Consideration of Rescue Breathing methods during Infant Basic Life Support.
- Author:
Bum Ju KIM
;
Young Ho JIN
;
Jae Baek LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Caregivers;
Emergency Service, Hospital;
Humans;
Infant*;
Jeollabuk-do;
Mothers;
Mouth;
Nose;
Respiration*;
Ventilation
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2000;11(1):105-110
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The current recommendation of rescue breathing techniques in the infant is to blow both the nose and mouth of infants by caregiver's mouth but recent studies suggest some caregivers may have trouble sealing a infant's mouth and nose. The purpose of this study is to estimate the ability of mothers to create a seal to their infants for the provision of rescue breathing according to current recommendation. METHODS: Infants up to 1 year of age(n=98) and their mothers were enrolled from emergency department of Chonbuk National University Hospital. We measured the facial lengths of the infants and the width of mouth in their mothers and compared mouth widths of mothers with their infant's nose-to-mouth lengths. RESULTS: In infants between 0 to 6 months, Mother transverse lengths were significantly larger than mouth, nose and nose-to-mouth lengths of the infants. In infants between 7 to 12 months, Mother transverse lengths were significantly larger than mouth and nose lengths of the infants but there was no statistically significant difference between mother transverse lengths and nose-to-mouth lengths of infants. CONCLUSION: The finding indicate that the present recommendation to cover mouth and nose is partly not possible. We recommend that the mouth-to-nose ventilation of rescue breathing techniques for the infants who have respiratory arrest be taught to mothers.
