The hospital's different Spring Festival: the lights are bright to witness the ordinary perseverance

(New Year to the grassroots) Hospital's different Spring Festival: bright lights witness ordinary perseverance

Hangzhou, February 1 (Qian Chenfei) Spring Festival, unlike the family reunion outside the hospital, there is such a group of "no returnees", year after year under the shadowless lights, instruments and equipment next to the ordinary persistence, for them, the Spring Festival is companionship, busyness, is guardianship.

Accompany the patient's family

"In the New Year, I want to accompany the patient's family." When she met Dong Meng, the nurse in charge of the Department of Brain Intensive Care Medicine of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University, she had already ushered in a new year in the ward, and the New Year had become her "habit".

Dong Meng is a native of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, who entered the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University after graduating from school in 2016, and it is now her sixth year, from a newcomer who just entered the Department of Intensive Brain Medicine, to now starting to bring new people, six years of experience has made her more capable and stable.

"Most of the patients in the department of intensive brain medicine are critically ill, especially in the intensive care unit, most of the patients are in a coma, connected to the ventilator, and then the monitor, there is no family escort, we must stay at the bedside 24 hours a day, always pay attention to the changes in the patient's vital signs, and inform the doctor and deal with the situation in time." Dong Meng said.

The doctors and nurses of the Department of Intensive Brain Medicine are like the "guardians" of patients, and the New Year's schedule is the most troublesome thing for Wang Haiyan, the head nurse of the Department of Brain Critical Care Medicine, and every year she will ask Corey about the needs of nurses in advance. "I can only meet the needs of most people, but also fiercely leave a few nurses who want to go home, every year the Spring Festival schedule is lined up and lined up, changed and changed, is to hope that everyone can go home to eat a reunion dinner every year."

What made Wang Haiyan both relieved and distressed was that Dong Meng took the initiative to ask for help in early January, hoping to let colleagues who lived close to home return to their hometown for reunion. "I can't bear it, and I haven't written down Dong Meng's schedule for a long time, from 2016 to 2022, Dong Meng's Spring Festival has only returned home once."

"In the Brain Intensive Care Unit during the Spring Festival, there are more years than usual, and the family members will bring some peace charms to the patients at the door of the ward and put them under the pillows." Some will record the sound of the whole family's blessing and recovery for the patient, and then hand over the recorder to us. Some family members will entrust us to put an apple at the head of the patient's bed and pray for peace and security..." Dong Meng said that it is these "details" that make the hospital under the new year's flavor become "ordinary and special".

On the one hand, there are critically ill patients, and on the other hand, parents who have been looking forward to it for years and years, Dong Meng's dilemma will never have the right answer.

Dong Meng firmly believes that her parents will understand and support her choice. "After this cold winter, I can go home and reunite with my family, survive this dark night, and patients will surely usher in the dawn."

Li Yulin (left) and his colleagues stuck to their posts. Photo courtesy of the Second Courtyard of Zhejiang University

Emergency departments have been urgent for many years

When the whole city was reunited, eating Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and watching the Spring Festival Gala, Li Yulin of the emergency department of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University was still fighting in his post, and his Spring Festival was spent in a busy way.

"Everyone doesn't run to the hospital in the New Year, but they are all more serious patients." This is the experience that Li Yulin has summed up over the years. "Every New Year's Festival, when everyone eats and chats, pushes cups and changes cups, it is often a time when accidents are easy to occur, so for emergency doctors, during the Spring Festival, they are in a 'first-level combat readiness state'." The most common ones in the New Year are critically ill patients, especially firecracker explosion injuries, and critically ill medical diseases in elderly patients. ”

Not only that, this year's Spring Festival was affected by the epidemic, many people chose to stay in Hangzhou for the New Year, coupled with the closure of emergency departments in some hospitals, Li Yulin and his colleagues' work is even busier. "In the past few days, the number of emergency department visits has increased a lot compared with the past, and we must not only assess the patient's injury, but also carefully adjust the patient, while treating the disease and saving people, taking into account the prevention and control of the epidemic."

In the face of the ever-changing sealing and control areas, control areas and prevention areas, for patients with different color health codes, Li Yulin needs to classify and deal with them at the first time, make judgments in a timely manner, and balance in first aid and epidemic prevention.

Li Yulin said that although the department specially prepared Chinese New Year's Eve meal for the doctors on duty last night, he did not feel at ease with this meal - emergency room, intensive care unit, emergency ward... With a heart hanging in his hands, he ran where he was needed.

"As long as the patient is safe and healthy, it is the best year." My biggest wish is that the epidemic will pass quickly. "Facing the new year, Li Yulin sincerely made a wish.

"Guarding the hope of rebirth, we are walking on thin ice"

"Guarding the hopes of a family, we are walking on thin ice." This year, it is the 11th Spring Festival that Hu Yanting has spent in the hospital, and it is also her 6th month of working in the lung transplant department. The lung transplant department is an unprecedented challenge for Yanting Hu, who has worked in the integrated ICU for several years.

Patients who come here are generally already in the most risky period of surgery and intensive care. To the patient, it seems that this is the dawn before discharge, but Hu Yanting and colleagues are well aware that the patient's condition at this stage is still unpredictable, which extremely tests the professionalism and perseverance of each medical staff.

"Wherever there are patients, there will be doctors. Although it is the New Year, we will not relax at all. "Assessing the patient's condition, adjusting the diagnosis and treatment plan according to the situation ... Hu Yanting insisted as earnestly as usual, "The patient has put his life in our hands, and we will desperately save it." ”

Occasionally, in the spare time, the doctor told his true thoughts, although he did his best for each patient, he had endless apologies for his family, and this guilt was especially strong at the time of family reunion.

"Once the child's homeroom teacher sent me a picture of shoes, I was very puzzled to ask the teacher what was wrong, the teacher said that every time the pedi class children did not wear sneakers, sometimes even sandals. The teacher reminds me to remember when my child goes to physical education class and to remember to buy him sneakers. Hu Yanting said that when she thinks of the scene of the child standing on the playground in sandals, she can't help but feel heartache, as a mother, she knows that she is far from qualified, but as a doctor, she can only tilt the time to the patient.

"In the new year, I hope that my patients will recover smoothly, and I hope that I will have more time to spend with my children and give him a loving childhood." Hu Yanting said.

I hope that people in the world are disease-free, and it is a pity to put medicine on the shelf - this is the common wish of all medical staff, and it is also the "best new year" that belongs to the hospital. (End)