Source: China News Network
The picture shows Yu Haixia. Courtesy of respondents
(New Year grassroots) Female doctor in the ICU: Willing to be a little light in the dark night
China News Network Hohhot, January 18 Title: Female doctors in the ICU: Willing to be a little light in the dark night
China News Network reporter Zhang Wei
In two days, Yu Haixia will once again end the quarantine and rest period. In the two years since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, this is the fourth time she has been on the line, and the longest time.
As an ordinary critical care medical doctor, she raced against time and grabbed people with death, yu Haixia said that she did not want to be a "superhero", only willing to be a little light in the dark night to illuminate the lives of patients.
The days of the greatest fear are over
At the beginning of 2020, when the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out in Wuhan and spread across the country, Yu Haixia, chief physician of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the People's Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, asked for help from Hubei.
As one of the first medical team members in Inner Mongolia to rush to Hubei, Yu Haixia participated in the 53-day anti-epidemic battle. "I was most scared at that time."
"In the early days of the epidemic, everyone was very unfamiliar with the new crown virus, and they could only grope around in the process of treatment, plus there were constantly deaths and infections of medical staff at that time, so the psychological pressure was very large." Recalling the days when she supported Jingmen in Hubei Province, Yu Haixia still had tears in her eyes.
"But now I'm not afraid." After the victory of the hubei epidemic, Yu Haixia successively participated in the "resistance battle" of the local epidemic in Manzhouli in 2020, the local epidemic in Ejinaqi in 2021, and the local epidemic in Manzhouli in 2021.
Yu Haixia said that the most feared days have passed, and now it can be handled very effectively in terms of treatment, materials, infection control, or social control.
"More importantly, whenever we walk into the ward and look at the patient's eyes eager to be cured, we forget the word 'afraid' to the cloud nine." Today, Yu Haixia talks about facing the epidemic head-on, and her tone is much more relaxed.
A "soaking" trip with mom
The Department of Critical Care Medicine is known as the ICU, which is one of the disciplines in the field of medicine that confronts death and creates miracles of life.
In the new crown pneumonia medical treatment team, the ICU is also one of the main forces. Yu Haixia's support for Hubei's rescue and treatment work has allowed her to accumulate a lot of valuable clinical experience.
In November 2020, the local epidemic broke out again in Manchuria, and Yu Haixia, who had been taking annual leave, was ordered to "fly" from Guilin to Manchuria, and "put" on protective clothing on the front line.
As everyone knows, Yu Haixia at that time was preparing to start an annual trip with her mother, who was nearly ancient.
Yu Haixia told reporters that due to the particularity of her work, busyness occupies most of her time, and there is very little companionship for her mother. "So, I have an agreement with myself: I must take my mother on a trip every annual leave."
In 2020, Yu Haixia and her mother met from Hohhot and Chongqing to Guilin respectively, and the trip was about to begin after breakfast, and it was at this time that a phone call to support the first line of Manzhouli changed the itinerary of the mother and daughter.
"At that time, the situation was urgent, and I immediately bought a ticket for my mother to return to Chongqing and booked myself the earliest ticket to fly hailar that day." Yu Haixia sent her mother to the high-speed rail station and hurried to the airport. "Although my mother was very understanding and supportive of me, I still felt very guilty when I saw her back as she left."
Yu Haixia said that in 2021, she did not care about taking annual leave, and she has not taken her mother to travel for two consecutive years. "I can only try my best to make up for it later."
The picture shows Yu Haixia doing bronchoscopic suction for patients. Courtesy of respondents
Encounter starlight in "Fire of War"
In mid-October 2021, the new crown epidemic broke out in Ejin Naqi, which is also the first time that Inner Mongolia has faced such a large-scale epidemic since the fight against the epidemic in 2020.
"First of all, I am a critical care doctor, and secondly, I have experience in medical treatment of COVID-19, so when I was notified, I was very sure that I had to go." After simply going home to pack his bags, Yu Haixia led the team to embark on the "battlefield" against the new crown epidemic.
"This 'battle' was too tiring, but thankfully we persevered." There are many elderly patients, many serious patients, many underlying diseases... Whether this "battle" can be won or not depends on whether the treatment of seriously ill patients can be successful.
"Although the shift is rotated every 4 hours, it is too difficult for the members of the intensive care team to achieve." Yu Haixia recalled that one day, a patient's condition worsened and needed endotracheal intubation, and she immediately returned to the hospital and entered the warehouse urgently. After a night of fighting for rescue, the patient's condition finally stabilized.
On the way back to the room, Yu Haixia once again received an emergency call, and another patient's condition took a sharp turn for the worse, so she returned to the hospital halfway and continued to rescue the patient...
"I and the team are like this, often on the way to 'off work' and are called back, have become accustomed to it, and everyone will not complain, because we know that patients can't wait." Yu Haixia remembers her birthday, returning to the room at more than 11 o'clock in the evening, she silently made a birthday wish: "May my patients be safe and secure!" ”
There was a patient with endotracheal intubation who made Yu Haixia particularly distressed, and his treatment process was like riding a roller coaster, very unstable. For a while, Yu Haixia hardly left the ward. "We can't give up."
The kung fu paid off, a miracle occurred, the patient's vital signs gradually improved, on the day of successful extubation, the patient trembled and wrote the three words "Yu Angel" on Haixia's protective clothing.
"It was a special touch at that time, and this was the starlight we met in the 'fire of war'." Looking back now, Yu Haixia's eyes would smile and bend into a "crescent moon".
On November 27, 2021, a new outbreak of indigenous epidemics broke out again in Manchuria. Yu Haixia followed the Inner Mongolia COVID-19 medical treatment expert group and medical team from the designated hospital in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the designated hospital in Hailar District, and threw herself into a new anti-epidemic battle, continuing to protect seriously ill patients for nearly one month.
The two severe wards led by Yu Haixia are the first wards in Hailar Designated Hospital to be cleared, "There is no better New Year's gift than this." ”
In the past three months and two anti-epidemic battles, all 73 cases of new crown patients participated in the treatment of Yu Haixia have been cured and discharged from the hospital, achieving the "three zeros" goal of zero death, zero infection and zero spillover.
From Hubei to Inner Mongolia, after several anti-epidemic battles, Yu Haixia "lit up" one miracle of life after another in the ICU ward. (End)