first aid for the elderly. (Guo Xuejun)
daily daily news (reporter Guo Xuejun) September 11th (reporter Guo Xuejun) 11, is the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (International Federation of Red Crescent Societies) "world emergency day". 10 o'clock in the morning, by the Red Cross of Shandong and the Red Cross of Ji'nan, the Red Cross of the Shandong University, "the" provincial and Ji'nan city "world first aid day" campaign month "just finished, the provincial Red Cross Nightingale volunteer service team came to the Southern District of Yanshan District, to community residents Pass and demonstrate the commonly used first aid method of family, attracting many people to watch.
"an old lady over there is sick. It's very serious. Let's go and have a look." Just then, suddenly, some residents came running to the volunteers for help. "Where is the man?" Let us go! " Several volunteers from the provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, who were showing the first aid to residents, heard the news, put down their utensils, and immediately ran along with the residents who reported it.
after a quick run, she found an injured old lady on a roadside step 100 meters away. I saw that the old man had regained consciousness and had just been lifted up. His mind was still in a trance. "Please don't tamper with the old man's body. First fix her a temporary splint." When one of the volunteers looked at the situation, he found the old man's right wrist fracture, and she comforted the old man with a few pieces of cardboard on the side of the store and fixed the injured right wrist of the old man.
volunteers came soon, some brought special medical splint, and some brought the sphygmomanometer. Professor Zhang Jidong from the Department of Anesthesiology of the provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine examined the injury, immediately implemented a manual reduction for the part of the old man's carpal bone, then replaced the injured wrist with a medical splint and fixed it on the chest with a triangular towel.
"thank you! I'll take my mother to the hospital. " The elderly daughter-in-law came to thank the volunteers. The shop assistant in the nearby store told the reporter that the old man fell down inadvertently when he was on the stage. When they saw it, they helped the old man, but because they had no first aid knowledge and did not dare to take measures for the old people, they had to call for help from the volunteers who were next to the first aid propaganda.