What are the requirements for first aid and emergency health training content

All content must be designed to be "practical, implementable, and can be used directly when encountering a problem", and must not be used as a showpiece.

I did public welfare training in the old city community for the past two years. At first, I copied the courseware for corporate white-collar workers. I first talked about the pathological mechanism of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the working principle of AED (automated external defibrillator). After half an hour of lecture, the adults and aunts sitting in the audience were either dozing off or playing with their hands. In the second half, we directly changed the content, cut off all the principles, and just practiced three actions: how to pat the shoulder to call someone when they find someone fainted, how to dial 120 to clarify the address, and how to turn on the AED and follow the prompts to apply electrode pads. Just practice these three actions, and 80% of the elderly can complete it independently in half a day. To put it bluntly, this is the first hidden requirement of the content: it must follow the audience. Training for the general public should not be filled with professional jargon. Training for high-risk industries must include handling content corresponding to the scene. If the Heimlich maneuver is taught to mining practitioners for a long time without mentioning the hemostasis and fixation of landslide injuries, then the training is basically in vain.

It’s not enough to just adapt to the audience, the content must also be in line with the local “qi”. I had previously contacted a safety officer from an electronics factory in the Pearl River Delta. He said that the third-party training institution he hired copied the courseware from a company in Northeast China. He started by talking about how to deal with frostbite for 40 minutes. The workers in the audience were confused. The coldest winter in the Pearl River Delta is only a few degrees above zero. Where does frostbite come from? Later, they adjusted the content and put emergency hemostasis for assembly line strangles, treatment of heatstroke in high-temperature positions, and treatment of gas leaks in dormitories at the top. The active participation rate of the second training increased by 40%. To put it bluntly, the high-risk risks are different in different regions. Coastal cities must put the treatment of drowning and typhoon trauma at the front, while northern heating areas must first teach first aid for carbon monoxide poisoning, and the content should follow the local high-frequency risks, so as not to become a castle in the air.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of debates about the boundaries of training content in the industry. Some people think that training should be purely technical and not frivolous. Another group of people think that psychological construction and relevant legal knowledge must be added. Otherwise, even if they have learned the technology, ordinary people will not dare to step forward when encountering problems. After conducting so many trainings, we feel that the latter suggestion is really necessary to consider. Last year, a delivery boy who participated in our training encountered an old man who had a sudden heart attack and fainted on the road. He dared to go up and perform CPR immediately. Afterwards, he said that if he hadn’t heard the training mention a clause in the Civil Code that exempts people who rescue people in good faith, he would not dare to step forward even if he knew how to do it, for fear of being blackmailed if something went wrong. Of course, there is no need to take up too much space. It is enough to clearly mention the exemption rules and explain how to protect yourself while rescuing.

Another requirement that is easily overlooked is that the content must be updated with the latest clinical guidelines. Don’t stick to the courseware from ten years ago. For example, the compression depth and frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation will be adjusted after 2020. Nowadays, in addition to AEDs, many public places also have portable hemostatic packs and automatic oxygen supply devices. The use of these new things must be added to the content in a timely manner. If the instructions are all outdated operations, it will easily be a hindrance if something goes wrong.

In fact, all the requirements boil down to one sentence: These contents are meant to save lives and should not be dealt with half-heartedly. Don’t add useless content just to make up for the time, and don’t pile up terminology that ordinary people don’t understand in order to appear professional. Qualified training content can be truly remembered by participants and used in practice.