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Chao News client reporter Jin Meng correspondent Zhu Yao Ling
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In the ICU ward, various monitoring instruments make some heavy noises. Two musicians plucked guitar strings, and two other singers sang soft and warm lyrics, and a small musical performance was taking place at the bedside.
This is a music therapy brought by the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University) in cooperation with Zhejiang University of Media and Communication for children in the ICU ward.
Photo by reporter Jin Meng
Every Monday, they use a song to heal the suffering of critically ill children, so that the children can forget the pain for a while.
Today, the Chao News reporter walked into the ward and listened to a unique concert with the children.
The concert in the ICU is a two-way healing for each other
"Far away in the sky, daylily flowers bloom, each one is my concern, let it bloom all over the way I am waiting for you to go home, as if I have never left your side......"
On the morning of May 13, there was another moving singing voice from the ICU ward of the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University. Four students from Zhejiang Chuan wore protective suits, held guitars and sheet music, and gave a live concert to the children in the hospital bed.
"We sang a total of 12 songs today, and yesterday happened to be Mother's Day and Nurses' Day, so we also specially prepared "Listen to Mother" and "Ordinary Angel", hoping to bring some warmth to children, parents and medical staff." As one of the lead singers, Yao Jiawen, a third-year student at Zhejiang Chuan University, said that other songs were ordered by the children themselves, such as the 3-bed children who ordered "Wang Wang's Team Makes Great Contributions" and "Don't Look at Me Just a Sheep".
Accompanied by sometimes light, sometimes soothing singing, the children's faces showed a smile that they had not seen for a long time. When the song of "Qili Xiang" sounded, the star (pseudonym) of the 6th bed also hummed softly.
Xingxing, 12 years old this year, is currently the oldest in the entire ICU ward, because of paralysis of the lower limbs combined with bacterial meningitis and bacterial pneumonia, he was admitted to the ICU ward in mid-April this year.
After the first song was sung, he ordered another song "Little Apple" and told us the song he wanted to listen to next week. Yao Jiawen said that although Xing Xing was lying on the hospital bed, he nodded, shook his head, and smiled with the melody of the music.
Just last week, Xing Xing had a special birthday in the ICU, the students of Zhejiang Chuan sang a birthday song for him, and the medical staff bought him a cake and birthday gifts. Xingxing, who had never cried during the treatment, listened to the songs that his brothers and sisters sang especially for him, and tears couldn't stop falling.
Students in Zhejiang Chuan sing birthday songs for the stars (pseudonym) Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Ye Sheng, chief physician of the Hubin Comprehensive ICU of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital, said that Xingxing is always suffering from the pain of illness, and the family situation is also relatively special. "But the child is very strong, and every time she listens to music, she can feel that her mood has improved, which also has a positive effect on the treatment."
The students' singing brings encouragement and strength to the children, and the vitality shown by the children also infects the students of Zhejiang, which is more like a two-way healing process.
"I still remember the first time we sang, we sang his favorite "Bear Infested" to an unconscious child, and we all thought he couldn't hear it, but when the melody was sung, his eyes slowly seemed to open." Yao Jiawen said that she later learned through the head nurse that he had the consciousness of transient eyes and spontaneous breathing at that time, and everyone was deeply touched by this life force at that moment.
Let the sound pass through the isolation door and bring strength to the little patient
The first time the students walked into the ICU ward of the Hubin Campus of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital was on April 15, and so far, they have brought four performances.
The students are all from the "Little Blessing" radio station, a national university student innovation project related to sound. As an instructor, Li Muzi, a teacher at the All-Media Experimental Center of Zhejiang University of Media and Communication, told Chao News reporters that they have been exploring ways to accompany critically ill children with sound, such as "family voicemail" and "I order a song for my baby" and so on.
Photo by reporter Jin Meng
About two years ago, during a chat, the members of the "Little Blessing" radio station came up with the idea of doing a public welfare medical project dedicated to the voice of critically ill children.
"Because I've been drenched in the rain, I also want to hold an umbrella for others." Li Muzi said that she and several classmates in the team were family members of patients in the ICU ward and had experienced a difficult time, so they wanted to use what they had learned in their profession to let their voices pass through the isolation door of the ICU and send companionship to the patients.
Li Muzi feels that compared with patients in ordinary ICUs, children in children's ICUs are younger, and due to the particularity of ICU wards, they will be more helpless without the constant companionship of their parents.
Last year, the "Little Blessing" radio team successfully contacted Dr. Ye Sheng from the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University.
"Children are more afraid of death, and in our ICU, if a child sees the child in the next bed gone, the whole person will tremble with fear. That's why we're always looking for ways to bring warmth and care to our children. Ye Sheng said.
Previously, they cooperated with the China Academy of Art to paint cartoon paintings on the walls of the wards, help family members who cannot visit the ICU through mobile phone video dialogue, and open the flexible visitation system, so as to bring more humanistic care to the children as much as possible.
"At that time, the team of Zhechuan approached me to introduce such a sound project, and we hit it off." Ye Sheng told reporters that after a period of preparation, inquiry and research of domestic and foreign literature, and confirmation of the scientific basis of music therapy, the Hubin Comprehensive ICU of the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University and the "Xiaofuyou" Radio Station of Zhejiang University of Media and Communication decided to carry out long-term and fixed cooperation. Every Monday after the family visits, the students will play live music for about half an hour, and parents can also accompany their children to participate.
"Every time I play, I was moved, happy, and more importantly, let the children let go of separation anxiety. The acceptance and recognition of parents is also very high, and they feel that the hospital is not only cold injections and medicines, but also full of healing. Ye Sheng said.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
In addition, the "Little Blessing" radio team also recorded audio for the families of the children and played it to the children in the ICU, so that they could accompany them with sound on those days when their parents were not around.
"We are also expanding more forms of voice accompaniment, such as 'Little FU Doctor to accompany the consultation', through the form of comics + audio, to introduce the medical links they are about to face to the children in a childlike tone, as well as the 'baby voice diary', which records what the children want to say, leaves a memorial, and also brings comfort to the family, which is expected to be implemented step by step in the later stage."
In Li Muzi's view, the whole process of participating in the project was very touching, not only witnessing the resilience and vitality of the children's efforts to overcome the disease, but also being moved by the parents' support for the children. ”
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