What are the relationship between first aid and emergency health

To put it bluntly, first aid itself is the core implementation link at the front end of the emergency health system and the first point of contact for the entire emergency health defense line to reach the general public. The two are not simply subordinate or parallel relationships at all, but are key nodes embedded in the entire system and affecting the whole body.

I have been doing emergency health science popularization in the community for almost three years, and I just came across a ready-made example last month: several high school students in the community were on summer vacation to play basketball. One of the children had congenital asthma that was not disclosed. He had a sudden attack after running for half an hour and did not bring any medicine with him. There happened to be a supermarket next to him who had participated in our first aid training. The city boss first held the child half-sit up against him, guided him to slow down his breathing and use abdominal ventilation, and at the same time called the people next to him to call 120. By the time the ambulance arrived, the child no longer felt like he was dying. The emergency doctor said that if he had severe hypoxia when he was sent here, he might have brain damage. You see, this is where first aid directly fills the gap of the first 10 minutes in the emergency health department - no matter how fast 120 is, it can't be faster than the people who happen to be at the scene.

Some people must have different opinions when it comes to this. Now the industry has two biased views on the relationship between the two. One group is people who do public science work. They believe that first aid is the core of emergency health. As long as the public first aid penetration rate is increased from less than 1% now, 80% of pre-hospital health risks can be resolved. There is no need to spend so much money on other emergency health packages; the other group is Pai is an expert with a clinical background. He believes that first aid is at most a "temporary buffer." No matter how standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation is, it cannot save patients with large-scale myocardial infarction without follow-up emergency intervention and intensive care. The focus of emergency health must still be on the dispatch of medical resources.

A while ago, I followed the District Health Commission to review the rescue case of a series of rear-end collisions on the National Day Expressway last year. To be honest, both sides are right, but the positions are different. The first to rush to the scene were three long-distance truck drivers, all of whom had first aid certificates. They applied pressure to stop the bleeding and fixed the cervical vertebrae of more than a dozen injured passengers. When 120 arrived, not one of them had died due to hemorrhagic shock. This is the value of first aid. However, there was a passenger with a ruptured spleen. Even if he had done a good job in stopping the bleeding in the early stage, he would not have been able to survive without a follow-up emergency surgery that took place in 20 minutes. The two links are originally linked together, and neither one will work without it.

What many people have not noticed is that first aid science itself is also the best way to promote emergency health awareness. I met many people who came to learn first aid before. They originally came with the mentality of "learning more skills will not hurt". In the class, we heard that staying up late for a long time and poor blood pressure control can easily lead to myocardial infarction and stroke. When I returned home, I took the initiative to buy a blood pressure monitor for the elderly at home. I also changed my habit of eating late and staying up late. This actually pushed the focus of emergency health forward, from "rescuing after an accident" to "preventing in advance to avoid accidents."

In the final analysis, the relationship between first aid and emergency health is like the relationship between fire extinguishers and the fire protection system of the entire community - you cannot say that having a fire extinguisher eliminates the need to install smoke alarms and leave fire escapes. But if a fire does break out, having someone on hand who knows how to use a fire extinguisher can nip a small fire in the bud and prevent it from burning into a major disaster.