What does first aid and emergency health training include

The content of first aid and emergency health training has always been set around the goal of "dare to take action in emergency situations and make no mistakes". The core is to enable ordinary people to make the most beneficial treatment for the injured in the golden window before professional rescue arrives. There are no fixed rules and regulations, and the focus of different aspects of training will be different.

I have been a community first aid training volunteer for almost three years. When I first started training for white-collar workers in office buildings, many people asked if we would only teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In fact, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators (AED) are indeed required for all trainings. We asked everyone to try it out and feel the depth and frequency of chest compressions. Last time, there was a young man who pressed too hard and made the "rib fracture" warning sound built into the simulator keep ringing. Our lecturer smiled and told him not to be afraid of this when you come to the scene. Broken ribs can still grow, and you can't wait until your heart stops. After everyone laughed, they remembered it better.

In addition to this kind of serious treatment that involves life and death, more content is actually about correcting the wrong practices that everyone is accustomed to, such as looking up when a nosebleed occurs, applying toothpaste when a burn occurs, rubbing the affected area first when a sprain occurs, etc. We always use real cases to tell the story. Last year, there was a child in the district. I got a second-degree burn after spilling hot soup. My parents smeared a thick layer of soy sauce on the wound. When I got to the hospital, it took the doctor almost forty minutes to clean the wound, and it almost became infected and left a scar. After telling this example, I taught everyone the burn treatment process of rinsing, removing, soaking, covering, and removing. Almost no one can remember it. There are also how to wash the wound scratched and bitten by cats and dogs, how to perform the Heimlich maneuver on adults and children when a foreign object is stuck in the throat, and how to fix a suspected fracture after a fall and not move it around. These are the scenarios that everyone is most likely to encounter in daily life.

There are also some controversial training contents in the industry, such as whether to teach ordinary people how to use tourniquets. The old instructors in our team feel that ordinary people are not able to grasp the tightness and duration of ligation. If they are tied for a long time and lead to limb necrosis, they will be held responsible. It is better to teach the pressure bandaging method thoroughly; some young instructors feel that it is not enough. In extreme scenarios, such as a car accident or a construction site injury that cuts a major artery, and when pressure cannot stop the bleeding, a tourniquet can be a life-saving tool. Even if there are risks, everyone should know how to use it. Now we usually teach both in training, and we will also clearly tell everyone the applicable scenarios and precautions for different hemostatic methods, so that everyone can make their own decisions.

What many people tend to overlook is that the training also teaches you how to protect yourself first. For example, if you encounter someone who gets an electric shock, turn on the switch first before touching the person. If you encounter someone who faints, first scan the area to see if there are any risks of falling objects or gas leaks. Instead of saving others, put yourself in. When calling 120, how to clearly report the address and the condition of the injured. Don't hesitate for a long time and waste rescue time. In the past two years, we have also added some content on emergency psychological adjustment, such as how to stabilize yourself and the emotions of those around you after an accident. Especially when providing training for schools, children tend to panic when they see their classmates injured. The efficiency can be much higher if they stabilize their emotions first and then deal with it.

In fact, in the final analysis, these contents are not intended to turn ordinary people into professional medical care, but when something really happens, they will not just wait helplessly for 120, but it can give people around them a little more chance to survive.