A touching story of the fight against SARS

On the battlefield against SARS, the vast number of medical workers held high the banner of Bethune’s spirit, were selfless and fearless, charged forward, and wrote a magnificent chapter in saving lives and helping the wounded with their lives.

When the magnolia flowers were blooming, Ye Xin, the head nurse of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, passed away forever. She died on the battlefield against SARS. Before her death, she left an unforgettable sentence: This place is dangerous, let me come.

Leaving risks to yourself and leaving safety to patients is the lofty spiritual state of countless medical workers. It was thanks to the tenacious fight of a large number of soldiers in white that the spread of SARS was curbed. Only then can the people enjoy a peaceful life.

——"People's Daily" commentary on April 18: "People's health is more important than Mount Tai"

"Whenever a great doctor treats a disease, he must have no desire or desire and vow to provide universal salvation." You must not look forward or backward, and protect your body and life day and night, regardless of cold or heat, hunger, thirst, or fatigue."

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, ranked this article as "The Great Doctor's Sincerity". At the beginning of the masterpiece of traditional Chinese medicine, "Essential Prescriptions for an Emergency", it is advocated that doctors must carry forward the humanitarian spirit of saving lives and healing the wounded, and be "proficient" in their profession and "sincere" in their moral character. Only in this way can they be "great doctors" with both ability and political integrity.

This article "The Sincerity of Great Doctors" is exactly what Ye Xin, the head nurse of the Ersha Emergency Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was admitted to the "Health Training Team" of the hospital in 1974 and officially entered the medical school. A lesson.

Having been the head nurse of the emergency department at the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for 23 years, whether it was on-site first aid to a critically ill migrant worker who jumped from a building, taking the lead in caring for AIDS drug addicts, or risking his life to rescue SARS patients, Ye Xin always There is no "looking forward and backward, worrying about good or bad luck". She used her own life to write the "sincerity" of Chinese great medicine. In the early morning of March 24, 2003, Ye Xin, who unfortunately fell ill while rescuing SARS patients, died in the line of duty at the age of 46.

In the past few days, reporters have visited Ye Xin’s family, friends, colleagues, patients and attending doctors (responsible for her pre-death rescue work) to pursue the immortal spirit of this angel in white.

Distribute medicine and soup to everyone every day

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

Starting from February, The Ersha Branch of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine continues to receive cases of atypical pneumonia. Since front-line medical staff at the Dade Road General Hospital had been infected by infectious diseases before, Nurse Ye Xin was particularly cautious.

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

Before entering the ward, Ye Xin repeatedly emphasized various preventive measures: change into work clothes, shoes, and socks; wear masks, hats, and goggles; change isolation gowns before entering the isolation ward; wash hands, gargle.

During the days when she was fighting SARS, she only slept for a few hours every day, but she still never forgot to cook a pot of Laohuo soup before going to bed, sometimes with American ginseng and sometimes with Cordyceps sinensis. , she would take it back to the hospital the next day and give it to her colleagues to drink to improve their immunity.

Always keep the danger to yourself

When faced with critically ill patients, she takes the lead and sometimes even closes the door to rescue them, not allowing too many people to intervene

No one can be sure on which day or time Chief Ye was infected with SARS. Every time a suspected or confirmed patient is sent to the department, she and the director of the emergency department take the lead, shouldering the heavy medical care work. Sometimes they even perform rescue operations behind closed doors to prevent too many colleagues from intervening.

"I have checked this patient's temperature, listened to his lungs, and suctioned sputum. Please don't go in and try to reduce the chance of infection." In the days of fighting against SARS, these words made people angry. Many young nurses were in tears.

"Mr. Ye may have been infected on February 24." Nurse Xiaorong recalled that night, a 40-year-old patient with acute abdominal intestinal obstruction discovered that after emergency surgery, She also had SARS symptoms such as high fever and lung shadows, so she was sent to the emergency room and hospitalized for observation. She soon developed respiratory failure. Chief Ye was on the front line, cooperating with doctors to perform tracheal intubation and put on a ventilator. The patient had a lot of secretions at that time, which may have been sprayed on the head nurse during the rescue...

