Drowning prevention in spring
As the weather warms up and the temperature gradually rises, drowning accidents can occur not only in the hot summer, but also in spring, so spring drowning prevention safety education should not be ignored. Due to the weak awareness of children's prevention, it is very easy to cause drowning accidents. Parents are requested to enhance their safety awareness, strengthen the guardianship of their children, always pay attention to the whereabouts of their children, and often carry out safety education such as drowning prevention for their children, so as to prevent accidents. Next, please review the drowning prevention safety knowledge with the editor!
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Keep in mind the six prohibitions
Keep in mind the "six prohibitions" of drowning prevention measures: 1. Do not swim in the water without permission. 2. It is forbidden to swim with others without permission. 3. It is not allowed to swim without a parent or teacher. 4. Do not swim in unfamiliar waters. 5. It is not allowed to swim in waters without safety facilities and rescue personnel. 6. Students who do not know how to swim are not allowed to go into the water to rescue without authorization.
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What should I do if my companion falls overboard?
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Identify the 7 phenomena of drowning
The prime time to rescue a drowning person is 30 seconds after the incident. If signs of drowning are detected in time, lives may be salvageable. To identify drowning, keep these 7 signs in mind. 1. The mouth of the drowning person will be submerged in the water and then resurface; 2. The drowning person's arm may be stretched forward; 3. The drowning person is upright in the water, struggling for 20-60 seconds and then sinking; 4. The drowning person has dull eyes or closes his eyes; 5. The head of a drowning child may be tilted forward, with the head in the water and the mouth on the surface of the water; 6. It doesn't look like it's drowning, it's just in a daze; 7. Playing in the water will make a lot of sounds, once it is quiet, pay attention.
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How to save yourself in case of drowning
1. Don't panic and call for help immediately when you find someone around; 2. Relax your whole body, let your body float on the water, float your head out of the water, kick the water with your feet to prevent loss of physical strength, and wait for rescue; 3. When your body sinks, you can press down with your palms; 4. If you suddenly cramp in the water and can't get to the shore, call for help immediately. If there is no one around, take a deep breath and dive into the water, straighten the leg of the hamstring, and pull the toes up with your hand to relieve the cramp.
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First aid for drowning
1. If you find someone drowning, first shout for help and call more people to help. 2. After finding the drowning person, you can make full use of on-site equipment, such as ropes, rods, wooden boards, lifebuoys, etc. to save people. You can also use clothes together as ropes.
3. When you need to drown in the water, be sure to tell him out loud, don't panic, someone is saving you. 4. When going into the water to rescue people, do not approach from the front to prevent being scratched and hugged by the drowning person. If you are caught, you should let go and sink yourself, and the drowning person will let go. The rescuer should go around the back of the drowning person or dive underwater, go around the chest from under his left armpit, and then hold his right hand and drag him to the shore in a supine position, or he can pull his armpit behind his back and drag him ashore. 5. If the rescuer is not familiar with the water or does not understand the water conditions at the scene, he should not go into the water easily, and should call for help or call the police. Minors should not go into the water to save people.
While strengthening prevention, parents and guardians should also master relevant first-aid knowledge and skills. After an accident, it is urgent to save people, and the following 8 points should be known.
1. Call the 120 emergency number as soon as possible and accurately inform the location;
2. When rescuing, it is best to hold up the head of the person who has fallen into the water from the back, or pull up his chest from above, so that his face is exposed to the water, and then drag him to the shore;
3. Have the drowning person head down, pry open their teeth, and remove the blockage from the mouth and nose;
4. The rescuer kneels, pushes against the abdomen of the drowning person, makes the drowning person head down, pats the back, and pours out the accumulated water in the respiratory tract;
5. For drowning patients whose breathing and heartbeat are weak or whose heartbeat has just stopped, quickly carry out artificial respiration, and at the same time do chest compressions;
6. There are medical conditions on site, and cardiac drugs and oxygen can be injected into the drowning victim. If the conditions are insufficient, the person who has been drowning with his hand or needle is punctured at the medium acupuncture point;
7. If the drowning person is wearing a coat, take it off as soon as possible, the wet coat will take away the heat energy of the body and produce low temperature injury;
8. Drowning patients who are still out of danger should be sent to a medical unit as soon as possible for further resuscitation and preventive treatment.
06How to prevent drowning Parents or caregivers should never leave children alone in bathtubs, tubs, or open water sources. Parents should be within reach of their children, attentive and not negligent. Here are 8 key points for parents to keep in mind. 8 points of drowning prevention for children: 1. Do not swim in the water without permission, and parents should always take care of them. 2. Insist that your child wear high-quality floats. 3. Ask your child to move his body before entering the water to avoid cramps and other phenomena. 4. Do not feed your child in the water, as you may choke. 5. Teach children not to play with each other in the water to prevent choking and suffocation. 6. Teach your child to learn to swim and learn skills such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 7. Do not swim in unfamiliar waters, without safety facilities, and without rescue personnel. 8. When you are not familiar with the nature of the water and the underwater situation is unclear, do not go into the water to rescue without authorization. 07 Where drowning is likely to occur Generally, the places where drowning occurs are usually in: swimming pools, reservoirs, puddles, ponds, rivers, streams, seashores and other places. Every summer, there are drowning accidents in swimming. Among the drowning people, there are some people who can't swim, and some people who can swim and have good water skills. Don't think you know how to swim, it's safe in the water.
08Why are wild waters dangerous?
09 Blindly rescuing a drowning person with bare hands is very dangerous Rescuing a drowning person is a very dangerous action, the theory is very simple but the actual operation is very complicated, it is necessary to consider factors such as water flow, physical strength, rescue distance, undercurrent, etc., every year there are accidents that lead to drowning and lifeguards dying at the same time due to unarmed rescue. The instinct of the drowning person is to grasp everything that can be grasped, and the experienced lifeguard will not approach the drowning person very quickly, and it is easy to be held by the drowning person and unable to break away if he is too anxious to approach, and the tragedy will repeat itself.
Dear parents and friends,
Let's work together to educate children to firmly establish the awareness of "cherishing life and preventing drowning".
Continue to carry out drowning prevention safety education and safety monitoring for children to escort their safe and healthy growth
Source: Popularization of safety education in primary and secondary schools