Vital Signs, Blood Pressure, and First Aid

Posted on Apr 30, 2024 in Biology

“THEME I”

VITAL SIGNS: They are called vital signs, signals or reactions that presents a human being alive that reveal the basic functions of the body.

Vital signs are: heart rate, Reflex, Pupillary, Temperature and Blood Latch. When providing first aid is important to assess the functioning of the body and alterations that are common in accidents for this it is necessary to control the breathing and pulse.
TEMPERATURE: This is the procedure that is performed to measure the heat of the human organism in the oral cavity, rectal, underarm or groin.

It is the amount of heat from a body. This results from the balance between heat produced and eliminated by the body. Heat is produced when cells use food to produce energy. The temperature is measured with thermometers and can be used with Fahrenheit and Celsius scale to the Celsius scale can be measured in the mouth, armpit, and the tympanic membrane.

TEMPERATURE OBJECTIVES:

• Assess the state of health or disease
• To help establish a diagnosis of health
• Knowing the degree of heat from one body
• Accurately record the temperature of the human body to assist with the diagnosis

MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT:

• Stainless Steel Tray
• Portatermometros with an antiseptic solution
• Thermometers
• Containers with wet swabs
• Container with soapy
• Par paper bag waste
• Tongue depressor
• Pencil or pen
• Record Sheet

PROCEDURE STEPS:

• Prepare your computer and transfer the patient to drive
• Confirm that the patient has not eaten food or practiced any exercise in the last 30 min
• Explain the patient about the procedure and put it in lying or sitting position
• Remove thermometer, antiseptic solution and insert the water tank
• Then dried by rotary movements Swab
• Dry Swab the arm and place the bulb in the middle axillary
• Place the arm and forearm of the patient on the chest in order to have the thermometer in place
• Leave the thermometer 3-5 minutes and remove the arm
• Clean the thermometer with a dry swab to the bulb body with circular movements
• Make reading and recording
• L thermometer shake down the mercury scale and place in soapy water then rinse the thermometer and place in container with antiseptic solution
• Assess the temperature measurement obtained

Scientific research, TEMPERATURE.

• The clinical thermometer mercury requires substance that swells with changes in temperature and a scale of 34-41 ° c
• Body heat expands the mercury in his thermometer bulb and a camera of constriction that prevents his return.
• The temperature scale covers the melting point of ice boiling point of water, both wing atmospheric pressure of 760 mm Hg.
• The heat has its origin in the kinetic energy and can be seen through the thermal effect.
• Heat production is a result of chemical reactions or thermal effects.
• The amount of inhaled O2 partly determines the amount of heat produced by the body
• Muscular activity increases the metabolic rate 10-4 times the resting level.
• Muscle tone increases mainly with the cold and emotions
• Knowledge and understanding of human behavior helps to reduce anxiety or fear.
• A correct potion affects the optimal completion of the procedure

TEMPERATURE, SAFETY MEASURES

• That the patient not eat cold or hot before the taking of temperature
• That the patient has not done any exercise
• Ensure that the patient does not talk during the measurement from
• Avoid taking temperature in patients too thin, malnourished or start during the lactation.

AXILLARY TEMPERATURE: A) Assess the patient’s axilla, if wet dry without rubbing. B) Place the thermometer and the patient put his arm around the chest (if it can help maintain the position.) C) Keep 8-10 minutes. D ) Notes: 1. Change antiseptic solution where the thermometer is immersed for 24 hours. 2. If the patient has just washed the arm, wait 15 minutes as the temperature increases friction.

