What is the relationship between first aid and emergency health?

To put it bluntly, first aid is the most advanced and core link in the emergency health system. It is the “first gate of life and death” that ordinary people can directly access and is easiest to play a role at critical moments. The two are not in a parallel relationship, but a binding relationship that includes and is included and supports each other.

I have been doing emergency health promotion at the grassroots level for four years. The most common thing I interact with residents is first aid skills training, which is very touching. Last month, the owner of the breakfast shop downstairs in our community suffered a myocardial infarction. The middle school teacher who happened to come to have breakfast regularly had just learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of AED from us last month. He started first aid on the spot. By the time 120 arrived, the person had already resumed breathing on his own. Later, the attending doctor said that if he had been delayed by three or four minutes, even if the subsequent treatment was in place, the prognosis would have been much worse.

There were different opinions during previous seminars in the industry. Some colleagues who are doing first aid training believe that the core of emergency health is first aid. By increasing the popularity of first aid among ordinary people, 80% of sudden health risks can be solved.； However, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not see it this way. They say that emergency health is the entire chain of management from daily basic disease control, risk warning, material reserves, to on-site first aid and subsequent recovery. First aid is only a final step. If the preliminary work is not done well, no amount of first aid skills can keep up with the speed of the risk outbreak.

In fact, both statements have a basis in reality. If you compare emergency health to a safety net that covers all sudden health risks, first aid is the bottom rope at the forefront of this net. If someone really misses it, whether they can pull it at the first time depends on whether the rope is strong. But if the net itself is full of holes and no one usually keeps an eye on the risk points, then no matter how strong the rope is, it will not be able to catch people who continue to fall.

Not long ago, an old man came to our place to learn the Heimlich maneuver. The first thing he did when he returned home was not to show off his skills to the old man, but to set a rule for his grandson not to run or jump while eating, and he also collected all the small buttons and glass beads on the coffee table. You see, this is the first aid awareness that feeds back into daily emergency health management. It is only a matter of one of you, so there is no need to break it so clearly. When something happens to you, the more knowledge you have about emergency health, the less likely you will panic during first aid, and the more hope you have of being rescued.