You never know where you'll be in a couple of hours. When will certain skills be needed? But as you know, it's better to know than not. This also applies to first aid for drowning and suffocation. Emergencies happen all the time, so armed with knowledge, someday you can save someone's life.
Suffocation: classification
Respiration is a natural process during which the human body is saturated with oxygen. And strangulation is its termination, which can lead to death. Since the body ceases to function properly due to oxygen starvation.
There are several types of strangulation:
- From pressure: hanging, compression of the chest and abdomen.
- From closing the airways with foreign objects - getting any loose substances, drowning.
- In a confined space.
First aid for strangulation
It is not difficult to perform actions to save a person from this type of asphyxia. First aid for strangulation is extremely important. In many ways, the life of a person depends on whether it is performed correctly. First aid for suffocationrequires medical education. The main thing is to know the procedure.
Change first aid algorithm:
- Find out the cause and try to eliminate it.
- Release the chest from clothing and everything that can interfere with free breathing. That is, try to completely expose the victim's chest.
- Perform artificial respiration. It should be performed if the person is unconscious and (or) unable to breathe in and out on their own.
CPR sequence:
- Wrapping a napkin around the fingers, free the oral cavity from foreign bodies.
- Kneel down, approach the victim's mouth.
- Pull back the tongue and hold it so it doesn't fall over.
- Cover the victim's lips with a napkin.
- Put one hand on the forehead, the other on the chin.
- Take a deep breath. Hold your breath.
- Hold your nose. Exhale through the napkin on the lips.
- Step back and remove hand from nose, allowing casu alty to exhale artificially.
- The number of breaths per minute should be about 15.
- After restoring the breathing of the victim, cover the person with a blanket. Do not leave and constantly monitor him until the arrival of the doctors.
Drowning: classification
Most often we hear about this type of asphyxia in the summer, during the swimming season. Many are unable to adequately calculate their capabilities and, as a result, ruin theirlife.
Drowning is a type of asphyxia performed mechanically by getting liquid into the respiratory tract of a person. Roughly speaking, after the penetration of water into the lungs, there is no opportunity to receive oxygen, as a result, cardiac arrest and death occur.
There are two types of drowning:
- Blue type. Option when fluid enters the lungs.
- Pale type. Option when fluid does not enter the lungs.
First aid for drowning
Most often we see the blue type. Therefore, consider first aid using the example of drowning in a pond. It happens often, somewhere by negligence, sometimes in a state of intoxication - there are many reasons.
First aid for drowning and suffocation are similar. Algorithm of actions of the rescuer:
- Get the victim out of the water. This should be done carefully, making sure that nothing interferes. If a fracture of the spine is suspected, the victim should be taken out using a hard surface (board, shield, etc.).
- Lay the victim on your knee, thereby allowing the remnants of the liquid to flow out of the nose and mouth. After wrapping your fingers with a napkin, clean the victim's mouth from foreign objects (sand, mucus, vomit, etc.).
- Call an ambulance.
- On the carotid artery, try to feel for a pulse. It is not recommended to look for it on the wrist as it is more difficult.
- Listen for a heartbeat. It may be very weak.
- In the absence of the two previous indicators, start artificial respiration and chest compressions.
- After restoring the pulse and heartbeat of the victim, lay him on his side. Cover with a blanket. Keep under constant supervision until the arrival of doctors.
