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Specializes in Peds acute, critical care, Urgent Care.

ok, saunders says with cpr for nclex pn that you

1- check responsiveness

2- call for help

3- open airway

4- assess for breaths

5- give rescue breaths

6- give compressions

my lipincott however says this

1- check responsiveness

2- call for help

3- start compressions

4- open airway

5- check breathing

6- give breaths

thay are both copy righted for 2012, and obviously there is an issue to follow airway first or circulation first....help!! I know we are going to circulation first now, but both books for the same year say two different things, what do i do for nclex?> It is PN by the way

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Specializes in ER/Geriatrics/Med-Surg/Ortho.

If the patient doesn't have a pulse, I would go with compressions first.

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They changed it from abc to cab. Circulation first i believe so you start compressions first before airway (breathing) I may be wrong but I believe that was one of the big changes this time around. Google it.

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Specializes in Peds acute, critical care, Urgent Care.

ya i will have too, that's insanely frustrating, and stupid to miss on nclex.

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LandD_RN_chica is correct. A few years ago AHA change the order from ABC to CAB. You must have an older version of saunders, because my version uses CAB.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

it's CAB..just finished my BLS a week ago..

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It's CAB for CPR and ABC for everything else!

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ok, saunders says with cpr for nclex pn that you

1- check responsiveness

2- call for help

3- open airway

4- assess for breaths

5- give rescue breaths

6- give compressions

my lipincott however says this

1- check responsiveness

2- call for help

3- start compressions

4- open airway

5- check breathing

6- give breaths

thay are both copy righted for 2012, and obviously there is an issue to follow airway first or circulation first....help!! I know we are going to circulation first now, but both books for the same year say two different things, what do i do for nclex?> It is PN by the way

I noticed that too on the Saunders 4th edition which I'm using as well. It came up in a prioritization question and I put compressions first and then when they told me the first way in order u put I was like reaaaaaally? Feel like it didn't even make sense! How frustrating!!! So I guess everyone is saying is the second way then!?

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That would make sense. The 4th edition came out in 2009 and the AHA made the change from ABC to CAB in 2010.

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I just took the BLS class last month and its CAB . I get confused too since my saunders book is saying it differently neither I don't know how to approach a question about CPR when it comes to NCLEX exam.

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