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During the Spring Festival reunion of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, in the isolation ward of the Eighth Affiliated City Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Tan Xinghua, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, stuck to his post and wore protective clothing every day to check the room in area 22 of the isolation ward to understand the situation of the new crown pneumonia patients after taking drugs. "We must continue to optimize the composition of Chinese medicines, and do our best to help the infected people in Omi kerong turn negative nucleic acid, so that they can recover and be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible."
It is understood that from 2020 to 2022, Tan Xinghua spent three years of the Spring Festival in the hospital. Facing his family, he said: "I can only say sorry, I can spend time with my retirement at the end of the year."
Tan Xinghua stuck to his post during the Spring Festival and checked the room in the isolation ward
The third time in the isolation ward for the Spring Festival
"I'm thinking about how to get them to recover as quickly as possible"
According to the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, from 0:00 to 24:00 on February 1, 2022, there were still 83 cases of covid-19 infections in the city treated in hospitals. The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University is a designated hospital for the treatment of new crown pneumonia, and it is also the hospital with the largest number of confirmed patients and the most complete types of cases in China. At present, more than 1,000 employees of the Eighth Hospital of the city are sticking to their posts, and Tan Xinghua has spent the Spring Festival in the isolation ward for the third time.
It is reported that the isolation area 22 of the Eighth Hospital of the city is a traditional Chinese medicine department that treats the infection of the Aomi Kerong variant strain, with 35 beds. "The purpose of opening the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the isolation ward is to specifically study the characteristics, evolution and therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine of the New Coronary Pneumonia variant of the Omi Kerong strain, and to grasp the first-hand information." Tan Xinghua said.
"We understand the patients' feelings of wanting to go home, and in order to appease them, we posted Spring Festival leagues and blessing characters in various isolation areas early and hung up colorful lights to create a warm and lively New Year atmosphere." Tan Xinghua said, "Since entering the isolation ward on January 3, what I have been thinking about every day is the characteristics of the patient's condition, how to adjust the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, how to make them recover as soon as possible and be discharged early."
Tan Xinghua checked the patient's condition in the isolation ward
Ventilation and heat dissipation help correct detoxification
"The use of traditional Chinese medicine decoctions has a good effect on promoting the conversion of nucleic acid to yin"
According to Tan Xinghua, at present, the new crown pneumonia patients admitted to the Eighth City Hospital are mainly infected with the Aomi Kerong variant, due to the extensive use of vaccines and the weak virulence of the Aomi Kerong variant, the patient's condition is milder, and there are more asymptomatic infected people.
"Due to the lack of specific antiviral drugs, we are mainly treating the new crown pneumonia, oxygen inhalation and traditional Chinese medicine treatment." In fact, Tan Xinghua had already received a heavy responsibility before entering the isolation ward - to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat infected people with the Aomi Kerong mutant strain and break through the problem of its long yin time.
"We found that the symptoms of infected people in Omi kerong are more characteristic, often low-grade fever, cough, sore throat and so on. According to clinical dialectics, we believe that this is the lung of wind and fever, so we have selected Chinese medicines such as astragalus, baishu, honeysuckle, forsythia, and banlan root to play a role in wind dissipation, heat dissipation, and detoxification. And according to each person's physical characteristics, adopt the principle of one-sided co-ordination and individual differentiation. Tan Xinghua said.
Looking back on the past two years, Tan Xinghua has been on the front line of the fight against the epidemic and has made unremitting efforts to treat patients with new crown pneumonia. Tan Xinghua's team developed the pneumonia No. 1 formula, which can improve clinical symptoms and alleviate the condition, which was approved as a hospital preparation in Guangdong Province by emergency and widely used at home and abroad.
It is worth mentioning that at present, the Eighth City Hospital treats patients in Aomi Kerong with traditional Chinese medicine decoctions, that is, the use of Chinese herbal medicine decoctions to decoction and then give to patients to take, rather than using granules. "We believe that the current prescription and the traditional decoction method have a better effect on improving clinical symptoms and promoting the negative transformation of the Omiljung virus variant." Tan Xinghua said.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, the doctors in the isolation ward spend the New Year with the patients
"I can only say sorry to my family, I can retire at the end of the year and spend time with me"
On January 3, 2022, Tan Xinghua once again entered the isolation ward of the Eighth City Hospital, and it has been a month since the third day of the New Year. "I've been in medicine for 32 years and retired at the end of this year." Tan Xinghua told reporters, "From 2020 to 2022, the Spring Festival is spent in the hospital, and I can only say sorry to my family, and I can accompany them when I retire at the end of the year."
