What is the relationship between first aid and emergency health

The core relationship is actually that first aid is the front-end implementation carrier of the emergency health system in emergency risk scenarios, which directly determines the final effect of emergency health intervention.

I have been running community emergency health education for three years, and I have met too many people who confuse the two. They either think that first aid is all emergency health, or they think that first aid has nothing to do with daily emergency health management. In fact, the two are more closely bound than most people think. Last month, the 62-year-old Uncle Zhang in the community where I lived had a heart attack when he went downstairs to throw garbage. There happened to be a middle school teacher nearby who had participated in our training. He immediately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the security guard brought an AED from the gate. By the time 120 was reached, the spontaneous heartbeat had been restored. Later, during the follow-up visit, the attending doctor It is said that if first aid is carried out two minutes late, it will be difficult to return to normal life no matter how much rehabilitation intervention is performed. This is the most intuitive manifestation - first aid is equivalent to the "frontier trigger point" of the emergency health network. When an accident occurs, whether it can be caught immediately will directly determine the value of all subsequent work.

However, there are indeed many differences in the weight positioning of the two in the industry. When I attended the regional emergency health seminar last time, the teacher from the CDC was still saying that public opinion now overemphasizes the role of first aid, and instead ignores the more core pre-prevention and control in emergency health. For example, regular follow-up of chronic diseases for elderly people living alone, investigation of home fire protection and anti-skid hazards, and occupational health plans for high-risk positions. If these tasks are done well, 80% of the scenarios that require first aid can be reduced. To equate first aid with emergency health is essentially putting the cart before the horse. However, front-line pre-hospital emergency doctors disagree with this statement, saying that no matter how thorough risk prevention and control is, it is impossible to completely prevent accidents. Just like the hiking cliff incident in the local mountainous area last summer, the team leader made a complete outdoor emergency health plan in advance and informed everyone of the risks. Still Someone stepped on the air and fell. If the team leader did not master the first aid skills of stopping bleeding and immobilizing the person, by the time the search and rescue team arrived more than two hours ago, the people would probably have gone into hemorrhagic shock. At this time, first aid is the last line of defense in the entire emergency health system, and it cannot be overemphasized.

In fact, both statements are reasonable. Emergency health originally covers a complete chain from daily risk prevention, emergency situation handling to subsequent recovery. First aid is the core node connecting "prevention" and "follow-up intervention". It is separated from the system support of emergency health. For example, if you do not do daily Science popularization, public places are not equipped with AEDs, and the 120 dispatch process is not smooth. Even if an individual knows first aid, it will be difficult to play the best role. On the other hand, if there is no first aid skills and equipment support, no matter how good the emergency health plan is, it is just words written on paper, and it will not be able to respond when an accident occurs.