China News Service, Guangzhou, May 21st: One of the "Severe Eight Immortals" Guan Xiangdong praises the anti-epidemic effect of traditional Chinese medicine

　　Chinanews reporter Cai Minjie

　　Guan Xiangdong, one of the "Eight Immortals of Severe Severity" and director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, has "goed out" to fight the epidemic 13 times. In an online interview on the 21st, he praised the anti-epidemic effect of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　The "Eight Immortals of Severe Severe" is a "title" given by the media and netizens to 8 top experts in related fields in China during the anti-epidemic period in Wuhan.

On April 7 this year, Guan Xiangdong, one of the "Eight Immortals", received a notice from the Medical Treatment Team of the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia and went to Shanghai for support.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, he has assisted Hubei, Heilongjiang and other provinces successively, with a total of 337 days of fighting the epidemic.

　　After 44 days of assistance to Shanghai, Guan Xiangdong participated in medical treatment inspections, consultations and rescue of patients in designated hospitals for the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia in Shanghai, and carried out a collaborative epidemic-fighting cooperation model with experts in Shanghai.

　　"When we first arrived, the number of positive patients increased rapidly, and there were also some severe cases. The National Health Commission established a national medical treatment expert group. According to needs, the number of designated hospitals in Shanghai has increased from 20 at the beginning of the wave to 40. Many." Guan Xiangdong said that under the coordination of all parties, the overall epidemic situation in Shanghai has been well controlled. Since late May, the number of newly infected patients has been effectively controlled, and the treatment of critically ill patients has also achieved good results. The number of deaths has dropped significantly.

　　"For patients who have the opportunity for treatment, we will adopt active treatment measures and will not give up any patients with rescue value." Guan Xiangdong said that there are two main characteristics of this round of Shanghai epidemic. One is that compared with other new crown variants , the severity rate tends to decrease this time.

Second, elderly patients with underlying diseases and patients with no history of new crown vaccination accounted for a high proportion of severe cases.

　　Guan Xiangdong said that patients who are not vaccinated will easily become severe or critically ill, which will indeed bring trouble to clinical treatment.

　　For the treatment of elderly patients, in addition to strengthening the strength of nurses, Guan Xiangdong also places special emphasis on nutritional support.

"Nutrition is the foundation of all treatments. In the past, in local outbreaks, we emphasized with the local government to improve nutritional standards." Guan Xiangdong said that he had contacted a 106-year-old patient who was in poor physical condition at the beginning. Later, through strengthening liquid preparations and nutritional supplements and other means, it has achieved better results now.

　　In Guan Xiangdong's view, compared with the previous mutants, except for those with low immunity, the time for nucleic acid to turn negative for patients infected with Omicron is shorter, and most patients "turn negative" in about 10 days.

　　In this round of anti-epidemic efforts, Shanghai has attached great importance to the treatment of severe cases, adhering to the principle of "paying equal attention to the treatment of new crowns and the treatment of basic diseases, preventing the severity from becoming severe and the treatment of severe cases, and paying equal attention to the treatment of traditional Chinese and Western medicine."

In terms of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment, Guan Xiangdong praised the anti-epidemic effect of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　"Traditional Chinese medicine is really broad and profound, whether it is light or severe, this can be experienced in clinical practice, and the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine can reverse the disease."

Guan Xiangdong said that traditional Chinese medicine adheres to "one person, one policy", and treats according to syndrome differentiation, that is, according to the characteristics of each patient, it is prescribed separately, and the traditional Chinese medicine granule formula and decoction are combined. showed a good trend in efficacy and length of stay."

　　Medical treatment is an integral part of epidemic prevention and control, and it is imminent to expand necessary medical resources.

Guan Xiangdong said that compared with developed countries and regions in Europe and the United States, the current per capita ratio of intensive care beds in the mainland per 100,000 population is only 1/7 to 1/10 of theirs, and the ratio of ICU beds per 100 hospital beds is only theirs. /5, it is imperative to strengthen the training of critically ill talents and further increase the proportion of critically ill beds in hospitals.

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