RECTAL TEMPERATURE:
a) Use round bulb thermometer.
b) Place the patient
– Adult: left lateral decubitus
– Boy: supine.
c) Put lubricant on gauze and apply it to the bulb of the thermometer.
d) Insert the thermometer.
– Adult: 2.5 – 3.5 cm
– Child: 1.5 – 2.5 cm
e) Maintain three minutes.
f) Wash the thermometer with soapy water, rinse with cold water and leave the thermometer in the container with antiseptic.
ORAL TEMPERATURE
Materials needed:

• Oral Thermometer
• Gauze

Procedures

• Hand washing and glove placement
• Tell the patient what is going to
• Clean the thermometer with gauze soaked in disinfectant. Dry it and make sure that mercury is down. Assist with a sudden movement
• Gently placed the bulb in the patient’s mouth under the tongue. Ask him to keep the mouth and lips closed
• Let the thermometer placed in 8 minutes
• Remove the thermometer reads the temperature and record its value in a sheet
• Wash the thermometer with gauze soaked in liquid soap. Rinse it with cold water and dry well
• Lower mercury column
• Record the temperatures

PULSE: A wave of blood created by the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart. The pulse is the beating of an artery to sit on a ledge marrow. When contracted the left ventricle the blood passes through the arteries throughout the body. This wave is the pulse of blood.

STEPS:

Ensure that the patient’s arm rest in a comfortable position

Place the tips of the index and middle fingers on the artery ring chosen

Fingers pressing hard enough to easily perceive the pulse

Perceive beats, and count for one minute

Record the pulse in the leaves and especially noted the features found

The arteries which often take the pulse are:
Temporal artery: above the temporal bone (temple), between the ear and the brow of the patient.
Carotid artery: Located in front of the neck on both sides of the larynx.
Radial artery: In front of the wrist.
Brachial artery: The inside of the biceps muscle.
Femoral artery: Located in the middle of the groin.
Pedis artery: Located on the back foot.
Popliteal artery: In the back of the bend of the knee.
Humeral artery: In front of the arm at the height of the elbow.
The arterial pulse can be felt in different parts of the body. The most wanted are:

• Carotid pulse in the neck, on each artery of the same name.
• Pulse axillary, in the axillary hollow.
• Brachial Pulse in the fold of the elbows, anterior surface medially.

BREATHING: is the act of introducing air into the lungs, each breath consists of an inspiration and expiration. The normal respirations are quiet and regular and are made without effort, both sides of the chest rise and fall as well.

OBJECTIVES

• Knowing the number and characteristics of breath
• Detecting hypoxia and anoxia
• Know quickly of any change of pace and quality of respiration to assess the patient’s general condition

MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT

• Clock with seconds
• Record Sheet
• Pencil and pen

SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND OF THE BREATHING

• A correct position ‘allows the optimal realization of the procedure
• The voluntary breathing is easily controlled by the individual
• During normal breathing movements should be automatic and painless regular
• By inspiration the chest, spreading to all directions and is the act whereby air enters
• Alos lungs with O2 20.95%, 78.95% N2 4% CO2
• D Loa blood chemical composition regulates the frequency and depth of breathing

Respiratory rate: the number of times you breathe per minute. It is usually measured when you are at rest and simply involves counting the number of breaths for one minute by counting how many times the chest rises. Respiration rates may increase with fever, diseases and other medical conditions. When checking respiration, it is important to take into account if the person has difficulty breathing.

TEMA II “

BLOOD PRESSURE: A measurement of the force applied to the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body. The pressure is determined by the strength and the volume of blood pumped, and by the size and flexibility of the arteries.

BLOOD PRESSURE: A measurement of the force applied to the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body. The pressure is determined by the strength and volume of blood pumped, and by the size and flexibility of the arteries.

How to measure blood pressure?

The registration of blood pressure involves the need to determine two values: the maximum or minimum, or systolic and diastolic.

The cyclic activity of the heart is the key factor conditioning the lack of uniformity in the level of blood pressure. This achieves its maximum value at each systole , while the diastolic falls to its lower limit.

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT. It is usually done with a sphygmomanometer. The most commonly used with mercury and aneroid type. They consist of a system to put pressure around the arm and a scale to find out the pressure.

