(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Respiratory therapist: an important member of the critical care team in Wuhan

  China News Agency, Beijing, May 9 (Reporter Gao Kai) "The respiratory therapist is actually a very important member of the critical care team." On the 9th, the respiratory therapist of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, medical Team member Xia Jingen said in Beijing.

  As a new occupation in the country, many respiratory therapists played an important role in the frontline in this outbreak.

  At a press conference held on the same day by the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council of China, as a member of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital's medical team for aid to Hubei, Xia Jingen said that the respiratory therapist is actually a very important member of the critical care team, mainly for Patients with impaired function provide important clinical respiratory therapy such as respiratory support or airway management.

  Xia Jingen said that the respiratory therapist must first ensure that different types and brands of breathing support equipment and consumables are available and easy to use at any time. "It seems that if we go to war, we must prepare before the war and equip more weapons and bullets. Only soldiers on the battlefield can win this war. "

  He said that the daily work of the respiratory therapist requires contact with the secretions in the patient's airway and the gas the patient breathes.

  Xia Jingen said that due to the nature of the work, respiratory therapists may have to face some high-risk operations every day, such as suctioning sputum, assisting the establishment of artificial airways, and high-risk operations such as fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Every day, the patient ’s airway should be evaluated to understand the amount, color, and characteristics of the secretions in the patient ’s airway, so as to take certain measures or various physical methods to help the patient eliminate the secretions from the oropharynx to the lower respiratory tract, And for patients with new coronary pneumonia, the control of infection is very important.

  He pointed out that the respiratory therapist needs to work with the team to negotiate the plan of the ventilator treatment, so as to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the patient's ventilator treatment.

  In addition, the respiratory therapist will follow the transfer of critically ill patients throughout the process to ensure the safety of the patient's airway and breathing throughout the transfer process. Xia Jingen pointed out that many patients must have early rehabilitation as soon as possible once their condition improves slightly. In this epidemic, the respiratory therapist must ensure the precise, refined and standardized implementation of the respiratory treatment plan, which is very important for the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia.

  "As a new occupation in the country, I am actually one of the earliest trained respiratory therapists in China. Through some of my clinical experience and experience, I feel that full-time and professional respiratory therapy work is critical for critical patients. It is very important to improve the quality of patients' overall treatment and care. "Xia Jingen said. (Finish)