What does first aid and emergency health training include

Practical on-site emergency response, daily emergency health risk identification and response, and self-protection and mutual assistance in extreme scenarios are not as simple as just teaching CPR as everyone thinks.

Last time I held a class for retired elderly people on the street. As soon as I entered the classroom, I was pulled over by Aunt Zhang and asked if I could save my wife who had a heart attack after studying. I said more than that. If you encounter situations such as your grandson choking on milk, twisting his feet while dancing in the square, or suffering from heatstroke while shopping for groceries in summer, you will know how to deal with it after studying. The most familiar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver are standard features of this type of training, but more importantly, it teaches you to judge the timing of treatment. Instead of just going up and pressing down on someone when they see them falling to the ground, you must first check whether there are secondary risks such as leakage and traffic around them, then pat the shoulder to call the person to determine their consciousness, and touch the carotid artery to confirm breathing. If these details are wrong, you will either not be able to save the person, or you will be involved. During the last practical exercise, a young man came up and knelt down next to the simulator to apply pressure. I quickly stopped him. The position he chose happened to be the simulated fire exit. If something really happened, both of us would be scratched by passing vehicles. There are also things like hemostasis of trauma, fixation of fractures, and washing wounds after being scratched and bitten by cats and dogs, all of which require hands-on practice. You can’t remember the intensity of compression and the tightness of the bandage just by watching the video.

Don’t just think about “rescuing serious illnesses”. The most common health problems you encounter every day are actually sudden health problems that don’t warrant calling an ambulance. This part is also the focus of the training. For example, how to distinguish whether a sudden chest pain is a gas attack or a myocardial infarction, whether dizziness after squatting for a long time is a sign of hypoglycemia or a precursor to a cerebral infarction, how to treat a child with a fever of 39 degrees without inducing convulsions, and whether to move to a cool place or feed ice water first when suffering from heat stroke in summer. These contents may seem broken, but they can really save lives when used. Two months ago, a trainee in an office building reported that a colleague suddenly suffered from chest pain and cold sweats during lunch break. Instead of asking someone to take a taxi to the hospital, he helped the patient sit down and took Suxiao Jiuxin Pills to give 120. Later, the doctor said that it was fortunate that the patient was not allowed to move, otherwise the plaques in the coronary arteries would fall off faster, and the consequences would be disastrous.

If we encounter emergencies such as earthquakes, floods, and fires, the post-disaster drinking water disinfection, wound anti-infection treatment, and cleaning methods after chemical splashes taught in the training will come in handy. In the past two years, we have also added psychological emergency content to teach you how to relieve excessive tension after encountering emergencies and how to comfort people around you who have stress reactions. Last summer, we provided preliminary training for volunteers who went to mountainous areas to support flash flood relief. Later, a volunteer said that many local villagers had diarrhea after drinking unsterilized mountain spring water. According to the method we taught, boil garlic and add a small amount of salt to drink, many people recovered within the same day, which was faster than finding medicine.

There are also different voices in the industry. Some people think that training should only teach hard-core first aid skills. Daily health knowledge and psychological protection are useless in just a short time. Some people think that ordinary people do not need to learn too in-depth operations. Just being able to call 120 is enough. We have been doing training for so long and feel that it still depends on the audience. For outdoor enthusiasts, we should add more content on snake and insect bites and hypothermia treatment. For school teachers, we should focus on the response to choking and febrile convulsions in children. For white-collar workers in office buildings, we should focus on identifying symptoms of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergencies and dealing with sprains caused by prolonged sitting. There is no need to be the same. To put it bluntly, this kind of training has never been about teaching ordinary people to become professional medical nurses. It is about teaching you not to panic when something happens, knowing what to do first without causing trouble, and being able to help you during the golden time before 120 arrives. This is enough.