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Ye Xin, the head nurse, fought against SARS and wrote a great doctor with her life.

2003-04-19 20: 21:20 Jinyang Net-Yangcheng Evening News Online

On the battlefield against SARS, the vast number of medical workers held high the banner of Bethune spirit, selfless and fearless, charged ahead, and wrote a magnificent chapter to save lives with their lives.

Ye Xin, the head nurse of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, passed away forever when Magnolia was in full bloom. She died in the battle against atypical pneumonia. Before she died, she left an unforgettable sentence: it's dangerous here, let me do it.

It is the lofty spiritual realm of countless medical workers to leave risks to themselves and safety to patients. It is with the tenacious struggle of a large number of white soldiers that the spread of atypical pneumonia can be contained. People can enjoy a quiet life.

-People's Daily in April 18: People's health is more important than Mount Tai.

"Whoever heals the sick will have no desire, and swear to save the suffering of the spirit. Don't worry about good and bad, protect your life. Day and night, cold and heat, hunger and thirst, fatigue, dedication to save people. "

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, listed the book "Great Doctor Sincerity" at the top of his masterpiece "Save a Thousand Daughters for Emergency", arguing that doctors must carry forward the humanitarian spirit of saving lives, be "expert" and "sincere" morally, and be a "great doctor" with both ability and political integrity.

The article "big doctor Sincerity" is the first lesson that Ye Xin, head nurse of the emergency department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was admitted to the "Health Training Team" of the hospital on 1974.

Ye Xin has been a head nurse in the emergency department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for 23 years. Whether it is to give first aid to dying migrant workers who jumped off a building, or to take the lead in nursing AIDS drug addicts, or to risk their lives to save patients with atypical pneumonia, she has not "looked back and forth, mixed with worries and joys." She wrote the "sincerity" of China's great doctor with her own life. In the early morning of March 24th, 2003, Ye Xin died at the age of 46, who was unfortunately infected by rescuing SARS patients.

Over the past few days, the reporter visited Ye Xin's family, friends, colleagues, patients and attending doctors (who were in charge of her dying rescue) to pursue angels in white's immortal spirit.

Send medicine and soup to everyone every day.

Be sure to personally supervise everyone to take preventive medicine with boiling water, even the cleaners are no exception.

Ersha Branch of Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been receiving cases of atypical pneumonia since February. As a result, before in Dade Road General Hospital, first-line medical staff were infected and sick, and nurses in Ye Xin were especially careful.

Every morning, she returns to the department half an hour early to prepare preventive drugs for everyone and distribute them to every doctor, nurse, caregiver and even cleaner. Some preventive drugs have strong side effects, so Ye Xin must personally supervise everyone to take them with boiled water.

Before entering the ward, Ye Xin repeatedly emphasized various preventive measures: replacing work clothes, shoes and socks; Wear a mask, hat and eye mask; Isolation gown should be replaced before entering the isolation ward; Wash your hands and rinse your mouth when you leave the isolation ward.

On the day of fighting against SARS, she only slept for a few hours every day, but she still didn't forget to cook a pot of old fire soup before going to bed, sometimes American ginseng and sometimes Cordyceps sinensis. She will take it back to the hospital the next day and give it to her colleagues to improve her resistance.

Always keep the danger to yourself

In the face of critically ill infectious patients, she took the lead, and sometimes even closed the door to rescue, not allowing too many people to intervene.

No one can be sure when Ye was infected with atypical pneumonia. Every time a suspected or confirmed patient is sent to Corey, she and the director of the emergency department take the lead, undertake heavy medical care work, and sometimes even close the door to rescue, so as not to let too many colleagues intervene.

"I have checked the patient's temperature, listened to the lungs and sucked sputum. Don't go in and try to reduce the chance of infection. " These words made many young nurses cry in the face of SARS.

