Any person can get hurt in the neck or waist while playing, jumping, and walking on the road, fighting, etc.
Precautions:-
- If a person got hurt in his waist or neck, first of all, make the patient as lying position and cover them with any blanket and should not allow to move.
- After that, patient should sit on the safe place after bandage.
- If a person gets hurt on his neck or back, do not allow him to lie down with pillow under the head, because it can be the cause of suffocation.
- Anything should not be given to the patient before the treatment.
- If the patient feels as if his breath is stopping or vomiting, help him to change his side by giving support to his head, neck and back, etc.
- We (the patient) should make arrangement the way to stop bleeding from injured part.
- The patient should press wounds with his hands or a piece of clean clothes. If this type of activity fails then do not remove that clothes but put another pieces of clothes.
- If the patient feels difficulty in breathing due to hurt, oxygen can be given to him by the following ways-
- First of all, close his nose then take a deep breath (oxygen) and now give this oxygen to the patient through mouth to mouth.
- Check the heart beat of the patient while giving oxygen to him.
- If his heart beat does not start (felt), try to give oxygen again.
- After that, check pulse rate of the patient.
- If heart beat and pulse rate of the patient are stopped, hit the chest with a heavy punch.
- Start massaging the heart.
- Arrange the middle bone of the chest properly.
- Make such posture in which shoulder comes above the hands, arms become straight and elbow is bended.
- In the condition of injury, oxygen should be given continuously until doctor came.
- Oxygen should be given to the child above 7 years old after every 5 seconds and check his pulse rate at an interval of every 12 times.
