Red Net Moment Zhangjiajie, January 17 (Correspondent Hu Xiusong) On January 16, the neonatal department team of Yongding District Maternal and Child Health Hospital successfully performed umbilical vein catheterization for a critically ill newborn, and the child's vital signs are stable.
The neonatology team is undergoing umbilical vein catheterization.
The child is a 31-week premature and ultra-low birth weight baby, breathing difficulties, dying life, in order to pre-fluid management and advanced life support, after the neonatology team to discuss and analyze the disease, it is urgent to establish umbilical vein channels and perform umbilical vein catheterization. The neonatal team immediately established the maximum sterile surface for the child, treated the umbilical cord, fully exposed the umbilical vein, adjusted the direction of the catheter in a timely manner... After 25 minutes of hard work, the umbilical vein catheterization was successfully performed for the child, and during the operation, the child's vital signs have been relatively stable.
Neonatal umbilical vein catheterization is the use of the umbilical cord vein that has not been closed at birth, and the catheter is placed into the inferior vena cava through the umbilical vein tube, which can be used for injecting drugs, supplementing nutrition, blood testing, etc. Huang Ni, director of the Department of Neonatology, introduced that the Department of Neonatology has successfully carried out a number of cases of umbilical vein catheterization, and umbilical vein catheterization is to build a life highway for children, which not only alleviates the pain of children's injections and blood draws, but also greatly improves the success rate of newborn rescue.
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