The article considers a very relevant problem: the provision of emergency assistance to a person who has ceased cardiac activity.
Sometimes our «ignorance» leads to irreversible consequences. But armed with the necessary information, you can save millions of lives!
Alarm statistics
According to WHO statistics (World Health Organization), about two hundred thousand people die every week from the heart stop in the world. It happens much more often not in the hospital, where the patient can provide timely help, and at work, at home, on the road, in the campaign... The reason for stopping the heart can be different factors - from severe diseases to concussion or electric shock.
According to the same statistics, before the arrival of the ambulance from the stop of the heart is killed about 95% of victims. And this is despite the fact that there are people who are able to provide first prefigure help and support life in person before the emergence of specialists. In most cases, people simply do not know how to help a person who has suddenly stopped the heart. Meanwhile, the huge number of human lives would be saved if resuscitation activities were started as soon as possible.
First Rescue Action
If a person fell on your eyes and stopped submitting signs of life, you need to immediately take measures to save it. Charge to call «Emergency» to someone from others, and they themselves begin to clarify the presence of breathing and pulse!
The pulse is best forbid by putting the fingers to the neck for 4-5 cm below the ear of the ear. Breathing can be determined by bringing the usual mirror to mouth or nose - if it is fucked, then the breath is. If there is no one, neither, immediately start doing artificial respiration and closed heart massage. In this situation, the main thing is not to panic. You need to act quickly, clearly and calmly.
Resuscitation events
Before starting resuscitation activities, pay attention to the time when you started providing first aid and remember it. This information will be needed for ambulance doctors.
Open the mouth of the victim and inspect its oral cavity. If the victim fought the language, it should be corrected, otherwise the air during artificial respiration will not fall into the lungs. Readers Our site must remember that if the language is placed and does not allow artificial respiration «Mouth in Roth», You need to either turn the person on the side, or push the lower jaw, holds for the forehead.
N.B. Sometimes with a strong pain preceding the heart stop, or vomiting the victim may occur with carbon monoxide. After the loss of consciousness, the residues of the vomit remains in the mouth. In this case, it is necessary to clean the oral cavity, wrapped on the finger of the handkerchief, the hem of dresses or any other detail of the clothes.
Putting on your knees to the right of the victim, you need left hand at the same time to hold his head and hold the nose with big and index fingers. Right hand hold the mouth of the victim in the open position.
Start making artificial respiration. Take a deep breath, tightly grab the lips of the affected mouth, and blow the air to his lungs. Make sure that at the same time its chest raised. It will be a faithful sign that the lungs are filled with air. If this does not happen, you need to urgently stop the breath of the mouth into the mouth and impose in the tracheostemic technician.
After each exhalation of the mouth in the mouth, it is necessary to make an indirect heart massage: 4-5 pages with both hands, laid one on the other, on the bottom of the chest, the pressure should be carried out by the bases of the palms. Pressing should be not smooth, but sharp, like shocks. Readers Our site should know that your hands must be imposed clearly on the lower third of the chest, and not on the stomach, that the effect does not give, and can lead to a diaphragm rupture.
N.B. Massage should be made straightened in the elbows, so that the pressure is made not only by the power of the hands, but also the weight of your body. Pressure force should be sufficient so that the chest begged at least 3-4 cm for the spine. Often, in such cases, the injury damaged to the chest, ribs break, but such injuries can be considered insignificant compared to the rescued human life.
Artificial respiration and massage are made alternately. Best of all, if in a minute you can do about 12 such cycles.
In conclusion
In case of the affected pulse and breathing, notice the time that has passed since the beginning of resuscitation, but do not stop immediately resuscitation activities. This can only be done if there is an even and stable pulse and quite frequent breathing.
N.B. Do not let the person who has come to get up and move to the arrival of doctors.
But even if a person does not give signs of life, do not stop measures to revive at least for half an hour (after a larger time, the bark and subcorter die, and even doctors will be assisted). It is very hard physically, but human life is worth these efforts!
