Revision question · Band 1 road procedure

A casualty has stopped breathing and you've started giving them chest compressions. How long should you continue trying to resuscitate them?

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Until someone has called the emergency services

Until they can breathe unaided or until medical help arrives

Until you feel there's no hope of them recovering

Until the colour of their skin becomes pink

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Until they can breathe unaided or until medical help arrivesThis was the right answer

Continue CPR until the casualty starts breathing normally or a medical professional takes over. Follow the 999 call handler and use an AED as soon as one is available. A lay rescuer should look for normal breathing and signs of life rather than pausing CPR to try to find a pulse.

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4. Provide emergency careHighway Code annex · The corrected lesson calls 999 promptly, assesses normal breathing and begins uninterrupted CPR when breathing is absent or abnormal.First aid: current emergency prioritiesReviewed guidance summary · The corrected lesson calls 999 promptly, assesses normal breathing and begins uninterrupted CPR when breathing is absent or abnormal.

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