Why do medics try everything to keep injured patients awake and conscious ?
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It’s just a lot easier to work with a conscious patient. With a conked out one you don’t magically know if they are ok or if they have just died on you, you have to constantly check pulse and breathing. If you need to move them you get no feedback if you are hurting them more or not. If they are not conscious, there are bunch of symptoms they can’t exhibit or complain about and as a result you would be unaware of some problems they may have. There might be some critical information such that the patient needs this or that medication, if the patient can’t tell you, you will not know. When you are doing some first aid activity, from a conscious patient you can see and they can tell you if it’s making things better or not.
Consciousness is an excellent indicator that the brain is getting it’s oxygen and the patient isn’t about to die quite yet. Without that indicator, things get a lot more problematic.
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