• Place casualty on back immediately
  Don’t water time moving to a better place, loosening clothing, or draining water from lungs.
  
  
• Quickly clear mouth and throat
  Remove mucus, food and other obstructions

·        Tilt head back as far as possible
The head should be in a “chin-up” or “sniff” position and the neck stretched

• Lift lower jaw forward 
  Grasp jaw by pacing thumb into corner of mouth.  Do not hold or depress tongue.
  
  

• Pinch nose shut (or seal mouth)
  Prevent air leakage
  
  
• Open your mouth wide and blow
  Take a deep breath and blow forcefully (except for babies) into mouth or nose until you see chest rise
  
  

• Listen for exhalation
  Quickly remove your mouth when chest rises.  Lift jaw higher if casualty makes snoring or gurgling sounds.
  
  
• Repeat (last two steps) 12 to 20 times per minute Continue until casualty begins to breath normally
  
  
• For infants seal both mouth and nose with your mouth Blow with small puffs of air from your cheeks

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