A 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lif…

Question

A 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lifeguard has started chest compressions while an ambulance is called. You fetch the pool's automated external defibrillator. It contains one set of adult pads only, with no paediatric pads, no dose attenuator and no paediatric setting. His chest is small enough that the two adult pads would touch each other if placed side by side. Which one of the following should you do next?

Accepted Answer

Apply one pad anteriorly and one posteriorly

Answer

Apply the pads below the right clavicle and at the apex

Answer

Continue compressions without attaching the defibrillator

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Give two minutes of compressions before attaching pads

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Wait for paediatric pads from the ambulance

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