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⚠️Unresponsive Infant. ❤️AHA 2025 Guidelines.❤️ 🚨Place the infant on a firm, flat surface, start CPR immediately, starting with chest compressions. ✅Place both thumbs side by side in the center of the infant's chest, on the lower half of the sternum, just below the nipple line. Your thumbs may overlap on very small infants. ✅With your hands encircling the chest, use both thumbs to depress the sternum at a rate of 100 to 120/min. ✅Compress at least one third the AP diameter of the infant’s chest (approximately 4 cm). ✅After each compression, release all pressure on the sternum and allow the chest to recoil completely. ✅Each time you open the airway, look for the object in the back of the throat. If you see an object and can easily remove it, remove it. 🚨After about 2 minutes of CPR, activate the emergency response system (if no one has done so) and obtain the AED/defibrillator if feasible. 🔆Clarification: ✅The preferred technique is to compress and ventilate, but if you do not want or cannot ventilate, perform only compressions. ✅Remember, every 30 compressions, observe the mouth in search of the foreign body. ✅If you perform ventilations (mouth of the rescuer to mouth-nose of the infant) because you did the practices on a mannequin in a course, remember delivering ventilations to infants or small children requires less volume and force than giving breaths to adults and each ventilation must be 1 second. ⚠️Breaths that are too forceful have greater potential to cause lung trauma in children. Still, ensure you provide enough air to see the chest rise. 🔆Continue until the foreign body is eliminated or health personnel arrive. 🚨It is important to take a course in CPR, AED use, and First Aid. In this section, you will learn how to clear an obstructed airway—that is, how to handle choking in infants under 1 year old (using mannequins, as shown in the videos), as well as in children and adults. You will also learn how to manage patients experiencing seizures, hemorrhaging, and other emergencies. 🥇In the first video👇, you can see the compression technique using overlapping thumbs; before delivering breaths, I check the mouth for any foreign object. 🥈The second video👇 follows the same procedure as the first, but here I demonstrate an alternative compression technique using thumbs placed side-by-side. Finally, if you wish, you can practice using a doll: play the second video and follow along with my actions at the same pace. While this is not the same as taking a formal course with a professional mannequin, this practice may be helpful until you are able to complete a course. Thank you so much.❤️💙