Mercury sphygmomanometers are more reliable calibration. The aneroid, which record the pressure in a clock, are light and easy to carry, but over time can be calibration.

SYSTOLIC PRESSURE (by palpatory method): This inflates the cuff while palpating the radial pulse. The disappearance of the pulse, inflate a bit more and after deflating the cuff slowly. The pressure it back again to feel the pulse, corresponds to the systolic pressure (by palpatory method).

This is a good way to locate what level is the systolic pressure, without having to inflate the cuff more than necessary.

Diastolic pressure: After identifying the auscultatory systolic pressure, continues to deflate the cuff until the noises disappear. This moment corresponds to the diastolic pressure. Sometimes the sounds first and then fade away. It is generally considered as the diastolic pressure when the sounds disappear. If it happens that the noises are attenuated, but never stop listening, even with the deflated cuff diastolic blood pressure corresponds to the time when the noise is attenuated. Sometimes they leave recorded both times: when they attenuate noise and when they disappear.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: The HTA is the increase in BP to 140/90 mm Hg or more.

This can happen without a previously known cause (essential hypertension) or as a result of another disease (secondary hypertension).

The most common causes of secondary hypertension are:

• Endocrine diseases (of the glands): Cushing syndrome, adrenal gland tumors.
• Kidney disease: stenosis (narrowing) of Renal Artery, glomerulonephritis, or renal failure.

Pregnancy and oral contraceptive use may also cause hypertension in some women. He proposed to define hypertension as the level of pressure that is able to produce cardiovascular injury in a given patient. This threshold is higher than 135/85 millimeters of mercury ( mmHg ). Moreover, it is mandatory to make an overall assessment of risk for everyone, sick or not, to calculate pressure values which should be considered “safe” for her.

THE HIGHLIGHTS: They are automatic responses, fast and predictable to changes in the environment and to help maintain internal environmental conditions of our body within normal parameters.

RECEIVERS: These are unipolar dendrites of neurons (sensory neurons) or the terminations related to the sense organs. These endings trigger a nerve impulse or more.

O afferent sensory neurons: nerve impulse leads to the center integrator is the spinal cord or brain stem

NEURONS OF ASSOCIATION:centers are integrating and connect the sensory and motor neurons.

INTEGRATOR NEURON: region of the nervous system that analyzes the training after the sensory neuron to produce a response.

EFERENCES Motor Neuron: nerve impulse leads to an effector.

Effector structure that responds to nerve impulse (skeletal muscle, heart or gland). TYPES OF REFLEX

POINT OF VIEW FROM THE NEURONAL: three-neuron reflex arcs: The impulses travel centrally and are distributed widely within the spinal cord, activating porsteriormente many motor neurons. Flexion in several joints can be the effect of a painful stimulus in a small sensitive area. These reflexes are called bending or surface reflections.

Reflex arcs of two neurons: resulting nerve impulses reach the spinal cord by motor neurons (which are multipolar). The axons of these neurons transmit impulses to the originally stretched muscle, which contracts and regains its initial length. These are reflections of stretching or myotatic.

RESPONSE BY

REFLEX neurogenic is the transmission (nerve pathways) of an impulse born somewhere in the body and cause reactions elsewhere in the same

SIMPLE REFLECTION: receptor stimulation causes a reaction of a single muscle.

LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS: those basic reflex actions such as the visceral reflexes.

CONTROLLED REFLECTIONS: in animals with integration centers developed, some reflex actions can be inhibited or caused voluntarily by a nerve impulse. One example of these reflections it is to urinate.

FROM THE POINT OF VIEW REPORT

SURFACE REFLECTIONS: are those produced by cutaneous stimulation. Type responses are flexor or three neurons.

DEEP REFLECTIONS: they cause and produce striking a tendon stretch.

SPECIAL REFLECTIONS: these reflexes participate in different structures of skeletal muscles.

