I saw an old man lying on the concrete floor.
"Stroke?"
"Epilepsy?"
It seems difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the difference between these two diseases.
Stroke is actually called cerebrovascular accident in medicine, which generally refers to cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Epilepsy refers to epilepsy, which is a brain dysfunction disease.
Are the two completely unrelated?
Some patients may suffer from epilepsy after cerebral hemorrhage, and cerebral infarction may also be complicated by epilepsy. Therefore, it is always difficult to guarantee in medicine that a patient is absolutely suffering from only one disease.
Is this patient suffering from a simple epileptic seizure or cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction?
The first thing that the medical staff who arrive at the scene should do is to prevent the patient from secondary injuries. Whether it is a stroke patient or a patient with an epileptic seizure, there are many things to fear, the first of which may be the fear of suffocation caused by secretions blocking the respiratory tract due to brain dysfunction.
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The elderly patient lying on the cement floor was twitching all over like a cramped shrimp, foaming at the mouth, his eyes drooping, and the corners of his mouth crooked.
Squatting beside the patient, Xie Wanying took out a handkerchief from the bag, twisted it into a ball and stuffed it into the patient's mouth to prevent the patient from biting his tongue. At the same time, she wiped off the patient's secretions to avoid aspiration.
He then took out a flashlight and shone it into the patient's two pupils, and found that the two pupils were of different sizes.
Someone nearby called 120.
Xie Wanying stayed by the patient's side until the ambulance arrived, and at the same time asked the people around about the patient's condition: "Did he have a car accident?"
"Ah?" It seemed that the people at the scene did not see how the old man got sick, and they all shook their heads to indicate that they had no idea.
Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged woman heard the news and rushed to the scene. She pushed through the crowd and knelt down beside the patient, shouting, "Dad, Dad—" Then she looked up and excitedly asked others, "What happened?"
"Did your father have any illness before?" Xie Wanying asked the family member opposite.
"No." The middle-aged woman denied it on the spot. "My father has always been in good health. Nothing happened to him. He walked out by himself and said he was buying something. Do you know what happened to my father?"
Xie Wanying didn't know what to say, she only knew that she might need to call the police and ask them to come to the scene to investigate whether there were any signs of a car accident.
Alarm of the alarm.
Xie Wanying continued to examine other parts of the patient's body at the scene. Suddenly, she saw blood flowing from the patient's left thigh. Her brows instantly frowned: Trouble.
"Doctor, another doctor is here."
The crowd of onlookers made way again.
A young man in a checkered shirt and carrying a bag squeezed through the crowd and saw someone who seemed to be a colleague giving first aid at the scene. He asked, "What's going on?"
"It could be a car accident, cerebral hemorrhage, or an unknown sharp object inserted into the lower thigh. We need to quickly pull the foreign object out. If the aorta is injured here, the victim's life will be in danger." Xie Wanying said.
After hearing her smooth and fluent judgment, the other party was stunned for a moment, then seeing the patient twitching constantly, he understood what she meant.
Generally speaking, thigh injuries can be fixed and sent to the hospital for treatment. However, the victim's limbs kept twitching, and if he was not sent to the hospital, the foreign body that had pierced his body might move around inside the victim's body and rupture his aorta, which would be fatal. Moreover, patients with epileptic seizures cannot be fixed by force, as this would directly cause fractures.
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