging language. The procedure is performed by taking a deep breath into yourself and exhaling into the nose or mouth of the affected person. Then the manipulations are repeated.

When performing artificial respiration, it is necessary to exercise control over the correctness of ventilation. During the inflow into the chest of the affected air, it rises and during the exhalation decreases. In the absence of cardiac arrest after the expiration of four to six blowouts, intense patient impairment is observed.

The strength of the exhalation in the lungs of the victim is comparable to the force of inflating the rubber chamber for the ball. Carrying out the procedure, the main task is to keep the victim's head in the correct position and create tightness. To avoid touching the nose or mouth of the patient, you can use a handkerchief or gauze pad.

For greater convenience, the nasopharyngeal cannula (or rubber tube) is used. She is inserted into the nostril of the victim to a depth of about six or eight centimeters. The second nostril and mouth are clamped for injection.

You can also make artificial ventilation through an anesthetic mask. It is tightly sealed to the victim's face. If you attach a hose to it, the procedure can be performed without inclined to the patient.

The intensity of artificial ventilation is maintained until signs of cyanosis are eliminated and the patient's own breathing is sufficient. In the event of a cardiac arrest, the procedure is continued in conjunction with an external cardiac massage. In case of detection at the first injection of an obstruction to air penetration, the mouth opens quickly, a finger audit of the pharynx and oral cavity is performed and the foreign body is removed.

How to do artificial respiration in other ways?

It should be noted that methods that are based on stretching or squeezing the patient's thorax by hand are often characterized by the creation of insufficient volume, and therefore require considerable physical effort.

One of the ways is the following.

The patient lying on his back produces a sharp uplift of arms outstretched over his head. This causes inhaling due to stretching of the chest. After this, the hands are sharply lowered to the chest, squeezing it. So there is an exhalation.

This method is one of the best manual methods of performing artificial ventilation. However, the method from mouth to mouth or nose is more effective at least twice.