First Aid Education: training teenagers in the maneuver to disengage babies and children.

Abstract

Objective: To teach adolescents in a high school to identify signs of choking in babies and children and how to reverse choking. Experience report: Choking is the third leading cause of death among children and adolescents. It is an event in which there is partial or total occlusion of the air passage between the airways by a foreign body. It is observed that the population is unprepared on how to act in situations of choking, and often the lack of attitudes in such situations can be fatal. In view of this, health education in these cases is a fundamental tool for the appropriate management of choking. Providing this knowledge in an easy and understandable way gives greater security and training to people. Conclusion: Therefore, it is essential that academics and health professionals can carry out health education on an ongoing basis. In view of the above, a project was developed in a high school in order to teach students how to stop choking. Therefore, it is understood that when na airway obstruction is quickly indentified and choking techniques are quickly applied, it is possible to save the baby and child.