A 73-year-old female patient suffered a sudden myocardial infarction, and the local hospital did not have isoproterenol . pacemaker is the only treatment method that can save the patient's life. In desperation, Chinese doctor Wu Dexi boldly performed temporary pacemaker implantation for him, which ultimately saved the patient's life.
This is a real scene that happened in the Caribbean island country Dominic. On October 25, Wu Dexi, a member of the medical team to assist Dominic and deputy chief physician of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, returned home after more than three years of foreign aid mission. Looking back on the more than 1,000 days and nights in Dominic , he felt a lot.
Wu Dexi (left) carried out Dominic's first temporary pacemaker implantation
More than 5,000 patients were treated in three years
Since arriving in Dominic in June 2019, Wu Dexi has fully felt what it means to "you ask if there is no return date."
Due to factors such as eating habits, terrain, medical system, etc., in Dominic, myocardial infarction, heart failure , hypertension , dilated cardiomyopathy and severe arrhythmias are more common in Dominic. This is also the professionalism of Wu Dexi.
Due to his outstanding work, he was sincerely retained by the Dominic Ministry of Health and the China-Duoduo Friendship Hospital many times, becoming the longest-time Chinese medical team members sent to Guangdong Province in the history of the team and the longest-time work abroad. He has received more than 5,000 cardiovascular patients in three years.
Dominic Ambassador to China Martin Charles is also one of Wu Dexi's patients. A few days after arriving in Dominic, Wu Dexi received a call for help from the hospital, saying that Charles suddenly felt uncomfortable in the front area and needed help. After diagnosis and analysis, it was acute myocardial infarction . He admitted Charles to the ICU surveillance room, strengthened the monitoring and gave standardized treatment for coronary heart disease .
When Charles' condition stabilized, he accompanied him to Guangzhou for further treatment. Li Yi, director of the Second Department of Cardiology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, performed coronary interventional surgery on Charles. After the operation, Charles expressed his gratitude to the Chinese doctor.
In order to improve the medical conditions of local people, Wu Dexi also actively contacted the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission and donated a batch of urgently needed medical equipment and materials for cardiovascular specialties such as dynamic electrocardiograms, dynamic blood pressure monitors, temporary pacemakers to the local area.
With the help of new equipment, he successfully carried out Dominic's first dynamic electrocardiogram monitoring and the first dynamic blood pressure monitoring in the local area, and formulated a standard rescue process for thrombolysis of acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, which greatly improved the diagnosis and treatment level of Dominic's cardiovascular disease.
helps the construction of local cardiovascular specialties
Under the preparation of Wu Dexi and local medical staff, Dominic's first cardiovascular internal medicine department was officially launched on May 21, 2021.
Wu Dexi (third from left) established the first cardiovascular department in Dominic
Before, Dominic had not established a cardiovascular department for various reasons, resulting in many inconveniences in patients when seeking medical treatment. Dominic Health Secretary Irving McIntyre calls the cardiovascular medicine “a milestone in Dominic’s medical field.”
During the medical assistance period, Wu Dexi realized that "it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish." If we want to fundamentally improve the local cardiovascular medical condition, we must leave behind a "medical team that cannot be taken away".
The local doctor who returned from Cuba is the key training target of Wu Dexi. Under his words and deeds, Andrew continued to deepen his theoretical and practical understanding and became a local professional talent in the cardiovascular field.
At the same time, Wu Dexi also undertakes the teaching work of clinical internships of 11 medical students from All Saints Medical University, and also held three special lectures on cardiovascular diseases at Zhongduo Friendship Hospital, teaching professional knowledge to more than 30 medical staff in total.
assisted Dominic for three years, Wu Dexi has been promoting the development of local cardiovascular specialties with actions. On his return to China, based on his own experience and local needs, he communicated with McIntyre and others, and proposed the idea of building a "Central-Domestic Cardiovascular Imaging Center" to help improve the Dominic cardiovascular imaging discipline and improve the diagnosis and treatment level. Now, the project has been reviewed and approved and has entered the preliminary preparation stage.
[Reporter] Zhong Zhe Intern Tang Pinjie
[Correspondent] Peng Fuxiang Liang Jiayun
[Author] Zhong Zhe
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