What does first aid and emergency health training include

I have been doing corporate and community emergency response training for 6 years. To be honest, the core of the content has never been the dry one, two or three points listed on the Internet.

Of course, the most important thing is life-saving on-site operations. We leave at least half of each training for practical operations, not just memorizing knowledge points. I just finished training at the Internet Industrial Park last month. In the afternoon, a little girl drank pearl milk tea and got stuck in her airway. A boy in the same department had just learned the Heimlich maneuver. He hugged her from behind three times and coughed up the pearls. She recovered before 120 arrived. This content is not as difficult as everyone thinks. The compression depth of CPR and how to find the right position can be basically mastered after practicing three or five times. The operation of AED (automated external defibrillator) is even simpler. Nowadays, the equipment is all voice-guided. The steps are read to you when you open the cover. The positions where the electrode pads are attached are printed with schematic diagrams. You don’t have to worry if you are not a medical practitioner and dare not touch them. You will not go wrong if you follow them. There are also many common misunderstandings that will be rectified specifically. For example, many people used to force chopsticks into people who had epileptic seizures and break their arms. We repeatedly emphasized every time that it is enough to turn the person sideways and remove foreign objects from the mouth to prevent suffocation. Indiscriminate operations may easily cause secondary injuries.

It is not enough to rush forward when something goes wrong. Common daily emergencies and accident handling are the content that ordinary people are most likely to use. For example, whether to take nitroglycerin immediately after a myocardial infarction occurs. There are actually different opinions in this industry. Some experts suggest that you can buy nitroglycerin first if you have chest pain symptoms, and some experts insist that you must measure your blood pressure first. If it is lower than 90/60mmHg, eating it will aggravate the condition. During the training, we will clearly explain the logic of both judgments. The suggestion to everyone is that families with underlying diseases such as coronary heart disease should always have a portable blood pressure monitor, explain the medication rules to their families in advance, and don't panic and take medicine randomly. There is also the FAST method for rapid identification of stroke, scalds should be washed with cold water for 15 minutes without toothpaste or soy sauce, sprains should be treated with cold compresses before rubbing, and how to quickly cool down heatstroke. These are all summarized by us after going through many real cases. Last year, a community man scalded his feet with boiling water at home, applied half a bottle of soy sauce, and got infected and was hospitalized for a week. Later, he came to listen to our training to pat his thighs and said that if he came two hours earlier, he would not have to suffer this problem.

What many people don't know is that today's first aid training no longer only talks about "what to do if something goes wrong", but also takes up a lot of space on risk investigation beforehand and response preparation afterward. For example, if there are elderly people at home, how to install anti-slip strips and anti-fall handrails, what height should the gas alarm be installed, how to hide and escape if a high-rise building catches fire, and when calling 120, you should first give the accurate address before talking about your condition. Don't cry and say "Someone has fainted" when you call. The operator can't ask for the address for a long time, which will waste time. We will also specifically mention the "good person clause" in the Civil Code, which means that ordinary people who voluntarily perform first aid and cause damage to the recipient do not need to bear civil liability, directly dispelling everyone's concerns about "rescuing the wrong person and being held responsible." We will also teach you simple self-adjustment methods on what to do if you feel panicked and have shadows after actually participating in first aid, and seek professional psychological counseling when necessary.

To be honest, first aid training is like carrying a safety hammer with you. There is a high probability that you will never use it in your life. But when you really encounter something, you know that you can reach out and touch it, and you will not panic and rush around, which is not helpful.