First aid doctors: how to save themselves from drowning
There's a deadly risk in the water
First aid doctors: how to save themselves from drowning
The nanjing daily/twilight gold mountain journalist wang qiang
Newsman, national student, wang haile
Yu yingko
Summer is the height of drowning. In the increasingly warm weather, the tendency to swim and play in dangerous places such as field reservoirs, rivers and ponds is one of the risk factors for frequent drowning. According to data from the municipal emergency centres, 20 per cent of the drowning population was minors. Why is it so dangerous to look like a wild swimmer? Why did you drown when you could swim? How can you save yourself in an emergency? A number of emergency doctors gave guidelines for self-help against drowning。
A lot of water seems impenetrable, but risks are hidden
There have been frequent drownings since summer. “many of the recent drownings were blind and confident wild swimmers, mainly in suburban reservoirs, riverways, and unattended ponds, including many children and young people.” with regard to summer, during the high incidence of drowning among young children, which has become the “first killer” of the irregular death of primary and secondary school children, she expressed the view that the lack of effective care by parents is one of the main causes of under-age drowning, and that the wild waters are more dangerous, “the vast number of lakes in the nanjing river and the denseness of the water web must not be allowed to go into the water blind, and the surface appears to be impervious, and the deadly danger lies beneath the water”
Experts explained that a number of reservoirs, riverways and ponds in the wild are very complex and that “many of them are cliff-shaped structures, such as the hanaya lake, which may vary by a few metres below a metre offshore depth”. Lake purple, considered a “natural pool” by nanjing people, has also been favoured by wild swimmers, but has also been the scene of frequent drowning for many years. “the underwater terrain of the lake is more complex, with a wide variety of depths, with a high temperature difference, and people in the water can easily twitch, and the swimming skills below will be impossible.”
The complexity of the field, physical fatigue, the entanglement of water and water flows can lead to drowning. “the calm surface of some reservoirs, the accumulation of mud and grass under water all pose a risk of drowning. Especially during the season, reservoirs have the potential to spill out, water levels rise, water flows rush, and wild swimming is dangerous. The expert reminder。
Learn to take two key actions
“the best guide against drowning is not to swim in the wild and unsafe waters.” shen pei stated that “it is imperative that parents increase their awareness of safety and guardianship and that they educate and warn their children not to go to swimming or to play with others alone or without permission, to choose safe swimming grounds and not to go to places where they are unaware of the water or are more dangerous and vulnerable to drowning”
If drowning occurs, learning to save oneself is also key. How can you save yourself from science
Chief chen xiaofeng, emergency services section, eastern field air force hospital, reminded that drowning self-help is first and foremost calm, and that his hands and feet are struggling to survive, and immediately after falling into the water, he holds his breath, removes other weights from his clothes, and then relaxs his body and saves his physical strength and reduces the rate of sinking。
“the second is to do two emergency actions: to hold on to the knee, to hold hands on the knee, to shrunk heads, and slowly to float, to push the body down quickly when it feels like its back is out of the water, and to change its head, and then to sink back to the knee and return to the knee in order to ensure its normal breathing; and to float in the water, to relax its body, to sink its hands into the water, to turn back, to keep its nose down, to refuel, to wait until it is full of gas, to keep its head back slowly back, and to avoid the concentration of its body under the body. Just pick one of them." chen xiaofeng reminds us that, “at the same time, adjust the rhythm of breathing, so that the chest is filled with air and soars the body. In a state of floating, a call for help should be made while ensuring breathing, and when the helper appears, he may not panic to grab the hand, leg, waist, etc. Of the helper and follow the guidance of the helper and let the other side take you to shore.”
Experts stressed that if a calf or a toe cramp occurs when drowning, you have to be calm, you have to take a dove, you have to hold it with the hand to the side. The toes of the body are pulled hard in the direction of the body, while the hand on the side is pressed on the knee of the cramped body, helping to stretch out the spasms until the spasm is eased and slowly swimming towards the shore。
Swimming also carries the risk of drowning
According to chen xiaofeng, who was involved in a plethora of minor drowning first aid, many parents and teenagers are lucky that “many children now learn to swim in their interest classes, but swimming is not the same as not drowning”
Chen xiaofeng stressed that swimmers should be alert to the following “five not”: first, not swimming alone; second, not swimming in the waters of unfamiliar, unsafe, unguarded or unguarded persons; third, not in the waters of unaided water when they are not swimming or in poor water; fourth, not playing in the water to prevent strangulation; fifth, not swimming in empty abdomen, with proper bananas, chocolates, etc., half an hour before swimming, and not eating in the water, so as to prevent food debris from blocking and causing danger。
