Obstructive airway care for infants

• Place the infant face up on your forearm and use your other hand to support the infant’s head.
• Carefully turn the infant over face down on your forearm using your thigh for support. 
• The infant’s head should be positioned lower than the body. 
• Using the heel of your hand, perform five back blows between infant’s shoulder blades.

• If back blows are unable to dislodge the object. Perform 5 chest thrusts.
• Position the infant face up on your forearm while using your hand to support the infant’s back of the head and neck.
• Lower the infant to your thigh for support.
• The infant’s head should be positioned lower than the body.
• Place 2 fingers in the center of the chest below the nipple line
• Perform 5 quick chest thrusts 1 ½ inches deep.

Continue 5 back blows and 5 chest thrusts until:

• The object is dislodged
• The infant starts to cry, cough, or breathe
• The infant becomes unresponsive in which you begin CPR immediately.