What does first aid and emergency health training include

I have been doing community and corporate first aid training for almost 4 years, and have followed up on more than 200 trainings for different audiences. To put it bluntly, the core content of this type of training is designed around "ordinary people can get started when encountering things without causing trouble."

The most important thing is definitely the on-site treatment of cardiac arrest. After all, sudden death is very common now, and the golden rescue time is only 4 minutes. Waiting for 120 to arrive will probably miss the best opportunity. We have to set aside at least an hour of practical time for this every time. We use a medical simulator to practice the depth and frequency of compressions, and we also joke with everyone. Just follow the rhythm of the compressions to the drumbeat of "Little Apple", which just meets the requirements of 100-120 times/min. There is also the use of AED, which is an automatic external defibrillator. I will repeatedly emphasize to everyone that this is a "life-saving machine for fools". There will be a voice prompt when it is turned on, and you can operate it without any medical background, so you don't have to worry about pressing the wrong button. Last year, there was a student from an Internet company who used an AED to save a colleague who had a heart attack downstairs in the company within two months of completing the course. Later, he even gave us a special banner.

In addition to this core skill that has a high probability of saving lives, the handling of small accidents that occur frequently in daily life is also what everyone is most concerned about. For example, the Heimlich maneuver for choking, early identification of stroke and myocardial infarction, and controversial points that have been discussed many times on the Internet will also be discussed. For example, many people used to think that people should pinch the philtrum or put things in the mouth to prevent biting the tongue during epileptic seizures. Now international guidelines have long discouraged this. There is also the question of whether an elderly person should be supported when he falls. We will not directly give a standard answer. We will make clear the views of both sides: those who oppose supporting are afraid of causing secondary bone damage due to rash movement. If you are suffering from folding, or encountering blackmail from your family, those who support you are worried about suffocation and low-temperature frostbite caused by the elderly lying flat for a long time. We will also teach you the standardized operating procedures: first ask the people around you to help take a video to record the evidence, squat down and pat the shoulder to determine the consciousness. If you are conscious, ask where the pain is, confirm that the spine has not been injured, and then slowly help you to a safe place. If you are unconscious and still vomiting, turn your head to the side to prevent choking and coughing. Do not move casually, and just call 120 immediately.

For special groups such as outdoor enthusiasts and construction site workers, we will also add a lot of scene-based content. For example, when training for camping groups, we teach how to use tweezers to remove a tick bite vertically without pulling it, and how to pierce a snake bite close to the heart. When training for a construction site, we teach how to treat wounds after being hit by heavy objects, and how to avoid crush syndrome. Last year, a student who participated in the camping special course went hiking in the mountains and happened to encounter a teammate who was bitten by a tick.

In the past two years, we will also deliberately add a piece of content that many people ignored before, which is emergency psychological support. Some people have raised objections before, saying that first aid training only teaches how to save people, and that psychological content is redundant. It wasn’t until last year that a high school student saved a classmate who had fainted and was flustered and unable to sleep for half a month. He always felt that the rhythm of compressions was wrong. So we fixed this content and set aside half an hour for each training to tell everyone that it is normal to have feelings of fear and guilt after performing first aid, and there is no need to blame yourself. Also, how to calm down when facing the injured, and don’t talk nonsense to increase the psychological burden of the other party.

In fact, the current training is no longer the previous model of reading knowledge points from PPT. The content is adjusted according to the needs of the audience. For the training of the baby group, it talks more about the treatment of children choking on milk and burns and scalding. The training for the delivery riders focuses on heat stroke, traumatic hemostasis, and the first aid of sudden cardiac death, which is highly common among riders. The core is to learn it and be able to use it, so that you will not be confused when something happens.