First-aid Topic of this week: when do we need to dial 120 Emergency Call?
From:Beijing Emergency Medical Center
Date:10/14/2014
 National Day holiday is about to come, people will pay a visit to relatives and friends and carry out more outdoor activities including traveling, besides, the long holiday will disturb people’s normal time schedule. In addition, over fatigue, eating and drinking too much, smoking and excessive drinking as well as a lack of exercise will also cause trauma, cerebrovascular disease and cardiovascular disease.

 

So after the accident happens, when do we need to dial 120 Emergency Call? Give you a tip: if you find anyone have emergency suddenly or suffer from trauma, and need emergency physicians to come to the site to save or carry the wounded, you should dial 120 Emergency Call for help. After preliminary examination, if the patients are found to have no awareness or heartbeat, you must dial 120 Call timely, as at this moment, the wounded have already stayed at critical dangerous state.

 

Methods of dialing the emergency call: firstly, describe general conditions of the wounded, including correct location, name, age and gender; secondly, describe features of the main symptoms of the patients or the wounded; thirdly, describe the type of emergencies, when there are more than one person wounded, please speak out clearly details related to the number of the wounded, condition of an injury and features of the population; fourthly, describe special conditions of the wounded and dead, such as, gas leakage, fire, high-altitude falling and a multiple pile-up; fifthly, describe clearly the contact number of the person receiving salvation; sixthly, let the doctor responsible for 120 dispatch hang the telephone up firstly.