What does first aid and emergency health training include

The core of formal first aid and emergency health training is to teach ordinary people the practical skills to handle correctly, avoid making trouble, and even regain the golden time to save lives before professional medical forces arrive. There is no pretense. I just completed a round of training for street and community grid workers last week. The first practical module at the beginning was cardiopulmonary resuscitation plus AED use - the automatic external defibrillator that can be seen everywhere in subway stations and business districts. During the training, everyone has to hold the button on the simulator for 10 minutes. The position must be accurate and the depth is deep enough. After all, the golden 4 minutes of cardiac arrest are like the first leg of a relay race. Only when ordinary people can catch up, can the medical staff win. There has been a real incident in our jurisdiction before. A retired man suffered a heart attack during morning exercise. The old man who played with him had just learned from us last month. The rhythm and depth of chest compressions were not wrong. The AED was also used correctly by the community property management. When 120 personnel arrived, the man’s blood oxygen was still stable, and he was rescued without any sequelae. If no one dared to move or press indiscriminately at that time, there is a high probability that the man would be dead.

In addition to this most urgent life-saving skill, daily high-frequency emergency treatment will also be emphasized, such as the Heimlich maneuver for airway foreign body obstruction. Whether it is an old man who has a fish bone stuck in his meal or a child who chokes on jelly, it can be relieved in a few seconds if used correctly, and there is no need to wait for an ambulance. There was a mother who had been studying with us for less than half a month. Her baby's face turned purple after eating Wangzi steamed buns. She slapped her back and punched her abdomen according to the techniques she learned, and she coughed it up within two strokes. Afterwards, she specially sent us milk tea to express her gratitude. Common trauma treatments will also be involved, such as how to apply pressure to bandage arterial and venous bleeding, how to shower and cool down immediately after burns and scalds, and how to properly clean wounds scratched and bitten by cats and dogs. Previously, a young man broke his leg while climbing a mountain. His friend who was traveling with him blindly rubbed his leg to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It turned out to be just a broken bone that had been rubbed into a dislocation. If he had understood some basic treatment knowledge in advance, he would not have suffered this problem.

There are actually different opinions on the boundaries of training content in the industry. Some organizations that provide standardized training believe that ordinary people have limited memory and do not need to learn too complicated content. It is enough to master the two most common life-saving skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and Heimlich. If you learn too much, it will be easy to misremember at critical moments; but there are also many like us who have been doing this for seven or eight years. Front-line training personnel believe that nowadays there are many extreme weather and public emergencies, and it is necessary to add scene-based emergency health knowledge, such as how to quickly cool down for heatstroke in extremely hot weather, how to conserve physical strength and reduce consumption when being buried in an earthquake, and how to avoid inhaling toxic smoke and damaging the airway when escaping from a fire. These contents may not seem urgent, but they are the key to saving lives in the event of an emergency.

And when we provide training to different groups, we will also adjust the content. For outdoor team building companies, we will add emergency treatment for snake bites, sprains and dislocations, for factories, we will add the treatment of mechanical cuts and chemical splashes, and for kindergartens, we will focus on the correct response to children's accidental swallowing and bumps. We cannot teach too much about the treatment of altitude sickness to white-collar workers who sit in the office all year round. It is a waste of time if it is not used at all. In fact, in the final analysis, this type of training has never been about teaching ordinary people to become certified emergency doctors. It means that when you really encounter something, you will not panic and be at a loss. If you dare to take action, you will know how to take action without making mistakes. This is the purpose.