While CPR Training nearly always covers when to begin giving CPR (and quality CPR course will) many times students ask "When should I stop performing CPR?" As a bystander, you must decide if you choose to provide voluntary assistance. If you choose to do so, first make sure the scene is safe for you as a rescuer, then you must follow these guidelines: Once care has been initiated, you are obligated to continue care until one of the following occurs:
  1. A qualified professional pronounces the victim dead.
  2. Observable signs of circulation return ~ Victim begins breathing on his or her own.
  3. Qualified personnel arrive who can render the same level of care or better.
  4. You become too exhausted to continue.
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