How to do first aid in case of road accident? Learn the method of first aid from the doctor so that you can save someone's life
Accidents are common in a busy life. Accidents can happen anywhere by road, rail, air travel. In today's article we are talking about road accident. If someone is a victim of a road accident, how can his life be saved by giving him first aid. To help a needy, everyone should have complete knowledge of first aid after an accident. So that people's lives can be saved by trying it. Dr A Karan Purti, who has served in the Emergency for a long time at MGM, Jamshedpur, will talk to Dr. A. Karan Purti to know what to do and what not to do after a road accident so that the patient can save his life and put him at least risk.
Check, Call, Take Care
Experts say that after a road accident, this three process should be seen. The first check comes, in which it is seen whether the patient is well or not, is breathing well or not, is safe or not.
Try This Method in Basic Life Support
look around
If there is no fire, there is no petrol leakage, there is no problem of short circuit, if it is happening then take all the injured from that place to another place.
go and talk to the injured person.... put one hand on the shoulder and ask... are you ok or not, don't hold the neck, as there is a high chance of neck injury in an accident
If the patient is not responding, call the ambulance and acquaintance
Now check the pulse of the patient, for this, keep two fingers on the right side under the neck and see for eight to 10 seconds whether the patient is breathing or not.
First see bleeding
Doctors say that most cases of bleeding are seen after road accidents. If there has been an accident somewhere near you, then you should see that the patient's blood is not coming out. For this, you should wrap a clean cloth on that place. to stop bleeding.
Look at the patient's organs, whether any bone is broken
The doctor tells that you have to keep talking to the patient, if he is talking then it is fine. Now you see if his arms and legs are not broken. If not broken then fine, if broken then you have to take special care after that. If the patient's leg is broken, then for this you will have to find a wooden, cardboard roll, newspaper bundle, rags etc., tie it with a rope under the leg, so that the leg remains straight and does not move. Similarly, if the hand is broken, to keep the arm straight, the wood should be supported under the hand and tied with a rope. Keep in mind that do not tie the rope so tightly that the blood circulation of the hand stops.
If pulse is not available, give CPR
You will lock the lower part of the hand with the other hand keeping the chest in the middle
You will apply pressure to your shoulders, a process also known as chest compressions.
You give thirty bar pressure only for 18 to 30 seconds.
If you are doing it correctly with shoulders then you will not get tired even if you do not breathe.
All the things mentioned above come in the first set... After completing this, then check the patient's pulse and then repeat the same sequence.
Now you do chest compressions about 100 times, do this process till the patient reaches the hospital
Give breath to the patient, for this, raise the patient's chin and you breathe yourself in and give breath to the patient, give two long breaths
The patient is not moving the neck, take these precautions
After an accident, it is possible that in some cases the patient cannot move his neck. For this you have to be very careful. Make the patient lie down straight. Call the ambulance by phone, till then you try not to move the patient's neck, keep him lying down straight. After the arrival of its team of medical professionals, the log is rolled to the patient. It requires three people. The first person holds and handles the patient's head, the second holds the body and the third person holds the leg and makes him lie on the stretcher. After the collar is put around the neck, it is tied to maintain a grip on the stretcher. But these are things from step first aid onwards. Which is done only by the team of medical professionals. You just take care not to move the patient too much. Keeping the neck learned, keep the body straight.
Neck collar can be made from newspaper
If the patient has suffered a neck injury after a road accident, experts suggest that if there is a newspaper nearby, then roll it up, then support the patient from below the neck. If not, then keep the diary etc. under the patient's head, so that there is no gap between the head and the shoulder and the patient does not suffer.
If the patient's neck is crooked after the accident, then ask him to straighten himself.
If the patient is unconscious, carefully straighten the neck
>Try to support the patient's neck
Any iron or other substance has entered the patient's body after the accident.
Doctors tell that in this condition the patient should be taken to the emergency immediately. You should not try to remove that substance, rather your effort should be to take the patient to the hospital as soon as possible. Because as soon as you remove that substance, there is a possibility of heavy bleeding, infection and damage to the internal part.
Knowing the two methods of First Aid
Doctors tell that in this article we have known two methods of First Aid, first Le Mans First Aid and second Para Medical First Aid. take me
In the first aid, the common people were told about how to take care of the patient, what to do and what not to do after a road accident. At the same time, mentioned about the second technique i.e. Para Medical First Aid, in which the team of medical professionals gave information about how the patient takes the patient to the hospital properly.
Try this technique if needed
In today's time everyone should know this information. So that the needy person can be helped and his life can be saved. If someone is in trouble, you can save his life by trying this technique. For more information about this, if you want, you can also take medical advice.