European
Resuscitation
Council
Basic Life Support
If not breathing normally
Call 112
Deliver 30 chest
compressions
Place your hands
in the centre of the chest

Deliver 2 rescue breaths
Continue CPR 30:2 until
qualified help arrives
- Seal your lips around the mouth
- Blow steadily until chest rises
- Give next breath when the chest falls
If responsive
- Observe
- Get help if necessary
If breathing normally
- Place in recovery position
- Get help
- Recheck breathing
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Check response
- Shake gently
- Shout loudly

 If NOT responsive
Open airway
Check breathing
- Tilt head back and lift chin
- Look
- Listen
- Feel
- Take no more than 10 s.
Published March 2007 by European Resuscitation Council Secretariat VZW, Drie Eikenstraat 661, 2650 Antwerp, Belgium
Product reference: POSTER-2007-BLS_A0-EN Copyright European Resuscitation Council