At 7:25 am on February 25, the four ECMO equipment allocated by the state were urgently flown from Nanjing to Wuhan by air charter. It is reported that 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, respectively, to support Wuhan after unified assembly in Nanjing. The entire loading and unloading process takes only 20 minutes from the start of the warehouse door to the loading and unloading of the equipment.
In order to ensure the safe and efficient completion of this batch of important equipment, Wuhan Tianhe Airport has been carefully deployed to understand flight information with Postal Airlines in advance and adjust the operating speed of the special equipment platform vehicle to ensure that the equipment is more stable when unloading. At the same time, arrange the key guarantees for business backbones. The on-site manager will supervise the scene. After the equipment is unloaded, it will be dragged into the postal warehouse as soon as possible.
"ECMO is ringing, and gold is worth two million." According to incomplete data statistics, China currently has about 400 ECMO devices. The essence of ECMO is an improved artificial heart-lung machine. The core parts are membrane lungs and blood pumps, which act as artificial lungs and artificial hearts respectively. They can provide long-term cardiopulmonary support for patients with severe heart and lung failure. Rescue to win precious time. ECMO is currently the most core support method for severe heart and lung failure. It is also known as the "last straw" for critically ill patients. (Reporter Zou Hao, editor Wu Rui)
Editor-in-chief: [Liu Xian]