How to Give a Cat CPR
If your cat is not breathing and has no heartbeat or pulse, you have an immediately life-threatening situation. This situation can be due to any reason like someone has hit your pet cat in a road accident. If she has lost her heartbeat and you don’t want to let your pet cat die like this. Then you need to recover her heartbeats. In this situation, cat CPR treatment is a must to save the life of your pet cat. If brain tissue is deprived of oxygen for more than four or five minutes, permanent damage or death will occur. Administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may keep the brain tissue away from dying. How to give a cat CPR is a big question.
In this case, you should consult your veterinarian and if the situation is worst then you have to use cat CPR yourself in order to save her life. A combination of heart massage and artificial respiration, cat CPR treatment forces blood out of the heart by stimulating the heart’s pumping action. To be effective, it must be done rhythmically and in combination with artificial respiration. Veterinary aid is needed quickly as well, so send someone for help while you begin the treatment.
In human medicine, heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), choking, and strokes are common CPR emergencies. These are rare in veterinary medicine, however, so there are only a few instances where cat CPR is needed. Electrocution, near-&owning; and collapse from congestive heart failure may require CPR treatment for cats. If your cat is unconscious, has no pulse or heartbeat, is gasping for breath, or its pupils are dilating, you need to administer CPR as fast as possible. If there is massive external or internal bleeding, treatment with cat CPR will not be effective because there is not enough fluid in the blood vessels to carry the oxygen.
Respiration
Place your pet on its side. Clean the mouth of blood and mucus. Inhale air, put your mouth over the cat’s muzzle, forming an airtight seal, and exhale. Give your pet a new breath every three seconds (twenty per minute), while massaging the heart.
Massage
Place the heel of one hand over the cat’s chest, just at the back of its elbow, and your other palm on top of that hand. Pump firmly and quickly, doing it once every second (sixty per minute). Hold each thrust for a count of two and release for the account of one. Be careful not be break any ribs or to injure any rib fractures further. Have someone else feel for a femoral pulse (see page 17) as you massage. Discontinue the massage when the heartbeat is restored, but continue the artificial respiration until your cat breathes on its own.
APPLYING A TOURNIQUET
It is a device that stops the flow of blood and in most cases prevents bleeding flow. Seek veterinary aid immediately. A tourniquet should be used only if direct pressure is unsuccessful in stopping the bleeding. Never place a tourniquet over a fracture or a joint. You can use a bandage, handkerchief, cloth belt, or a piece of cloth as a tourniquet. Adjust it about one inch above the wound by tying a loose loop around the limb lacing a short, strong stick in the loop, and twisting the tourniquet until the blood stops flowing. Loosen the tourniquet every ten minutes to allow some circulation. Do not loosen it in the case of a snake bite. Treat the animal for a shock as well. It can control the flow for an extremity period of time.
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