Aug 29, 2011 at 3:53 PM
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You can save a life of someone very very easily with this guide. Many many die unnecesarily at the village I work only because they do not know these facts. These kind of deaths sadden me most. For example, it is possible that we could not save someone last week only because the family panicked and didn't do anything until we arrived (point 9), or many have thrombosis of deep leg veins without asking for medical help (point 1) and die from pulmary thombosis as it's complication (like my aunt did). You never know when you can save a life of a stranger or a loved one.
1) If you notice that someone's leg skin is turned red in a short time - don't think it's skin infection, visit the doctor since it can be thrombosis which possibly can be fatal.
2) Heart attack If someone is having great chest pain that he never experienced before holding his chest with hands out of pain, you can do the following until the ambulance arrives. Open the window. Give the patient 500 mg of Aspirin (if not allergic to it) TO CHEW it (not swallow it as a whole but chew), Nitrogicerin (optional, if the patient has it) under the tongue.
3) Do not heal purulent wounds all by yourself. I have seen someone who's got sepsis that way and almost died.
4) "Water (oedema) on lungs" make the patient sit and open the window, call the ambulance.
5) "Bigger" asthma attack Calm the patient down and forbid him to panic, or WALK to the ambulance by himself since many die along the way that way. Open the window, calm him, call the doctor.
6) Food goes into the airways
or improvise anything that might help. Little kid choking? Hold it upside down and shake it.
7) Poisoning- Do not make him vomit unless the ambulance says so if the patient swallowed something corrosive, unless the ambulance says otherwise. Vomitted corrosives can end-up in the trachea and than the lungs.
8) Tetanus - NOT ONLY CUTS FROM METAL CAN CAUSE IT, UNLIKE MANY BELEIVE! Often contact with earth/dirt. There was a case when somebody got tetanus when he was planting roses and got his by earth contaminated hands wounded by a torn. He ended up in the hospital.
9) If someone is collapsed and you're scared - Call for help. If he is unconscious and having no pulse do cardiac massage. Just push the chest of the person about every second. People are often too scared to do anything even if they've learned even advanced life support. You can not make his condition worse, you cannot harm him, you cannot do any wrong! Are you afraid that you'll break his ribs? Do not be! If you break some ribs - so what! It is an untrue saying, which is even shared amond some doctors "there is no good cardiac massage without broken ribs". Do not worry about anything! You do not have a clue how to push? Just push as you like, no matter how. There is a story how an old man saved his son's life only by "comically" tapping (like giving "facers") his chest. What about mouth to mouth? Do not think of it. Do not do it if you don't know how (even doctors tend to blow the air inside the esophagus instead of the trachea, making the patient to vomit, and the vomit might end up in the lungs). Cardiac massage is much more important than mouth to mouth, and it is much better to ignore "mouth to mouth" if it distracts you from cardiac massage. The significance of mouth to mouth is way way overrated I think because commercial media is fascinated by it's similarity with kissing.
10) Diabetic crysis if someone drops at the street and you learn he is having diabetes always and always give him sugar (water with sugar or any form he can take it). Never ever try to give him his insulin, that way you can kill him.
This guide is written out of love. However you must understand that I cannot guarantee for this guide or for the health of anyone. If you know a better way to help or med. personnal said otherwise do accordingly.
1) If you notice that someone's leg skin is turned red in a short time - don't think it's skin infection, visit the doctor since it can be thrombosis which possibly can be fatal.
2) Heart attack If someone is having great chest pain that he never experienced before holding his chest with hands out of pain, you can do the following until the ambulance arrives. Open the window. Give the patient 500 mg of Aspirin (if not allergic to it) TO CHEW it (not swallow it as a whole but chew), Nitrogicerin (optional, if the patient has it) under the tongue.
3) Do not heal purulent wounds all by yourself. I have seen someone who's got sepsis that way and almost died.
4) "Water (oedema) on lungs" make the patient sit and open the window, call the ambulance.
5) "Bigger" asthma attack Calm the patient down and forbid him to panic, or WALK to the ambulance by himself since many die along the way that way. Open the window, calm him, call the doctor.
6) Food goes into the airways
7) Poisoning- Do not make him vomit unless the ambulance says so if the patient swallowed something corrosive, unless the ambulance says otherwise. Vomitted corrosives can end-up in the trachea and than the lungs.
8) Tetanus - NOT ONLY CUTS FROM METAL CAN CAUSE IT, UNLIKE MANY BELEIVE! Often contact with earth/dirt. There was a case when somebody got tetanus when he was planting roses and got his by earth contaminated hands wounded by a torn. He ended up in the hospital.
9) If someone is collapsed and you're scared - Call for help. If he is unconscious and having no pulse do cardiac massage. Just push the chest of the person about every second. People are often too scared to do anything even if they've learned even advanced life support. You can not make his condition worse, you cannot harm him, you cannot do any wrong! Are you afraid that you'll break his ribs? Do not be! If you break some ribs - so what! It is an untrue saying, which is even shared amond some doctors "there is no good cardiac massage without broken ribs". Do not worry about anything! You do not have a clue how to push? Just push as you like, no matter how. There is a story how an old man saved his son's life only by "comically" tapping (like giving "facers") his chest. What about mouth to mouth? Do not think of it. Do not do it if you don't know how (even doctors tend to blow the air inside the esophagus instead of the trachea, making the patient to vomit, and the vomit might end up in the lungs). Cardiac massage is much more important than mouth to mouth, and it is much better to ignore "mouth to mouth" if it distracts you from cardiac massage. The significance of mouth to mouth is way way overrated I think because commercial media is fascinated by it's similarity with kissing.
10) Diabetic crysis if someone drops at the street and you learn he is having diabetes always and always give him sugar (water with sugar or any form he can take it). Never ever try to give him his insulin, that way you can kill him.
This guide is written out of love. However you must understand that I cannot guarantee for this guide or for the health of anyone. If you know a better way to help or med. personnal said otherwise do accordingly.
