"SLC21/WK1: Empowering Life-Saving Skills: A Guide to First Response and Basic First Aid"

Assalam O Alaikum

Hello dear friends! Welcome to my post. How are you all? I hope you will be doing well by the grace of Almighty Allah. I'm also fine and enjoying my day. Today I'm here to participate in this Steemit Learning Challenge season 21 week 1. The topic of this challenge is about "Empowering Life-Saving Skills: A Guide to First Response and Basic First Aid". So let's start the task without any more delay of time.

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Share your any experience of your life, in which you faced the emergency that could be handled by your own only if you know the basic first response skills.

Friends, last year I was in my uncle's house, it was a very dark night and we were sleeping in the room. My 17 years old cousin was also sleeping on the other side of bed. In the middle of the night about 1 AM, suddenly I felt that the whole bed is shaking and I woke up with fear. I started looking around in fear, when I saw my cousin, he was jerking heavily, a foamed like substance were coming from his mouth and facing difficulty in breathing. Seeing all this, I was shocked and did not know what to do to handle that situation.

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Then, I controlled myself and try to analyze the situation and after seeing his condition and symptoms more deeply, I realized that he is having an epileptic attack. After that, I started giving him CPR to revive his breathing and called my uncle to wake up. On this, the other members of family also woke up and they were also helping us to controlled over this condition. And I was providing him CPR continuesly to revive his breath.

After sometime, his condition started coming normal as his breathing improved but he was still unconscious. So we gave him some anti epileptic drugs like Tegral (Carbamazepine) and Epival etc. Indeed, it was one of the most terrible situation of my life because I have never seen such condition and at the same moment, I was happy as I have saved a person's life.

Imagine you are walking back home, when you witness a road traffic accident between a car and a motorcycle, and the motorcyclist is lying on the road, not moving. There’s some bleeding from his leg, and he appears to be unconscious. You being the first responder, how will you manage this scenario?

Well, the road accidents happen all over the world, sometimes due to the negligence of people like, over speeding, violating the traffic rules and due to other misshapes. But if I witness a road accident, then the following things I will do to save the lives of people because saving lives is a virtue;

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• First of all, I will access the whole scene, ensure my own safety and then went towards the injured motorcyclist lying on the road.

• Then, I will immediately call to the emergency number like 1122, the number of Pakistan's rescue service. I will provide them the information about the person's condition and about the exact location.

• After that, I will check whether the person breathing or not, by checking his listing the breathing sings.

• I will check the circulation of blood through his pulse and his heart beat through my palm.

• If he is facing difficulty in breathing the CPR is required, then I will try to give him CPR until the rescue team not arrived.

• I will check his injured leg's condition and will assume that it is broken or not, Then I will try to prevent the blood loss from his wounds by tying or covering them with clean clothes.

• I will try to speaking calmly to the injured person to bring him out from unconsciousness.

Draw or Create an engaging illustration/flowchart of DRABC protocol (Try to be creative and don't forget to add your username on the illustration

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Write down the numbers of emergency services of your country/area on a paper

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So friends, that was my entry about that challenge and I hope you will enjoy reading it. Now it is a time to say goodbye to everyone and I want to invite my friends @neelofar, @arinaz08, @simonnwige and @josepha to take a part in this amazing challenge.

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Written by @abdullahw2

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