Reflex, Abnormal: those that are not normally or do an exaggerated way.

ACCORDING TO THEIR ORIGIN

Congenital or inborn reflexes: the reflections are common to all men, also called absolute or unconditioned reflexes. These reflections do not require prior learning.

Conditioned Reflex: reflexes are acquired as a result of experience with certain stimuli

REFLECTIONS-BEHAVIOR RELATIONSHIP: We can conclude that the reflex arc is the basic unit of the nervous system, which means that should be the first recognizable role model in the embryo (untested hypothesis) after spontaneous motility (which occurs when nerve fibers are not fully developed).

REFLECTIONS ON THE UTILITY: Many reflexes protect our body against harmful stimuli (coughing, sneezing, eye blinking) or train our body to perform basic functions without difficulty (glandular secretions, heart rate, breathing, dilation of blood vessels).

Another importance of the reflections is that, by an examination of them can be determined and identified various types of neurological problems.

Most of the reflections mentioned here can be viewed by performing the method described.

EXPERIMENTAL

Knee jerk: a person sits down so that your legs are dangling. Hitting the edge of a hammer or the edge of the hand below the kneecap.

This reflex could not get it after repeated attempts, I presume that was because the person was still pending and was not distracted.

ALQUILEANO REFLEX: The person should be placed on a chair kneeling, left ankle and foot without support. Proceed to hit the Achilles tendon area.

The blow to the Achilles tendon area hurts a lot, not to achieve a visible effect.

OCULAR REFLEX OF THE PUPIL: A lantern is lit repeatedly zooms eyes. It will be noted that bringing the torch the pupil shrinks and moves away as the pupil will dilate.

Cardiovascular: The simple unicellular organisms or living in a liquid medium, using it as a nutrient source and as a means of excretion of waste. By increasing the number of cells is inevitable that the cells located deeper increasingly move away from contact with the environment.

Nutrients to these cells and eliminate waste becomes an increasingly difficult task. In primitive animals such problems were solved in part through tubes that pass between cells and that communicate with the environment.

Morphophysiology OF BLOOD VESSELS

• The blood vessels act as channels through which passes the blood pumped by the heart. Blood vessels can be classified into:

ARTERIES: by definition are those blood vessels leaving the heart and blood are alos different organs of the body. All except the pulmonary arteries carry oxygenated blood susramificaciones. The small arteries are known comoarteriolas returning to branch into capillaries and these are again joining lasvenas.

Veins are major blood vessels and arteries that run superficially to the fascia (connective tissue covering the muscles) and superficial veins and arteries attached wings (two for each artery) and deep veins. Its circulation is due to PRESSURE the effluent blood from the capillaries, the contraction of muscles and valves delcierre. Are two systems of vessels, the pulmonary circulation losde general circulation. Pulmonary veins carry blood.

HAIR: The capillary wall consists of a layer of extremely flattened endothelial cells, a basal lamina and a small network of fibers

lattice. Capillary wall may be associated wing some undifferentiated mesenchymal cells. At some points, lascélulas pericapilares differ more and have a branching extensions seextienden circularly around the capillary.

TYPES OF HAIR:

HAIR TYPE OR CONTINUOUS MUSCLE: The muscle, nerve tissue and connective tissues of the body, the endothelium forms a continuous thin layer around the entire circumference of the capillary.

Fenestrated capillaries or visceral: In the pancreas, gastrointestinal tract and endocrine glands, the endothelium varies in thickness, and some regions are interrupted by very thin circular fenestrae or pores of 80-100 nm, closed by a thin diaphragm with a punctate central thickening.

PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HAIR: The main function of capillaries is the exchange of substances between the light and the gap loscapilares cellular tissues. Only 5% of the blood is in lacirculación hair and a small volume of blood as function ensures deintercambio substances.

• CELLULAR TRANSPORT SYSTEM, which generally operate at the cost of energy metabolism, select which substances are exchanged between the capillary lumen interstitial cells.

