016. Intubation

"I'm so tired!" the nurse next to her stretched out her arms.

"I'm still tired, I'm not used to it. The other nurse yawned and leaned against the wall.

"The patient in my bed is also intubated, it looks so worrying, and I can't speak, the intubation thing is too uncomfortable, I heard the previous patient say, intubated or feel that the supply is insufficient, but people will not be suffocated, it is the feeling of being hung by breathing, it is really sinful!"

"Doctors who suffer from patients also suffer from them, Dr. Jiang Wei and Dr. Dong Le in our ward, how dangerous they are when they are intubated! But they are highly skilled, and they are always in place with one needle, and now they are said to be death squads!"

The two nurses exchanged a few words with each other and were relieved, but in the ICU ward, the doctors and nurses were under tremendous pressure.

They had a very short break and returned to the hospital room after the filming.

Tian Hai, a patient in charge of Meng Tiantian, showed that the situation was still not optimistic, with serious infections in both lungs and respiratory symptoms gradually worsening.

This means that she needs to be more attentive to her care, even if she feeds the water and turns over, she has to be extra meticulous.

"Protector! Protector ......" Tian Hai shouted twice, his hands clutching upward, as if he was begging for help.

Meng Tiantian immediately went over to ask if there was anything to help, Tian Hai coughed twice and couldn't speak, Meng Tiantian helped him press his chest while observing the breathing waveform on the screen.

"Can't breathe?"

The patient's breathing was a little short, and the testing equipment around him began to scream rapidly, Meng Tiantian hurriedly adjusted the oxygen flow, but Tian Hai's condition did not improve.

The same thing happened again at this time, Meng Tiantian felt that her hands were trembling a little, Li Jianguo's condition that day was still vivid, listening to the rapid screams of the machine next to her, she could only force herself to calm down and do her job before the doctor came to assist.

"The patient is short of breath and has increased the oxygen flow, and the situation is not improving!" Meng Tiantian reported immediately after Dr. Jiang Wei came over.

Her hands are still helping Tian Hai to press on her chest, and such an emergency situation in the ICU may occur at any time.

"Doctor, Doctor help me, Doctor help me!" Tian Hai was short of breath, and suddenly grabbed Meng Tiantian's clothes with his hands full of tubes, his body bent into a stiff bow, his hands became harder and harder, and Meng Tiantian felt that his protective clothing was being torn vigorously.

A large amount of cold sweat appeared on her forehead at once, and in the isolation ward, protective clothing is the last barrier to protect their lives, and if there is a problem, they are likely to be infected.

"Uncle, relax, relax, the doctor is already here!" Meng Tiantian continued to press with both hands, but those hands were still tightly gripping her clothes.

Tian Hai's eyes widened, his breath was short, and his face was a little red, because the confusion and urgency caused by the lack of oxygen made him unconsciously want to grasp something.

"Help me! save me...... Help me!"

"Let him let go of his hand first, your clothes are going to be torn!" Dr. Dong Le, who rushed to support, tried to get Tian Hai to let go of his hand first, but to no avail, Meng Tiantian also leaned over to help him perform heart compressions.

"I'm okay here, prepare to save people first!"

At the moment of emergency, Meng Tiantian made a quick decision and decided to let the doctor cherish the precious time to save people first, the patient grabbed her clothes in a completely unconscious state, if he was busy breaking his hand first, it might waste treatment time, and it was easy to cause the patient to panic more intensely.

"Keep compressing the heart!" Dr. Jiang Wei didn't say much, and directly began to observe the patient's condition.

"No, the blood oxygen is too low and the breathing cannot be improved, it is likely to be a pneumothorax, and tracheal intubation is required, prepare!"

"This patient should have been intubated in the morning!"

Meng Tiantian listened to the communication between the two doctors, she leaned down as much as she could, her hands trembled unconsciously while pressing, Tian Hai's eyes were confused, and she grabbed the protective clothing on her back and dragged it down.

The two doctors and nurses around him are quickly preparing for the endotracheal intubation operation.

"Anesthetic ready!"

"The anesthetic is in place!"

"Laryngoscope, catheter!"

"It's in place!"

Meng Tiantian listened to the urgent instructions behind her, her hands didn't dare to relax for a moment, and kept helping the patient press the heart, the hands on the protective suit were not so tight, but she was in a cold sweat.

The patient's breathing became more and more rapid, and the sound of "ho-ho" came out of his throat, and his hand slowly became loose, which was what Meng Tiantian was most worried about.

"Let the patient's hand go, it's time to prepare for anesthetic intubation!" The doctors and nurses behind him were busy breaking those hands, and Meng Tiantian was trembling and finally straightened up.

Tian Hai's eyes widened, his body twitched violently, his mouth had begun to shout unconsciously, and the doctor began to prepare for the intubation operation.

"Nurse go away!" the doctor said quickly, giving Tian Hai an anesthetic.

Meng Tiantian's legs were still shaking, but he still stepped back a little first.

Endotracheal intubation is very dangerous, the moment the patient's trachea is opened, countless viruses will be sprayed out of the trachea, and the doctor has to face these viruses to intubate the patient, although wearing heavy protective clothing, but there is still no guarantee that the virus can be blocked.

And such endotracheal intubation surgeries are performed by these "death squads" several times a day, and doctors are at great risk of infection!

