Let suppose an accident took place on road and some one is badly injured and crying badly , My question is that after 1st aid can we use inthezia injuction(or same medicine) so that patient go to sleep ( to stop his crying and pain).
2006-08-28 23:03:07 · 14 answers · asked by mainhoon_na74 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
NO you need to keep the patient awake and alert to find and treat his/her symptoms. While it sounds nice to put a patient asleep to alleviate the pain it is actually worse since then you have no idea what is wrong or causing the pain in the first place.
2006-08-29 13:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by natmys333 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Untrained people should not give medications to victims. In the Red Cross, the policy is that we cannot diagnose the need for a medicine, and we cannot administer the medicine. (We can help a person take their meds- get it out, put it in the hand, etc., but not the 1st or last steps.)
In a bad accident, rescue is usually there within minutes. Giving the victims meds that would disguise symptoms, or that they might be allergic to, or that might be unsafe for them for whatever reason would only make things worse.
I also do not know of any anaesthsia that would be available to a lay person that would work AND be safe in those conditions. Even in controlled areas and administered by experts, anaesthesia is dangerous.
I also sure would not want a person without enough training AND experience injecting me with anything. If the med is designed to go a certain place, such as a vein, and the person misses and injuects it in something else, like a muscle, it can cause more problems again.
Better to get 911 called ASAP and do what you can for cares and let the paramedics do tehir job.
2006-08-30 08:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not unless your are professionally licensed to do so (paramedics only)
the only thing you can do are the abc's of life saving
A-maintain airway..make sure the trachea is not blocked in anyway so air can get through
B-breathing. if you are trained to do so (are certified in cpr or have a 911 operator on a phone instructing you how to do so)-give person rescue breaths
C-circulation. ties in with breathing (requires cpr training or 911 operator assistance). involves giving person chest compressions to manually pump blood through the heart and body to maintain circulation....
as a general rule-if the person is crying out in pain-his ABC's are being maintained and you should not attempt to treat the victim until qualified help arrives.
2006-08-29 00:15:48 · answer #3 · answered by prncessang228 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You as a person DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING to the injured person especially to make them sleep!
You will cause the Doctors a lot of problems becausse they will not know if it is the medication or a head injury. Also there is no one ther to maintain the airway and monitor the heart.
DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING NOT EVEN THE PERSONS OWN MEDICATIONS.
YOU LET THEM TAKE THEIR OWN STUFF BY THEMSELVES IF IT IS SOMETHING LIKE NITRO FOR CHEST PAIN.
:o)
2006-08-28 23:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to that is no. I don't know what the medicine is you want to give, but that is beside the point.
As a first aider, your job is to provide first level support. Is the person breathing? Is the person bleeding? Is there any danger to them being where they are? Provision of medicine of any sort is out of the scope of a first aider. If a person needs to take medicine for some condition, they need to take it themselves.
2006-08-29 00:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. You as the average citizen shouldn't administer any medications. That person needs to be evaluated in the emergency department by a physician.
2006-08-29 07:05:53 · answer #6 · answered by inet_guy_84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely not (unless you want to face the possibility that you could kill the patient and go to jail)
2006-08-29 02:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by doctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no dont do that especially if your not trained and if you mask symptoms paramedics and emts will have a hard time treating it so will the doctors you will do more harm then good
2006-08-30 03:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by ambul17 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it has protocol in medicine......................called ABC of trauma.............in a road traffic accident after maintaing airway,breathing,blood pressure(life threatning conditions)then comes the turn of pain because pain will not kill him but blocked air passage will kill him within seconds so pain killers(mostly make sleepy)according to priority.................hope u satisfied.............
2006-08-28 23:12:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its against the medical code in PA
2006-08-28 23:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by kinndee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