How many total "actions" per minute are yielded when performing CPR on a newborn with a compression to ventilation ratio of 3:1?

When performing CPR on a newborn, the recommended compression to ventilation ratio being 3:1 means that for every three chest compressions, one breath is given. The American Heart Association guidelines suggest that during neonatal resuscitation, the compression rate is typically around 120 compressions per minute.

To calculate the total actions per minute including both compressions and ventilations, we can break it down as follows:

• For every 3 compressions, there is 1 ventilation.

• This results in a total of 4 actions (3 compressions + 1 ventilation) for each cycle.

• With a compression rate of 120 per minute, we determine how many cycles occur in a minute:

Since there are 120 compressions per minute, we can calculate the number of cycles per minute by dividing the total number of compressions by the number of compressions per cycle (which is 3). This gives us 40 cycles per minute:

120 compressions/minute ÷ 3 compressions/cycle = 40 cycles/minute.

Now, each cycle consists of 4 actions (3 compressions + 1 ventilation). Therefore, to get the total actions per minute, we multiply the number of cycles per minute by the