(People's Daily health client reporter Wang Ning) "Five-four-three-two-one, Happy New Year!" The clock rang at zero o'clock, and 2024 is coming. After midnight, in the infusion room of the emergency department of Suzhou Municipal Hospital in Jiangsu Province, Wu Meng (pseudonym) went to the emergency department of the hospital for infusion in the early morning due to high fever. "The hospital infusion room was still full late at night, and it was basically a cough and fever. Wu Meng told reporters that a person checks, pays, hangs water, and sees that others are accompanied by family members, saying that the mentality is still very good, it must be fake, and I hope that we can all be healthy and safe in the new year!
At 3:44 a.m. on January 1, 2024, there were still patients infusion in the infusion room of the emergency department of Suzhou Municipal Hospital. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
"Please ask Qi Zhengyang (pseudonym) to go to the 2nd consultation room of the emergency internal medicine department. "Please register for patients who come to the hospital. "Come on, baby, take your heart rate. "The sound of the medical announcement, the hospital announcement, the nurse's questioning, and the sound of the child coughing, crying and being scared...... This is the emergency and pediatric emergency department at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital and the Children's Hospital Affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics at 10 p.m. on December 31, 2023.
At 21:55 p.m. on December 31, 2023, ordinary patients and patients who have completed examinations are waiting in the waiting area outside the emergency department of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital. Photo by Wang Ning
From 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day, the emergency department doctor on duty is on duty in the evening. The doctor on duty in the emergency department of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital told reporters, "It is now more than 10 o'clock in the evening, and the number of patients tonight is about the same as usual." ”
Ye Qing (pseudonym), who lives in Chaoyang District, rushed to the pediatric emergency department of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics at 8 p.m. for diagnosis and treatment because of her Xiaobao's pneumonia fever. "I hung up at 8 o'clock, and then triaged at the triage table, diagnosis and treatment, to the infusion is more than 9 o'clock, or very fast, this is our first time here, I feel that there are still a lot of people, but fortunately we didn't delay much. At 10:40 p.m., in the pediatric infusion area, Ye Qing's Xiaobao had fallen asleep in the stroller with a drip, and she observed the infusion while watching Xiaobao's condition: "There are about 15 minutes to go!"
At 22:30 p.m. on December 31, 2023, the emergency triage desk of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics was still crowded with parents and children. Photo by Wang Ning
Chinese New Year's Eve is a normal night shift for emergency departments, and the number of patients has not decreased because of New Year's Eve. Cheng Xiaodan, deputy chief physician of the emergency department of Zhengzhou Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, has been busy since he took over at 6 p.m., and the emergency room has been busy. A colleague on the day shift went to Xinmi to perform ECMO on a patient with cardiogenic shock, and did not safely transport the patient back until 9 p.m., and escorted the patient to the EICU after completing the CT scan. Before he could catch his breath, another patient with severe pancreatitis respiratory and cardiac arrest was sent to the outer hospital, and thirty minutes of rescue still did not pull him back from the line of death.
At 20:25 p.m. on December 31, 2023, patients with heart failure, kidney failure, and brainstem hemorrhage in Zhengzhou Central Hospital were successively transferred to the ward and emergency room. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
"The emergency department of the hospital has its own peculiarities, and the patients we receive are all critically ill, and family members often complain because they don't understand. On December 31, 2023, Cheng Xiaodan, deputy chief physician of the emergency department of Zhengzhou Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, told the People's Daily health client reporter that in the new year, the lights on the roof of the ambulance are still flickering.
On December 31, 2023, Yang Kai, deputy chief physician of the first ward of orthopedics of Zhengzhou Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, wrote: I hope I can sleep well tonight
"Feeling is not feeling, this is daily life!" said Yang Kai, deputy chief physician of the first ward of orthopedics at Zhengzhou Central Hospital affiliated to Zhengzhou University, today is the last night shift of 2023, and he is still very busy. "A total of 5 patients were admitted today, including 3 emergency patients, and I will go to the operating room to complete an incision and reduction surgery for right calf compartment syndrome. I hope I will have more time to spend with my family in the coming year!"