What are the relationships between poisoning and accidental first aid?

The essence of the two is a nested and symbiotic relationship - poisoning itself is one of the top three high-risk emergencies in pre-hospital accidental first aid. The system coverage and popularity of accidental first aid directly determines the golden treatment efficiency of poisoning patients, and the practical experience of poisoning first aid will in turn continue to supplement the boundaries of accidental first aid capabilities.

Last year, I followed the 120 police station. Six people in a farmhouse in the suburbs ate wild mushrooms they had picked. Some suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, and some experienced visual hallucinations. One of the tourists traveling with me had a sister who had received community accident first aid training. She immediately stopped the others from feeding green mushrooms. Using bean water and soapy water, we first induced vomiting in conscious people, and the remaining half of the plate of bacteria and vomitus were specially bagged to keep samples. After arriving at the hospital, the laboratory department saved a lot of time in tracing the source, and few people suffered from serious sequelae. You would be right to say that this is the result of poisoning first aid, but essentially it is the result of the popularization and implementation of basic accident first aid.

There are actually different voices in the industry now. Many experts in scientific research feel that the types of poisoning are too complicated and the methods of handling different poisons are very different. The general public has not received systematic training, but it is easy to operate blindly and do a disservice. For example, for people who mistakenly take corrosive poisons such as toilet cleaners, blindly inducing vomiting will cause secondary burns in the esophagus. It is better to leave poisoning first aid entirely to professionals. Popularizing accidental first aid to the public does not need to involve this content.

But after visiting many sites, we know that what we need to teach is not to teach ordinary people to do professional treatment at all, but to put the most basic principles such as "keep poison samples as soon as possible after poisoning, do not feed unknown antidotes, and do not feed unconscious people random things" into the general training of accident first aid, we can avoid 80% of pre-hospital treatment errors. Last month, I picked up a 12-year-old child who accidentally took paraquat. The parents were so panicked that they gave him half a bottle of vinegar. When the child was delivered, his entire mouth and esophagus were burned. There were many risks. If they had heard even a popular science class on accidental first aid before, they would not have made this mistake.

In turn, a large number of practical cases of poisoning first aid have been making up for the shortcomings of the accident first aid system. In the past two years, our local accident first aid operation manual only included procedures for common scenarios such as trauma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergencies, and foreign objects stuck in the throat. In the past two years, as the incidence of poisoning accidents such as wild fungi poisoning, takeout poisoning, children swallowing detergents, and accidental contact with factory chemicals has increased, we have prepared poisoning procedures in different scenarios in front of the hospital. Details have been added, including how to undress and rinse people who have been exposed to toxic chemicals, and how to keep pill boxes for children who have mistakenly taken medicines. Now that this content has been added to the community training, everyone's acceptance is even higher than before when CPR was given. After all, these are scenarios that may be encountered in life.

To put it bluntly, first aid for accidents is like the household medical kit you keep at home. First aid for poisoning is the multi-functional scissors that are used very frequently. Without it, many emergency situations will get stuck. But as you use it more often, you will naturally know how to adjust its functions to make the entire medical kit more convenient to use.