Each year, people are killed by missing prime time for first aid, but only 4. 5 per cent of the country's bystanders are actually able to deliver at first sight. Awareness-raising in first aid is not a public interest issue, but an urgent public issue that concerns life and death。
The speed of life and death in real cases
In may of this year, girls in a school in dong-hyun suddenly lost their heart beat, and the school doctor did not wait for an ambulance. They immediately went up to do an external chest pressure and artificial respiration, and sustained cpr until a specialist emergency worker arrived. Less than three minutes before and after the entire process, it was entirely based on the professional judgement and decisive reaction of the school doctor in those minutes, without which there would be no living person。
In september, a man from wuhan, who ate a hot pot and was choked by food, was in critical condition, and the shopkeeper was not waiting for a first aid car, kneeling straight down and using heimrick's first aid, and a few seconds later the alien came out. The common denominator of these cases is clear: it is not the angels in white who save people at a critical moment, it is the ordinary people around them, but it is the moment when life and death are set。
Why is four minutes of gold so important
The golden recovery window, where the heart died suddenly, was only four minutes after the outbreak. More than that time, the brain cells began to suffer irreversible damage, and even if they were followed by an ambulance, entered icu, put on a respirator, they were probably out of control. It is the most cruel time line in medicine, and every additional second, the success rate falls, with no room for surprise。
Other accidents and outbreaks, albeit with a slightly wider window of time, are the same: the faster the action, the higher the survival rate and the simpler the treatment of injuries. Public incidents, such as fires, pedals and traffic accidents, caused injuries to a large number of persons at the same time, and the professional presence was entirely dependent on the self-help of those present for a few minutes before its arrival. This is not a good step, and the resources and equipment behind it are the only ones left behind。
What does the rescue rate mean
Research data are there: only 4. 5 per cent of bystanders in our cities and cities are able to implement cpr. To translate, a class of 50 would really press less than two and a half. Despite the aed automatic defibrillator attached to the mall and the sub-district, the vast majority of the population do not even know how to open the cap, how to paste the electrode, where the equipment is essentially set up, and no one dares to touch it at a critical time and nobody touches it。
There was a video on the internet: a man on the road saw a man on the ground with electrocution, and then, without any insulation, rushed up to take a man to wirira, and he was electrocuted, and both were unconscious. This picture is particularly alarming — no first aid, good intentions put themselves in danger, and the cost of a knowledge gap is not just to save people, but to carry an extra life。
It's harder to save than not
A lot of people can't get through this: what if i press the wrong spot? If you're not alive, will your family be stuck at the door? Is it possible that the video was sent on the internet and made a mockery of saving lives? Public opinion pressure is real and no one wants to get himself into trouble. It is not cold blood, it is a self-protective instinct of a normal person without a legal cover, and it cannot be exacted。
More central issues are at the legal level. At present, there is not enough detail in the terms of exemption for bona fide healers, and in the event of complications such as broken ribs and secondary injuries during first aid, how much responsibility does the healer bear? Although the civil code contains a "good man's clause", its rules of procedure are not uniform everywhere and one can only choose to look at it as little as one。
Legislation and training have to go together
At the two national meetings held in the last two years, a number of delegates focused on the proposal to introduce a special first aid act that would incorporate the universal knowledge and skills of first aid into the legal framework and would be accompanied by practical regulations. The most crucial one is to draw a clear line of exemption for those who do good, to clarify the circumstances under which there is no blame, so that we can reach out, do hands and be accountable in times of crisis。
The training has to keep pace. The ministry of education has sent a letter explicitly requiring schools to provide first aid training, train full-time first aid education teachers, and develop resources to expand the emergency care curriculum. The national red cross has sent emergency sessions to communities, villages, institutions, businesses and, in some cities, has built crisis halls where people can practice themselves. In the right direction, but coverage, frequency and review mechanisms are far from adequate。
Make first aid compulsory for everyone
To be honest, it's not about being a hero. It's about you, your children, your old people who can survive those minutes. The same thing about cpr, heimrick, aed use as a driving license, it's time to practice, organize an exercise every year, not wait till something happens next to you before you realize it。
The national public health emergency management capacity depends not only on whether the big hospital is strong enough and equipped enough, but also on whether every average person can do the right thing in the first few minutes. Universal awareness of first aid is on the rise, and society as a whole is more resilient to the risks of sudden-onset situations. It's not one person's business, it's not one department's business, it's everyone's business, it's you。
When was the last time you did the chest-pressure training or the aed? If you turn on your cell phone for the next emergency course today, will you sign up? Welcome to the comment area to share your experience or confusion, and if you find it useful, send it to the people around, so that more people can know about it。
