He is a "post-95" who was absent from work just after entering the job. She is a novice mother after giving birth. She is a journalist who is "departing at any time"... But when an accident happens and someone is dying and needs first aid, there is a Common name-urban first responder

Min Hua explained cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED operations to teenagers and their families at the Huzhou Science and Technology Museum. Photo courtesy of respondents

  Our reporter Huang Xiao and Lin Guangyao

  "Let's give a hand, I am a Red Cross ambulance."

  A dark-skinned young electrician lay down on the ground due to an electric shock, unconscious. After the onlookers called 120, they waited anxiously, but were helpless.

  This sudden sentence broke the tension and anxiety in the air. Everyone followed the sound, turned their heads to the place where the sound was coming from, and consciously let go of a passage. A young guy rushed up and knelt beside the patient.

  He found that the electrician had lost consciousness, leaving only a short gasp. After assessing the situation, the young man quickly began to rescue, and the life channel of the injured electrician was opened...

  "Post-95s" who "absent from work" just after joining the company

  The young man's name is Xia Zhenhui. Five minutes before his arrival, he was still an urban white-collar worker making forms in front of the computer.

  Born in 1999, he just joined a property company in Hangzhou. When an emergency app in the mobile phone notified the alarm, he ignored the request for leave from the leader, put down his work, and immediately rode the "little donkey" borrowed from his colleague to the scene of the incident. He is anxious to save people, time is life.

  On the other side, the ambulance made a "beep, beep" sound and rushed to the place where the incident occurred. The sharp flute sound cut through the dullness of the working day afternoon.

  "27, 28, 29, 30, breathe." Xia Zhenhui counted the beats silently in his heart, overlapping the root of his right palm on the back of his left hand, and pressing the patient's chest regularly. This is the second time he has participated in the rescue of patients with cardiac arrest. Compared with the first time, Xia Zhenhui's mentality and tactics are more stable.

  After a few compression cycles, the ambulance arrived. The emergency doctor connected the ECG monitor to the patient, and Xia Zhenhui left his hand. "Dididi" the instrument cried out immediately, and everyone's hearts tightened again.

  "Keep pressing, don't stop!" The doctor and Xia Zhenhui carried the patient into the car and rushed to the nearest hospital. With fast speed and small space, Xia Zhenhui in the ambulance was shaken by the inertia of the vehicle changing lanes and turning. The sultry summer weather and huge physical exertion made him panting and sweating.

  Xia Zhenhui drove to the hospital, sent the patient to the emergency room, and left silently. Thanks to the timely on-site rescue, the patient recovered spontaneous breathing and heartbeat after the rescue. When Xia Zhenhui hurried back to the office, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon. He did not mention the rescue.

  "Everyone didn't understand the reason why I was'absent from work' for several hours until I watched the media reports later." Xia Zhenhui was very low-key in the face of praise from his boss and colleagues.

  "You look beautiful when you kneel to save people"

  This is not the first time such a scene has appeared.

  On the afternoon of October 4, 2019, amid the rapid braking and dull crash, a cement tanker collided with an electric vehicle at an intersection in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The female rider of the electric bike was hit and flew onto the road a few meters away and fell to the ground. Blood kept coming out of the girl's head, but everyone at the scene was helpless waiting for the arrival of the ambulance.

  "Please give in, I will give first aid!" There was a shout at this moment, and the crowd of onlookers immediately gave up a passage. Min Hua, a doctor from the State Grid Huzhou Power Supply Company, who was riding a bicycle with his colleagues, came to the girl with a first aid kit that he carried with him.

  He took out the sterile dressing and a clean triangle bandage from the first aid kit and placed it under the girl's head, successfully stopping the bleeding. Immediately afterwards, he opened the girl’s eyes to check whether the pupils were dilated, shouted in her ears to determine whether she was unconscious, asked her to use her hands and feet to determine whether the nervous system was damaged, and observe whether there was fluid outflow from the ears to determine whether there was a skull base fracture. ...