"Ye Huchang may have been infected on February 24th." Nurse Xiao Rong recalled that that night, a 40-year-old patient with acute intestinal obstruction was found to be complicated with high fever, lung shadow and other atypical pneumonia symptoms after emergency surgery, so he was sent to the emergency department for observation and soon developed respiratory failure. Ye Huchang rushed to the front line, cooperated with the doctor to intubate and put on a ventilator. At that time, the patient had a lot of secretions, which may have been sprayed on the head nurse during the rescue. ...

"It may be that Hu Ye was infected while cleaning after Xiao Chen got sick." Nurse Xiao Yu clearly remembers that after the first case of nurse infection occurred in Corey at the end of February, Director Ye has been thinking hard, not knowing which link was not done enough, giving the virus an opportunity. She personally disinfected every phone, cleaned every doorknob, checked the disinfection work clothes, and changed the place in work shoes and the position of insoles. Xiao Yu believes that Ye Huchang was exposed to so many suspicious poisons during disinfection, which may have been infected at that time.

"It may be that on the morning of March 1, four of our medical staff fell ill after rescuing patients." Zhang Zhongde, the director of the emergency department who also fell ill, couldn't forget the rescue situation at that time: three days later, on March 4, 12, 6: 00, 10, Chief Ye, Director Zhang and Dr. Jiang of the emergency department were isolated due to fever, and the anesthesiologist also became ill on the same day.

At 8: 00 a.m. on March 1 Sunday, the emergency department is changing shifts. The family of an 87-year-old suspected SARS patient rushed into the doctor's office: The patient is dying! Director Hu Ye and others rushed to the patient's bed: the patient's face was purple, his lips were purple, his breathing was weak, and the regular ECG was deformed into a chaotic waveform ... Everyone immediately evacuated all the other three patients and their families in the ward, and then urgently performed chest massage, artificial respiration, cardiac shock, venous access, repeated injections of first aid and cardiotonic, and intubation of ventilator. ...

At 9 am, the patient died after being rescued. This is a highly dangerous patient. Everyone knows that isolation gown is the way to rescue people, but during the more than one hour of rescue, no one will leave the patient for even a few minutes to protect themselves.

Lying in bed thinking about work

When the doctors and nurses approached her, she struggled to write "Don't come near me, it will be contagious" on the paper.

In the early days of isolation treatment, Ye Xin could still call. She calls Cory every day, telling everyone to remember to take preventive medicine, telling colleagues to pay attention to physical examination, asking nurses to record urine volume for patients in bed 7 and pat patients in bed 9 on the back. ...

On the fourth day of onset, he had difficulty breathing and was sent to ICU with the director of the emergency department. Everyone wore oxygen masks, and they could only encourage each other by sending short messages and writing notes. Everyone joked that the nurses and directors of the emergency department were still flirting with geese in the ICU. ...

In order to reduce the chance of her colleagues being infected, she rehydrated herself. When doctors and nurses approached her to listen to her lungs and suck sputum, she struggled to write on the paper: "Don't come near me, it will be contagious." When the dean and other colleagues came to visit, she wrote: "I am very hard, but I can bear it." Thank you for your concern, but don't come to me in the future. I don't want to infect everyone. "

On March 1 1, Director Zhang of the emergency department received the last note written by the director: "I really can't stand it, I have to go to the ventilator." Director Zhang, who also had difficulty breathing, replied to her trembling: "Nurse, you must hold on! The doctors and nurses in the whole hospital are supporting us! "

Zhang didn't wait for Ye's reply. After intubation on the ventilator, she was sedated and went into a "hibernation" state to prevent the ventilator from falling off because of restlessness. When Ye Xin died in the early morning of March 24th, he was very calm.

On the same day, a patient in ICU recovered and was discharged. He is the patient of atypical pneumonia complicated with intestinal obstruction who died in Ye Xin on the evening of February 24th. In order not to leave a shadow on his later life, no one told him when he left the hospital: the nurse who saved him is now buried in the hospital where she devoted her life.

Concentrate experts on the rescue.

A 70-year-old doctor flew from Tianjin to Guangzhou the next day without saying a word.

