Chapter 1663 【1663】Very Expensive Intensive Care Medicine

Such a life-threatening machine is not a simple monitoring instrument. It requires professionals to keep an eye on the operation of the machine all the time, do professional operations, prevent machine errors, and adjust machine parameters in time to suit the patient's condition. Professional posts respond to professional talents. Professionals in charge of extracorporeal circulation are called extracorporeal circulators.

Cardiopulmonary bypass specialists were originally born in cardiac surgery, so they are generally selected from the cardiac surgery team. In the case of a shortage of people in some small hospitals, only surgical anesthesiologists or operating room nurses can take part-time jobs through simple training. It is conceivable that the cardiopulmonary bypass specialist in China seems to be a position that is not valued very much. This is not the case in developed countries abroad. Extracorporeal circulation technicians must go through strict special practice and training before they can work.

In some respects, domestic medical education is lagging behind that of foreign countries, which is mainly reflected in the fact that some systems are always half a beat behind. This has led some medical students to want to study specialized medical subdivisions and employment, which is not provided by this channel.

Foreign countries will attach importance to extracorporeal circulation, which is inseparable from the more advanced critical care medical technology in developed countries. Cardiopulmonary rescue is the most important part in the field of critical care medicine. The death of the human body is death from exhaustion, basically death from heart and lung failure. Extracorporeal circulation happens to be one of the most effective means of rescuing the heart and lungs.

In China, ordinary people have no money to go to ICU, which leads to a loss of money if hospitals do not dare to set up more ICU beds. For example, ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation technology, which is more commonly used in foreign countries and improved by extracorporeal circulation machine, has not been studied and used in China for the time being. This thing costs money. Ordinary people in developed countries can afford it, but ordinary people in our country generally cannot afford it.

Because Guozhi is rich and has the business volume of this rich patient, he can set up an independent extracorporeal circulation department for the first time in the country, and later the extracorporeal circulation center. There are many benefits for specialized hospitals to subdivide their specialties. Guozhi’s extracorporeal circulation specialists are managed and led by the director of the extracorporeal circulation department, and a large group of colleagues in the same profession brainstorm to give the surgeon the greatest support, allowing the surgeon to concentrate more on the operation. Therefore, it has become the leader in this specialty field in the country.

To put it bluntly, cardiovascular disease is also a disease of the rich.

Guoxie and other hospitals are not. They have to draw doctors from their own departments to train their own extracorporeal circulation technicians. There is no independent extracorporeal circulation specialist, and surgeons need to lead and worry about these things. There is no specialized department in professional cardiopulmonary rescue, so it must be half behind Guozhi in terms of professional ability. Teacher Guoxie thought of these words, he probably suffered from heartbreak again.

Dr. Pang works in the extracorporeal circulation department as an extracorporeal circulation technician. He takes care of critically ill patients who need extracorporeal circulation support in the department and ward. At the same time, he will be responsible for the operation of the extracorporeal circulation in today's cardiac surgery and support the surgical team.

It was such a rare learning opportunity, Xie Wanying immediately walked over to learn from her teacher.

Dr. Pang led her to the operating room next door to prepare.

Teacher Pang is a very nice person. While busy with work, she gave her a brief introduction: "This is an extracorporeal circulation machine, that is, an artificial heart-lung machine."

There is a difference between an artificial heart-lung machine and ECMO. Surgery is basically an artificial heart-lung machine.

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