Using helicopters to take workers with work accidents in Truong Sa to the mainland for emergency treatment

At 9:20 a.m. on September 26, the Air Rescue Team - Military Hospital 175, along with the Flight Crew of the Southern Helicopter Company - Army Corps 18 landed at the building of the Orthopedic Trauma Institute, Military Hospital 175, to safely bring a patient with serious injuries due to a work accident from Thuyen Chai Island (Truong Sa Special Zone, Khanh Hoa Province) back to the mainland.

The patient is NNH (born in 1972, from Quang Tri ), a worker working on Thuyen Chai Island. During work, NNH suffered a multiple trauma accident, chest and abdominal trauma, and was taken to Thuyen Chai Island Infirmary for emergency treatment. After examination, the patient was diagnosed with multiple trauma: closed abdominal trauma in the 3rd hour, intra-abdominal bleeding with suspected liver rupture; closed chest trauma, fracture of the 9th rib on the right side.

The patient was taken by helicopter to the mainland.

Immediately, Thuyen Chai Island Infirmary conducted a Telemedicine consultation with Military Hospital 175. Doctors determined that the patient was at risk of developing hemorrhagic shock and needed to be transported to the mainland for intensive treatment.

At 1:20 a.m. on September 26, the MB622 helicopter of the Southern Helicopter Company - Corps 18 and the Air Rescue Team - Military Hospital 175, led by Lieutenant Colonel Pham Truong Thanh, Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison as Team Leader, took off from Tan Son Nhat airport to Thuyen Chai island.

Despite the long flight, in complex stormy weather conditions all night, the flight crew and air ambulance team safely transported the patient to the mainland.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Pham Truong Thanh, to ensure the safety of the patient's life during the transport by plane, Military Hospital 175 has fully prepared the following plans: blood transfusion to prevent shock, mechanical ventilation, pleural drainage, fluid replacement, oxygen therapy, hemostasis and close monitoring of complications such as tension pneumothorax, hemothorax, respiratory failure, circulatory failure. In particular, the emergency team has brought along a sufficient amount of medicine and equipment, ready to perform emergency hemostasis surgery right on the plane in the worst case scenario.

Although the flight was long and took place in complex stormy weather conditions all night, with a sense of responsibility, courage and experience, the flight crew and the air ambulance team transported the patient safely to the mainland and promptly took him to the Emergency Department of Military Hospital 175.

Immediately after receiving the patient, the hospital quickly deployed CODE RED, held a hospital-wide consultation to make a definitive diagnosis and apply a timely, specialized treatment regimen for the patient.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/y-te/dung-truc-thang-dua-nguoi-bi-tai-nan-lao-dong-o-truong-sa-ve-dat-lien-cap-cuu--i782580/