First Aid: A university-school interaction

Abstract

Health promotion through education is an educational approach that enhances society's well-being and healthy lifestyle habits. The purpose of this project was to carry out educational actions in public and private high schools, visiting schools or receiving them in the Human Anatomy laboratories of the University. Weekly meetings were held for the study and training of volunteer scholarship holders of the Biomedicine, Nursing and Pharmacy courses, together with the teaching professors, scientific articles and face-to-face training with a professional rescuer from SAMU (Mobile Emergency Care Service) were used. After contact with the educational institutions, the practices were planned and designed in two schools, which were conducted in stations, lasting fifteen minutes for each topic, they were: CPA (cardiorespiratory arrest), approach to choking and drowning, management of fractures and dislocations, management of seizures, approach to hemorrhages, care for fainting and epistaxis and treatment of burns. The educational activities were well received by the students and teachers of the schools, who pointed out that the methodology was adequate (97.4% and 100%, respectively), met expectations (93.4% and 100%) and improved knowledge on the subject (92.1% and 60%, respectively). Therefore, health education actions in schools on first aid are fundamental, highlighting the request by the school on the subject and the use of models and anatomical pieces to represent in a practical way the simulation of first care in a health emergency.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.005-022