• DISSEMINATION: Based on the difference in concentration gradient ranging from half to less concentrated more concentrated. Dissemination mechanisms work extremely well with and soluble molecules that can pass through membranes such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. The need to channel more water soluble molecules located in the membranes and pass through diffusion mechanisms.

• FILTRATION: It refers mainly to water. The forces involved in the leak depends on the Starling equation.

SHOCK the word shock comes from the English language, as binding to the word shock, ^[] and also appears in the Dictionary of the Spanish language of the SAR as a shock. ^[]

Circulatory shock, also called circulatory shock (both forms are fromEnglish ) is a serious medical condition in which the infusion of tissue is insufficient to meet the demand for oxygen and nutrients .

Hypovolemic shock, often called hemorrhagic shock is a syndrome complex that occurs when low circulating blood volume to the point that the heart becomes unable to pump enough blood to the body. ^[]

Cardiogenic shock, cardiac shock or power failure syndrome is defined as circulatory shock that occurs when the heart pumps blood in a manner adequate to meet the needs of the body.

Septic shock or septic shock is a severe abnormal condition of the body which hypotension is prolonged for a certain period, usually two hours or more, caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen supply as a result of infection and sepsis resulting from it, although the causative organism is located throughout the body in a systemic manner or in a single organ or body site. ^[]

heat and thermal shock collapse refers to the breaking of a material to undergo a drastic change in temperature. It happens when a solid material breaks down when subjected to a sharp increase or decrease in temperature.

shock therapy or shock therapy is the deliberate and controlled induction of some form of state of physiological shock in an individual with the purpose of psychiatric treatment.

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS, English acronym for Toxic shock syndrome) is a rare disorder caused by a bacterial toxin. It has fatal consequences and can be fatal in up to half of cases, may return in those who survive.

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Cardio respiratory arrest (PCR) is the arrest of breathing and heartbeat in an individual. It can happen for various reasons, some of the most typical are drowning or electric shock.

Causes: Sometimes it is obvious: trauma , electrocution , drowning, suffocation , poisoning , strangulation , hypothermia serious …

Think systematically about the wrong path (passage of a food to respiratory rather than the esophagus ), in which case, the breaths are ineffective, and are the chest compressions that will expel the foreign body. It must then inspect the mouth after chest compressions to retrieve the foreign body that would have succeeded in driving.

Field Care: Trained personnel implementing protocols advanced cardiac life support when they arrive, unless you have a valid “do not resuscitate” (do not resucitate, DNR, in English) or prior similar. If so, it is ethically right to allow the occurrence of the death natural according to the wishes of the patient.

Hospital treatment: In many hospitals, Cardiac arrest leads to one of the keepers to announce a “code blue” (or local equivalent) for immediate response from a trained team of nurses and doctors. The team continues to provide advanced cardiac life support until the patient recovers or until a doctor declares the patient’s death.

“THEME III”

BLEEDING AND WOUNDS: First aid is any measure or action made by the helper, in the same place where the accident occurred and almost improvised material, until the arrival of personnel.

OBJECTIVES

Preserving Life.

• Avoid physical and psychological complications.
• To assist the recovery.
• Ensure the transfer of injured to a hospital.

PRINCIPLES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF FIRST AID

1. PROTECT, first, to himself and then to the victim. We can avoid further accidents if marked the crash site.

2. AVIS, ie to the SOS, including: the number and apparent condition of the injured, whether there are factors that aggravate the injury (fall from power lines) and the exact place where the accident occurred.

3rd. RELIEF, this is the main purpose of first aid, but to do it right before the assessment is needed of the wounded.

General Standards to give PA (First Aid)

• Act only if sure of what is going to do.
• Keep tranquildad.
• Do not retire the side of the victim.
• Conduct a review of the victim.
• Clear and precise orders.
• Inspect the site and organize PA

The three main tasks that should not be delay in giving first aid are:

• Begin artificial respiration.
• Contain heavy bleeding.
• Prevent or reduce the intensity of shock.

