How to carry the sick and wounded properly?

  An important part of the process of initial first aid treatment and subsequent transport to the hospital must be the handling of the sick and injured. Proper handling is crucial to the resuscitation, treatment and prognosis of the sick and injured. From the perspective of the whole first aid process, handling is an important and inseparable part of emergency medical treatment, and it is a misconception to regard handling as simple physical labor only.  1.Hand-carrying: (1) Single person carrying: one person carries. The common ones are support method, holding method and back method. (2) two-person transport method: chair support, car bar, trolley type, chair transport method, flat-bed transport method.  2.Apparatus handling method: Place the casualty on a stretcher to carry, while paying attention to warmth. In the absence of a stretcher, you can also use chairs, door panels, blankets, clothes, coats, ropes, bamboo poles, ladders, etc. to make a simple stretcher to carry.  Tool transport: If the road from the scene to the end of the transfer is far, it should be organized, mobilized, looking for suitable modern transportation to transport the sick and wounded.  3, the handling of critically injured patients (1) crestal injury: hard stretcher, 3-4 people at the same time, fixed neck can not be forward flexion, back extension, twisting.  (2) cranio-cerebral injury: semi-prone or side-lying position.  (3) chest injury: semi-recumbent or sitting position.  (4) abdominal injuries: supine position, flexion of the lower limbs, it is appropriate to use a stretcher or board.  (5) patients with inspiratory difficulties: sitting position. It is best to use a folding stretcher (or chair) to carry.  (6) Coma patients: lying down, head turned to the side or side lying position.  (7) patients in shock: flat position, without pillows, feet elevated.