What everyone should know for first aid

The human body is susceptible to injury, illness and trauma. We do not know when we can hurt ourselves or the people we love or the people around us.

First aid is the first or immediate help given carefully to someone with a minor or serious illness or injury to save their life, to prevent or recover from the deterioration of the condition. This includes initial intervention in critical conditions before receiving professional medical assistance, such as: treating minor conditions, plastering or bandaging, saving the life of an injured patient by applying a way to stop bleeding, as well as performing cardiopulmonary rehabilitation (CPR) before receiving professional medical assistance. First aid is usually given by someone who is trained in these matters. So it is good for everyone to have some basic knowledge to take care of serious situations, to get worse or to stay healthy until medical help arrives.

World First Aid Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of September every year. Various organizations around the world, especially the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Society, organize various public awareness programs on this day. The day is celebrated to raise public awareness about how first aid can save lives every day and in crisis situations.

First aid should be affordable to all. One must know the basics of applying first aid and acquire this knowledge through training. As we know, uncontrolled bleeding trauma is the first cause of preventable death. I recommend that no one dies due to uncontrolled bleeding due to lack of first aid, so all citizens learn to stop bleeding.

Principles for determining first aid priorities

Based on the principle of determining protocols like ATLS and if the individual steps can be performed correctly, more lives can be saved in an emergency. The key to remembering the key points of this protocol is ABCDE.

A: Assure your safety

B: Breathing

C: Circulation and bleeding

D: Disability

E: Exposure and Environmental Control

A: Assure Your Safety:

Ensure your own protection. You can't get sick of helping someone.

Call an alert or ask someone to call 911 or try calling a nearby doctor.

Clean the trachea.

B: Breathing:

If breathing and heart failure (cardiac arrest) then do CPR. In other words, apply pressure slowly on the chest with your hands so that breathing can be normal.

C: Circulation and bleeding:

In case of blood circulation and bleeding, stop the bleeding by applying direct pressure. If there is bleeding from the hands or feet and a tourniquet is found, it should be tied over the bleeding site to stop the bleeding.

D: Disability:

One has to notice whether the person has become unconscious due to natural causes. If he loses knowledge, he has to make arrangements to regain his knowledge.

E: Exposure and Environmental Control:

The clothes worn by the injured or sick person should be loosened. If a blanket or thick cloth is found, the injured or sick person should be wrapped with it so that his body temperature does not drop.

First aid equipment

The first aid bag or box is usually marked with a white cross on a green background

Different types of bags or boxes are available for first aid. These are usually transparent plastic boxes. The first aid bag or box is usually marked with a white cross on a green background.

Possible items of first aid kit are information leaflets, medium and large sterile dressings, bandages - gauge roller bandages / elastic bandages / adhesive bandages / triangular bandages, tourniquets, safety pins, sterile wet wipes, microflora, microflora, Burnt clothing, apparel scissors, confirming bandages, finger dressings, antiseptic creams, scissors, tweezers, alcohol pads for sanitizing equipment