In the busy Qijiang District People's Hospital, there is such a group of people, they wear lead hats, lead coats, lead bibs, and special protective glasses, and the operating table is a few hours in front of the station, and the "eating" rays are equivalent to taking chest x-rays thousands of times. They are a special group of caregivers in the hospital, interventional doctors known as "lead-clad people".
▲ Interventional physician wearing a lead coat
"Lead-clad people" are distributed in various departments of the clinic, and their relief of patients requires the use of digital subtraction angiography (DSA), that is, interventional surgery. Interventional surgery is a kind of minimally invasive treatment using modern high-tech means - under the guidance of medical imaging equipment, special catheters, guide wires and other precision instruments are introduced into the human body to diagnose and locally treat the pathology in the body. Almost all interventional surgeries are completed under the guidance of X-rays, and the average person receiving one or two X-rays will not affect the body, but interventional medical staff need to be exposed to high-intensity X-rays for a long time. In order to minimize the damage caused by radiation, the lead coat becomes the equipment of every medical staff in the interventional department who enters the operating room to resist high radiation radiation. Throughout the treatment process, they all have to wear an extra 20 pounds of lead protective clothing in the surgical gown, which is a veritable "high load".
▲During interventional surgery
According to statistics, in 2021, qijiang district people's hospital completed a total of 1467 interventional surgeries, of which 235 cases of emergency interventional surgery. Medical staff working in the intervention room often receive emergency calls late at night, and they arrive in time for rain or wind. With their silent efforts, they bring hope to patients to live.
The "lead-clad people" bloom in the soil of interventional diagnosis and treatment, saving patients from danger and protecting life with their lives. This is a heavy responsibility and mission, a fear of life, and a fearlessness of the god of death. With their enthusiasm for life, they devote themselves to the road of protecting health, and vividly practice the duty of "health guardians". (Textu/Xu Xiaoyue)