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in early 2020, Tan Xinghua has plunged into the isolation ward with the purpose of developing an effective prescription for treating patients. Many colleagues commented on him, and this kind of righteousness is caused by the doctor's sense of responsibility.
It is understood that the medical staff entering the isolation ward adopt closed-loop management, that is, the hospital and the centralized residence hotel "two points and one line", and long-term isolation requires good physical and psychological quality. Tan Xinghua said: "We all have to maintain an optimistic mental state and maintain good physical and mental health."
As a well-known Chinese medicine practitioner in China, Tan Xinghua is also quite concerned about the growth of young Chinese medicine doctors. He hoped that the young doctors would not forget their original intentions, lay a solid foundation, and study hard.
【Tan Xinghua's Day】
Chinese New Year's Eve of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, cold air enters Guangdong with rain, and God seems to understand that cold weather has a New Year's flavor. When everyone was eating the New Year dinner at the family reunion, there was a group of people still sticking to their posts, and the isolation area of the Eighth Affiliated City Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University was brightly lit, and more than 1,500 employees and more than 500 logistics support personnel were sticking to their posts to accompany the infected people of Aomi Kerong.
Let's follow the camera and look at the work record of Tan Xinghua, the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, through their daily work records, to see their perseverance and dedication.
Get up at 6:30 a.m
Getting up at 6:30 a.m. in the cold winter is difficult for most people, but this is already Tan Xinghua's living habit. For a month, from entering the isolation ward on January 3, he shuttled back and forth between hotels and hospitals. After washing, at 7:20 a.m., he took a closed-loop commuter bus from the centralized residence hotel to the hospital isolation ward.
8:00 a.m
Tan Xinghua entered the hospital to start medical and nursing shifts in the isolation area 22, and at the same time he also relayed the instructions of the hospital and carried out department discussions on the newly admitted and key patients. "Yesterday I found that the emotions of the 21 bed patients are more anxious, and we need to comfort and encourage them more." Tan Xinghua explained to the head nurse: "After the patients take the medicine, don't stay in bed all day, the head nurse you can take them to beat the eight duan jin."
In the isolation ward, Tan Xinghua paid special attention to the effects of traditional Chinese medicine treatment
9:00 a.m
Enter the isolation ward and start rounds. This time can be said to be the hardest time. Wearing several layers of isolation suits, wearing N95 masks, headaches caused by goggle elastic bands, suffocation and breathlessness, it is very difficult to speak, not to mention Tan Xinghua with the attending physician, head nurse and other people to understand the condition of each patient and the efficacy after medication.
"What did you eat today, what was uncomfortable, what was your blood oxygen index..." There are 35 patients in the isolation of Ward 22, and it takes almost two hours to round up every day.
11:00 a.m
After coming out of the isolation ward, Tan Xinghua began to prescribe medical advice, instructing nurses to pay attention to what problems in dosing and treatment.
12:30 a.m
Tan Xinghua took a closed-loop commuter bus from the hospital to the centralized residence hotel for lunch and rest. After eating a box lunch for more than a month, on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, the hotel gave the closed-loop doctors a meal. "It tastes good, but I can't eat more, my blood sugar is high." Tan Xinghua said.
At this time, the family sent a courier package with clothes, food, and antidiabetic drugs. It is understood that Tan Xinghua's wife is a people's teacher and has retired. "She understands my job, so she does my best to support me." Tan Xinghua said.
3:00 PM
As the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tan Xinghua began to participate in the hospital's internal meetings and business learning online. After the end, it is also necessary to summarize the day's work with the attending physician of the department and discuss the condition and treatment of key patients.
6:00 PM
Chinese New Year's Eve night, the hotel prepared Chinese New Year's Eve meal for the closed-loop medical staff, including chicken thighs, shrimp and fish. Tan Xinghua said: "I am not very concerned about what to eat, I have high blood sugar. In fact, Director Tan is from Jiangxi, and his favorite food is fried pork with chili peppers. On the Chinese New Year's Eve night, it is estimated that the bowl of chili stir-fried meat is the dish he misses the most.
10:00 pm
In the centralized residence hotel, one person and one room, not even a person to speak, every day, it is a test for anyone's body and mind, not to mention that Tan Xinghua will not be able to complete the task in late February.
In order to regulate his body and mind, he beat BaduanJin every day before going to bed, and sometimes made phone calls with his family. "The main thing is to rely on faith to support, to use a positive and optimistic attitude to face." Tan Xinghua said. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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