Tuesday, October 19, 2020
CCM Group joined the "First Aid 2020" conference in online format
The annual Russian conference "First Aid 2020" was held in online format, lasted two days and consisted of six sections.
The first part of the conference was devoted to legislative regulation of the industry.
"This is a long-standing problem. As a basic life support and first aid instructor, I often had to answer questions about how legitimate it is to provide assistance and how protected the person providing it is. There were no answers to these questions before. Such theses were heard in the government institutions - provide assistance is safe if it's provided only to your friends and family. Now we have discussion of the law on the decriminalization of negligent harm. We hope that by the next conference we will have adopted such a law, because now it is a factor that stops people before helping people" - shares Yuri Kardakov, Head of air ambulance service of CCM Group.
An interesting issue was the comments of international experts that we all know about the "golden hour" rule, but few people know about the so-called "platinum 5 minutes" rule. This rule states: if there was an incident, and there was a person who knows how to perform CPR, stop the bleeding, and carry the victims correctly, and help will be provided in the first 5 minutes, the chances of survival increase radically.
At the same time experts declared that education of the first aid should be global, as much as possible accessible and clear, and begin at school. Thus, the line between rescuers and ordinary people should be erased. The witness of the incident should understand that he is doing everything that the rescuer would do in his place. He should have no doubts about the correctness of his actions so that he would not get lost in a difficult situation.
"The experts emphasize that education and training should be realistic and visible, and more emphasis should be placed on practice. This is what we focus on in our training center - most of education process is practice, work as close to reality as possible, which is taught by instructors-practitioners, with real clinical practice" - said Tatiana Khrapovitskaya, head of the «Arctic Medical Training".
The second part of the conference was dedicated to technologies and equipment in first aid. In this section was raised the urgent question about the extremely long and expensive process of obtaining certificates, licenses for devices and first aid materials. In particular, it was noted that Russia does not have its own qualitative bandage material, and companies must spend a lot of time and money to register and introduce foreign-made material to the market.
Experts believe that in the near future the government will weaken the regulating frames, and this will allow Russian companies to significantly improve the equipment of first aid kits.
The first part of the conference was devoted to legislative regulation of the industry.
"This is a long-standing problem. As a basic life support and first aid instructor, I often had to answer questions about how legitimate it is to provide assistance and how protected the person providing it is. There were no answers to these questions before. Such theses were heard in the government institutions - provide assistance is safe if it's provided only to your friends and family. Now we have discussion of the law on the decriminalization of negligent harm. We hope that by the next conference we will have adopted such a law, because now it is a factor that stops people before helping people" - shares Yuri Kardakov, Head of air ambulance service of CCM Group.
An interesting issue was the comments of international experts that we all know about the "golden hour" rule, but few people know about the so-called "platinum 5 minutes" rule. This rule states: if there was an incident, and there was a person who knows how to perform CPR, stop the bleeding, and carry the victims correctly, and help will be provided in the first 5 minutes, the chances of survival increase radically.
At the same time experts declared that education of the first aid should be global, as much as possible accessible and clear, and begin at school. Thus, the line between rescuers and ordinary people should be erased. The witness of the incident should understand that he is doing everything that the rescuer would do in his place. He should have no doubts about the correctness of his actions so that he would not get lost in a difficult situation.
"The experts emphasize that education and training should be realistic and visible, and more emphasis should be placed on practice. This is what we focus on in our training center - most of education process is practice, work as close to reality as possible, which is taught by instructors-practitioners, with real clinical practice" - said Tatiana Khrapovitskaya, head of the «Arctic Medical Training".
The second part of the conference was dedicated to technologies and equipment in first aid. In this section was raised the urgent question about the extremely long and expensive process of obtaining certificates, licenses for devices and first aid materials. In particular, it was noted that Russia does not have its own qualitative bandage material, and companies must spend a lot of time and money to register and introduce foreign-made material to the market.
Experts believe that in the near future the government will weaken the regulating frames, and this will allow Russian companies to significantly improve the equipment of first aid kits.