The layman watches the excitement, while the expert watches the details.
Xie Changrong, who is proficient in auto repair, is interested in the equipment. Seeing the instruments being taken down from the ambulance, he inevitably became curious and asked his daughter, "What are these machines?"
There are ECG monitors, emergency vehicle ventilators, infusion pumps, etc. As an expert, the names of these medical devices are not unfamiliar. Just like her father paid attention to lubricants and lubricant brand cost performance, Xie Wanying focused on the deeper level of medical equipment brands.
It is said that medical treatment costs money, and medical equipment costs the most money. In this era, for example, electrocardiogram monitors, car-mounted ventilators, etc., excellent domestic products are not available for the time being. Some good hospitals are rich and are not afraid to spend money on this aspect, and all the products are imported.
As mentioned before, her hometown in the south is the capital of a major import and export province, with plenty of money to facilitate imports and equipment advantages. The equipment that Grandma Zheng brought out today proved this point.
For example, the on-board emergency ventilator that she and others can see now. She had not seen this type of equipment during her more than one year of internship in the capital. Logically speaking, she had been on a number of well-known top-level ambulances in the capital, such as the National Association North Capital Third Class National Ambulance, and participated in the emergency treatment and transfer of many emergency patients. If these hospitals really had this equipment, it would be unlikely that she would not have seen it.
She can't see it, so she can't generalize that all hospitals in the capital don't have this kind of ventilator. It is possible that some hospitals cherish the equipment and hide it away, and don't use it for patients under normal conditions for fear of breaking it. The localization of medical equipment is imperative to benefit the people in China who can't afford the high medical expenses.
What is the advantage of the car-mounted emergency ventilator? Think about the time when the patient was transferred from the plane. With this device instead of manual labor, Dr. Shi Lei didn't have to sweat all the way.
Advanced medical equipment does not simply reduce the workload of medical staff. More importantly, human hands cannot match the fatigue resistance of machines. Humans get tired, but machines do not. This alone gives machines a huge advantage in medical treatments that require long-term precision.
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In current surgical scenes, the reason for using emergency ventilators can also be based on this, replacing manual labor to provide patients with the greatest respiratory support.
This has to do with the fact that amputation surgery requires general anesthesia. Patients under general anesthesia need respiratory support due to respiratory depression caused by the effects of anesthetics. For this reason, anesthesiologists usually put patients on an anesthesia machine in hospitals.
The biggest difference between anesthesia machines and ventilators is that anesthesia machines have a part that can be filled with inhaled anesthetics, which is specially used to provide inhaled anesthesia to patients without paralyzing people around them. Ventilators do not have this part and are not sealed circuits of anesthesia machines. Ventilators use inhaled anesthetics, which will evaporate into the surrounding air when exchanging with the outside air, endangering others.
In terms of respiratory support for patients, ventilators are more comprehensive. A good anesthesia machine with comprehensive ventilator functions is very expensive. General hospitals cannot afford it and do not need it.
It is theoretically feasible to exclude inhalation anesthesia, use only intravenous anesthesia for general anesthesia, and use a ventilator instead of an anesthesia machine to support the patient's breathing. In practice, when there was a shortage of anesthesia machines in China, many veteran anesthesiologists used ventilators to survive.
Since there is no portable anesthesia machine at present, we can only use this emergency transport ventilator at the emergency scene. If it doesn't work and we want to save costs, we can let medical staff manually squeeze the breathing bag.
Since the hospital has taken out rare equipment for use, it means that they want to show off the software and hardware strengths of their hospital.
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