What is the relationship between first aid and emergency health

To put it simply, first aid is the front-end implementation port of the emergency health system. The two are interdependent with front-end immediate intervention and full-chain risk prevention and control. The overall layout of emergency health determines the accessibility of first aid, and the actual implementation quality of first aid directly determines the final effect of emergency health treatment.

Many people have confused the boundaries between the two. They either think that first aid is all about emergency health, or they think that emergency health is a matter of disease control and hospitals, and has nothing to do with the first aid that ordinary people learn. I have encountered this kind of thing before when I was doing first aid science popularization in the community. Last month, a 60-year-old Aunt Zhang came to listen to popular science. She said that last year, Chen downstairs had a heart attack while walking in the community. Everyone around him only called 120. By the time the ambulance arrived, she had missed the golden 4 minutes. At that time, she always thought that emergency health was the disinfection after floods and nucleic acid testing during the epidemic. She had no idea that ordinary people's cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED defibrillation were the links in the emergency health system that were closest to ordinary people.

Speaking of which, the industry does not have a completely unified view on the weight of the relationship between the two. Scholars who study the public health system tend to think that first aid is only a terminal supplement to emergency health. The core is the risk warning and pre-publicity in the first half, such as sending heat stroke reminders to outdoor workers in advance on hot days, and promoting vaccinations for the elderly and children during the flu season. Naturally, there is no need to nip sudden health risks in the bud. First aid; but we first responders who run on the front line every day don’t think so. No matter how well you warn, there will always be unexpected situations: foreign objects stuck in the throat while eating, sudden death while running, being scratched and bitten by cats and dogs at home. In the face of these emergencies, the ten minutes you wait for 120 minutes is the key to the difference between life and death. Without the support of first aid skills that ordinary people have mastered, no matter how perfect the emergency health system is, it cannot cover the last 100 meters.

To use a less appropriate analogy, emergency health is like a safety net for all sudden health risks, from early risk warning and emergency material reserves, to intermediate dispatch and green channel connection, to subsequent rehabilitation follow-up, the whole process They are all carried by you, and first aid is the layer of mesh at the top of the net that is closest to ordinary people. Whether it can be caught as soon as possible when a risk occurs and prevent people from falling directly to the bottom and being seriously injured depends on whether this layer of mesh is strong enough and covers a wide enough range.

Last year our district was evaluated as a provincial emergency health demonstration zone. The initial submission materials were all about system construction and material reserves. Later, the evaluation team asked a question: How many AEDs are installed in public places in the district? How many ordinary residents have received basic first aid training? We just realized that we almost missed the core front-end link during the construction. Later, after half a year of science popularization and the installation of 120 AEDs, three people who suffered myocardial infarction in public places were saved by ordinary people passing by. To be honest, this is the most tangible value of the linkage between the two.