Life-saving skills for the most common emergency situations

We're back coming up on 8.14 now with your health and this morning, some important life saving skills that you can use doing some of the most common emergency situation because when an emergency strikes we know every second Council senior medical correspondent doctor John Torres is here to go over the simple ways we can all step in and save a life good morning. Good morning, doctor John, let's do this first one here this is actually a nightmare from the air for a lot of us right you're at a restaurant, you have to eat maybe your home and someone starts choking at first you kind of watch to see if they can make it happen and then you realize now this is a problem exactly that's it and the first you want to do is realize that they're choking and be able to do something about it so they say the international sign for choking as people holding your hand up here in a panic situation that might not do that might be one that might be pointing might be clearing the table of things and just kind of riding around first you want to do is you want to go up to them you want to say are you choking and they should be a with it enough to go yes, yes, and then let them know you're going to do something say I know how to remove this I'm going to help you just to make sure they're OK with you helping them they don't try to assault him or something right and what you want to do is you want to stand behind him this is choking Charlie he's going to help us here talking to each other and Charlie's definitely so you want to stand behind him you want to go ahead and bend them over a little bit right where their belly button is you want to put your fist just a little above their belly button one fist yes wrap your hand around that make sure they're in tight to you and then you want to push in and up can I tell you why I said this was a scary for me a lot of people. I'm afraid we're afraid we're going to hurt someone you know what you're not going to hurt them number one year in a soft area here with their belly intestines are you can't squish hard enough and number 2 what's going to hurt them is that food not coming out what you want to do you want to keep grasping and doing that until it pops out if it doesn't pop out for some reason and they pass out then lay him on the floor and start CPR someone should be calling 911 that whole time okay all right doctor John is there a situation where you could even take your finger and stick it down their throat if you can do not want to do that because the problem is if you see food you can pull it out once they've passed out only if you see it you don't want to stick your finger in there because you could push it further and got that is bad so just again just keep pushing. All right, let's let's talk about this guy looks like he's he's he's seen better days. And unfortunately reality situation as we're having mass shootings were having a lot of gunshots you could be at a concert you could be in office you could be walking on the street, somebody get shot or they get hurt in some kind of industrial accident or car accident system and they're bleeding right you need to stop the bleeding immediately and there are a few things here you can use for makeshift tourniquet because you know the military I use tourniquets are made for this, but you don't always have those with you nobody does, but you might have a tie a t-shirt some socks, I just think about any kind of things you can use and the pen so we're going to try this on and give me a tie real quick all right, I'll show you how to make a major goal here to stop the bleeding so soon he got a gunshot wound somewhere in the leg here you want to try and stop the bleeding within a few minutes because they're going to bleed to death very very quickly and what you want to do is wrap something around people think belts belts do not work can you give me those 2 pens, they're sure sure don't work belts don't work. They're too hard to twist and the twisting mechanism is what actually stops the bleeding twisting so what you want to do one pin will work to pins work great and then you want to just twist and twist is and twist as high as you can until the bleeding stops now if I let go it's going to untwist to give me the shoestrings systems right and just give me a shoestring here what you want to do is get the shoestring tied around and secure that in place the whole time you're doing this as you're getting these instruments ready which you decide took a few minutes to get ready have somebody else supply apply direct pressure because that direct pressure is going to stop this from bleeding right pressure on the wound on the wound while the tourniquets being put in place call 911 obviously and then if it even if it doesn't stop bleeding you can go ahead and continue to apply direct pressure is going to slow it down that's the important thing until help gets and if you don't have a tie you could use a stretchy saw a stretchy sock you can use you can use a T shirt, okay, anything sleeves of your long sleeve shirt, any of those can really work to put the tourniquet on I just learned a lot to let's walk to another situation, you're in the park here with family friends loved ones, even a stranger you see they fall to the ground, they're having a seizure, what do you do so there's a misconception when people have seizures. It's an old myth that you want to put something in your mouth to stop them from swallowing their tongue. Number one those muscles that control their mouth or one of the biggest muscles in our body, you're not going to get the mouth open it's going to see shot every muscle is tightened to see shot, you're just going to break teeth and cause problems so don't put anything in your mouth. What you want to do is essentially right out the seizure, it's only a last a few minutes if there are somebody with seizure disorders or they have a seizure so does that mean stand back or can you help and some you want to help 2 things you want to do number one first most important you want to protect the head so give me that real quick sweat is a sweatshirt any kind of blanket or anything and just put it down under their head and protect their head. The other thing they're going to do is they're going to be moving around a whole lot and thrashing around so you don't want to hold their arms still you're not to be able to right we can cause injuries, but you don't want them to get hurt so just clear out anything from the area so that you don't want to hold them down like allow them to seize out but also don't let them hurt themself for exactly that's the main point just work to help them and the seizure just help them ride the seizure out of the main thing protect the head protect the arms protect the legs so and then once they're done with the seizure. Stop that one is it appropriate to It's called a post-ictal state they have about 15 minutes of grogginess not being very awake so what you want to do is you want to go ahead and then just roll them on their side and let them sit there because they might throw up and you don't want them to choke on it to roll them on their side keep assuring them that they're going to be OK call an ambulance and then go from there it's a good reminder to the other good Samaritans were walking by to get engaged well and call for help so others can help whoever is and that's what all of their help is important getting a whole community in there. You're probably never going to one place by yourself, yeah, it's even be a place for people to help like so with tourniquets direct pressure. You want to make sure that's quite appropriate somebody can help you here people tend to panic in situations like this course so if you're the one that can take a couple breaths and really said things down so that's going to help that was good advice. And we want to thank world point and Laredo medical for lending us these mannequins this important demonstrate just really quickly how can you tell if you come upon someone that they're actually having a seizure, it's not you can see a seizure is a full brain activity where their brain is just firing completely and so everything is moving around either stiff. They have what's called tonic clinic where they're just moving all their extremities okay, the jaws are clenched they're not talking to you they're not listening to you they're not doing anything that's a season for thank you so much for that doctor.