Safety Plans for a child choking and child CPR

Safety Planes for a child Chocking and CPR

Nichole Lyon 

Child Choking/ CPR

            In this scenario a child is going to be choking. Katie is a 5 yr old little girl who is sitting at Ms. Adriana’s table during lunch. There are five other children and Ms. Adriana sitting at the table. It is lunch time all the children are filling their plates and passing the bowls of food around the table. After each child is doing filling their plate Ms. Adriana tells the children they may start eating. Katie is messing around in her chair and talking with her mouth full. The child next to her makes her laugh and Katie breathes in and starts to joke. Ms. Adriana sees Katie’s face in a panic. Ms. Adriana asks Katie are you choking Katie nods yes. Katie is coughing so the teacher encourages her to keeping coughing. What seemed like a second later Katie stops coughing and turns colors. Adriana gets up turns Katie away from her and places her arms around Katie’s belly button/ lower abdomen. And gives two quick abdominal thrusts which then causes the food to come up and out of Katie’s mouth. The teacher sits Katie down and checks her over also asking questions like can you breath, is the food out, are you feeling OK etc. Katie responds she is OK but shaken up. Adriana has another teacher sit with Katie talks to the nurse then calls Katie’s mom to let her know what has happen.

            Raegan is a 3 yr old little girl who is out on the playground with her class. Ms. Gina, Ms, Adriana and Ms. Nichole are on the playground with the class. Raegan is running and chasing two of her classmates around the playground. All of a sudden Raegan falls to the ground and is not breathing.  Ms. Gina sees what has happened and run quickly to Raegan. Gina asses the child and her surroundings making sure all is safe. Not knowing what is wrong with Raegan she does not mover her. Gina tells Ms. Nichole to go call 911 and get the nurse Raegan is not breathing. Gina realizes that she is going to have to do CPR she follows her training and proceeds to do CPR on Raegan. The nurse comes to help. The EMT s have arrived Raegan is breathing now and is going to be transferred to the hospital for observation. Raegan’s parents are called and informed what has happened and where Raegan is going.  Since Gina was trained on CPR and First Aide she knows what to do. If she had had not training it would have taken more time to find out what to do and who could help. Meaning loss of time could be death. But since she knew what to do she saved Raegan’s life.

1.      Act quickly and stay calm.

2.      Stay with child helping the child have another person get help and decide if you need to call 911.

3.      Help child by talking to them and giving them encouragement. If child stops coughing and food is still stuck proceed to do abdominal thrusts to help get food or object out of the air way. Never move a seriously injured child.

4.       Notify the nurse if there is one then call parents and explain what the situation is.

5.      Stay with child until parents or emergency personal is there.

6.      Watch for shock.

7.      Filling our reports and documentation.

Planning is very important in any emergency case but especially with children. Children are unpredictable and you never know what can and will happen. When there are plans in place for emergencies the time to react is cut in half. When an adult knows what to do in certain situations and what steps to follow the react time is quick being able to help a child quickly. Having training such as CPR, First Aide, advanced medical care this will help you know what to do when the time comes. This situation knowing first aide helped this teacher give abdominal thrust to help the choking child. If she had not known what to do the child could have become worse and possibly died because there was no training and plan put into place.

When working with children or adults you should be trained in First Aide, CPR and any other training that could help with emergency in that setting. Also knowing where there are First Aid kits and supplies, even a poster showing you what to do in case of. Having a written plan out in plan site to reference to, but also having all and any contact information for emergency numbers, staff and children will help also. You can never be over prepared to an emergency.