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Emergency Life Saving Procedure

The emergency life-saving procedure followed for a long duration was ABC (airway, breathing, and chest compression) with the help of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Now new guidelines have been formed as CAB (compression first, followed by clearing the airway and rescue breaths). This is done in an emergency situation where the patient's heartbeat has stopped.

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What could have been done to save my mother, who died of a heart attack?

Query: Hello doctor, My mom recently died due to heart attack. She was an asthma patient and also had depression. She was having medicines for all these. One morning, I saw her biting her tongue and was unconscious. I rubbed her chest slowly that she breathed. When I stopped rubbing, she stopped breathing...  Read Full »


Dr. Rohit Jain

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. First of all, I appreciate your interest to know the emergency life-saving procedure. Tongue bite usually occurs in seizures and not in heart attacks. There is a possibility of a seizure in her case. Many reasons can be there for such an incident. It can be due to fall ...  Read Full »

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