After Ye Xin fell ill, Zhang Dejiang, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted Cai Dongshi, secretary-general of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, to express condolences to her and her family and learn about her illness. Lei Yulan, vice governor, accompanied by Huang Yebin, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, and Huang Qingdao, director of the provincial health department, went to the hospital to inquire about the treatment. The Provincial Health Department, the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine provided technical, material and equipment support for her rescue.

The hospital set up a treatment team and invited the best experts in China to participate in consultation and first aid. The leader of the treatment team is Liu Xusheng, a former director of emergency department in Ye Xin. He simply transferred to the hospital for timely rescue. With Ye Xin's cases and materials, he personally went to the First Zhongshan Hospital, the Second Zhongshan Hospital, the Third Zhongshan Hospital, the Provincial People's Hospital and the Southern Hospital to consult experts in infectious diseases, hematology and nephrology. The deputy director of Guangzhou Eye Protection Institute visited the ward for consultation many times. In the late stage of the disease, Ye Xin developed disseminated intravascular coagulation, systemic hemorrhage and multiple organ failure of heart, liver and kidney. The hospital invited an expert specializing in multiple organ failure from Tianjin Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. The 70-year-old doctor said nothing. The next day he flew to Guangzhou and walked into Ye Xin's ward. ...

Work for 23 years has "three outstanding"

She loves her job and devotes herself to it. Over the years, she has made outstanding achievements in lumbar disc herniation and cervical disc herniation.

1976 after joining the work, Ye Xin became the youngest head nurse in 1980 hospital because of her top-notch business and good conduct. In the emergency department, which races against death every minute, the waiting time is 23 years. In the past 23 years, she has "three prominent": lumbar disc herniation and cervical vertebra protrusion, with outstanding achievements.

He has been rated as "Excellent party member", "Advanced Worker", "Excellent Nurse" and "Excellent Nurse" for many times. He won the third prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and read many papers at national and provincial academic exchanges.

The husband and son said that she was conscientious and never flinched in the face of SARS. Like thousands of medical staff in Qian Qian, she is respected and lovely.

Colleagues and colleagues said that it was not the first time that she left the danger to herself and gave her health to her colleagues. We are deeply saddened and convinced. Her spirit will inspire us to overcome all diseases. (Liao Huailing, Zheng Peihua, Tiger Hu)

Ye Xin, a soldier in white, was buried in the battlefield against SARS.

Southern Network-Southern Metropolis Daily

The hero in white goes to sleep, and his relatives insert a wick of incense.

Her hearty laughter still seems to reverberate in the news department of Southern Network, and patients seem to remember her busy figure and soothing care like spring breeze. However, in the spring of March, Ye Xin, the 46-year-old head nurse of the emergency department of Ersha Branch of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, left forever.

The disease greeted us.

Ye Xin is aware of the danger of fighting SARS this time. Two weeks before she got sick, we even canceled the weekend dinner at the old man's place.

Ye Xin's lover is always calm. He believed that danger and death never really entered his bright-eyed wife; He believes that his wife will not leave him and his son who is still in college. However, Ye Xin fell on the battlefield of fighting SARS day and night. He didn't even know the water and electricity bills at home before, but now he wants to let his father and son live alone and take care of himself and his son from cooking and washing. He fought back his grief and took her beloved work clothes and dovetail hat from the department where Ye Xin worked, so that she could say goodbye to people. Because, "she likes work clothes, even if they are old and worn." He tearfully told reporters who went to interview: "In fact, Ye Xin knows the danger of fighting SARS this time. Two weeks before she got sick, we even canceled the weekend dinner at the old man's place. Ye Xin greeted him when the disease struck. She is not a deserter, and we are proud of her. "

Take the lead and work overtime continuously.

When busy, Ye Xin even refused to answer the phone calls from his family. The girl who answered the phone said, "Tell him I'm in class. Nothing. "

In February this year, SARS and suspected SARS patients began to be found in the emergency department of Ersha, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a maximum of 5 cases a day. Facing the doubled workload, Ye Xin, the head nurse, carefully planned and arranged intensive classes. In order to prevent the disease from being transmitted to colleagues, the first thing she does when she goes to work every day is to personally open the water to drink preventive medicine and watch everyone eat it. She earnestly reminded everyone to do all kinds of isolation measures, from doctors to nurses, and the rigor and seriousness of the inspection were almost critical.

