The relationship between first aid and emergency health includes

It is an extension of the daily emergency health prevention system, a core intervention method in the handling stage of health emergencies, and a pre-influencing factor in the subsequent health recovery cycle. The three together form an emergency health protection network covering the entire cycle.

Not long ago, when I was doing emergency science popularization in the community, I happened to meet Uncle Zhang, who had been rescued by his neighbor from a heart attack last year, for a review. He can now walk three kilometers around the community every day without any sequelae. The person who rescued him at that time was a retired emergency nurse who happened to be performing a square dance next to the stadium. When he saw the person collapsed, he immediately rushed to perform CPR. The AED that had just been installed on the property of the community and had not been touched for half a year also came in handy. When 120 came, Uncle Zhang had already restored his spontaneous heart rate. Later, the attending doctor said that if he had been delayed by two minutes, he would probably have to collapse in bed even if he was rescued.

Many people have misunderstandings about the relationship between the two. They always think that first aid is just a "showcase that is only used when something serious happens", while emergency health is as simple as preparing some cold medicine and iodine. In fact, this is not the case at all.

I talked to friends at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before. When they were doing public health planning, they directly included first aid training and AED configuration in public places into the pre-indicators of the city's emergency health system. To put it bluntly, the short videos on emergency science and the first aid drills organized by the community property management system that you usually watch are essentially patching up your emergency health awareness, so that you will not be in a hurry when you encounter an accident. However, most clinical emergency doctors pay more attention to the value of first aid. An emergency director I know always said that whether pre-hospital first aid is done well or not directly determines the difficulty of our subsequent rescue, and also determines whether the patient can survive and the quality of life after surviving. There is actually no conflict between these two statements, they just come from different perspectives.

An Internet company operator who came to participate in my training sent me a message last week saying that at a department dinner last week, a colleague had a chicken bone stuck in his throat. He used the Heimlich maneuver he had just learned to remove it in two strokes, which saved him the trouble of going to the hospital and emergency room. Even his colleague’s meal money was waived by AA. You see, such minor health emergencies are originally part of emergency health, and first aid is the most direct solution. There is no need to wait for an ambulance to arrive.

Of course, some people say that I am not a medical nurse and have learned first aid half-heartedly. If I do something wrong, I will be held responsible. I can just leave emergency health matters to professionals. This actually makes sense. When we were doing training, we repeatedly emphasized that first aid for ordinary people cannot replace professional medical care. When encountering a situation beyond your ability, it is right to call 120 as soon as possible. But you have to know that the golden rescue time for sudden cardiac death is only 4 minutes, and the rescue window for foreign objects stuck in the throat and suffocation does not exceed 10 minutes. The average arrival time of 120 in most cities is more than 15 minutes. In this vacated window, you have no other choice but to perform first aid yourself. According to data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention last year, the survival rate of sudden cardiac death patients who had witnesses performing standardized cardiopulmonary resuscitation before the hospital was 3.2 times that of those who did not receive pre-hospital first aid. This number speaks for itself.

What many people don’t know is that whether first aid is done correctly will directly affect subsequent recovery results. Two years ago, I encountered a case where an old man suffered a cerebral infarction at home. His family members were so panicked that they insisted on feeding the old man antihypertensive medicine and helped him sit up. As a result, the old man choked. When he was sent to the hospital, he not only had a cerebral infarction, but also severe aspiration pneumonia. The subsequent recovery took almost three months, and he also suffered from coughing when exposed to cold. If the family members knew some basic first aid knowledge at that time, let the old man lie on his side, clean the foreign objects in the mouth, and do not feed him anything, the subsequent recovery would not be so troublesome at all.

To put it bluntly, first aid and emergency health are inherently tied together and are not two separate things. You usually spend an extra half hour watching Heimlich and cardiopulmonary resuscitation operation videos, and prepare an emergency medical kit containing hemostasis kits and burn ointments at home so that you don’t panic when something happens. This is a real guarantee for your family and strangers around you.