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If you can't find a pulse or hear a heartbeat it is essential to start chest compressions to force blood through the body.

Symptoms

No Heartbeat	Unconscious
No Pulse

Steps

Check that your cat’s heart is still beating by feeling for the heart on your cat’s chest and/or feeling for your cat’s pulse. (The pulse is easily felt in the femoral artery located on the inside of the thigh.)

If no pulse or heart beat is felt, begin CPR outlined below.

With cat on its side locate the heart which is easily found at the point where the elbow bends to meet the chest.

For cats, begin chest compressions over the point of the heart by squeezing with one hand with the cat laying on its side.

Provide chest compressions as fast and consistently as one can (100-120 compressions per minute or 2 compressions per second).

Have assistants check pulse and administer breaths throughout.

Stop once a pulse is felt or signs of life are seen.

Warnings

Pinch your cat firmly between her toes or tap her eyelids, if there is no response start CPR immediately

Feel for a pulse by placing 3 fingers flat against the femoral artery on the inside of the thigh at the groin and you should feel it

Feel for a heartbeat by placing your palm flat against her lower chest directly behind the left front elbow

Tips

If your cat does not show any signs of improvement after 10 min the CPR has been unsuccessful and can be stopped

Following CPR, your pet will require intensive care & treatment at a veterinary hospital.

It is useful to have extra people help perform CPR most effectively

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