Once emergency patients at home, especially in the dead of night, do not panic, be calm. Family to split up, or look after the patient, or responsible for contacting the vehicle, or looking for conveyance, or call 120, if not enough manpower, to ask neighbors or friends for help.
What should be done before the hospital
If the patient is febrile seizures in children, it should immediately unlock the collar to keep the airway open, and a cold towel or brush to apply a child head.
If the gas poisoning should quickly open the doors and windows, or the sick into the fresh outdoor air. Cardiac arrest should quickly do cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
If the patient angina pectoris, nitroglycerin can be placed on the patient 1 to 2 sublingual.
If the patient asthma attack, allowing the patient sitting, sedative drugs to relieve asthma condition.
You should choose what means of transport
stretcher
For general patients. For cardiac arrest may occur at any time to put a hard board stretcher to facilitate rescue.
Various types of vehicles
Ambulance best. Shock patients should not use a tricycle or bike transport. Tractor shock, it is not suitable for transporting heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage patients. Dizziness, high blood pressure, heart disease and cerebral vascular disease patients should not be transported with a motorcycle.
What position to take when transporting
Supine
If the patient is unconscious, you should head to one side to avoid throat secretions or inhalation of vomit trachea, causing suffocation.
Lateral position
It can be used for one side of pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion or empyema patients. Patients can be twisted to the affected side, to reduce contralateral lung compression, help maintain respiratory function.
Seat
Heart failure or bronchial asthma breathing difficulties, take seats help alleviate the symptoms.
Trendelenburg
Apply to ischemia, hypotension or shock patients, insufficient blood supply to the brain is prevented.
First high-pin low
Suitable for encephalitis, head trauma or stroke patients. Can reduce intracranial pressure, cerebral edema.
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