What are the aspects of the relationship between first aid and emergency health

To put it simply, first aid is the "first port" in the emergency health system that is closest to ordinary people and can most directly determine life and death. The relationship between the two is essentially the integration of the entire chain from pre-risk prevention and control, on-site treatment to follow-up health intervention, and there is no clear-cut boundary.

Many people's impression of first aid is still limited to a single operation of "chest compressions and patting on the back in case of an accident." In fact, the popular science propaganda of pre-hospital first aid itself is the core prevention and control content of emergency health. Last year, our community conducted emergency health screening for people over 60 years old. At that time, I taught the elderly people and their families present the Heimlich maneuver for 10 minutes. That same month, Aunt Zhang used this technique on her grandson who had a stuck date kernel at home. The child had already recovered before 120 arrived. Do you think this is first aid science popularization or emergency health prevention and control work? In fact, they cannot be separated at all.

When the emergency arrived, the two became even more closely bound. Last time, there was a three-vehicle rear-end accident in our jurisdiction. After the 120 emergency team arrived at the scene, the first step was not to immediately rescue the nearest injured, but to quickly sort out the injuries of all personnel, and single out the seriously injured who were suffocating and bleeding for priority treatment. This operation looked like It is a first-aid injury classification technology. It is essentially the implementation of disaster assessment and resource scheduling in the emergency health response to public emergencies. If you only know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to the process, you will not adjust the priority according to the on-site situation, but may delay the treatment opportunities of more people.

Don’t think that rescuing people is enough. Health follow-up after first aid is also an extension of emergency health. We received a case of myocardial infarction before, and the on-site first aid performed 20 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation to save the person. The community's emergency health follow-up team followed him for a full three months, adjusting his daily medication, teaching him and his family to identify the precursors of myocardial infarction, and precautions for home first aid to prevent him from having another attack. At this time, first aid is not a single operation, but a trigger point in the entire emergency health management. Following this point, all subsequent health protection can be followed.

Nowadays, the industry has different views on the boundary between the two. Some colleagues think that first aid is a purely technical job. As long as people are rescued on site, the task is completed. Emergency health is the work of public health and disease control, and there is no need to mix it together. Some people think that the entire first aid process must now be included in the emergency health system, from science popularization, treatment to follow-up. Otherwise, many patients will not follow up on the subsequent health risks after first aid, and it is easy to have secondary accidents. After we have been on the front line for a long time, we feel that there is no need to be too entangled in boundaries. For example, when we go to primary schools to promote drowning prevention, we teach children how to help rescuers after falling into the water, and how to position unconscious people on the shore to prevent suffocation. It is not only emergency health risk education, but also first aid science popularization. If it can really help people, it is better than anything else.

If emergency health is compared to a safety net that protects everyone from accidental risks, then first aid is the load-bearing rope at the front of the net. It usually looks inconspicuous, but when something goes wrong, it is the one that catches people first and prevents them from falling directly into irreversible damage.