"It may have been caused by the infection while the head nurse was cleaning after Xiao Chen fell ill." Nurse Xiao Yu knew it I remember that after the first nurse infection occurred in the department at the end of February, Nurse Ye had been thinking hard, wondering which link was not done enough to allow the virus to take advantage of it. She personally disinfects every phone, cleans every door handle, and inspects and disinfects where work clothes are placed, where work shoes are changed, and where insoles are placed. Xiao Yu believed that Chief Ye had been exposed to so many suspicious poisonous substances during disinfection, so he might have been infected at that time.

"Maybe it was on the morning of March 1st that four of our medical staff fell ill after rescuing the patient." Zhang Zhongde, director of the emergency department who also fell ill, has an unforgettable memory of that rescue situation. Huai: Three days later, at 12 noon, 6 pm and 10 pm on March 4, Nurse Ye, Director Zhang and Dr. Jiang of the emergency department had fevers and were quarantined respectively. On the same day, the anesthesiologist also fell ill.

At 8:10 a.m. on March 1, the emergency department was changing shifts.

The family member of an 87-year-old suspected SARS patient rushed into the doctor's office: The patient is not alive! Nurse Ye and others rushed to the patient's bed: they saw the patient's face and lips were purple, his breathing was weak, and the regular electrocardiogram turned into chaotic waves... Everyone immediately evacuated the other three patients and their family members in the ward, and then Emergency chest massage, artificial respiration, cardiac electric shock, intravenous channel establishment, repeated injection of first aid and cardiotonic drugs, intubation and ventilator...

At 9:15 in the morning, the patient died after resuscitation failed. This was a highly dangerous patient. Everyone knew that they should put on an isolation gown before rescuing him, but during the more than an hour of rescuing, no one was willing to leave the patient even for a few minutes to protect themselves.

Lying in the hospital bed and still thinking about work

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

Isolation treatment In the early days, Ye Xin could still make phone calls. She called back to the department every day, asking everyone to remember to take preventive medicine, asking colleagues who came into contact with her to pay attention to physical examinations, asking nurses to record urine output for patients in bed 7, turn over and pat the back of patients in bed 9...

On the fourth day of illness, she developed difficulty breathing and was sent to the intensive care unit ICU together with the director of the emergency department. Everyone put on oxygen masks and could only encourage each other by sending text messages and writing notes. Everyone jokingly said that the nurse and director of the emergency department were "spoken" in the ICU...

In order to reduce the number of colleagues, Exposing her to the chance of being infected, she gave herself rehydration fluids. When doctors and nurses came close to her to listen to her lungs and suction sputum, she struggled to write on the paper: "Don't come close to me, it will be contagious." When the dean and other colleagues came to visit, she wrote: "I have a hard time, but I endure it." I can live there. Thank you for your concern, but don’t come to see me in the future. I don’t want to infect everyone.”

On March 11, Director Zhang of the Emergency Department received the last note from Nurse Ye: “I am. I can’t stand it anymore and I need to be put on a ventilator.” Director Zhang, who was also having difficulty breathing, wrote tremblingly: “Nurse, you must hold on! All the doctors and nurses in the hospital are supporting us!”

< p>Director Zhang never waited for Protector Ye’s reply. After she was intubated and put on a ventilator, she was injected with sedative drugs to enter a "hibernation" state to prevent her from falling off the ventilator due to agitation. When she passed away in the early morning of March 24, Ye Xin was very calm.

On the same day, a patient in the ICU recovered and was discharged. He was the patient with intestinal obstruction combined with atypical pneumonia that Ye Xin risked his life to rescue on the evening of February 24.

In order not to leave a shadow on his future life, no one told him that Ye Xin had passed away when he was discharged from the hospital...