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If an emergency occurs, how would you react? Do you know the first steps of first aid?



http://www.m.webmd.com/heart-disease/features/5-emergencies-do-you-know-what-to-do

According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, the following are warning signs of a medical emergency:

•Bleeding that will not stop

•Breathing problems (difficulty breathing, shortness of breath)

•Change in mental status (such as unusual behavior, confusion, difficulty arousing)

•Chest pain

•Choking

•Coughing up or vomiting blood

•Fainting or loss of consciousness

•Feeling of committing suicide or murder

•Head or spine injury

•Severe or persistent vomiting

•Sudden injury due to a motor vehicle accident, burns or smoke inhalation, near drowning, deep or large wound, etc.

•Sudden, severe pain anywhere in the body

•Sudden dizziness, weakness, or change in vision

•Swallowing a poisonous substance

•Upper abdominal pain or pressure

UNUSUAL SYMPTOMS OF SIGNS OR BEHAVIOR

It may be difficult to tell if someone's appearance or behavior is unusual, particularly when the person is a stranger. However, certain symptoms and signs or behaviors could indicate an emergency. For example, if you see someone collapse to the floor, that person obviously requires your immediate attention. However, you will not know if first aid is needed until you approach the individual, who may have merely slipped and not be in need of any help. On the other hand, the person may be unconscious and need immediate medical assistance.

UNUSUAL SMELL

Many smells are part of our everyday lives, for example, petrol fumes at petrol stations, the smell of chlorine at swimming pools or smoke from a fire.

However, when a smell is stronger than usual, is not easily identifiable or otherwise seems odd, it may indicate an emergency.

You should always put your own safety first if you are in a situation in which there is unusual or very strong smell as many fumes are poisonous.

UNUSUAL SIGHTS

Unusual sights that indicate a possible emergency can go unnoticed by the unaware observer. Some examples of sights that may signal emergencies are:

1. A stalled vehicle.
2. An overturned saucepan on the kitchen floor.
3. A spilled medicine container.
4. A fallen chair.

UNUSUAL NOISES

Noises are often the first thing you may call your attention to an emergency. Some noises that may indicate emergency are:

1. Noises that indicate someone is in distress, such as screaming, yelling, moaning, crying, and calling for help.
2. Alarming identifiable noises, such as breaking glass, crashing metal or screeching tires.
3. Abrupt or loud noises that aren't identifiable such as collapsing structures or falling ladders.

The victim of an emergency can be anyone- a friend, family member, a stranger, or you. An emergency can happen anywhere- on the road, at home, work, or play. Recognizing an emergency may be difficult at times. You may become aware of an emergency because of certain things you observe such as unusual noises, sights, smells, symptoms and signs, or behavior.

Recognizing an emergency is the first step in responding. An emergency is a situation requiring immediate action. A medical emergency is a sudden illness such as heart attack, which requires immediate medical attention. An injury is a damage to the body, such as broken arm, which results from a violent force. Some injuries can be serious enough to be considered emergencies.

All hail Saint Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the angel of our time.

but i have failed to tell the doctors about it thus might be the reason they were unable to identify the cause of my problem

The only thing you were supposed to do, you failed to do it.

This thread is beyond stupidity. Why do people hide under the micro-shelves of opinion to showcase their mentally undeveloped mind?

It beats me that folks who don't know how to sort out their boring life should be allowed access to the internet to spit half-baked unsolicited opinion on issues they know nothing of.

Too much hurt flowing on the forum. I hope we don't get drowned.

Forgiveness is for weak people who ain't got the stomach to take revenge while it eats them up inside.

P.s Bashing is NOT allowed. This is my opinion and I do not mandate anyone to abide by it. Everyone is responsible for their choices. However, I'm making a friendly suggestion/opinion for those who care.
Thank you.

This organism should be quarantined before she infects this Nairaland community with mental rabies.

okuneddie:
I know cases of of many people that hospitals will say that they will amputate their leg or hand and once they take it to traditional bone setters the bone will be OK.... a family friend of mine broke his leg thru okada accident and if u should see him today, u won't know that such thing happened to him.....I guess the one the father took his son to is a fake one....lots of people patronize them cos they do what most Nigerian doctors can't do

Absolute bullshit. A million traditional bone setters cannot do what a properly trained Nigerian Doctor can do.

