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In case of an accident or a sudden severe illness we usually make calls to the First Aid Station. It is on duty all day round.

The First Aid Station has many ambulances that are equipped with everything necessary for giving first aid and making a diagnosis. The ambulances carry artificial respiration apparatuses; different medicines, such as painkillers, tonics and sedatives; dressing; first aid instruments, such as pincers, scalpels, syringes, sets of splints and stretchers. There are special ambulances equipped with everything necessary for reanimation of the organism. All ambulances are radio equipped. This enables the doctors to send the necessary information to the hospital, so that the hospital can prepare beforehand all the necessary instruments for an urgent operation, a blood transfusion.

Giving first aid demands high skills and qualification. The ambulance doctor must have deep knowledge of emergency surgery, toxicology, emergency therapy, obstetrics and gynaecology, because he must always do his best to make a correct diagnosis quickly and to give the patient a proper aid on the spot.

Once a call was made to the First Aid Station. It turned out that a man had been run over by a car. The man was badly injured, he had an open bleeding wound in his leg, his arm was fractured, there were many injuries, abrasions and bruises on his face and forehead. The man was moaning with pain. Then he lost his consciousness.

First the ambulance doctor tried to arrest profuse arterial bleeding. He elevated the injured extremity carefully and applied a tourniquet to it. He applied a sterile gauze dressing on the man's face to prevent contamination. The doctor examined the arm and applied a splint to it.

The patient was brought to the hospital by an ambulance.

It is very responsible to be an ambulance doctor, because the lives of the patients are in doctors' hands and depend on the first aid, given quickly and properly on the spot.