Revision question · Incidents, accidents and emergencies

A child over one year old is unresponsive and is not breathing normally. After calling 999, what should you do?

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Find their parents and explain what's happening

Open their airway and begin CPR

Put them in the recovery position and slap their back

Talk to them confidently until an ambulance arrives

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Open their airway and begin CPRThis was the right answer

Follow the emergency call handler. Open the airway and give five initial rescue breaths, then CPR. For a member of the public, use 30 compressions followed by two breaths. For a child over one, compress about one-third of the chest depth (about 5 cm), at 100–120 per minute, using one or two hands as needed for their size. Infant technique is different.

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CPR for a childReviewed guidance summary · The archive’s one-hand-only explanation is incomplete; the source teaches initial rescue breaths and size-appropriate compression technique.

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