If an animal is having difficulty breathing, can humans perform CPR on them, or only vets? This is NOT a joke! It's a serious question.
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Yes, you can do CPR on animals. And you don't have to pull their tongue out to do it neither. Animal anatomy won't allow for the tongue to FALL back into their throat, but in some dogs it can be shoved there by a stick while playing, but that's a rare accident.
Be aware that CPR is not for animals that have DIFFICULTY breathing. As long as there is some form of air exchange do not force air into an animal. It's a good way to end up getting bit.
If the animal has stopped breathing breath into their whole snout carefully.
Chest compressions are hard to do on animals, but possible as well.
I had to do rescue breathing on my 5 month old ferret Bart after he got crushed under a heavy piece of furniture. He passed out and stopped breathing. His heart rate was getting slower. I put his whole snout in my mouth and slowly gave a breath. I put my hands around his chest to feel for expansion to make sure I was inflating his lungs and not over doing it. I let his lungs deflate and did it again, about 4 or 5 times before he started breathing on his own. He ended up going into shock, with a faint thready pulse, drifting in and out of consciousness. I rushed him to the vet who treated him for shock with SQ injections. He also put him on Prednisone for a week to prevent swelling of the soft tissue in the neck region. Bart is fine now. Imagine, I rescue him from a shelter just days before he and his buddy Ferret Bueller were supposed to be put to sleep and then I almost killed him myself. I felt so bad.
PS: be aware that CPR(on animals in both cardiac AND respiratory ARREST) is a wonderful tool, but does not work all the time. Matter of fact, it usually doesn't, but it's always worth a shot.
Yes, although CPR is not for difficulty breathing, it's for when breathing and pulse are both absent.
Yes you can and here are the directions:
YES, and have taken 2 courses. Check with your vet or even the Red Cross. My local Red Cross offers classes which include first aid and safety for pets.
Good luck!
Yes you can, a police officer resuscitated a dalmation by closing its muzzle and blowing air directly into its nose every 3 seconds, its called mouth to snout resuscitation and has been done for years on dogs and cats, so I suppose it could be done on any animal as well.
ya!! sure!! but plz dont try that at home.
Why would you want to do it on a animal that is having trouble breathing? It would only make things worse at that point. CPR is for when a person or animal isn't breathing. Note that with an animal you need to cover the nose, or just breath into both. Check compressions are very hard to do on most animals.
Probably one of the most important things you can do after SAFETY is to make sure cat is breathing. To do this, you want to gently tap your cat and call out their name to see if they move. Then lean down close and LOOK, LISTEN AND FEEL for breathing.
Look: at the chest of the animal to see if it's moving.
Listen: to see if you can hear them breathing.
Feel: on your cheek or back of your hand for a breath.
If your cat is not breathing, pull their tongue just a little bit, close the mouth and tilt their head just a little to open their Airway. Give Mouth-to-Snout resuscitation. You'll want to give them just enough air to make the chest rise. Remember not to give too much air! You don't want to hurt them.
This means you're checking to see if their heart is working OK. To do that you must check for a heart beat which is called a pulse. There are pulse points located in various areas on your cat. For a cat the best place to find the pulse is on the outside of the left front leg, just behind the shoulder. This is called an Apical Pulse.
Rescue Breathing is when you have to breath for your cat because they are not breathing on their own. You do this when your cat has a pulse but is not breathing. For cats give 1 breath every 2 seconds.
CPR: First do your ABC's, don't forget to LOOK, LISTEN, and FEEL for breathing. CPR can only be performed if your dog or cat is not breathing and has no pulse.
If there is no Pulse, start CPR
Place the cat flat on the ground. Then put your hands on either side of the animal's chest, right behind the shoulder blades with your palms over the heart (sandwiching the animal's chest between both hands). Compress approximately 陆 - 1 inch deep. After 1 minute, check for a pulse again.
Give 1 breath every 3 compressions.
This was a great question!
I READ THAT BLOWING IN THEIR NOSE IS DOG CPR. IT REALLY WORKED WITH MY DOG.
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Yes you can do CPR on an animal if you know what to do. I have had training in cpr for humans. Just compress the animals chest a little, not too much, and blow in their nose, not directly if it's a small animal, make sure the mouth is closed. Keep doing it until the animal wakes up. If it doesn't, well. I have done cpr on a bird once and it lived for awhile and then keeled over for good. Also did cpr on my pet squirrel that was eating on the table and accidently back into the saw blade on the wall. It hit her in the back and she went into convultions and keeled over. Did cpr on her right away and she came back to life. But her lower back legs and feet did not work. Uh oh! Took her to the vet right away but there was not any thing he could do for her. She did live for a long time and had a litter of babies. She lived with my neighbour for about a year before she bought it. My neighbour did not know what happened too her. Oh, if you can get the animal to the vet do it, after cpr, if it needs it. If the animal is just having trouble breathing get it to the vet right away! If it's a wild animal stay away from it. And call the police! Hope this helps. Oh, if the animal is fairly good sized, i.e dog or cat or bigger blow directly into their nose but not too hard, just enough to make the chest rise and then let the air out and repeat it. And you have too compress the chest too, to compress the heart. But not too much depending on the animal.
cjrjr507
Yes you can do mouth-to-nose resuscitation on animals like cats and dogs like you would with do mouth-to-mouth with humans.
YES they can.
DO you have a sick animal? GO to the VET.
CPR varies from animal to animal. It is not like CPR for humans and compressions are given differently etc.
Animal Medicine is different from Human Medicine in part because each species has its own anatomy. for us Humans we are all mostly laid out the same. all our hearts young and old work the same and are in the same place. etc. for animals this can and is different among the species..
If you have a sick animal call or visit your VET he or she can advise you best.
If you are just asking or wantt o get some training in this. call your local ASPCA,, or Vet clinic and ask them as they may be able to tell you where you could do this.
Good Luck
Wismom
yes. But only if they acually are not breathing at all.
You can get certified in animal CPR
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