Chapter 123 [123] Be Quick and Rescue 4

Can a trainee perform standard heart compressions? Dr. Lin stared at him with big eyes.

If the heart compression is performed incorrectly, it will waste the patient's golden rescue time. It may not save the patient but kill him.

What are these two guys doing standing around? Dr. Lin rolled up his sleeves and looked at Dr. Jiang and Huang Zhilei dissatisfied.

"Wait a minute, Lao Lin, it's almost done-" Dr. Jiang grabbed him and asked him to calm down.

Sometimes, giving first aid to a patient does not mean rushing in as many people as possible. Rescue should be carried out in an orderly manner. The more anxious you are, the more you need a calm heart.

Someone has started to perform heart compressions on the patient previously. It is best for others to be prepared and follow the order to replace the previous people when they are tired or unable to do the job. Because the process of replacing someone is equivalent to pausing rescue, it is not necessarily good for patients who are about to recover their heartbeat.

This is exactly what happened to Liu's father now.

Being stopped by his colleagues, Dr. Lin had no choice but to turn around and see how Xie Wanying was doing.

Pressing her hands on the patient's chest, Xie Wanying's arms were straight like two pillars, forming the most powerful pressing force.

Dr. Lin was a little surprised when he saw this. I just know that too many clinical students are learning heart compressions at the beginning, and within a few seconds, their arms will almost change from straight to curved. Because to be very straight requires a lot of arm strength and trained inertial movements.

Furthermore, the key to cardiac compression is to press at an accurate location, the middle and lower third of the sternum. This is obviously not too difficult. What is even more difficult is that the frequency and depth during continuous heart compression must meet the standards, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve results.

The frequency should be as many as one hundred to one hundred and twenty times per minute as recommended by CPR guidelines.

The depth of compression for adults should be five centimeters, and the strength must be controlled well. Do not press too hard all at once, as this may easily break the patient's ribs.

Therefore, it is a bit difficult for ordinary people, not just medical students, to achieve such standard and efficient correct movements. Even if you practice many times on a dummy, pressing it on a real person is another matter and the feeling will be different.

When medical students who are new to clinical practice perform life-saving heart compressions on dying patients, most teachers do not expect them to be able to do so. It is for this reason that Dr. Lin does not agree with trainees being the first to perform heart compressions.

But looking at it now, Xie Wanying pressed it deeply enough each time, which can be seen from the rise and fall of the patient's chest.

The frequency of Xie Wanying's compressions further showed that as a female medical student, her performance was different from that of other medical students.

The nurse on the side couldn't help but count her: one, two, three, four, five, six - it seemed that the counting could hardly keep up with the speed of her pressing.

Fast, fast, press as hard as you can, it’s the rhythm of fighting death for your life, one hundred and twenty times per minute is something you have to risk your life to do.

Even if your strength is about to run out, you can’t stop. You absolutely can’t, you can’t, you’re just a little bit closer, it’s almost, it’s almost—

The straight line that beeped on the monitor, symbolizing the door of death, suddenly changed back to beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, the door of Yama Luo Palace was forced to close, and the heart rhythm returned to the waveform curve.

Xie Wanying stopped her hand immediately. Pressing it again at this time was not only redundant but might also harm the patient.

Everyone around her looked at her face.

Huang Zhilei was the first to react. He walked to the hospital bed and took out a doctor's flashlight to shine on Liu's father's pupils. Then he felt Liu's father's carotid artery and measured his blood pressure.