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Medics deployed to Jiangsu to save child
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THE life of a 4-year-old boy suffering from serious respiratory failure was saved by a team of Shanghai medics who traveled 400km with an advanced life-support system after the one being used at the Changzhou hospital where he was being treated proved inadequate.
The boy was being treated for pneumonia at a hospital in Changzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, when doctors found that the mechanical ventilation system he was hooked up to was not working and he was on the verge of death.
Medics at Changzhou Children’s Hospital called the Shanghai Children’s Hospital on Tuesday afternoon to ask for help. The hospital quickly deployed a team of seven medics equipped with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system. The machine, which requires a special surgical procedure to use, feeds oxygen into the bloodstream.
His condition improved soon after and he was transferred early yesterday to the Shanghai Children’s Hospital, where he is in stable condition.
The children’s hospital is among the first in China to adopt the system and has used it to treat 32 patients since 2011.
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