Life Relay: In China, 30 doctors at once rescued a dying child within five hours
A kind of record in the issues of emergency care set by Chinese doctors, who five hours took turns supporting the heart of a dying child.
In the rescue operation of the boy who suffered a cardiac arrest, 30 doctors of Changzhou Children's Hospital took part. They alternately, replacing each other, carried out a heart massage. Total was performed more than 30 thousand chest compressions without a break.
Perseverance and refusal to accept and acknowledge the death of a small patient had an unexpected effect, which is difficult to call a miracle otherwise.
The incredibly stubborn Chinese pediatricians and resuscitators did win the battle for the life of the child, although the chances of surviving the child were, to put it mildly, not high - no more than 0.5%.
A child named Xiaoyu was admitted to the hospital seven days ago, he was rapidly developing myocarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle. Severe illness has become a complication of a banal acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI).
With rapid myocarditis, children often develop acute cardiac insufficiency and cardiogenic shock, which is what happened to Xiaoyu.
Incredible in terms of the length and number of life-saving marathon professionals involved, probably will go down in the history of world medicine as unprecedentedand may well claim a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
Now the child’s condition is stable. Nothing threatens him.
