Phoenix Basic first aid skills essentially revolve around the three core goals of "preserving life first, then reducing injuries, and preventing deterioration." There is no rigid classification. All pre-hospital treatment contents that ordinary people can quickly learn and operate without professional medical equipment fall into this category.
Last time I met someone in a community square who suddenly fell down while performing a square dance. The adults and mothers gathered around and tried to help him up, but a little girl who had learned first aid stopped him. He squatted down and patted the shoulder and called someone. After touching the carotid artery for a few seconds, he immediately called someone to call 120. He also asked if anyone around him knew the location of the nearby AED. These few actions are actually the core skills of identifying critical illness. Many people always think that they need to be able to perform standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation to be called first aid. In fact, being able to accurately determine whether the patient's life is in danger and whether the injury will be aggravated by misoperation is much more useful than doing it blindly. After all, if someone just squats for a long time and faints due to hypoglycemia, you can easily break the ribs by pressing the sternum randomly.
The ones we encounter most every day are the handling of various small wounds and common accidents. For example, last week a neighbor's child broke his knee while running. Grandma insisted on spreading Yunnan Baiyao powder on the wound and wrapped it tightly for fear of getting dust. In fact, the correct way is to wash away the sediment with running water and disinfect it with iodophor. Shallow wounds will heal faster if left to air. Deeper wounds can be simply bandaged with sterile gauze. There are also pressure to stop bleeding when cutting vegetables, showering to cool down after being splashed with oil while cooking, and braking and icing after a sprained foot outdoors. These small skills may seem trivial, but they are the most useful basic first aid content for ordinary people in their daily lives.
There are now a lot of debates about first aid skills on the Internet. For example, whether the Heimlich maneuver is useful for all airway foreign bodies. When I took the junior first aid certificate exam, the instructor specifically emphasized that conventional abdominal shocks are only suitable for ordinary adults who are conscious. If you are in the third trimester of pregnancy, Pregnant women and obese people who are particularly heavy cannot press the abdomen at all, so they have to change the position of impacting the chest. Babies under 1 year old should not press the abdomen randomly. They have to use a combination of back patting and chest compression. Copying the online tutorials will easily cause secondary injuries to the injured.
In fact, to put it bluntly, basic first aid is like a Band-Aid you carry with you. It is inconspicuous at ordinary times. When something happens, you don’t need to do too complicated operations. If you can do the most critical steps correctly, you can buy people the most precious buffer time before the ambulance arrives. Don’t feel that you have only scratched the surface and are afraid to get started. Even if you can only accurately report the address of 120 and can stop people around from wandering around an injured person who is suspected of having a spinal injury, it has already been a big help.
