Artificial Ventilation

For a person to stay alive they need an adequate supply of oxygen to
enter the lungs and be transported to all body tissues by the bloodstream.

If there is insufficient oxygen entering the lungs and reaching the vital organs,
a casualty will become unconscious, the heart will stop beating and the person will die.

As a first aider, your main priority will be to ensure that an adequate amount of oxygen
is being supplied to all body tissues.

The next few puzzles will help you to think about how you will achieve this and so help to save a persons' life.

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers.

If you need help, use the "[?]" button to reveal the first letter of the word
and the "Hint" button at the bottom of the page to insert additional letters.

Note, you will lose points each time you use the "[?]" & "Hint" buttons!

Artificial ventilation is also known as [?] [?], and may be done by performing mouth to mouth, mouth to [?] or mouth to [?] resuscitation. When giving rescue breaths to an infant, child or [?] adult, mouth to mouth [?] nose may need to be performed.

The air around us contains about of oxygen. About of the oxygen contained in each breath is absorbed by our lungs, so the air we breathe out consists of about of oxygen.

When we give [?] breaths to a person, i.e. force our [?] air into their [?], the remaining oxygen is more than enough to help keep the other person alive by providing oxygen to all vital [?] and other body [?].