(Anti-New Crown Pneumonia) 16 ECMO equipment arrived in Wuhan
China News Service, Wuhan, February 27th (Li Wei, Zhang Xiang, Xu Jinbo) Chartered flight CF9121 of China Post Airlines loaded with 16 ECMO equipment, arrived at Wuhan Tianhe Airport from Beijing on the evening of the 27th, and was a severely affected patient of the new crown pneumonia epidemic Brings the "Ultimate Lifesaving Artifact".
ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation), commonly known as "artificial lung", is a medical emergency technology device that can temporarily replace the human heart and lung function. It is also the core support method for severe heart and lung failure. It is known as new coronary pneumonia. The "last straw" for critically ill patients.
According to reports, in order to help win the Wuhan defense war, Sinopharm Holding Hubei Co., Ltd. recently imported 16 ECMOs from Europe, 72 sets of adult outer membrane lung oxygenation kits, 48 sets of neonatal and children outer membrane lung oxygenation kits and other epidemic prevention medical instrument.
In order to fulfill these "life-saving baby" transportation security tasks, Wuhan Tianhe Airport specially held a coordination meeting to work closely with relevant units to understand the equipment loading space in advance and arrange supervised loading, unloading, special vehicle drivers and loading and unloading with excellent business capabilities. Perform tasks, etc. After the plane arrived, the entire equipment loading and unloading took only 18 minutes from opening the cargo door to the designated warehouse, and assisted in re-transporting it to Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
On the 25th, according to the requirements of the Central Epidemic Prevention and Control Steering Group, the National Health and Health Commission urgently called for two ECMO devices from Chengdu, Sichuan, and Changchun, Jilin, to assist Wuhan.
According to data released by the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission, the city added 383 new confirmed cases of coronary pneumonia on the 26th, 1,535 new discharged cases, and 19 new deaths. As of the 26th, Wuhan has reported a total of 47,824 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, and a total of 13,328 discharged. There are 32392 confirmed cases in the city, of which 1103 are critically ill and 5946 are critically ill. (Finish)