FIRST AID This year we will continue trying to transmit knowledge in first aid, this would be simpler if we did it in a practical way, at some point we'll see if we can.
would be good to observe the notes as this issue is going to take several issues and how to understand it is having all the information provided, on the other side write to the editor of the newspaper with any questions you have, in the next edition we will be trying to eradicate.
Not if you remember, Last year we discussed the issue of obstructions to the airways, we Heimlich maneuver, which we used to relieve airway obstructed by solids, this maneuver was to assist the person suffering the blockage, a reader made the following question What if I'm alone?, we must first keep quiet, and then we can use the back of a chair to replace the hands of another person, remember that all the previous notes can be found in www.adrianparamedic.blogspot.com.
Moving on we will begin to address one that will surely though not in its most severe we see daily.
A SOFT TISSUE INJURY AND BLEEDING
We can see that the trauma is a major cause of death and total or partial disability in sufferers.
The tissue damage (LTB) are those commonly see and that will require our treatment, they can be as simple as a bump or abrasion (scratch), to severe lacerations (cuts), or impaled objects (elements that enter our body), threatening the lives of people, all these injuries require bandages, so we also should know how to make them.
The skin has three main functions, protects our body from the environment, regulates temperature
body and transmit environmental information to the brain.
All injuries resulting from a sudden exposure of the body to a certain energy, this energy can come from a source of heat, electricity or dynamic. The human body has a certain capacity to absorb this energy, so the body's tolerance for sudden deformity is very limited. A punch in the chest deformity will produce transient absorbing the impact energy without permanent damage if the force of the blow was more violent, the tissues of the chest continue to deform until it absorbs all the energy coming to cause dynamic damage permanent, according to the amount of energy the body absorbs, is the amount of structures that are damaged.
We can say we have two major types of soft tissue injuries
a. - CLOSED: when damage is caused under the skin or mucosal surface without damaging the surface.
b. - OPEN, in which breaks the surface of the skin or mucous membranes. LTB
CLOSED: when an object hits the crushing body tissues under the skin called a contusion injury occurs will depend on the amount of energy absorbed, the extent of tissue damage as a result the cells are damaged torn blood vessels and causing hemorrhage, edema and the amount of blood that invades the damaged area causing swelling and pain, to collect the blood causes a bluish or black discoloration called ecchymosis. When large areas are damaged vessels are torn beneath the skin and cause bleeding fast HEMATOMA call, this occurs whenever two or more blood vessels are damaged.
is difficult to assess the damage taken to the deeper structures, so that all closed LTB handled with an immediate cold treatment, compression (squeezing), elevation and immobilization (bandaging, splinting).
In the next note will begin to see the lesions most concern, which we see. Begin to assemble our kit, so far I have to have latex gloves, bandages, and some provision to apply cold, slowly we are going to complete. Until next time. Do not hesitate to write this is our contribution to improve the first link in a chain of care and you're part of it.
Adrian Martinez,
Emergency Medical Technician
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