Basic first aid skills popularization training experience sample essay

For ordinary people, "dare to take action" during first aid is 100 times more important than "actions are completely standard"； When we learn first aid, we don’t need to pursue the same operational precision as emergency medical care. As long as we do the key actions correctly, we can really pull people back from the dead before 120 arrives.

To be honest, before I went there, I had no expectations for this kind of public welfare training. I always felt that first aid was a matter for professional medical care. We ordinary people would be responsible for messing around. Last winter, Uncle Zhang from our unit building had a heart attack while buying vegetables at the gate of the community. Twenty or thirty people surrounded him. No one dared to touch him, so they squatted on the edge and called his name. By the time 120 arrived, it was already past the prime time for treatment, but he still couldn't be saved. At that time, I was still thinking that if someone knew some first aid, they might be able to save me. I turned around and comforted myself, I'm not a doctor, so who's to blame if it's broken?

Half of this training was practical. The instructor was a veteran nurse from the city's emergency center. He didn't read the PPT. He first laid out the simulators for us to press on one by one. I had watched a lot of short first aid videos before, and I felt that the steps were clear, but I became timid as soon as I got started: after pressing for about ten seconds, the instructor shouted to stop, saying that the depth I pressed was only 3 centimeters, which was far from the required 5-6 centimeters, and my strength was ineffective at all. I gritted my teeth and pressed it 30 times, but my arms were so sore that I couldn't lift it up. A young man next to me was even more amused. After pressing the sensor on the simulator's chest, it lit up red. He pressed so hard that he almost broke the simulator's ribs. In fact, learning first aid is really similar to learning to ride a bicycle. No matter how many teaching videos you watch, you will never know what your sense of balance is until you pedal twice.

When it came to breaking the ribs, there was a quarrel at the scene. A retired doctor said that there was a saying on the Internet that "I would rather break the ribs than stop". In fact, it is not that exaggerated. As long as the posture is correct and the heel of the palm is placed in the middle and lower third of the sternum, and not to the ribs on either side, the probability of breaking the bone is less than 30%. If it is really broken, it is a complication with a small probability. It can be cured in a few months, which is better than losing your life. A volunteer who has been doing pre-hospital first aid for several years said that in an emergency, there is no way to care so much. The person is unconscious and not breathing. It is better to apply pressure first than to stand and wait. Even if the pressure is not strong enough, it is still more effective than doing nothing. Both statements are reasonable. To put it bluntly, the core point is "save people first, and then worry about the details."

Later, when I was practicing the Heimlich maneuver, I realized that the "hug the waist, make fists and push upwards" mentioned on the Internet is not universal. When encountering pregnant women or particularly fat people, you cannot hold the waist at all, so you have to change to chest thrust. If the other person has lost consciousness and fell to the ground, don't bother to help him up. Just lay flat and perform CPR without having to worry about the process. There is also the AED that everyone has always been afraid of. I have always heard that some people are afraid of using it for fear of electric shock to themselves. This time the instructor directly gave us the equipment to try, saying that the AED is fully automatic. After attaching the electrode pads, it will judge whether the patient needs defibrillation. If not, it will not work if you press the discharge button. Even if you attach the electrode pads upside down, it will have no effect at most and will never shock others.

Oh, by the way, I bought a home first aid kit costing more than 200 yuan online and stuffed it in the entrance cabinet for two years without touching it. This time I found out that the styptic powder inside had expired, and the instructor said that ordinary cuts and bruises do not need styptic powder at all. Just press it with clean gauze for three to five minutes to stop it. The styptic powder is for extreme cases of arterial rupture. Ordinary people don't know how to operate it. It is a waste of money to buy it. It is better to put a few more packs of sterile gauze and iodine tablets.

When the show was over, a few neighbors asked me for training PPTs, saying that they wanted to take them home and read them slowly. I didn't give them, and told them that there would be a practical training next month. We should go together then. If you go up and simulate a person for 10 minutes, they will remember it better than reading 100 pages of courseware at home. To be honest, I used to think that first aid was far away from us ordinary people, but now I know that you might encounter someone while walking downstairs or buying food at the vegetable market someday. If you do encounter someone, don’t panic. Call 120 first. If you dare to take action, you have already won half the battle. What’s more, there is a good person clause in the Civil Code. As long as you don’t intentionally hurt others, you don’t have to take responsibility at all.