Infant and Child CPR DVD

• Assist any infant or young child in a time of danger
• Format: DVD in English & Spanish
• Tracy recommends to review DVD a least once a month

This DVD contains all the information needed for viewers to assist any infant or young child in a time of danger. With drowning and airway obstruction being two leading causes of death in young children, every parent owes it to themselves and their child to possess the skills necessary to act calmly and quickly in any cpr or choking emergencies.

Tracy Kalemba RN, MSN president of Caring Professional Resources LLC, has been a registered nurse since 1987. She has worked in hospitals, pediatrics, home care, and presently teaches nursing at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has been a certified American Heart Association CPR instructor since 1991 and a certified childbirth educator with the Council of Childbirth Education Specialists since 1995.

Tracy is active teaching parents the vital lifesaving skills contained in her program. As a mother she feels so strongly that everyone should know infant and child cpr skills, that she produced: Infant/Child CPR: What Every Parent Should Know, so that others could learn and review this lifesaving information regarding infant and child cpr at their leisure.

Tracy recommends reviewing the infant and child cpr DVD once a month on your child's date of birth. By reviewing the information periodically it will be easier to remember the infant and child cpr skills and you will feel more confident should you ever need to use the information or skills from the program.

• Among children ages 1 to 4 years, most drownings occur in residential swimming pools. Most young children who drowned in pools were last seen in the home, had been out of sight less than five minutes, and were in the care of one or both parents at the time.
• In 2001, 859 children ages 0 to 14 years died from drowning (CDC 2003). Drowning remains the second-leading cause of injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years (CDC 2003).
• In 2001, 864 children ages 14 and under died from unintentional airway obstruction injuries. Of these children, 87 percent were ages 4 and under.
• In 2001, 169 children ages 14 and under died from choking (30 percent food and 70 percent nonfood) and more than 17,500 children were treated in hospital emergency departments for choking-related episodes.
• In 2002, eight children ages 2 to 11 died from choking on or aspiration of a toy; three of these deaths involved balloons. Choking and suffocation/asphyxia deaths account for 62 percent of all toy-related fatalities.
• In 2002, more than 80 percent of children treated in hospital emergency rooms for airway obstruction injuries were ages 4 and under.
• The majority of childhood choking injuries are associated with food items. Children are at risk from choking on small, round foods such as hot dogs, candies, nuts, grapes, carrots and popcorn.