Recently, the scene of a doctor in Henan rescuing a child during surgery is distressing. He kept blowing oxygen to help the child stabilize blood oxygen, but he fainted in front of the operating table due to respiratory alkalosis caused by hyperventilation. What's going on here?
The boy ate pistachios and almost died in his lungs, and the doctor was so tired that he fainted
The doctor who blows oxygen for the child in the video is called Zhong Yan, from the Department of Otolaryngology of Jiaozuo Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Henan Province. Late at night on December 24, 2023, a boy choked on a choked pistachio and was urgently hospitalized due to breathing difficulties.
Because the boy had chopped pistachios on both sides of his lungs, after preoperative anesthesia, the child's blood oxygen saturation dropped rapidly, and seeing that the oxygen supply of the bronchoscope could not maintain the blood oxygen concentration, the 64-year-old Zhong Yan decisively took off the mask, lay on the boy's head, and kept blowing oxygen into the child's lungs to maintain blood oxygen saturation.
During the whole operation, Zhong Yan switched back and forth between blowing oxygen for the child and absorbing crushed nuts for 30 minutes. The child's oxygen saturation stabilized at a normal value, and eventually, the doctor removed more than a dozen pieces of chopped nuts from the child's lungs.
"I can't hold on anymore!" Seeing that the child was safe and sound, Zhong Yan's tense nerves relaxed, and due to physical exhaustion, he suffered respiratory alkalosis and fainted in front of the operating table.
"At that time, my chest was tight and my mouth was dry, my limbs were numb, my armpits were soaked, and my gloves were full of sweat. I was relieved to see that the operation was successful!" After waking up, Zhong Yan was still concerned about the child's condition while inhaling oxygen.
At present, the boy has made a basic recovery.
"Every rescue is like a battle, and as a doctor, you have to do your best to treat it"
Three years ago, Zhong Yan retired from Jiaozuo People's Hospital and was specially hired to Jiaozuo Maternal and Child Health Hospital to establish the Department of Otolaryngology. Over the years, he has done many similar surgeries.
During surgery, doctors often have to blow oxygen to the patient, which requires good physical strength and strong lung capacity.
In his spare time, Zhong Yan insists on playing the flute and gourd silk, which can not only relieve stress but also exercise lung capacity.
"A tracheal foreign body is a very dangerous clinical emergency, which is directly related to life, and the surgical risk is very high. Every rescue is like a battle, and as a doctor, I have to do my best to save it. ”
Zhong Yan reminded that during the holidays, children are particularly prone to contact with nuts, peanuts, jelly, bubble gum, rice cakes and other foods. Parents should not feed their children when they are crying, laughing, or playing, so as to avoid foreign bodies getting stuck in the throat and blocking the trachea. In particular, children under the age of 3 cannot eat the above foods due to their weak chewing ability.
If you notice that your child has an abnormal situation such as a foreign body stuck in the throat, you must call 120 immediately and take Heimlich first aid measures.
Kudos to Dr. Chung!
Source: CCTV News
Editor: Yiren