Character file

Name: Ye Xin.

Age: 46 years old

Last name: female

Resume: 1976 joined the work, worked as a head nurse in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 1984, and died in the early morning of March 25th, 2003 in the position of head nurse in the emergency department of Ersha Branch of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

With the sharp increase of SARS patients and the increasing work intensity of various departments, Ye Xin took the lead in working overtime on February 8th. When he was busy, he even refused to answer his family's phone calls. The girl who answered the phone said, "Tell him I'm in class. Nothing. "

"I have checked the patient's temperature, listened to the lungs and sucked sputum. Don't go in and try to reduce the chance of infection. " In the days of fighting SARS, Ye Xin's words made many young nurses cry.

Mr. Liang, a coronary heart disease patient who had undergone heart bypass surgery, came to the emergency department because of fever and cough. The condition deteriorated sharply in a short time, with dyspnea, dysphoria, cyanosis, heart failure and respiratory failure. Ye Xin, the head nurse, came quickly, skillfully shook the hospital bed, making the patient sit in a semi-supine position, wearing a mask to absorb oxygen, connecting the bedside electrocardiogram, blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitor, intravenous injection of cardiotonic drugs, vasoactive drugs and respiratory stimulants, and monitoring the heart rate, blood pressure and breathing ... Two hours later, the patient was finally out of danger, and head nurse Ye forgot to rest and dragged her tired body into the rescue of another patient. Because there are still 7 beds of critically ill patients on the ventilator and 9 beds of high-frequency nursing work waiting for her to check ... In this way, high-risk, high-intensity and high-efficiency work has been accompanied by Ye Xin.

"It's dangerous here, let me do it!" Ye Xin and Zhang Zhongde, director of Ersha Emergency Department, silently made a choice without regrets. Ye Xin tried his best to check, rescue, treat and care for critically ill SARS patients, and sometimes even turned away his colleagues, with a look on his face that was not negotiable. However, misfortune happened soon.

February 24th was a tense and unusual day for Ye Xin. When I was on the night shift the night before yesterday, I only felt sore and exhausted. Since the emergence of SARS patients in the emergency department, she has no concept of festivals or weekends. Recently, I obviously feel that my energy is not good, especially cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis and knee joint disease seem to come together, but there are too many things needed for emergency treatment.

In the morning, an acute abdomen patient suspected of intestinal obstruction came to the emergency department, and some symptoms of the patient attracted the attention of medical staff. The suspicion was finally confirmed: SARS again! The patient's condition is getting worse and worse, and all serious symptoms have been presented. This is a case of severe "poisoning" patients! Head nurse Ye and members of the expert group quickly launched the rescue work, and finally pulled the patient back from the dying line. But SARS broke into Ye Xin's body, and he had been fighting in the front for many days.

"Don't come near me, it will be contagious."

Facing the doctor who came to treat her, she suddenly and eagerly signaled the nurse to hand her paper and pen and wrote trembling, "Don't come near me, it will be contagious." The nurse handed the paper to these colleagues with tears in her eyes.

On the morning of March 4th, Ye Xin still came to the department early as usual. He was very tired all morning. He didn't take a sip of water or a bite of rice. He only felt pain all over, so he had to climb into bed to rest. Just after noon, the extremely tired head nurse Ye began to have fever symptoms and had to go to the ward for isolation observation. The body temperature is rising and the infusion is dripping, but the head nurse Ye is still thinking about several critically ill patients in the department. Through the pager, colleagues in the emergency department heard her weak but kind voice again: "What is the urine volume of bed 7 every 2 hours?" Critical patients should turn over on time and take good care of their skin and mouth! "

