First Aid To The Rescue Mission.

I remember that when I was still in elementary school, our health teacher would often carry a white box to the interhouse sports competitions. The box that's always stationed close to our headmistress's entrance. It has a red plus sign on it. I didn’t care much about the use case of the box at the time, but what I enjoyed was the glucose that would be shared with us after stressful activities. It's always so cool.

But later, one day, when one of us got an injury, I got to know the usefulness of the first aid box. She was carefully walking but mistakenly hit her foot on a big stone. She got a heavy injury to her toes and knees.

I saw them apply some liquid with cotton wool that made her cry out loud, then after that, another colored one was applied, and then a bandage was used to hold the cotton wool to the injured part. She was given some pain relief drugs and then taken home.

My experience with first aid at that stage made me curious about what was applied. Then I later came to realize that the first was a mentholated spirit for cleaning the wounds and sterilization. And the next one was iodine.

Performing First Aid and CPR

During my service year, I registered for a course HSE, which means Health, Safety, and Environment. This course at some point taught us about fire safety and precautions, as well as first aid and the use of fire extinguishers.

We were then taught first aid, and under it was how to perform CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation). It was a practical session, and it was actually fun to learn. But I bet the real scenario won’t sound funny in any way.

Performing CPR is not that hard. Just that the person who is going to perform it should try as much as possible to be brave enough to handle it. There are about six steps to a successful CPR. Though it's not actually a major treatment but a first aid, which means it's just a temporary way of rescue pending when the major aid arrives.

First, you need to get the person to a safe place. Not to add more to the danger. Then they are carefully laid, and emergency aid is called for.

After that, the first aider will try to lift the person to a position where there could be a flow of air through the body. After which, they will try to find out their response to breathing. If it’s too low or no response, then the next step is taken.

Gradually pressing the chest to create a compression, allowing the chest to recoil. The compression can be about 30 -100 compressions per minute.

The last step is to give rescue breath, hold the nose tight and create a seal over the mouth, apply a slow breath, and wait for the chest to rise. The process could be repeated till there is a positive response.

This CPR first aid is most often applied to people who have a heart attack or those that are drowned.

In conclusion, first aid is so important and can actually be the thin bridge between life and death. The first rescue mission will surely serve as an extra strength before the actual treatment comes into play. And this is something I feel everyone should know how to perform because emergencies don't inform us they will be showing up.

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This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in the hive-learners community for the Week 180 Edition 2, and the topic to be discussed is FIRST AID

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