Drowning first aid steps

If you cannot swim, do not go swimming in the river or the sea without first aid measures, otherwise you are very likely to drown. Every summer is a peak season for drowning incidents among teenagers. Because of the hot weather in this season, many ignorant teenagers like to go swimming in ponds and reservoirs, which lead to drowning. If you find someone drowning, what are the correct first aid steps to take?

The first step is to rescue the drowning person to shore: When friends encounter someone drowning, they should immediately call 120 for medical emergency, and then rescue the drowning person to shore. At this time, friends need to pay attention to that when rescuing the drowning person while he is conscious, the drowning person will be in a survival instinct and will cling to himself and bring himself into the water. Therefore, friends should swim from behind the drowning person, put one hand through the drowning person's chest, and then hold on to the drowning person and swim to the shore. At the same time, the drowning person's mouth and nose must be exposed to the water so that he can breathe smoothly.

The second step is to check the drowning person's physical condition in time: After friends rescue the drowning person to the shore, they must check the drowning person's physical condition in time. Since the drowning person will have serious respiratory obstruction, friends must clean up the weeds, silt and vomit in his mouth, and then put the drowning person in a position with head low and feet high to let him pour out the inhaled water. The specific method is that friends should kneel on one leg, stretch out the other leg and place the drowning person's abdomen on the knee, let the drowning person's head droop naturally, and then press his abdomen and back to pour out the water.

The third step is to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the drowning person: If the drowning person stops breathing, friends should immediately perform mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration, or use chest compressions to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the drowning person, and move the drowning person to the ambulance as soon as possible and transfer him to a nearby hospital quickly.

Here I would like to advise friends that once you encounter a drowning incident, if the drowning person is still conscious, never rescue from the front, so as not to be dragged into the water. This is something the rescuer must pay attention to. At the same time, if friends are not good at swimming and see someone drowning, they must shout for help, because this may also drag themselves into the water.