Knowing First Aid: The Best Life Insurance for Others

The recent event staged at the mall by the popular host of "Fourth Millennium" and his wife, Carmen, during which both were the best life insurance for a child who was choking after an object that had swallowed developer program.

Widespread knowledge of first aid techniques is as important to society as undervalued in our country by the current education system.

The facts, as the relate the different media, occurred at a mall by Iker Jimenez and his family wandered as a child were found in cyanotic state without their parents and other people who surrounded knew how to extract the object which had choked him.

Thanks to the initiative of Carmen and Iker and his prior knowledge of a particular maneuver emergency rescue, the girl was able to expel the object that prevented the passage of air and prevent death.

This decisive intervention contrasted with the helpless passivity of most people who watched the scene.

First aid means the set of techniques and immediate care for sick and injured is paid in prior to the arrival of professional healthcare exceptional and urgent situations.

Through a few simple procedures and guidelines, though, must have been previously practiced to ensure speed and efficiency, it is possible to avoid physical and psychological complications, aiding recovery and, ultimately, save the life of the injured person before us.

If we have some training to learn and safely perform these techniques, we are the best life insurance for those injured chance to put us ahead.

And yet, among the many materials, subjects, knowledge and duties that are taught, they learned and practiced in the official compulsory education do not consider (or considered excessively transversely) specific teaching first aid.

This fact also noted by Iker Jimenez in interviews after the event, is as outrageous as it is inexplicable when we weigh whether knowledge of a verb, a formula or the date of a battle must be more important than the ability to save a life.