I cannot count the number of referrals that come to the Orthopedic clinic from a failed TBS.
A four year old boy fell from an okada and had a total fracture of his ulna and radius (the bones of the forearm). On presentation to our unit, the orthopedic surgeon calmed the father down, told him the bone will heal fully and well in less than 6 months, and started the management.

All he had to do was do the ABC of fracture management and immobilize the limb. He explained that because the boy is young and still growing his bone will heal faster and well. A dime was not charged beyond that which was required.


Now you go to your nonsense TBS, who practically does the same thing but will charge you 150,000 for your ignorance. The bone healing of a child doesn't depend on the doctor - it is a property of the bone itself.

The story changes when there's a nidus of infection in the bone. Bone fractures are wounds and must follow the principles of wound management including proper aseptic protocol. I know of a child that's struggling with chronic osteomyelitis because the parents ignorantly went to TBS who didn't attend a medical school to understand the principles of wound care and management.

In adults the story is a lot worse. Research has shown repetitively that Nigerian adults do not seek hospital care until the prognosis is extremely poor. A woman with a small breast lump will not come to hospital till she's in stage iv metastatic breast cancer. A man with bladder obstructive symptoms will not come to hospital till he's in urinary retention. Even pregnant women do not come for antenatal care and rather go to churches for "antenatal care" and labour and when the labour is prolonged come to hospital for emergency Caesarean section.

The story is the same for bone fractures. What Nigerian adults do not understand is that when we adults have fractures, it needs specialised care and any care other than that by anyone which resulted in healing is a pure case of luck.

TBS will set your bone to heal but why do you limp? Can the TBS manage complications of fracture healing, like non-union? Can the TBS manage hip fractures, esp those with attendant faecal and urinary incontinence? Does the TBS have trained physiotherapists to manage the client when the need arises? Does the TBS know the proper aseptic protocol should in case he's dealing with an open fracture? Can the TBS perform open reduction and internal fixation when the need arises? Can the TBS manage intraarticular fractures? Can theTBS manage unstable fractures? Does the TBS know what to do in an avulsed fracture involving rupture of close muscles and ligaments?


I can go on and on and on. But I'll rest my case today.

staymore:
I wouldn't know if the hospital has preterm neonates. He may have a good reason to refer but he must have communicated unprofessionally. Belief me, I know what I saw. Just a minutes explanation or advice would have been ok, than you didn't register here, go back to where you registered and walk out of you.

Sorry man.

staymore:
I never said doctors are wicked. Let me just respond to your last paragraph. Where we were was about 30minutes drive to where she registered without hold up, with hold can be hours. It was already an emergency, on sighting the nearest clinic where the doctor behaved that way, she was already bleeding seriously.

If you are a doctor you should know about placenta abruption or perhaps you google it.

I know abruptio.

I'm sure that doctor had a good reason to refer.

8months pregnancy is not term. It's still preterm. Did this hospital have adequate facilities to take care of preterm neonates? If they didn't, do you think he had a good reason to refer?


What if he delivered the baby, resuscitated and then cannot manage the premmie?

Every pregnancy is a risk and anything can happen. It is advised that if you can register your pregnancy in two facilities - the one you want to, and the one closer to you. If the facility you have is closer to you, then no problem.


I'm. sorry for your loss. Doctors are different everywhere. There are some that choose the safe road. There are others that undertake risks in a 50-50 situation. The case with Nigeria is if you take a risk and it doesn't work well, the patient will nail you for it. Sometimes, legally. And when it happens, the question that would be asked would be:

"Dr XYZ, when you realised from your assessment that this was beyond you, did you refer? "

EreluY:
[size=18pt]What happened to the Hippocratic oath taken when you were enrolled by the medical council? Or, this doesn't happen in Nigeria anymore?[/size]

Can you state the Hippocratic oath?

julybaba:
If I own a private clinic, these are what I will do to ensure efficiency and prevent unnecessary loss of lives. .1) I will specialize (I wont be treating every sickness or attending to every issues. 2.)I will make it mandatory for every one that registered with my clinic to contribute every month towards emergency.

Exactly what I want to do. Specialty practice.

Well, emergency is emergency. No one expects it. If an emergency is beyond you, you stabilize and refer.

nefertitiram:
Dr sofadj please, I use God to beg you, please reconsider your stance. If you go through my profile, you will understand y I am begging u.

