Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Hui Zhang Hua Lin Qingqing Xue Renzheng correspondent Song Liping Lin Weiyin Wang Shuhui
Cold and cold, it should have been the season of spring and flowers, but Guangzhou has ushered in a cliff-like cooling, and the "low temperature + rain" has caused the body temperature to drop a bit.
A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News visited a number of large tertiary hospitals in Guangzhou and learned that the number of patients with myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction admitted to the emergency department of the hospital in the past two or three days has increased significantly compared with the same period of previous years, including many young patients with myocardial infarction. The number of patients has also increased significantly. Experts also predict that the hospital will usher in a "small peak" for children with colds and fever in the next two or three days.
Second Hospital of Trauma Province: Trauma caused by falls has increased by 30%-40%
In recent days, due to the cold weather and more rain, some elderly people go out for activities, and their hands and feet are not easy, resulting in a lot of cases of fractures and trauma caused by falls.
The reporter learned from the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province that in the past week, the number of patients admitted to the emergency department for trauma caused by falls has increased by 30%-40%.
Cao Juchao, deputy chief physician of the emergency department of the hospital, told reporters that the road is slippery after rain, which can easily lead to falls and injuries, so he reminded the general public that the elderly should try to limit their going out in the past two days.
Myocardial infarction has increased significantly compared with the same period of previous years, and there are many young patients
According to incomplete statistics, the number of patients with cardiovascular disease has increased significantly in recent days. Among them, the number of myocardial infarction patients received by the emergency department has increased sharply, and many of them are young patients aged 30-40.
Chief physician Ouyang Mao, director of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of Zhongshan No. 6 Hospital, introduced that the number of patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases who have come to see a doctor due to the sudden drop in temperature has increased by more than 30%. Most of them have high blood pressure themselves. Those who came to see a doctor and adjusted medicines, some came to see a doctor because of dizziness, chest tightness and discomfort.
Blood pressure fluctuation is a predisposing factor for myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
"It's rare that there are so many patients at the beginning of the year like this year, and the group of our hospital's 'myocardial infarction firefighting team' has been constantly receiving information," said Wang Shichao, deputy director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who has been a doctor for 14 years. Physicians are very emotional about the sudden increase in myocardial infarction patients after the holiday this year, especially the young people in their 30s and 40s who have been treated in the recent period of time account for a large proportion.
Wang Shichao analyzed that this is because they usually do not pay attention to their own bodies, and have bad habits such as smoking, drinking, and staying up late, coupled with changes in temperature, which induce myocardial infarction.
Why is cold weather easy to cause heart attack?
Professor Zhang Minzhou, the leader of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the medical director of the Chest Pain Center, explained that when the weather is cold, people's physiological functions become slow, and they are often in a state of stress, which increases the load on the heart; coupled with the large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor When people enter and leave different places and encounter a sudden change in temperature, the blood vessels will suddenly contract when stimulated by cold air. heart attack.
Generally speaking, myocardial infarction accidents are most likely to occur in the middle of the night or in the early morning. The high-risk period of the year that needs to be paid attention to is when the seasons change, especially in the late autumn, cold winter or freezing spring when the temperature suddenly drops.
The number of stroke patients has increased significantly, but fortunately it came early and treated it in a timely manner
In recent days, the number of stroke (stroke) patients admitted to major hospitals has also increased significantly, and some hospitals have increased by as much as 50%.
Professor Xiong Yan from the Emergency Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University introduced that most of the stroke patients admitted recently are ischemic stroke (cerebral infarction). Not too small.
"Sudden cerebral infarction at a young age is a tragedy for individuals and families, but fortunately, most of the young patients who have recently come to the hospital call 120 when they feel unwell. Because of the timely treatment, the prognosis is not bad." Professor Xiong Yan was slightly relieved. , A young patient who was deeply impressed by her had a large-area cerebral infarction, but thanks to "early enough", the doctor performed thrombolysis and thrombectomy on him successively. The patient recovered well, and there were basically no sequelae.
She reminded readers that the limit time for stroke rescue is 4.5 hours. If you have symptoms such as unilateral limb weakness and skewed corners of the mouth, you should call 120 as soon as possible.
Children may usher in a small peak of cold and fever visits in the next two or three days
As the cold wave strikes and the temperature drops sharply, experts predict that in the next two or three days, major hospitals will usher in a "small peak" of children's upper respiratory tract infections. In addition to colds and fever, even children with pneumonia will increase accordingly.
Professor Li Li, deputy director of the emergency department of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, reminded parents to keep their children warm and pay attention to room ventilation, because most children's upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses, so preventing colds and reducing gatherings are the keys.
Children under the age of three have imperfect immune function. In addition to keeping warm, they should also pay attention to their nutritional balance and adequate sleep to prevent colds and fever.
In addition, if you find that your child has symptoms such as fever and cough, you can take oral medication at home. If you observe a poor mental state, you should seek medical attention in time.
According to the reporter's understanding, children with fever are generally diagnosed at the fever clinic for the first time.
Doctors will give patients timely treatment based on investigations such as body temperature, epidemiological history, and rapid nucleic acid test results in about 2.5 hours.
Professor Li Li said that the purpose of the hospital's rapid release of nucleic acid test results is to reduce the waiting time of patients in the hospital and avoid cross-infection.
At the next visit, the child can see the general pediatric outpatient clinic with a negative nucleic acid result.