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**humbussa** · 06-01-2009, 12:21am

I haven't seen a forum with spell check...

**humbussa** · 06-01-2009, 12:21am

I guess it's educational as well without it though

**Missy_Moo** · 06-01-2009, 10:58am

It's funny too, to see the spelling of words..

My OCD lasted longer than I thought it would until I had to correct lil Bigfoot.

**Leviathan** · 06-01-2009, 04:26pm

maybe not such a useless but useful bit of info. This was in the papers & on the radio a while back.

CPR should be performed at approx 100 compressions per minute, apparently if you remember the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive (you know - stayin alive, stayin alive. Ah ha ha ha, stayin alive, stayin alive.) whilst doing it you should be pretty close as stayin' Alive has a beat of 103 BPM.

Missy, can you verify?

**Missy_Moo** · 06-01-2009, 04:38pm

First I heard of the Do it to the Bee Gee's -

But yeah compressions in adults 100 per minute, or 30 compressions 2 breaths (single operator) Which is literally 2 compressions per second. That's pretty much it for kids and adults....

But Newborns 0 - 27 days - are a little different.

3 compressions to 1 ventilation (3:1)
So this would lead to roughly 120 events per minute.
& compressions on a bub this small is a different technique, you can use either
two thumb technique, so that your two thumbs are placed next to each other & your hands encircle the chest or
two finger tip technique on the sternum.
(personally the two thumb is much more comfortable