What aspects are included in the relationship between first aid and emergency health

To put it simply, first aid is the front-end implementation of the emergency health system. The two are deeply bound throughout the entire chain of health emergency prevention, on-site treatment, and follow-up treatment. Without any link, the emergency health protection network will not be able to catch real risks.

I have been doing pre-hospital first aid for almost ten years, and I feel very deeply about this. A case of myocardial infarction that I received last month is particularly typical: the security guard of a residential property had just finished a first aid science class organized by the district. When he saw the owner collapsed at the garage door, he immediately touched the carotid artery to determine consciousness. He knelt down and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He also asked someone to get the AED provided by the property management. After one defibrillation, the patient returned to breathing on his own. When we arrived at the scene, the patient's vital signs were stable. Later, when we went to follow up, he didn't even have any sequelae. If no one knows first aid at the scene, even if the community is equipped with an AED and the hospital opens a green channel for myocardial infarction, there is a high probability that the person will not be saved after we rush there in ten minutes. You see, this is actually the first aid that implements the emergency health emergency plan on paper. Otherwise, no matter how good the system configuration is, no one will use it or dare to use it, and it will be just a decoration.

Many people think that first aid is only used when something goes wrong. In fact, first aid science itself is a pre-prevention link in emergency health. Now we provide training in schools and companies, not only to teach how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but also to teach how to identify the FAST principle of stroke (whether the face is crooked, whether the arms can be lifted, and whether the speech is clear), and early treatment of heat stroke and foreign body obstruction in the airway.

Of course, many people now have concerns. They feel that emergency health is a matter for public health departments and hospitals. It is useless for ordinary people to learn first aid, and it will easily be a disservice. There have been cases in the past where non-professionals have been compensated for breaking ribs due to pressure, which makes many people afraid to reach out. However, the first aid exemption clauses that have been introduced in various places in recent years, as well as the increasingly emphasized rescue boundary notification in first aid training, are actually to straighten out the compatibility between the two, so that the practical operation of first aid can truly support emergency health, rather than allowing well-intentioned people to bear additional risks.

Don’t think that it’s irrelevant after on-site first aid. When we go out to the police, we most hope that there will be people on-site who know first-aid. They can accurately tell us how long the patient has been sick, whether he has any underlying diseases before, what treatment was done on-site, and whether any medicines were used. This information can help us save a lot of judgment time and go directly to the most symptomatic treatment plan, which is equivalent to passing the most accurate baton to the entire emergency health process. A worker at a construction site had his abdomen pierced by a steel bar before. The on-site foreman had taken our class before and did not dare to pull out the steel bars randomly. He also used clean towels to fix the surrounding areas. The amount of bleeding was very well controlled when it was delivered. In the end, the operation went smoothly. Even the previously predicted risk of abdominal infection did not appear. After three months of recovery, he went back to work.

To put it bluntly, if the emergency health system is compared to a safety net that covers all sudden health risks, then first aid is the force-bearing rope at the front of the net. If this rope is strengthened, whether it is a personal sudden illness or a public emergency, the most critical part can be caught immediately and will not fall directly.