China News Service, Zhengzhou, May 10, title: Realistic version of "Life and Death Speed": In-car relay rescues comatose patients, high-speed train pits 8 minutes ahead of schedule
Reporter Han Zhangyun
On May 9, a passenger fainted suddenly on the G507 train, and then the police, flight attendants, and enthusiastic passengers were rescued by the train relay. The high-speed rail entered the station 8 minutes earlier and staged a realistic version of "Life and Death Speed".
Passengers on the train fainted suddenly. Enthusiasts came forward
"Sergeant Sergeant! A passenger in Car 6 fainted! Go and have a look!"
At 11:29 on May 9th, the G507 train had just departed from Xinyang East Station. The police officer Jing Yuan and auxiliary police officer Zhang Tianmeng of Zhengzhou Police Detachment 9th Brigade, who were on the train, received a notification from the train attendant, saying 6 A male passenger in the compartment suddenly fainted to the ground. After receiving the report, Jing Yuan and Zhang Tianmeng hurried to the compartment where the incident occurred.
After arriving in the sixth car, the scene was distressing. A man in his 50s was lying on the floor of the corridor of the car, foaming at his mouth and turning blue.
Upon seeing this, Jing Yuan immediately stepped forward, leaned over and squatted to check the man's condition, and called the man loudly, but the man did not respond.
At this time, the train attendant had already searched for a doctor through the train broadcast.
About a minute later, a man rushed to the scene. He was Yao Wenlong, an anesthesiologist at Wuhan Tongji Hospital.
Then a woman also arrived at the scene, she was a nurse at Xinyang Central Hospital.
Yao Wenlong checked carefully and found that the man was cyanotic, he had no breathing, and there was no carotid pulse. It was judged that the patient's heartbeat had stopped and he needed immediate CPR treatment.
He also asked female nurses and conductors if they had medical equipment such as injections of drugs, but unfortunately they did not. He could only perform chest compressions with bare hands.
Yao Wenlong (the man with glasses in the middle) and the police escorted the fainted passenger to an ambulance before leaving.
Photo courtesy of Zhengzhou Railway Public Security Office
Passengers rescue patients at the critical moment of life and death
In an emergency, Yao Wenlong and the female nurse quickly started cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the unconscious passenger.
Because the frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation compressions reaches 100-120 times per minute, it is effective, and the two bodies consume a lot of energy.
Upon seeing this, the police officer Jing Yuan applied to Dr. Yao for a relay cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the sick passenger.
Subsequently, two enthusiastic male passengers joined the rescue team, and under the guidance of Doctor Yao and female nurses, relayed CPR for the unconscious passengers.
At the same time, the train conductor told everyone after emergency contact dispatch that the train needs to arrive at Hankou Station to have the 120 first aid conditions, which means that in the next 40 minutes, chest compressions cannot be stopped, and every minute must be raced against.
Therefore, under the guidance of Dr. Yao Wenlong, the nurses, police officers, enthusiastic passengers, and flight attendants present were distributed on both sides of the unconscious passenger's body, and they performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation every two minutes to start a relay of life and race against death.
Someone replaced, Yao Wenlong pulled out to observe the patient's condition.
Observing the patient's pupils with a flashlight, he noticed that the dilated pupils of the comatose passengers began to become smaller, and even close to ordinary people, they began to have weak breathing, which meant that the cardiopulmonary resuscitation was effective.
"I immediately told everyone that it worked. Everyone hold on and don't give up." Yao Wenlong recalled that this was a very encouraging news at the time, which gave the tired rescuers the motivation to persist and not give up.
What's touching is that other passengers in the carriage also fully cooperated in the rescue, complying with the requirements, not taking pictures, not gathering onlookers, and fanning the rescuers to cool down, providing drinking water, paper towels, wet wipes and other items, and cooperating with the police to find patients. Family members.
Doctor Yao Wenlong and the nurse surnamed Chen who participated in the rescue escorted the fainted passengers to the ambulance.
Photo courtesy of Zhengzhou Railway Police
The Race against Grim Reaper train comes in 8 minutes early
The policemen Jing Yuan and Zhang Tianmeng asked the surrounding passengers and learned that the passenger got on the train from Xinyang East Station alone. After finding his seat, they prepared to put their backpacks on the overhead luggage rack. Who knows As soon as the passenger lifted his luggage, he suddenly fainted to the ground.
Jing Yuan immediately opened the passenger's backpack to check for medical records, first aid medicine and other items, and contacted his brother and nephew through the passenger's mobile phone, informed the passenger of the current situation and asked them to rush to Wuhan as soon as possible.
In order to allow the sick passengers to receive further treatment as soon as possible, after coordination and discussion with the railway dispatching department, the G507 train, which was supposed to arrive in Hankou at 12:20, entered the station 8 minutes earlier.
At 12:10, two minutes before arriving at Hankou Station, the police organized other passengers in the same vehicle to sit in their seats and wait to make sure that the emergency stretcher gets on the vehicle first, so that the sick passengers can be sent to the emergency vehicle in time.
At 12:12, the train arrived at Hankou Station. The door opened. The medical staff at Hankou Station had already waited for the medical staff at Hankou Station to quickly carry an emergency stretcher on the train. Yao Wenlong, the female nurse and the police sent the sick passengers to the emergency vehicle before leaving.
Quietly leaving still worrying about the patient's condition
On the evening of May 9, the reporter contacted Yao Wenlong by phone and learned that he was an anesthesiologist. This trip was to get on the train from Zhengzhou East Railway Station to Wuhan.
Yao Wenlong said frankly that he had participated in numerous rescues in the operating room for 12 years in the industry, but for the first time he encountered such a tense situation on the train, he was very worried about the patient's follow-up situation.
"This time everyone really worked together and tried their best to rescue. Without the assistance of medical equipment, they can help the patient persist for more than 40 minutes until the ambulance arrives. Personally, I am very satisfied with the rescue effect of this train. Yes." Yao Wenlong said, thanking everyone who saved their lives at the scene.
But Yao Wenlong also has regrets: "The first aid equipment on the train is too scarce. If there is an AED (automated external defibrillator), the patient's heart rate can be observed and the patient can be defibrillated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The rescue effect may be better."
When she contacted the female nurse involved in first aid on the phone, her first reaction was to ask the reporter: "How is the patient's condition?" She insisted not to reveal her name.
She told reporters that it is her professional mission to treat patients at the critical moment of life and death.
The reporter only learned that her surname was Chen, a surgical nurse at Xinyang Central Hospital, and it was the first time she encountered such an emergency outside the hospital for 12 years.
"This is entirely in the news. I didn't expect it to happen to me, but since I met it, as a medical staff, I will try my best to treat it." Nurse Chen also asked the reporter to tell the reporter if he knows the follow-up situation of the patient. she was.
Unfortunately, because of the rush, the police did not leave the names and contact information of other enthusiastic passengers involved in the train rescue.
After experiencing this thrilling train emergency with very difficult conditions, Dr. Yao and Nurse Chen also called for more people to understand the knowledge of hand-held cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and hope that first aid equipment including AEDs can be covered more widely in public. "Maybe it can save a person's life."
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More knowledge:
Data show that more than 540,000 patients suffer from sudden cardiac death in China each year, mostly because they cannot be rescued in time.
Cardiac and respiratory arrests can cause irreversible brain damage 4 minutes after they occur. The timely implementation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automatic external defibrillators (AED) for treatment can greatly increase the survival rate of patients.