What does first aid and emergency health training include

The formal first aid and emergency health training currently on the market focuses on the three logical settings of "life-saving-injury prevention-protection". It is not too theoretical, and most of them are practical content that can be directly implemented. I have been doing grassroots first aid training for 6 years. The first thing I teach students is always cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) + automatic external defibrillator (AED). This is the only effective method in the most fatal situation such as cardiac arrest. A case just happened in our jurisdiction last month. , a high school sophomore completed a training jointly conducted by the school doctor and us, and performed standardized chest compressions for two minutes on a basketball court for a classmate who died suddenly. By the time 120 was reached, the person had already regained faint consciousness. This is also a content that is recognized as the first priority in all formal training.

Of course, not all institutions have the same order of content. Some institutions that focus on corporate and kindergarten training will put the Heimlich maneuver of foreign objects stuck in the throat first. After all, in office settings, it is more common for employees to choke on food and for children to choke on snacks than to have cardiac arrest. There has been discussion in the industry as to whether to give priority to teaching core life-saving techniques with a low incidence rate but a fatality rate of close to 100%, or to prioritize teaching common disposal skills with a high incidence rate. Nowadays, most institutions will give consideration to both, and will not only focus on one end.

In addition to these immediate first aid operations, the training will also include a lot of risk identification content, such as the FAST judgment principle of stroke, identification of precursors to myocardial infarction, the treatment of common accidental injuries such as burns, animal scratches and bites, heatstroke, and frostbite, as well as basic operations such as hemostatic bandaging of wounds and fixation of fractures. When we provided customized training for local outdoor clubs, we also specially added content on handling altitude sickness, snake bites, and hypothermia. After all, the hiking routes they often go to are far away from urban hospitals, so these content are useful. However, there are now differences in the amount of this content. Some people in the industry feel that there is no need to cram too much complicated content into ordinary people. It is enough to be able to master 3-5 core first aid techniques. If you want to have too much, it will be easy to remember, and you will not dare to start it when you encounter the situation. When we do general community training now, we will try to be as streamlined as possible, and will not cram in a bunch of useless theories to make up for the time.

The next step is to focus on front-end prevention and follow-up protection, such as how to prepare a family emergency health kit. Different supplies need to be adjusted for different scenarios: those with elderly people at home should prepare emergency antihypertensive drugs, nitroglycerin, and fingertip oximeter; those who often take children out should prepare antipyretic patches and children's anti-allergic drugs; and those who often go outdoors should prepare hemostatic powder, snake medicine, and thermal blankets. There is also content on how to respond to public health incidents, such as how to protect your home during periods of high incidence of norovirus and influenza, how to correctly wear protective masks when encountering chemical leaks and fire escapes, and how to deal with inhalation burns to avoid secondary injuries.

Nowadays, many trainings will also add some psychological emergency content, such as how to relieve one's stress reaction after an accident, and how to soothe the emotions of injured people. However, we generally do not go into too much depth on this topic. After all, ordinary people are not professional psychological counselors, and operations that are too complicated are prone to errors. Most of them only teach how to stabilize the other person's emotions and how to accompany them correctly. To be honest, first aid training is like having a fire extinguisher at home. You don’t need to memorize all fire protection knowledge. As long as you can use the core functions and dare to use it when you encounter an accident, it is better than anything else. The more content, the better, practicality is the first priority.