SUFFOCATION: they have designed many forms of ventilation such as the process of “word of mouth” which is blowing pressurized air into the victim’s lungs fill with air, tilt the head before so as not to choke on cover his tongue and the nostrils so that no air leaks. Of the “bear hug” is located behind the person around her waist with his arms and clasping hands, placing them at the navel, pressing on a strong upward and backward.

BLEEDING: everything depends on the wound and medical supplies available. The best way is to apply pressure on the wound and the elevation of the limb.

WOUND: This is the loss of continuity of the skin caused accidentally by a sharp object. Is any solution of continuity in the deck skin, which often produces a simultaneous or deferred loss of substances by the action of various causative agents that can spread to underlying tissues and organs.

TYPES OF WOUNDS

OPEN

Chafing: It is a linear continuum in general multiple-exposed skin against the body and Malpighian mucous minimal blood loss.
Example: Friction of the skin on the surface of an asphalt road in a traffic accident, also a pin abrasion can produce a linear and unique.

Abrasion: These are wounds caused by friction mechanism. Very common in road accidents. They behave as burns and as such must be treated. You will not require stitches, but to direct healing cures. Many of them contain materials that can leave residual pigmentation (eg skin tattoo on asphalt)

Incised: They are caused by sharp instruments and cutting blade, the overall length of the cut on the surface exceeds the penetration depth, the edges are clean without tortuous contours, with minimal devitalized tissue and well watered. Normally allow a direct suture. Its severity will depend on the extent and the underlying structures that affect them.

Example: wound produced by a razor blade, etc..

Sharp: sharp traumatic Produced by agents, create a minimal external continuum, sometimes punctate, with a greater depth anatomical achieved.

Avulsion or avulsion: The agent acts traumatic tissue tearing a partial or complete. There may be loss of substance that prevents us from direct closure unless the loss is very small. One of the most common in the Emergency Services would be the scalp (scalp avulsion).

Crush: Almost always correlate with major internal injuries. In members should rule out compartment syndrome.

Complex: Affecting to other tissues besides the skin.

With loss of substance: This is the destruction of all skin elements, epidermis, dermis and hypodermis.

Specials: Gunshot Wounds: usually related to accidents and suicide attempts. Usually have an inlet smaller than the output, with great destruction of tissue.

Bite: It may be human or animal. Human bite wounds are contusions sometimes partial or total avulsion (ear, lips, nose, hands) and with severe pollution, as the oral cavity is rich in human pathogens (staphylococci, hemolytic streptococci, anaerobes , etc.) as the probability of infection is very high and makes them potentially very dangerous wounds. Contaminated wounds should be considered regardless of the time animal bite wounds are more common in the Emergency Services.

Abrasions: These are wounds caused by friction mechanism. Very common in road accidents. They behave as burns and as such must be treated. They will not require stitches, but to direct healing cures. Many of them contain materials that can leave residual pigmentation (eg skin tattoo on asphalt)

Laceration: Produced by objects with jagged edges.

Sharp / Lacerations: Produced by regular edged items such as: Nails and projectiles.

Avulsion: when the lesion is accompanied by tearing of the tissues and loss of substance.
Skin wounds are exposed to this type of injury.

Impalement: When the causative agent penetrates through a natural orifice or surrounding areas, usually is the perineum, through natural body cavities. Its occurrence is rare in practice.

Poison: When the wound is accompanied by the inoculation of poison by the same causative agent (insect bite, poisonous snakes).

Transfixante: When tissues are full thickness traversed by the traumatic agent. He enters on one side and out the other.

Pervasive: When it comes to a natural body cavity.

Compound: When the discontinuity is irregular, lesando important organs: tendons, muscles, nerves and vessels.

Complicated: It is well known for appearing in local or general complications developments, such as infection, shock and acute anemia.

