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Instructions to avoid drowning

Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide, accounting for 7% of all deaths.

It is estimated that there are at least 388,000 drowning deaths each year around the world. Children, males and individuals who have more access to water are considered to be the most vulnerable to drowning.

And all over the world, drowning accidents are the first cause of death for children under the age of five, and despite the instructions and warnings not to swim at certain times due to the waves and other factors, some people neglect these instructions and swim against the current, which leads to severe results that do not benefit regret,

Children often pay the tax because of swimming in places not designated for them, and the absence of the parents' conscious and healthy eyes all the time, ignoring the saying, "The child may drown in an inch of water."

In addition to the foregoing, some may pay the tax due to the competition, flaunting and long-distance swimming in the depth of the sea, which may lead to a muscle effort that cannot return to the beach.

Regardless of the causes of drowning, the most important element is in prevention and in making swimming for fun and sport and not for painful memories.

Basic advice

Here are some tips that you should adhere to while swimming:

• Follow safety instructions while swimming when visiting beaches or swimming pools.

Swimming in safe places where the savior is available.

Not to swim right after eating.

Do not smoke before swimming.

Not to let the child rest or play with water alone.

• Wear a swimming jacket or other safe and auxiliary means.

Not swimming alone.

• Wearing a swimming dress and not swimming in full dress.

Emergency advice

The first minutes play an important and vital role in saving any injured person. Therefore, we should act wisely, without emotion, and contact the emergency department directly on the number "999" in order to gain time. Here are the steps that can be taken to save a drowned person:

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  If the victim is in a conscious position and asks for help, and if you are not good at swimming, do not try to jump in the water, but rather seek help directly and try to help the drowner by the available methods. "Throw him a ball, wheel, rope, or stick in order to pull it out.

  
  


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  If you are good at swimming and the drowner is conscious, do not delay and do not hesitate to jump in the water to reach the drowner, then raise it to the surface of the water, and hold it from the back so that it does not catch you and hinder the process of saving it, and may lead to drowning with you, and withdraw the drowning quietly Out of the water or near the beach, and don't try to bend his neck or body, as he may have a fracture of his vertebrae

  
  

Cover the drowner with a blanket to warm it and protect it from the cold, and make sure that the drowner is fully aware that the airway is open and his heart is beating.

• If the drowned person is unconscious, and you are good at swimming, do not hesitate to save him by swimming directly towards him, and put him in a horizontal position on the water by placing one of your arms behind the drowner's back and placing your other hand behind his neck to open the airway, and then take him out to the beach.

Determining the victim's awareness

Test the victim's awareness to determine whether drowning is conscious or unconscious. Does he respond to your question, does he speak, does he hurt, does he breathe? Ask him what loud about you several times. If your question is not answered, click on the sternum to see if he is in pain or not.

Then don't hesitate to ask for help and call the emergency department directly, and start the ventilator and CPR.

kiss of life

A kiss of life or a ventilator is the only way to breathe again, otherwise the person will die if breathing stops for up to four minutes, so you must act very quickly in such a situation.

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  The victim is placed on his back, with the head folded backward, with the nostrils facing upward.

  
  


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  We push the lower jaw upward so that the chin protrudes because this prevents the tongue from closing the posterior part of the throat.

  
  

The mouth is discharged from everything in it to the false teeth.

With the left hand, we join the nostrils and pull the head back, and with the right hand we keep the chin facing up.

Take a deep breath and tightly apply your lips around the victim's mouth.

• Blow gently and firmly into the mouth and lungs, then turn your head to breathe new air and check that the injured chest rises and then decreases as the air leaves the lungs. If not, check the airways again.

We continue to blow 4 times until it is supplied with oxygen as quickly as possible. Continue blowing once every 5 seconds.

As soon as the victim regains his breathing, turn the injured person toward you to place the victim in the recovery position. We do not leave him alone in any way, as breathing may stop again.

Be sure to call the doctor or ambulance.

Recovery mode

• If the victim is lying on his back, put his arm close to you adjacent to his body. The other arm should be bent over the chest.

Bend the distal leg away from the body and make it cross with the other leg. Hold the victim at the center firmly, then pull the victim toward you so that he is lying on his side and try to support his head while you are turning his body.

Whenever the injured is turned on the recovery position, gently pull the lever underneath until it is extended along the back and make sure that the head is turned to one side and slightly upward.

• All this, assuming that the pulse is continuous and as usual, but breathing is only stopped, but if it turns out that the pulse is imperceptible, the matter requires artificial respiration with a heart massage at the same time at a rate of 15 times massage then breathing for an adult and an average of 5 times a massage with breathing for the child.

Heart massage

The left hand is placed slightly to the left from the center of the chest and then the right hand rest on the left and the arms are tightened to become perpendicular to the patient's chest and firm pressure on the chest.