Recently, Xiao Zhang, a senior high school student in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, who had a respiratory and cardiac arrest for up to 3 hours, was discharged from the hospital. Before leaving, he and the medical staff of the emergency department of ChuxiongZhou People's Hospital agreed that after the college entrance examination next year, he would come back to the emergency department with the university admission letter and reunite with these uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who had taken him back from the hands of the god of death.
An ordinary morning a month and a half ago, at 6:20, Xiao Zhang and his classmates got up early to go to the gym, but when they ran to the playground, they suddenly lost consciousness, their lips were cyanosis, they fainted on the ground, the students were overwhelmed and panicked, and the teacher immediately dialed "120" first aid.
When the "120" doctor rushed to the school at 6:40, he found that Xiao Zhang's breathing and heartbeat had stopped, so he immediately performed CPR rescue and called yao Qunmei, the director of the emergency department, and she immediately rushed to the emergency room of the hospital to wait.
At about 7 o'clock, Xiao Zhang was sent to the emergency room, at this time his limbs were cold, his breathing and heartbeat stopped, his pupils were dilated and fixed, and the emergency department doctors immediately gave endotracheal intubation, and more than ten medical staff in the general department rotated to give CPR rescue.
An hour passed, Xiao Zhang's heart did not have a single reaction, according to the principle of rescue for such a long time if the heartbeat did not recover, the rescue could be stopped. The child's mother worked outside the province, begging for help for her child on the phone, the father's desperate eyes made all the medical staff can't bear to give up, Director Yao Qunmei commanded everyone to continue to rescue, and timely supplement electrolytes to correct the internal environment and other treatment.
At 9 o'clock, Xiao Zhang's heart finally responded and began to recurrent ventricular fibrillation. The medical staff immediately gave repeated electrical defibrillation rescue and temporary pacemaker placement, Xiao Zhang's heartbeat gradually stabilized with the support of the temporary pacemaker, and he was transferred to the EICU to continue treatment.
Rehabilitation exercises
During his hospitalization, Xiao Zhang experienced post-resuscitation syndrome, liver and kidney failure, myocardial infarction, stress ulcer bleeding, disseminated intravascular coagulation, multidrug-resistant pulmonary infection, ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy, secondary epilepsy...
The medical staff of the emergency department adhere to the concept of "life first" and do not give up every glimmer of hope, through one difficult time after another, PICCO, CRRT, ventilator treatment, tracheostomy, alveolar lavage, anti-infection, rehabilitation exercises...
Wheelchair functional training
After unremitting efforts, Xiao Zhang's vital signs gradually stabilized, the functions of various organs gradually returned to normal, spontaneous breathing recovery, liver and kidney function recovered, and gradually separated from the ventilator, but brain resuscitation has become a problem, Xiao Zhang is in a vegetative state, even parents do not know, a child who is about to take the college entrance examination has almost become dementia.
Can not let the family lose hope, the emergency department medical staff tried everything to consult a large number of literature for rehabilitation treatment, and help Xiao Zhang to carry out bicycles on the hospital bed to promote muscle recovery, starting from the simplest number of pictures to carry out brain rehabilitation exercises.
After careful treatment and care by medical staff, Xiao Zhang can get out of bed and stand
After more than 40 days of treatment, Xiao Zhang's condition improved, and when he called out "Mother" again, everyone was in tears, and this call condensed everyone's efforts.
Time passed day by day, Xiao Zhang's condition improved day by day, when he was discharged from the hospital, he could already read English words, read simple math problems, and had a beautiful agreement with medical staff for next year's college entrance examination.