Six basic gestures to learn with the Red Cross
What to do when confronted with a person who has to fall, injuring themselves or who is unconscious? This report explains six simple things you can do easily in emergency situations.
Etienne Deloison, monitor national first aid trainer for the French Red Cross, and Olivier Ridolce, instructor-trainer-aid of the Red Cross, you are in preview, new national and international recommendations, which will be taught at the next school year.
Malaise
Faced with someone who does not feel good, look for signs of discomfort: sweating, pallor, various pains.
Put that person at rest in the position which suits him best.
Ask how long the discomfort lasts, if it is the first time it happens to him, if she takes medication or has been hospitalized.
Call the doctor or the emergency and send him the answers to questions. Follow his instructions.
In this case, the victim had not eaten offer him a sugar and water.
Do not move
The victim fell and complained of a sore back and head.
Remove potentially dangerous items on the site.
Ask the victim about his condition and ask him not to move.
Call the rescue: 15, 18 or 112 on your laptop.
Hold the head of the victim until help arrives, to avoid aggravating the situation.
Cover it.
Five slaps
The victim is choking with chewing gum it has swallowed the wrong way.
Initially, put it behind you.
Give it five blows between the shoulder blades to clear the airway.
Technical Heimlich
If the first method does not work, you must try or abdominal compression technique Heimlich.
Place your fist at the abdominal area above the navel and below the rib cage. Press your fist upward to push this area and free the airway.
The victim spit the object, coughing and breathing resumes.
Place it in position of comfort and call for help.
The airway
You learn a person inert. Ask a question and give him an order (eg “squeeze my hand”) to check if she is conscious.
Here, the victim does not respond. She is unconscious loosen his belt and make sure that nothing impedes his neck. Place two fingers under the chin in the soft hand on the front and swing his head back carefully to identify the language of his throat.
Make sure the victim is breathing by placing your cheek near his mouth, to feel a breath. Check the abdomen and chest lowered and raised regularly.
The recovery position
Here, the victim is unconscious but breathing. It must be placed in recovery position, not that she choked.
First place the arms of the victim (later reversal) at right angles. Then enter the second hand and place the back of his hand to his ear (see cons). Lift the knee to lever and swing the body carefully, without abruptly on the side. Thus, the head, neck and trunk remain aligned.
Keep rocking the elbow: the arm does not move.
Emergency alert
Open the mouth of the victim to free the airways and end up stalling the person by putting her leg down so she does not resolution is restored.
Cover it, because it might be cool.
Alert relief.
Underwater
The victim is burned with the hot water e, reversing his glass of tea. Her hand and wrist become very red.
Take the victim quickly to a water point.
Leave plenty of running cold water over the wound for ten minutes.
Stop when the pain became a little blurred.
Compression point
You arrive at a place where someone has just cut. She bleeds profusely.
Start by cutting away the object being careful not to injure yourself.
Press on the wound to make a point of compression.
Give warning
Help the victim to lie down as soon as possible.
Hold the compression point.
Please call to a third person to give warning, specifying the exact location of the victim and the nature of his injuries.
Stay in contact with the victim until help arrives.