**Xiao Guo found Zhao Yichun, a citizen who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation for her husband, thanked him**. Liu Lin, 29, tried to walk around in the ward, "After the consultation in the nephrology department, remove the tube and be discharged from the hospital."

Xiao Guo found Zhao Yichun, a citizen who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation for her husband, thanked

The emergency department doctor in West China Hospital of Sichuan University is working hard to rescue

On August 15, Liu Lin was in danger and Xiao Guo was taking care of him in the ward

8 On August 15, in the inpatient ward of the Department of Cardiology of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 29-year-old Liu Lin (pseudonym) tried to walk around by himself in the ward. "After the consultation in the department of nephrology, remove the tube and be discharged from the hospital."

Just a month ago, Liu Lin walked through the "gate of hell".

On July 12, his heart and breathing stopped beating for up to 3 hours. During this period, enthusiastic citizens and medical staff from West China Hospital made every effort to rescue them. While the rescue was still "ineffective" for half an hour, the weak lines appeared on the electrocardiogram from time to time, which made the medical staff unable to give up a glimmer of hope. "He is too young."

After more than two hours of rescue, in the end, with the help of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation technology (ECMO) equipment called "artificial heart and lung", the medical staff and Liu Lin won the race against death together.

suddenly fell down on the way home cardiac arrest The doctor did not give up his last glimmer of hope and insisted on rescuing

At 7:00 a.m. on July 12, Liu Lin and his wife Xiao Guo were playing at a friend's house for a night before preparing to go home. At the intersection of Jiuru Village, not far from the community, Liu Lin suddenly fell down, unconscious, "the heartbeat and breathing were gone." Xiao Guo quickly called 120.

Xiao Guo was helpless and cried in a hurry. In the crowd, the middle-aged man squatted down, constantly pressed Liu Lin's heart, and performed artificial respiration on him. A few minutes later, at 7:20, 120, the doctor rushed to rescue the site. However, Liu Lin's heartbeat soon stopped after a brief recovery.

The doctor on the scene continued to perform CPR while sending the patient to the emergency department of West China Hospital of Sichuan University. At this time, Liu Lin was still in a state where his heart and breathing were stopped.

In the past two hours, Meng Xiaoyan and Liu Peng from the Emergency Department of West China Hospital took turns to apply heart pressure on them. "Continue to press for two or three minutes, he will twitch the limbs and breathe independently, but after about one minute, it will disappear again."

Usually, cardiopulmonary resuscitation lasts for half an hour and still has no signs of recovery of vital signs. It is medically called rescue ineffective, so clinical death can be declared. However, half an hour later, Liu Peng and his colleagues did not give up and replaced them with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine to continue the rescue. The fold lines that appear from time to time on the electrocardiogram make them unable to give up the last glimmer of hope. "And the patient is too young, only 29 years old," said Liu Peng.

"Artificial Heart and Lung" helps. After 3 hours, vital signs were restored.

. At the same time as rescue, the emergency department also conducted a general examination of Liu Lin's condition. Cao Yu, director of the emergency department, believes that "the possibility of myocardial infarction is small, and the possibility of severe myocarditis is relatively high. Continue to rescue with all your might and prepare to contact ECMO."

In order to fight for the opportunity for treatment, the heart must be beaten first. Since a person cannot breathe, then add an "artificial heart and lung" to him. To install this "artificial heart and lung", you must first find the patient's femoral artery and femoral vein and connect it to the ECMO machine.

Because the patient's heart has stopped, it is difficult to find the arteries that were originally easy to identify. Half an hour later, when two tubes were inserted into the femoral artery and femoral vein and watching the blood flow from the femoral vein into the machine, the staff of the ECMO team of West China Hospital finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, it was 10:23. After stopping the heartbeat and breathing for 3 hours, Liu Lin, with the help of the doctor's failure to give up and the "artificial heart and lungs", his vital signs were basically restored.

According to Liu Peng, the blood drawn from the femoral vein absorbs oxygen in the machine and passes through the femoral artery again and returns to Liu Lin's body. In this way, "artificial heart and lung" partially replaces the functions of the heart and lungs, and also buys time for subsequent treatment.

Regain consciousness two days later Doctor: Fortunately, I didn’t give up

12:08, Liu Lin entered the operating room. After examination, he was diagnosed with myocarditis. The treatment after that went much smoother.At 13:46, Liu Lin was transferred to the cardiac department.

"I didn't expect that he could survive." From Liu Lin's fall to entering the emergency room, his wife Xiao Guo made the worst plan. "I thought it was really over at that time." After the rescue of

, Liu Lin was still unconscious for a while. The miracle appeared on the afternoon of July 14. In the custody room, Xiao Guo kept talking to Liu Lin. Liu Lin, who had no reaction at all, moved his right eye slightly.

This action is of great significance to Liu Lin, Xiao Guo and all the medical staff involved in the rescue. Subsequently, Liu Lin's condition improved, his heart function recovered, and he could also do movements according to the instructions. At 4 pm on the 14th, the "artificial heart and lung" installed on him was removed.

"I finally breathed a sigh of relief." After learning the good news, the doctors involved in the rescue were relieved. This is a patient with the longest cardiopulmonary resuscitation and successful rescue in the emergency department of West China Hospital. It is also extremely rare across the country. "Fortunately, he did not give up, and he himself is very successful."

Now, Liu Lin's physical indicators have recovered well. "After the consultation in the nephrology department, remove the tube and be discharged from the hospital."

The person in charge of sales was under great pressure: "You can't overdraw your body while you are young."

Xiao Guo still remembers that after Liu Lin recovered from consciousness, the first sentence he said was "I'm so tired." Listening to her husband's words in a weak voice, Xiao Guo cried.

Both of them came to Chengdu to work in another place, and Liu Lin was engaged in sales. "It's nine to six every day, there are no weekends, and I often have to go out for social events at night, and I have almost no time to exercise." Xiao Guo said that in fact, her husband had chest pain before, "but it will be cured in a while, and he didn't pay attention."

On the evening of July 11, the night before Liu Lin's accident, the couple was still playing at a friend's house. After 3 a.m. on the 12th, Liu Lin suffered from chest pain again. "I really can't feel that I'm young, overdrawing my body like this, and not paying attention to the strangeness of my body." Liu Lin said that after being discharged from the hospital, he will pay attention to the rules of life. "The body is the capital of everything."

asked many times to find the elder brother who saved people. The person who saved people: "It's not reasonable to not save it."

Walked from the "gate of hell", and Liu Lin was deeply touched. "I really thank the doctors of West China Hospital and the elder brother who helped us. Without them, there would be no such miracle."

After Liu Lin woke up, Xiao Guo finally had the energy to find these kind-hearted people who helped them at the most critical moments.

On July 23, after returning to the intersection of Jiuru Village where Liu Lin fainted many times, Xiao Guo found the middle-aged man who rescued her husband before he arrived at 120. His name is Zhao Yichun, and he works in a nearby hotel. Zhao Yichun, 45 years old this year, is from Hebei. He has never left since he came to Chengdu more than 20 years ago because of his military service.

West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News Reporter Wu Bingqing Photography report

(Some pictures are provided by the interviewee)