Emergency Medicine | Enhance the Capacity of Emergency and Critical Treatment by the Whole Hospital
2023-01-12
This is a heartfelt note written by the family of an 85-year-old lady on the back of an emergency prescription.
On December 18, Sun was taken to Peking University People's Hospital for emergency treatment due to fever and sudden shortness of breath. Her blood oxygen saturation was only 55% and she was in critical condition.
The emergency team quickly and promptly made a grading diagnosis and immediately put Sun on a non-invasive ventilator. Soon she was breathing stabilized and her oxygen saturation rose to 96%. The rest of the night was still busy, as the nurses constantly paid attention to Sun’s condition, sucking and wiping her sputum and put stomach tube for her. After overnight emergency treatment and care, Sun’s condition was finally stable.
Since December, with the adjustment of the prevention and control policies, the final battle against the Covid-19 has been launched on the medical front, and emergency and fever clinics have become the first "battlefield" to confront the large-scale infection. The number of emergency visits reached more than 400 every day, and more than 70% of them were elderly people over 65 years old, many of whom were seriously ill. Every staff member is overworked. They volunteered to go back to work as soon as they got better. In terms of space, the hospital tries its best to expand and utilize the emergency room, coordinates beds of all departments to receive as many patients as possible, and tries its best to meet the medical needs of critically ill patients.
Peking University People's Hospital has set up a hospital-level emergency and critical care expert group with a 24-hour on call consultation mode. According to the needs of patients, the hospital-level consultation expert group starts work at any time to formulate high-quality treatment plans for critical patients in the form of MDT. The hospital actively coordinated the use of space, expanded the consultation room of the fever clinic, and equipped the mobile cabin pharmacy for patients to take medicine.
The treatment of critically ill patients is a tough battle. The devil lies in the details, and Peking University People's Hospital is racing against time to fight the disease.
