Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Mengfan
February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year. In the ward on the second floor of the Emergency Trauma Department of the People's Hospital of the Autonomous Region, Zhang Lei, the head nurse, sounded text messages on her mobile phone from time to time. She didn't have time to reply to these New Year's wishes, so she changed her clothes and participated in the bedside handover at 10 o'clock.
There were 42 inpatients in the department that day, and 8 of the 10 new patients admitted the day before were sent at night. Zhang Lei shook the feet of an elderly patient who was bedridden, and obviously felt much less swollen than yesterday. She told her accompanying family members: "The old man is suffering from severe acute pancreatitis, and he must remember what the doctor just said, and he must not let the old man drink water and eat, and he can rinse his mouth if he feels that his mouth is too dry." ”
On February 10, in the emergency trauma surgery ward of the People's Hospital of the Autonomous Region, medical staff communicated with patients during ward rounds. Photo by Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Mengfan
"I couldn't bear the pain before I came, who wouldn't want to be reunited with their family at home for the Chinese New Year. A newly admitted male patient who was given painkillers and was in much better spirits looked at the doctors and nurses on the ward rounds and said, "It's all for us." ”
After the morning rounds, Wu Chaoyang, secretary of the Party branch and director of the Department of Emergency Trauma Surgery, and his colleagues returned to the ward again. This time, instead of a stethoscope, he was holding a Year of the Dragon mascot.
"Emergency patients are all suddenly admitted to the hospital, and their emotions are already nervous, and they must be very anxious when they accompany their families to spend the Spring Festival in the hospital. At the party branch meeting a few days ago, Wu Chaoyang and everyone unanimously decided to send New Year mascots and dumplings to patients and their families on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the name of the branch and department.
At 1:10 p.m., eating the first meal of dumplings in the Lunar New Year, Zhang Li, who accompanied her 85-year-old mother, was very moved. On Chinese New Year's Eve, she was still regretting that she could not eat New Year's dumplings, but she did not expect to receive the warmth brought by the medical staff on the first day of the new year, "Today's dumplings are very fragrant!"
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Chaoyang rushed to the operating room for the second time that day. In a hurry, he explained to reporters: in the emergency department, bleeding trauma is visible and critical, but more is a potential risk. Some patients with atypical clinical symptoms may have acute and critical diseases such as gallbladder perforation or appendix perforation in the abdomen, and if surgery is not performed in time, diffuse peritonitis will lead to abdominal suppuration, septic shock, and even life-threatening.
On February 10, nurse Zhang Yixin made a Chinese medicine anti-inflammatory powder kit for patients. Photo by Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Mengfan
"Oops, oops, it hurts. "Because of the periappendiceal abscess, a female patient who had just been admitted to the hospital that day was in pain and could not move. Nurse Zhang Yixin gently applied traditional Chinese medicine anti-inflammatory powder to the patient's abdomen. Before leaving the ward, she observed that the infusion bottles of the other two patients were about to bottom out, and hurriedly prepared to dispense medicines. After confirming the expiration date of the drug and the integrity of the ampoule, she double-checked the patient's age, gender, time, medicine, dosage, and usage.
At this time, it was past 4 p.m., and there were still nearly 100 bottles of intravenous fluids waiting to be injected on the table of the treatment room next to the nurse's station. Most of the patients in the emergency trauma surgery ward are patients with acute abdomen, who cannot eat for as short as 24 hours or as long as two weeks, and can only rely on rehydration to replenish electrolytes and nutrients, anti-inflammatory and analgesic every day.
Each patient has a different condition and the timing of the liquid injection is also different. On that day, 36 of the 42 patients needed infusions, and the nurses' station rang from time to time with bedside pager bells, and nurses were on the move.
At 6 p.m., as it darkens, patient 45 stumbles into the first-floor emergency trauma surgery clinic. "Doctor, I slipped and broke my head. The girl who spoke was crying, some of the blood on her clothes had dried, and the wound was still oozing. The deputy chief physician, Abulekmu Mahmuti, immediately applied pressure bandaging and then debridement and suturing.
On 10 February, Abulekm Mahmuti examined the patient's injuries. Photo by Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Mengfan
This is the sentinel to emergency rescue and diagnosis, and doctors will determine whether the patient should be treated immediately, admitted to the emergency department, or transferred to a specialist outpatient clinic. After more than half an hour's work, five groups of patients and their families entered and exited the consultation room more than a dozen times, and the reporter could not bear to disturb and returned to the ward on the second floor again.
At 8:40 p.m., Zhang Lei's work came to an end, and then she remembered that she didn't answer her family's call because she was busy. As soon as he took out his mobile phone, his younger brother called: "Sister, Dad is asking, when will you be able to go back to Shihezi for the New Year......
As twilight fell, the busy pace of the medical staff in the ward was still in a hurry.