What are the basic first aid skills?

If you have been to several pre-hospital first aid scenes and practiced community first aid training, you will know that basic first aid skills do not have as many rules and regulations as listed on the Internet. The core is centered around the logic of "first not causing trouble, then protecting life, and finally reducing damage" covering all pre-hospital treatment links.

Many people focus on CPR, Heimlich and other Internet celebrity operations. In fact, the first thing to master is on-site risk investigation - if you encounter someone who gets electrocuted and falls to the ground, you come up and grab the person's arm. In the end, both of them are lying on the ground. CPR is useless. This happened in our district last year. Passers-by failed to pull the switch when trying to save the electrocuted person. It was a pity that one of them died and one was injured.

After eliminating dangers at the scene, the most important thing is to quickly judge the vital signs. There is no need to memorize too complicated terms. Just tap the shoulder and shout twice to see if there is a response. Take a look at the chest and stomach to see if there is any rise and fall. The results will be available within 10 seconds. If you can’t wake up or breathe, don’t wait for 120, start CPR immediately, golden rescue. The rescue time is only 4 minutes, and it is often too late when the ambulance comes. The year before last, I met a young man who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the business district. The employee of the milk tea shop next to him happened to have passed the first aid certificate. He was out of breath within three minutes of pressing the button. In the end, it was okay to send him to the hospital. If no one dared to take action at the time, I can’t imagine the consequences.

In addition to such fatal emergencies, we often deal with minor injuries and accidents in daily life. There are more misunderstandings here, such as applying toothpaste when you are burned, raising your head when you have a nosebleed, or rubbing your foot when it is twisted. They are all wrong. Last week, there was a high school student. A middle school student sprained his ankle while playing basketball. His teammates rubbed it for ten minutes and put on a blood-activating plaster. When he arrived, his ankle was swollen like a steamed bun. In fact, cold compresses and immobilizers were enough within 24 hours after the sprain. It was better to apply no medicine than to mess with it.

There is a lot of quarrel on the Internet now. Some people say that if a foreign object is stuck in the throat, use the Heimlich maneuver immediately. Others say that using it casually will increase the risk. In fact, both sides of this statement are reasonable. If a person can still speak loudly and cough on his own, it means that the airway is only partially blocked. At this time, patting the back and pressing the belly hard may cause the foreign object to get stuck deeper. It is not too late to use the Heimlich maneuver when it is completely blocked. Moreover, the techniques for pregnant women and obese people need to be adjusted, and general online tutorials cannot be copied.

To be honest, these skills are not complicated at all to learn. Two hours of free practice classes at the local Red Cross Society are more effective than watching short videos ten times. Everyone panics when something happens, but they have a rough guide in their mind, and at least they won’t do bad things with good intentions.