"The anesthesia has worked! ready to open the trachea!"

"Get ready for the ventilator!"

"Get ready to be intubated!

"Hold on, don't let him struggle!"

For a short and long minute, the doctors and nurses who performed the intubation fell into silence, and the endotracheal intubation tested the doctor's skills very much.

"One needle...... Success, success, success!"

As the two doctors breathed a sigh of relief, Meng Tiantian also breathed a sigh of relief, the rapid alarm of the testing instrument had slowly stopped at this time, and the patient began to regain steady breathing.

From the onset of the anesthetic to the doctor's intubation, the whole process was only two minutes, but Meng Tiantian felt as if a century had passed, her legs couldn't help but tremble, and she even wanted to cry at this moment.

Fortunately, the same tragedy did not happen to her again!

Hu Yang, the head nurse on the other side of the ward, kept taking the time to turn his head to look at the situation on Meng Tiantian's side, when Tian Hai had a problem and was intubated, the patient she was in charge of needed to suction, and she couldn't leave for a moment, so she could only watch Meng Tiantian being pulled by the patient with protective clothing.

"Hurry up and take a look at this little nurse's clothes, it's not a joke if there is a problem with the protective clothing!" Jiang Wei, a doctor who had just undergone tracheal intubation surgery, helped Tian Hai check his other symptoms, and immediately thought of Meng Tiantian's side.

"My clothes are fine. Meng Tiantian hurriedly waved his hand, and when he raised his hand, he found that his hands were also a little trembling.

"Check the protective clothing carefully, the slightest problem is very likely to be infected. Dong Le, the doctor who assisted in tracheal intubation, said, and personally came over to help Meng Tiantian check her protective clothing.

"Fortunately, no problem, this intubation was very successful, we must continue to take good care, our ICU has three points of treatment and seven points of care, and the nurses here are very hard!"

Meng Tiantian nodded hurriedly, and said to the two intubation doctors: "You guys are really hard!"

Jiang Wei just smiled and explained to Meng Tiantian, "The patient has just been intubated, and there is easy phlegm in the throat trachea, so I have to help the patient suck up phlegm every once in a while, pay more attention!"

Meng Tiantian nodded immediately, and after the two doctors left, she immediately took out the medical record book to record the first aid process and nursing precautions just now.

Patient Tian Hai's breathing condition stabilized a lot after tracheal intubation, and before Meng Tiantian's shift change, he opened his eyes leisurely, and there was an extra tube on his body, Tian Hai couldn't adapt for a while, but he was not too surprised to see doctors intubating other patients in the ward.

After getting used to it, he began to try to communicate with Meng Tiantian, but he couldn't speak with his trachea, so he could only make a difficult gesture with Meng Tiantian with his fingers.

"It's okay, I'm well dressed!" she could see that the patient was pointing at her hazmat suit, and her eyes were apologetic, these critically ill patients were in very bad lung condition, but they were generally quite conscious.

"It's fine, you can rest well, don't worry. Meng Tiantian comforted a few more words, and continued to write the nursing record, after the extreme nervousness just now, now that he relaxed a little, he felt that even his fingers were trembling a little, and he could only try to stabilize his hand.

At the same time, outside the ordinary No. 8 ward of the isolation area, as soon as the nurse wearing heavy protective clothing opened the door and walked out, her whole body immediately slid down the wall and sat on the ground.

"Woo woo!" Wang Mengxue cried as low as she could, but her shoulders kept shaking.

After crying for less than a minute, she immediately stood up again, crying in protective clothing and couldn't even wipe away her tears, she dragged her heavy steps, holding on to the wall with one hand and covering her lower abdomen with the other hand, and walked with difficulty, her figure staggering.

She walked forward slowly, and there was a cute puppy drawn on her back, and the four big words "Come on Wuhan" were written crookedly next to her.

The difficult and long day finally passed, and Meng Tiantian helped Tian Hai suck phlegm again, and then changed shifts with the nurse who came to take over.

The head nurse, Hu Yang, was waiting for Meng Tiantian in the corridor outside, and the moment he saw her, he immediately dragged his tired body over.

"Protective clothing is carefully inspected, there can be no problem at all!"

"No problem, the doctor has already checked it for me. Meng Tiantian listened to the head nurse's stern concern, and felt warm in her heart, but the fatigue of her body made her unable to speak.

"It's okay. The head nurse leaned against the corridor tiredly and asked Meng Tiantian to change his clothes first, and Meng Tiantian did not shirk and walked out first.

After a series of disinfection, I returned to the hotel with the team members, almost no one spoke along the way, and on the first day of today, I began to be in charge of the ward independently, and the pressure I faced was very great, and they were all tired and couldn't straighten their waists.

Wang Mengxue buried her head in her knees from the moment she got on the bus, and she didn't say a word.

After taking a serious bath, Meng Tiantian was dizzy again, and the first thing he did when he came out was to drink water.

"Xiaoxue, have you eaten, why are you lying in bed so early tonight?" Meng Tiantian sat at the table and drank some water first, and then applied erythromycin ointment to his face, and it was a little strange to see Wang Mengxue nestled in bed early.

"I ate it when you took a shower, and I was a little uncomfortable. Wang Mengxue replied a little weakly while lying on the bed.