  Min Hua prevented the cement tanker driver from trying to lift the girl up, because the huge impact could cause intracranial hemorrhage or cervical spine fracture, and moving the injured blindly could cause more serious secondary injuries and even life-threatening.

  "Child, don't move your neck, 120 will be here soon!" Min Hua knelt on the road hot from the sun, protected the girl's head with both hands, and remained motionless until the ambulance arrived at the scene 5 minutes later.

  After watching the medical staff lift the girl onto the stretcher, he breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and walked out of the crowd silently.

  This scene was filmed by a companion with a mobile phone, "You look so beautiful when you kneel to save someone", which was posted on the Internet and won a lot of likes.

  Min Hua has been associated with first aid for more than 30 years. As early as 1986, after the Huzhou Red Cross resumed work, he joined the Huzhou emergency nurse training army. Today, he is a first aid training instructor for the Zhejiang Red Cross Society. It has become his habit to carry a backpack full of first aid supplies such as a triangle scarf, masks, gloves, bandages and so on. Over the past 30 years, he has trained more than 300,000 people offline, and he has personally participated in emergency first aid four or five times.

  Regrets of urban first responders

  Xia Zhenhui was excited when he learned that the young electrician who participated in the emergency rescue had recovered his breathing and heartbeat. However, challenging the Reaper is destined to be a mixed success. The scene of participating in first aid for the first time in September 2019 still comes to Xia Zhenhui's mind from time to time.

  The patient was an uncle who collapsed at the elevator entrance due to a cardiac arrest. “When he fell, he had his eyes open. One of his eyes was big and the other was small. I kept looking at his eyes when I was giving him CPR. Until now, I can still think of those eyes when I close my eyes.” Thanks to Xia Zhenhui’s efforts, the uncle recovered his heartbeat, but due to his older age and more serious underlying diseases, the uncle eventually passed away.

  Although I knew it was not my fault, Xia Zhenhui still regretted that due to the lack of accurate positioning, I was slightly delayed on the way to the scene: "It would be better if I had it sooner, or if there were other emergency volunteers who could be earlier. Just rush to the scene, maybe it can change the final result."

  Coincidentally, Min Hua also has his regrets. In May and June of this year, two of his friends suffered misfortune. One friend died suddenly while running, and the other died suddenly while resting at home at night.

  "Whenever someone you know has an accident, other friends will always say,'It would be nice if you were there at the time, and they probably won't die.'" Min Hua regretted: "In such an emergency, The chance of a doctor being around is very low. In fact, instead of relying on others or emergency doctors, it is better to act and learn by yourself."

  Xia Zhenhui learned by acting on her own. As a marathon runner, he has heard the news about the sudden death of many marathon enthusiasts. While regretting, he pondered: What if the sudden death happened by his side?

  Based on this thinking, he participated in the first aid volunteer training of the Red Cross Society of Xihu District, Hangzhou, and then joined the outdoor safety emergency team of Zhejiang University as a volunteer. Now he has become the AHA public first aid training instructor for the outdoor safety emergency team of Zhejiang University.

  Xia Zhenhui saw the public's enthusiasm for first aid training, and also discovered the current problems in first aid training and first aid configuration. "The limited training services provided by the Red Cross do not match the public's enthusiasm for first aid training and the large demand. In Hangzhou, if you want to participate in first aid training, you may have to queue for more than a month." Xia Zhenhui believes that the Red Cross currently The training time provided is relatively short, the training on the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic defibrillation (AED) is not detailed enough, and there are fewer opportunities for learning the medical principles related to cardiac arrest and practicing external compression.

  "Everyone learns first aid, first aid for everyone". Accidents in life always come inadvertently. Everyone can become an urban first-aider like Xia Zhenhui and Min Hua. Perhaps a little action of ours can give family, friends, and strangers in unexpected accidents more chances of survival. Let Xia Zhenhui and Min Hua, who have worked so hard, have one more companion and one less regret.