The disease finally did not let her go. After the diagnosis, Ye Xin was infected with atypical pneumonia, and she had to live in the headquarters of provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine where she had worked for 27 years. In the first few days, whenever medical staff came to check and treat, she always urged them to wear more isolation gown and several layers of masks. She even suggested nursing herself: "I am an old head nurse, why not?" When the hospital leaders came to visit, the first thing she said was not her illness, but to review her own shortcomings and blame herself for her careless illness, which brought trouble to the hospital and the leaders. On the fourth day, she had difficulty breathing and was sent to the intensive care unit (ICU) with the director of the emergency department. According to Ye Xin's colleagues, everyone wears an oxygen mask and can only encourage each other by texting and writing notes. One day, facing the doctor who came to treat her, she suddenly and eagerly signaled the nurse to hand her paper and pen, and laboriously wrote, "Don't come near me, it will be contagious." The nurse handed the paper to these colleagues with tears in her eyes. When the dean and other colleagues came to visit, she wrote: "I am very hard, but I can bear it." Thank you for your concern, but don't come to me in the future. I don't want to infect everyone. "

On March 1 1, director Zhang of the emergency department suffering from SARS received the last note written by the director: "I really can't stand it, I have to go to the ventilator." After intubation on the ventilator, she was sedated and went into a "hibernation" state to prevent the ventilator from falling off because of restlessness.

The experts tried their best to save them.

Zhang Dejiang, secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted Secretary-General Cai Dongshi to express condolences to her and her family. Lei Yulan, vice governor, accompanied by Huang Yebin, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, and Huang Qingdao, director of the provincial health department, personally went to the hospital to understand the treatment situation.

In order to treat Ye Xin, the hospital set up a rescue team in the shortest time and sought support from the whole country. During an expert consultation, Dean Lv Yubo heard that an expert in Tianjin had unique experience in treating multiple organ failure, so he called the expert in Tianjin that night. The expert was moved by Lu Dean's eagerness and true feelings, and took the first flight to Guangzhou early the next morning.

However, with the passage of time, Ye Xin's condition has never improved. I don't know how many people are praying for Ye Xin. I don't know how many people asked with concern as soon as they got to work, "What happened to head nurse Ye? Is it getting better? " Ye Xin's illness touched almost everyone's heart. Zhang Dejiang, secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted Secretary-General Cai Dongshi to express condolences to her and her family. Lei Yulan, vice governor, accompanied by Huang Yebin, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, and Huang Qingdao, director of the provincial health department, personally went to the hospital to understand the treatment situation. The leaders of Provincial Health Department, Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine also provided technical, material and equipment support for Ye Xin's rescue.

How many people's efforts and appeals failed to stop Ye Xin from leaving in a hurry! Less than 1 week after she finally rescued the patient infected with SARS, and at 1: 30 in the morning of March 25th, Ye Xin left her beloved post, comrades-in-arms and relatives forever!

On the afternoon of March 29th, all the staff of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine made a final farewell for her in Songqing Hall of Guangzhou Funeral Home. Garlands like the sea, tears like rain. In the portrait, people are left with her eternal smile.

■ Dialogue

Let her wear a nurse's uniform. Mr. Zhang deeply recalled the dribs and drabs of his wife Ye Xin.

Yesterday (April 19) at 4: 00 p.m., the sunset in late spring gently sprinkled on the home of an ordinary resident in Dongshan District, Guangzhou. Mr. Zhang, the boss of a company, has been smoking. When he talks to reporters about his wife Ye Xin, he will look intently at the beautiful and dignified portrait of his wife on the opposite table. Mr. Zhang's eyes, haggard, could not help but shed tears, although he always wanted to have this conversation in a peaceful tone.

Reporter (hereinafter referred to as "Ji"): In recent days, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily and other media have published articles and comments about your wife. Do you think these things will remind you of your wife more?

Mr. Zhang (hereinafter referred to as "Zhang"): He died in the early morning of March 25th. It has been almost 65,438+0 months now, but my son and I are still in a bad mood. I try not to visit my friends and relatives, so I want to work hard. Although Ye Xin has passed away, I still often feel her presence. I am really pleased with the articles published in the media these days. It should be said that my wife is an ordinary person, but she is a qualified party member.

