Cua Dong General Hospital: Applying new techniques in resuscitation and emergency care

(Baonghean) - Considered the "frontline" department, ready to receive serious cases and urgent emergency care,Emergency Resuscitation Department - Cua Dong General HospitalAlways focus on improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, implementing new techniques; meeting the needs of active treatment for patients.

A place where patients place their trust

Every day, the Emergency Department of Cua Dong General Hospital continuously receives patients, along with 50 inpatients. Therefore, the medical staff of the department always has to "stretch themselves" to work at full capacity, in a state of readiness to receive serious cases and urgent emergency care. Only by witnessing it with your own eyes can you fully understand the hardships of the doctors and nurses here.

Every day at the department, there is one day shift and one night shift, working regardless of holidays or Tet. The on-duty team is always busy, immediately present to perform necessary initial first aid cases, always in a state of high concentration, because there are times when the on-duty team has to receive and handle 2-3 cases at the same time. "Because if the treatment is delayed by just one minute, the patient's life may not be saved". The nights on duty of the doctors and nurses here are truly sleepless nights.

The Emergency Resuscitation Department held a meeting at the beginning of the day to discuss professional matters. Photo: PV

Dr. Tran Dinh Hiep (Department of Emergency Medicine - Cua Dong General Hospital) shared: “With specific emergency diseases, doctors are required to have high professional qualifications to be able to predict the patient's condition and provide timely treatment plans. Doctors always have to improve their professional skills to promptly handle emergency cases. We also have to practice skills to deal with "difficult" situations; to persuade patients and their families when they are worried, stressed and easily agitated. But with the mission of curing and saving people, there are cases of serious illness that are successfully cured; saving a person from the hands of death, "reviving" their life, that happiness is indescribable. That is the great motivation, urging us to try our best every day".

With good professional expertise, wholehearted dedication to patients, the image of doctors and staff of the department is always respectable and friendly to patients. The Department of Emergency Resuscitation - Cua Dong General Hospital is also trusted by more and more patients, because the treatment efficiency is increasingly improved; with many new techniques applied: Pericardial drainage, tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation, lung abscess aspiration, liver abscess aspiration, arterial blood gas...

In the past, the department has successfully treated many serious and complicated diseases such as: Acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe pneumonia, acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, malignant bronchial asthma, septic shock with complications of multiple organ failure, acute renal failure, non-thrombotic myocardial infarction, acidotic coma, hyperosmolar coma, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, etc.

The Department of Emergency Resuscitation, Cua Dong General Hospital with a team of highly skilled, experienced and dedicated doctors and nurses. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Mr. Nguyen Huu Nguyen in Quan Bau ward, Vinh city, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and often has to be hospitalized for intensive treatment, said: “I have been to the emergency department many times because this disease often causes sudden blockages. Since being treated here, the results have been very good. Not only that, the spirit and attitude of the doctors and nurses are very dedicated and attentive. That is why for many years I have chosen the Emergency Resuscitation Department of Cua Dong General Hospital for treatment and health care. Now I don't go anywhere else, I only come here when I am sick.”

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet (Trung Do Ward, Vinh City) shared: Several times I had a sudden heart attack, I was taken to the emergency room at Cua Dong Hospital. The doctors and nurses were very helpful, the nurses and doctors were on duty day and night, and they often visited me, so my family did not need to stay and take care of me much. After a few days of treatment, I felt as comfortable as being at home in the hospital; when I was discharged, I asked my child to change my health insurance card at Cua Dong General Hospital."

Invest in improving the effectiveness of active treatment

As one of the important clinical departments of the hospital, because it often receives serious cases, including many cases of traumatic brain injury, bone fractures, myocardial infarction, etc., patients with acute pain, the Department of Emergency Resuscitation constantly improves the professional qualifications of the medical staff, with the principles of retraining, on-site training and self-training. Every year, the department always sends people to participate in long-term or short-term training courses, organizes scientific activities on each topic on weekends to discuss professional matters.

Doctor aspirates pericardial fluid for emergency patient. Photo: PV

Along with that, Cua Dong General Hospital focuses on investing in modern facilities and equipment such as: Ventilator system, cardioverter defibrillator, cranial air drill, automatic patient monitoring center monitor; System of 60 emergency beds and multi-functional intensive care beds imported in complete modern and synchronized units to help patients feel comfortable when being treated at the hospital; Closed patient rooms with full amenities, equipped with gases such as oxygen, suction air, compressed air (OAV), high-pressure oxygen treatment chamber; Positive pressure sterile operating room system is designed and equipped with advanced equipment such as anesthesia machine with ventilator, one-way clean air purifier, sterile, most modern.

Doctors take good care of patients. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Thanks to that, the quality of emergency and treatment at the department is increasingly improved, not only meeting the needs of intensive treatment for patients in and outside the province. Every year, the department also receives and treats hundreds of patients from Laos.

Discussing the development orientation of the master's program, Dr. Trinh Xuan Trung - Head of the hospital's Emergency Resuscitation Department said: "As a key department of the hospital, in the coming time, the Intensive Care Department will cooperate and study with Bach Mai Hospital, transferring new techniques such as: Fibrinolysis, long-term mechanical ventilation techniques...; meeting the needs of intensive treatment, providing high-quality medical services to the people".

Dinh Nguyet