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       # No Heartbeat
       
       ## When to give chest compressions
       
       Check for a pulse (heartbeat) on the neck. Or listen by putting your
       ear on the left side of the chest.
       
 (DIR) check for a pulse
       
 (IMG) Where to listen on the chest
       
       If there is no heartbeat, try to restart it with chest compressions.
       It is important to start chest compressions quickly, so if you are
       not sure if you have found a heartbeat, or if the heartbeat is very
       faint, it is safest to do chest compressions.
       
       Give chest compressions
       
       
       Push hard and fast on the center of the chest 30 times.  Push
       straight down, about 5 cm (2 in).  Try for a fast rate, at least 100
       times a minute, but the exact rate is not important.  Push hard and
       fast!
       
 (IMG) Chest compressions
       
       Give rescue breaths
       
       
       After 30 chest compressions, give 2 rescue breaths that make the
       chest rise.
       
 (DIR) rescue breaths
       
       Continue with compressions and breaths
       
       
       Keep alternating between 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths.
       You may have to do this for a long time.  Continue until the person
       is breathing and alert, or until there is no doubt he is dead.
       
       Get help
       
       
       If you can get the person to a hospital quickly, do so.  Keep giving
       chest compressions and rescue breathing on the way.  This will help
       to keep the body functions going until you can get help.
       
       This may bring life back to someone after electrocution, drowning, if
       he suffered a very hard blow to the chest, hypothermia (too cold), or
       drug overdose.  Chest compressions are less likely to help someone
       after a heart attack, but are worth trying, especially if you can get
       more medical help.
       
 (DIR) (See more about heart attacks.)
       
       A medical device called a defibrillator gives an electric shock to
       re-start the heart after a heart attack. Find out before emergencies
       happen if there are defibrillators in your community and where they
       are kept.  They are sometimes found in ambulances, or in public
       places like a police station or a large hotel.
       
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