In a 2 rescuer Basic Life Support for a child with an unresponsive child with cardiac arrest, activation of the Emergency Response system occurs initially after 2 minutes of CPR as one rescuer should be with the victim and doing the CPR while the other initiates the Emergency Response retrieving the AED. The compression-to-ventilation ratio is 15 is to 2.
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