We believe that all parents and carers need to be trained in basic life support. This is also called CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation).
Ask your nurse or health care worker to teach you how to perform basic life support on a manikin (baby doll). You can print the PDF guide on what to do.
You can click on this link to see an animated video from St Johns Ambulance on how to do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1kR8ZQxQ4
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You can click on this link to see a demonstration of baby CPR on a doll https://www.sja.org.uk/get-advice/first-aid-advice/paediatric-first-aid/how-to-do-cpr-on-a-baby/
Added note for trainers:
1. For added information, click on these links to see the Resuscitation Council UK guideline on paediatric basic life support, and the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest basic life support algorithm as a download at the bottom of the guideline text.
2. In addition to the St Johns videos, click on this link to see videos on our national charity BLISS website.
3. A reminder for parents: put phone on speaker when contacting emergency services, to enable continuation of bystander life support while waiting for help to arrive.
Multilingual videos
You can see our STORK facilitator Sue demonstrate this by clicking on the following languages