I was rushed to R-Jolad in Lagos at 4am on a Sunday morning, with the exact case the woman that died had. Placenta abruption, I nearly bled to death. I had 4 pints transfused.

I was leaving for US to deliver my baby, I had bought ticket, made some expenses such that hubby and I had no more cash at that instance. We didn't have N20k with us at dat time of the morning

They decided to operate immediately, hubby asked how much, d doc told us my life was most important, dey couldn't even wait to screen all d 4 pints of blood. He should sign, save my life before we discuss money.

That was how I survived the ordeal. The babies died but I survived. I was admitted for 10 days b4 they brought any bill. We sold off our dollars to foot d bill of almost 300k.

If RJOLAD did not admit me that day, without a dime, where would I have been? There's no day I don't pray for RJOLAD.

My point is don't cut off the nose to spite the face. God will reward you and replenish your pockets.

You're very understanding. I wish you were like a lot of other people.


Forget Nigerians are. pathetic lots.

A doctor was complaining that he is gonna fold up his hospital because he can't pay staff and stock supplies.

What he is saying is, if the patient cannot afford treatment in his hospital, he will refer the patient to where they could possibly afford care.

We don't swear oaths to touch every patient we see. There's room for referral.

staymore:
Ur story reminds me how wicked some of you doctors are, that was how my wife lost her eight months pregnancy in 2014 and if not God's intervention I would have lost my wife too, stop judging everyone with another persons mistake. Money wasn't a problem at all in my case, When the emergency occurred we rushed into the private clinic but the doc asked us to go back to where she registered, we begged and I was ready to deposit any amount but he refused.

I lost my baby because it took us about 30minutes to get to another one.

I hate to remember it, but God will not forgithat doctor.

You think doctors are wicked because you are ignorant and emotionally clouded. Doctors have reasons for their actions and you cannot stupefy their decisions because it ended badly. I deeply sympathise with you but you and a lot of Nigerians must desist from this mentality.

Every pregnancy is a risk. Research has shown that there's necessarily no high risk pregnancy per se because pregnancies that have been termed high risk have gone to term without complications and vice versa. So understand that every pregnancy is a risk to the mother and the child.

Secondly, when you confirm a pregnancy you register for antenatal care at a health facility. Antenatal care is a very important continuous process. The woman is assigned a Doctor who has a documentation of every event in a folder.

During labour, before the physician or midwives touches the woman, he or she reviews the antenatal care folder of the patient if indeed she had one. This is important. If during the course of pregnancy an important finding was discovered, instructions are made depending on what the issue is.

So a doctor asked you to take your wife to where she registered for antenatal care.

Another problem is you people don't listen to instructions. You just do what you like and wait to blame someone.

During an antenatal care consultation, the doctor always tells the woman about the danger signs of pregnancy. There is also the identification of someone in the family who will take decisions in case such a need arises. And finally the patient is told to rush to that facility in case. of emergency - not another facility.


Think of this. If you carried your wife to where she registered for antenatal care as was instructed initial, would your baby be alive today?

claremont:
If I were you, I would rather quit being a Doctor than do the bolded. If you choose to place money before a life, you are in violation of the oath you swore to protect life. What I particularly find disgusting is that you try to justify your actions on the premise that a few patients in the past refused to pay you, you are now making your future patients vicariously liable for the handiwork of your previous patients. It makes no sense mate, just choose a different career path.

So when he quits being a doctor, that solves the problem?

abeg shift.

Please how much is GTB charging for dollar transactions today?

The summary of the whole matter.





“The EFCC is a creation of the law. The court will not allow it to act as if it is above the law. It is remarkable to note that the motto of the EFCC is that nobody is above the law, yet they are acting as if they are above the law. The EFCC Act is not superior to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The respondents in this matter have not behaved as if we are in a civilised society."

Major key.

Lol. when woman get new phone, you have to expect the unexpected.

All we had to do was win.

AbuMaryam1:
Substituting Campbell, confirmed Arsen Wenger is old enough to go.

Wenger is a piece of sh*t. Substituting the only player with an actual ability to shoot the ball. WTF is Giroud doing on that pitch!??

Giroud, Flamini and Arsecott for sale in the summer

This match is becoming too familiar. Early pressure with lots missed chances. Then slack later to be conceding goals

How did the ref miss that foul?

Timely Ozil intervention.

Good Bellerin strike.
What were these boys smoking on Sunday?

Sanchez, better luck next time