Media Annotation: CPR

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Introduction
The video reviewed is one that clearly indicates the process of resuscitation. The people involved
are trying their level best to bring back the patient from his current state. During the course of the
review there are many fundamentals things that happen and which can be observed. These
happenings contain both positive and negative effects and which contribute to the process of
resuscitation either being easy or difficult to achieve. There are a number of instances where
poor performance of the process was identified and which need to be corrected in order to ensure
that the whole process conforms to the set guidelines of the ARC. (Amorim, Neto, & Santos,
(2018)
The ARC spells out a guideline (guideline 3) which is fundamental in ensuring that the patient
being worked on is resuscitated in an effective way. According to the ARC, resuscitation can be
described as the preservation or restoration of life by way of maintenance of air, breathing and
circulation and related emergency care.( Basic life support).The main objective of this process is
to ensure that the life of the person being treated to is preserved. The ARC guidelines seek to
ensure that they coordinate the teaching and practice of resuscitation, promote the
standardization of resuscitation techniques and also act as a voluntary body in the coordination of
resuscitation activities. The body strives to ensure that the process of resuscitation is a well-
known uniform practice all over the world and this is to ensure that we achieve the same results
of restoring life by simply following the laid down guidelines. (Bonnes, Brouwer, Navarese,
Verhaert, Verheugt, Smeets, & de Boer, (2016)
According to the video, the lady goes direct to administer breathing ventilation immediately she
notices that the patient is not responding adequately. This is done before she decides now to do

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chest compressions with the help of her colleagues. This should not be the case in relation to the
guidelines for resuscitation. There is need to carry out chest compression in order to see if the
person will respond positively before one can go to the next procedure. This is an important
aspect as chest compressions are known to be of higher success when it comes to the process of
resuscitation as compared to the issue of offering breaths which may delay and take a long time.
The delay that may be occasioned by this process may eventually lead to the loss of life which
could have been avoided.( Lasa, Rogers, Localio, Shults, Raymond, Gaies, & Nadkarni, (2016)
Also we can clearly see that the person administering the chest compressions seems not to fully
aware of the right procedure to use in doing this. The depth of compression that she uses is quite
low and which will prove difficult in trying to restore the life of the patient. The ARC guidelines
recommend that the level of compression should be at least 5cm to generate a positive response.
This recommendation is necessary in enabling one to get a cardiac output (guideline 6). In most
of the patients who have undergone resuscitation, it has been observed that a high number of
people who have been compressed using 5cm and above have been restored easily as compared
to those people who have been compressed using a lower level. Therefore, the lady administering
the compressions needs to increase the depth of the compressions in order to achieve better
results faster.( Gausman, & Gibbon, (2019)
Furthermore, the recommended rescue breathing ratio should be at 30.2.according to the
guidelines from ARC on the CPR measurement. It is advisable that the people administering the
CPR ensure that they maintain this recommended ratio in order for the patient to be successfully
restored. (Morgan, Kilbaugh, Shoap, Bratinov, Lin, Hsieh,(2017). It is quite evident from the
video that the breathing ratio is not anyway near the recommended ratio due to the nature and the
way in which the resuscitation is administered. The lady needs to increase the frequency in