Infected: These are wounds that are complicated by local infection. Nature can be pyogenic, gangrenous or diftérica.

On flap: Are those that have occurred in constant contact to the skin surface and therefore have a vertex which has broken away from the area of the body.

CLOSED

Blunt: The continuum is caused by blunt trauma agents, almost always acting in a plane underlying hard, edges are bruised, devitalized, appreciate, sometimes loss of substance around the edge of the wound. Its edges may become unviable by being devitalized. Clinically presents with pain and ecchymosis or hematoma.

First step: recognition of the wound: Because the wound always bleeds, we do not know how deep is while you are bleeding. If the cut has taken place in the hands, fingers, arm or leg, it is possible that we can manage the scene.

If the wound is on the face, scalp, chest or abdomen, you will need to go to an emergency department for medical evaluation, once they applied appropriate first aid

Step what to do.

Wash the wound if blood under running water running, while colder, the better, because it relieves the pain.

Then with a clean cloth or sterile dressing, ironing, compress the wound to stop bleeding. If this continues together the edges of the wound, bringing the thumb to the index.

If after five minutes of digital compression or manual wound continues to bleed as before, carrying the injured to the ED, most likely need stitches.

Third step: to prevent infection.

Yes it is a bit extensive wound and shallow, in the extremities, povidone-iodine should be placed with a cotton swab.

Then you can seal the wound.

If it is small you can use a bandaid patch porous.

Yes you can use is more extensive non-stick gauze over tape.

You can also use transparent patches wound through watching each

Check it out instantly without

Fourth step: control of the wound

It should be noted the presence of:

More redness, swelling of the edges, restart bleeding, opaque yellow discharge or odor.

Any of these signs warrants go to an Emergency Service.

WHAT NOT TO DO

Never do tourniquet

Do not apply any home remedy or secret nature, these only help to infect the wound.

BLEEDING: It is out of blood vessels containing it, can be:

Blood: Salto flashing bright red blood.

Venous output continues, dark red blood.

Capillary blood out sparingly.

Methods to stop bleeding

1. Direct Pressure: Press firmly on the wound, placing a clean cloth to stop the bleeding, a bandage is made with bulky dressings, this dressing firmly kept.

2. Member Elevation: Place the affected limb higher than your head

3. Pressure Hint: This consists of pressure to specific points

PREVENT INFECTION

1. DISINFECTION: With an antiseptic, eliminating germs. The common use of hydrogen peroxide or wash with FISOHEX.

2. DRYING: The next step is to dry the region adjacent to Prevent Wound Infection

3. Cover with a dressing (bandage, cotton): Apply a sterile dressing, or as clean as possible, cover the wound to prevent the entry of foreign bodies, setting this dressing with a bandage, it must be careful not to irritate the tissues lacerated.

Deep wounds should be washed by medical personnel only.

Q “is an emergency?

A medical emergency is any situation that requires immediate medical intervention.

The knowledge of where to go if a home health problem should be a basic social concept. The use of health care services inappropriately produces one of the largest public health system expenditures, of course, is deducted from the general budget. By using these services are inadequately declining resources for investment in areas such as research and investment in better media attention in emergencies when really necessary. Besides congestion (traffic jam) in the emergency services this is subtracted we can all be addressed immediately by health technicians with all the means we have saved previously.

EMERGENCY AND EMERGENCY

What is an Emergency and what is an Emergency?

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging the fortuitous appearance at any place or activity causes a problem in diverse and varying severity that generates the awareness of a pressing need for attention by the subject who suffers or its family.

According to the American Medical Association (AMA) Urgency is any condition which, according to the patient, family, or whoever assumes the responsibility of demand, requiring immediate medical assistance.

The Emergency is one urgent situation that immediately endangers the patient’s life or organ function.

The Emergency is one urgent situation that immediately endangers the patient’s life or organ function.