The Sun Maker News Report: Emergency Essentials
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When facing Crisis and Emergencies, most people suffer great consequences because they do not know what to do. Consequences due to lack of information may lead to dastric lose of life, or traumatic events. Information can save your life and the life of others as well as provide you with a framework to work upon when facing emergencies.
The first thing you should is an Evaluation of the Emergency Scenario. Evaluate the scenario carefully. Is the place safe? Is there water? How deep is it? Is there any electricity that can create electrical shocks? Is there smoke or Fire? Is there danger of structure collapse? Are there other dangers?
Let trained people act, helping with out knowing what you are doing may create more harm than there already is.
Safety is the most important, your personal safety and the safety of others. If you feel impelled to act, you should check for victims or people involved in the crisis. Certain situations are too extreme, and should only be dealt with professionals. Tune in, stay focused and calm. Keep informed. If there is someone who has been injured or appears to be unconscious immediately call Emergency Response teams.
If you are familiarized with the ABC of life, CPR and other first aid techniques put them into practice. Inform the Emergency service of the situation as calmly and accurately as possible, it will be useful if you know the ABC of life, and can evaluate a victim's condition. Inform the paramedics or emergency service contacted about the situation of victims, or possible victims as well as scenario observations.
The first rule in an Emergency is do no harm. Do no harm to yourself and to others. You may feel the need to assist a victim but if you have no medical or paramedical knowledge it is best you do nothing. CPR, or Heinrich Manoeuvre are not a complex techniques, but they can have negative consequences if put into practice incorrectly.
Remain calm in the face of the storm. Psychological assistance to victims or people affected in a crisis is very useful, talk to the victims and to people in the crisis, always consider your own safety and the safety of others, do this by evaluating the scenario and changing areas if you must, as in the case of fires or electric shock risks.
If a victim or person has been injured he may require to remain still, so never move a injured person unless it is absolutely necessary. There are of course exceptions to every indication that can be given in emergency prevention, these advices or set of indications are intended to provide a framework to assess, prevent, and act in a calm way. Further research is vital. For example there are many profesional webpages that give information on Emergencies. The Recovery Position is vital when the patient is unconscious, there is a safe position to put them in which allows them to breathe easily and stops them choking on any vomit, you may find the information here:www.nhs.uk/pages.
What is an Emergency and a life threatening situation. When to call an Emergency Service.
If a person is not breathing, unconsciousness, or has a suspected stroke, heavy blood loss, suspected broken bones, a deep wound such as a stab wound, a suspected heart attack, difficulty in breathing, severe burns, and a severe allergic reaction, or has been bitten by a poisonous snake, spider or others.
If you do happen to call an emergency service and he gives you an advice, follow it. If you feel insecure try to remain focused. When evaluating a victim, you should know if he is breathing or not, if he has a pulse or not, this you do first. Read Red Cross First Aid, ABC of LIfe. Talk to the person, does he respond? Talking to a victim or to a person who is in a crisis situation is very useful, it creates a placebo effect, keep him awake, ask for information, ask him questions, such as; what happened? Where do feel pain? Information emergency services will ask is; the location of the emergency including nearby landmarks, the telephone number from where the call is being made, what happened, how many people require assistance, condition of the people, what assistance is being given and possibly more. Listen to what the person on the phone asks you and respond, never hang up the phone unless instructed to. The answers he may provide will be useful when Emergency Services arrive. When Assessing the situation if a person does not respond you may want to squeeze their ear lobe or shoulders? If they do not respond then check the vitals. Are they breathing? If not, somebody needs to start mouth to mouth resuscitation (Expired Air Resuscitation (EAR)). Do they have a pulse? If not, somebody needs to start Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).Provide support to the person in a crisis, by talking to him, and staying with him, if the situation permits you to. To provide psicological support is in itself very useful thing to do. Always keep in mind your own safety and the safety of others.
Always make sure you have contacted the corresponding emergency service, police, paramedics, before evaluating a victim. Keep on the phone and inform of the victim status, follow the advice given to you.
If there are many people in the area, direct them to stay calm and leave open space for the victim. Ask one or two people to help you, and tell them to seal off the area.
When Checking for injuries you should never move the victim, (except of course events require to do so, such as fires). Checking for victims injuries, how to move them safely, head lacerations, internal bleedings, haemorrhages, how to apply pressure to a wound, type of wounds and other information is fundamental. This information is provided in the Red Cross First Aid Manual. If you are interested in these processes do contact your nearest Red Cross Office, all this information and much more is provided in short course on First Aid, and Advanced First Aid.
If you are not involved in the incident, do not add confusion to the confusion. If you can not help better remain inside your house, unless instructed to, or unless the events and reason tell you not to.
Once inside the house tune in to radio or television and keep informed. Information is all in emergency. Remeber, what to do and what not to do may very well safe your life and the lives of others. Government authorities will advice on whether it is best to collect your children from school or not.
Essentials on Fire Prevention and Safety
Try to make your house and your work environment a safe place. Fires may rise in the night, so Fire Alarms are very useful in this sense. Fire Alarms, proper information channels in sped dial, and fire extinguishers save lives. Take the time to arrange this. Fire Escape plans and alternative Fire escape routes must be drawn out.
If there is a fire the best thing to do is get out, and stay out. Call Emergency Service from outside. If you live in flats or department floors never use the elevators or lifts, remain calm and go down the stairs. Try to reassure people to remain calm. Smoke is as dangerous as fire, as it is toxic it can lead to respiration insufficiency. Smoke tends to rise from the ground, so the air closer to the floor will "cleaner".
If a door feels hot, do not open it, as it probably means there is a fire on the other side.
About Fire Extinguishers. There are many type of fires and therefor are many type of fire extinguishers. Keep in mind that a fire extinguisher is a device designed to extinguish or control small fires, often in emergency situations. Never try to control or extinguish big scale fires. Always contact your local fire authority and response team. Multi-purpose dry powder extinguishers or Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) extinguishers are usually the best choices for home use. They have the fewest dangers and are effective on many types of fire. Get professional advice for work environments or if you are in doubt. Make sure you know how to use them. Keep it in a strategic location, never close to children's reach and never close to sources of heat. Fire extinguishers tend to loose pressure if they are not used in long times, Check and service your equipment regularly.
A fire blanket is a safety device designed to extinguish small incipient (starting) fires. It consists of a sheet of fire retardant material which is placed over a fire in order to smother it. Fire Blankets are not expensive. Fire Blankets have no use when fires have spreaded. You can also use the fire blankets to wrap a person or yourself. Always remember a fire can grow out of control rapidly. If a small fire begins to escape your control leave the buidling and call the Fire Department. Fire extinguishers and fire blankets are useful only for small or starting fires.
You may want to consider installing sprinkles in your work environment or in your home. A fire sprinkler is the part of a fire sprinkler system that discharges water when the effects of a fire have been detected, such as when a predetermined temperature has been reached. Each sprinkler may be independent and you can fit them into as much rooms as you wish. Contrarary to what you may think, the installation of these systems is not complex.
This article intention is to provide a doorway to relevant authorities experts in the area of Emergency. It has been however written by a student and researcher of emergencies and gradute in Communication and Red Cross First Aid. The information is not final in its teaching, as the issue is sensible extreme caution and further reading on external profesional sites is not only reccomended but fundamental.
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