Reporter: When did you meet Ye Xin? What was her first impression?

Zhang: We met through the introduction of the head nurse. That was 198 1 years ago. Ye Xin was still working as a nurse in the provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine. The first impression she gave me was easygoing, cheerful and kind. We got married soon that Spring Festival. Our son is 2 1 year old this year, and his feelings have always been very harmonious. I thought our marriage life was unbreakable, but her departure was completely broken, which hit me hard.

Reporter: At that time, your wife was on the front line in the fight against SARS. As a family member, are you worried about her safety? How did she get sick?

Zhang: Actually, she and I are well aware of this danger, but what she admires most is her kindness and principles of being a man. At that time, she told me that she despised some people who chickened out on the spot, and I agreed with her. I am a soldier, and we know very well that this time is like a war. Only those who rush in are good soldiers. But after all, she contributed with her life (Mr. Zhang's voice began to choke). I remember that on the morning of March 4th, she didn't get up every morning to take my blood pressure. She said she was tired, but she insisted on going back to work. I didn't expect to go home after this trip. ...

Reporter: Did you visit her every day when she was ill?

Zhang: Her condition is getting worse and worse, and the doctor resolutely won't let me go in to see her. For this, I fought for a long time. I think she needs me, even though she lets me go every time I see her. If I can't talk with an oxygen mask, she will gesture to let me go. To make matters worse, she will write a note. I know she is afraid that I will be infected, but she is my wife. For her sake, it doesn't matter whether she is infected or not.

Reporter: I heard that before Ye Xin's body was cremated, you insisted on changing into a nurse's uniform. What kind of mood did you want to express at that time?

Zhang: At 0: 00 on March 25th, I got a call from the hospital asking me to go there at once. I thought the doctor would take emergency measures to save me and let me sign, but when I got to the hospital, she had already left. I thought the sky was falling. I can't believe she just left. She walked too fast! (Speaking of which, Mr. Zhang burst into tears. Before she was cremated, I insisted on changing her into a nurse's uniform, you know? How much she loves her job as a nurse. Since she is paralyzed in this position, let her go in this nurse's uniform. I think she will be very happy ...

Zhongguang comment: Flowers offer wonderful hands and angels rejuvenate to pay tribute to the heroes who fought against SARS!

Zhongguang Wang

China Broadcasting Network, Beijing, April 20 (Reporter Guo Changjiang) Today, China Broadcasting Network broadcast the comment "Flowers offer wonderful hands to rejuvenate angels to pay tribute to the heroes who fought against SARS! , the full text is as follows:

Carlo urbani, an Italian doctor who won the Nobel Peace Prize, left forever after sounding the alarm of SARS. Ye Xin, a nurse in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, died in the battle against SARS when Magnolia was in full bloom.

Since the spring of this year, a sudden new infectious disease, atypical pneumonia, has been raging in some provinces and regions of China, directly threatening people's health and life safety. SARS is a brand-new virus with strong infectivity and a brand-new worldwide problem facing mankind. In this battlefield known as "no bullets, no smoke", faced with infection and survival choices, fearless angels in white continued to write the history of saving lives with sincere hearts and unknown actions.

Associate Professor Deng Zide, Department of Infectious Diseases, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, was infected in the rescue of patients and continued to fight after being cured. One of his poems, "The Doctor has no regrets", wrote: "Saving lives, breaking through obstacles and going through hardships. If you are determined to be a doctor, you will never regret it. One day I will be strong again, and I will hang the pot among the people again. " Expressed the strong determination of all medical staff and patients to overcome the disease.

Ding Xiangchun, an attending physician in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Affiliated Hospital of Ningxia Medical College, and Ma Lina, a resident, are newlyweds. In the face of the SARS epidemic in Ningxia, the couple asked the hospital leaders to treat atypical pneumonia and got the hospital's consent. In their words, "this is the unshirkable responsibility of our medical staff. No matter how dangerous it is, we must rush up! " "

Although people talk about the color change of SARS, although a medical staff fell down because of infection, the brave medical staff did not flinch at all.

