What are the relationships between poisoning and accidental first aid

Judging from the front-line practice of emergency and pre-hospital first aid, the relationship between the two is essentially a "nested symbiosis" - poisoning itself is one of the most common scenarios covered by accidental first aid, and the exclusive rules for poisoning treatment have in turn expanded the boundaries of accidental first aid. The two have never been two independent systems.

Last week, I and the police on the 120 bus happened to run into an intersection between the two. Tenants in an urban village cooked wild mushrooms picked by the roadside. A family of four suffered from vomiting and diarrhea and hallucinations. The alarm person panicked and only said, "Someone fainted unexpectedly." When we arrived at the scene, we first performed airway cleaning and vital signs according to the general accident first aid regulations. For monitoring, the vomitus in the respiratory tracts of the two unconscious people was first removed to avoid suffocation, and then the poisoning treatment was used to induce vomiting and activated carbon adsorption, and the hospital was contacted to prepare the corresponding toadstool antidote. Without the support of the general emergency first aid process in the early stage, the person would have been in danger of suffocation before using the antidote.

However, the industry has always had different opinions on the boundary between the two. Many colleagues at grassroots first aid centers believe that most of the situations encountered daily are mild food poisoning and alcohol poisoning, which can be dealt with according to the symptomatic treatment principles of ordinary accidental first aid. There is no need to separate poisoning first aid into independent modules and increase training costs. But our station suffered a big loss last year. At that time, a new nurse encountered a patient who had accidentally taken paraquat. According to the common custom of handling gastrointestinal accidents, he gave him half a cup of warm water to moisten his throat. This accelerated the spread of the poison in the gastrointestinal tract, and the patient was not rescued after being sent to the hospital. Since then, our station has been supporting poisoning first aid as a special specialty in the accident first aid system for intensive training. Even if 80% of the scenarios do not require special rules, as long as there are 20% of severe poisonings, life can be saved.

In fact, when it comes to the general public, there is no need to worry about the relationship between the two. You can just treat poisoning as a special case of "with special precautions" in accidental first aid. Just like turning off the heat when cooking is a universal safety habit, paying extra attention to ventilation when cooking hot pot to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning is a targeted supplement. If you encounter situations such as taking the wrong medicine, being bitten by poisonous insects, or being knocked unconscious by mixing toilet cleaning liquid and 84, you should first move the person to a safe place according to the general principles of emergency first aid, ensure smooth breathing, and do not feed people randomly. Call 120 as soon as possible to clarify the cause of suspected poisoning, and leave the rest to professionals. There is no need to dwell on the definitions of the two. During the last community science popularization, an aunt asked, if my child accidentally ate half a bottle of calcium tablets, does it count as poisoning and requires first aid? Isn't this just at the intersection of the two? It falls into the category of poisoning and is an accident that requires emergency treatment. You can't go wrong by following the process.