For thousands of years, when various pathogenic microorganisms broke through the human immune defense line, it was no accident that the epidemic occurred. From rabies, smallpox and the Black Death to avian influenza, mad cow disease and even AIDS, every time the virus attacks human beings, it will make human beings pay a heavy price. But it is precisely because of this that the passion and courage of human beings against the virus have never weakened. It is in the constant struggle and contest with the epidemic that mankind has accelerated the process of constantly understanding the world.

Faced with this brand-new disease, China medical experts boldly explored the road of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine, and achieved remarkable results.

Isn't it? Not long ago, Ye Huanzhen, a patient with SARS in Guangzhou, recovered and was discharged. She drinks tea in the morning, goes out for a walk and takes her grandson to play during the day, and her life is as usual; The first SARS patient in Beijing also walked out of the hospital with the blessing of flowers. According to statistics, nearly 80% of SARS patients in China were cured and discharged. Experts from the World Health Organization believe that China has explored a set of effective methods to control the epidemic and treat patients.

All this embodies the hard work and life of medical staff! Behind the heavy price they paid, a beautiful rainbow was dedicated to the people.

James Maguire, an expert from the World Health Organization who came to Guangzhou for investigation, was deeply moved by the spirit of medical staff in China: "The dedication of medical staff in China to risk their lives to save patients is extraordinary. They are real heroes and admirable! " The clinical manifestations of atypical pneumonia are different from the past. First, the patient has a high fever and a dry cough, and there are no symptoms such as runny nose and sore throat of the general flu, and there is no white or yellow sputum common to the common cold. Occasionally, patients have bloodshot sputum, causing shortness of breath, and some patients have respiratory distress syndrome. Under normal circumstances, white blood cells will increase when patients have a fever, but the white blood cells of patients with atypical pneumonia are normal or decreased. After SARS reaches a certain level, symptoms will be better distinguished from colds, but in the initial stage, it is sometimes very easy to be confused. Even some SARS patients have symptoms similar to a cold from the beginning, or completely the same as a cold, or a bit like the flu, with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection. Because as the pathogen of SARS, it does not reach the lungs at once, but through the upper respiratory tract, trachea and bronchus. The patients we observe often have persistent fever for three to five days or even a long time, but there is a sudden improvement during the observation. The usual symptoms of patients are dry cough, less sputum, blood in some sputum, and severe breathing difficulties. Symptoms of the common cold include fever, cough and headache, which can be improved after a few days, and there is generally no sign of pneumonia.

3. The incubation period is about two to twelve days, and most people usually have obvious symptoms within four to five days. At present, the recognized route of transmission is through the respiratory tract, mainly through droplets, especially through close contact, coughing, sneezing, patient secretions and body fluids; There are some other situations now. After direct contact with the patient, rubbing your nose and eyes with your hands is also a way of transmission.

Fourth, it is suggested that you should see a doctor as soon as possible if you find symptoms such as fever and cough, because the disease will suddenly get worse during the observation. If early detection and timely treatment can be given, most patients can recover and be discharged after several weeks. In addition, in addition to early diagnosis and treatment, isolation measures can be taken in time to avoid infecting family members and other people in society. Also, some people think that if there are symptoms of runny nose, it is definitely not SARS, which is wrong. No matter what the pathogen of SARS is, it invades through the upper respiratory tract, oropharynx, nose and throat, so symptoms similar to the common cold may appear in the early stage. If you suspect that you are infected with atypical pneumonia, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible. X-ray examination is helpful for diagnosis.

Five, there is no specific drugs and treatment methods, but after timely support and symptomatic treatment, the vast majority of patients can recover. At present, the Department of Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health has organized multidisciplinary experts to formulate the National Technical Plan for the Prevention and Control of SARS on the basis of summarizing the prevention and control work in the previous stage. At present, there is no vaccine to prevent atypical pneumonia, and there is no specific medicine and treatment. Therefore, the most fundamental way to prevent SARS is to keep fit and enhance your immunity.