Fate saves a person with cardiac arrest thanks to a delayed flight
At around 8pm on March 24, Ms. Dang Thi Ha, a nurse at the A9 Emergency Center - Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, was having dinner with 4 friends at a restaurant in Son Tra district, Da Nang. Right next to the table was a foreign man who was having dinner with his wife. He stood up, moved around and suddenly became dizzy, walked unsteadily, collapsed to the ground, lost consciousness, and had trouble controlling his hygiene.
As soon as she saw the man staggering, Ms. Ha quickly moved out with the man's wife to help the patient. When she saw him unconscious, Ms. Ha helped him lie down on the hard floor, checked his pulse, called the surrounding restaurant staff to call 115 for assistance, and at the same time performed CPR on the victim.
Ms. Ha (white shirt) performs CPR on a patient (Photo: Cut from clip).
Ms. Ha said that according to the schedule, at 8:00 p.m. on March 24, she would board a plane to return to Hanoi to go to work. However, in the evening, she received a text message from the airline informing her that the flight would be delayed until midnight. "At first, I was delayed, and I felt like everyone else. I felt bored because I thought it would be too late to return home and I would be very tired if I had to go to work early tomorrow. But now that I think about it, it could be an arrangement, a chance for me to meet and save the patient. Because the flight was delayed, we decided to go eat at that restaurant and meet him," Ms. Ha said.
Sharing with reporters about the moment she saved a foreign man from cardiac arrest at a restaurant in Da Nang, Ms. Ha said: "Until now, I still don't understand why I had such strength when I pulled him out of the arms of his wife who was holding him tightly because she was worried and didn't understand what was happening, and helped him down to the floor to perform CPR."
After about a dozen periodic chest compressions, the patient regained consciousness, stabilized vital functions, and was transported by Da Nang 115 Ambulance to a large local hospital for emergency care.
Need to replicate the community emergency model
Nurse Dang Thi Ha said that she is 29 years old this year, has worked for 7 years at the A9 Emergency Center - Bach Mai Hospital, witnessed many cases of cardiac arrest, circulatory arrest that had to be treated right in the hospital room, but this is the first time she encountered an emergency situation in the community.
Nurse Dang Thi Ha (left) takes care of a patient at Emergency Center A9 - Bach Mai Hospital
"A normal person might not know that a patient has a cardiac arrest. But I am proud to be an employee of A9, and a nurse, so it is an instinct to give first aid when someone has a cardiac arrest. I just do it, calmly, without fear or nervousness. I only think about how to give the best CPR to the patient. The sooner the heart rate recovers, the faster the blood flow to the brain, and the less damage to the patient's brain," Ha said.
Regarding the incident of female nurse A9 resuscitating a foreign male patient who had stopped circulating blood at a restaurant, on the morning of March 27, Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Xuan Co - Director of Bach Mai Hospital said that according to the information he received, the patient was conscious, without any neurological or motor sequelae, due to timely resuscitation of the stopped circulating blood.
The director of Bach Mai Hospital shared that he was very happy that medical staff, no matter where they were, in the hospital or in the community, could save people. He also assessed that the case of the foreign man who stopped circulating at a restaurant in Da Nang would have been difficult to survive if not for the A9 nurse who happened to be there to provide emergency care.
Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Xuan Co assessed that outpatient emergency care is very important to save patients. He suggested that the A9 Emergency Center, the Vietnam Association of Resuscitation and Anti-Poisoning, and the Department of Resuscitation coordinate to train outpatient emergency care for many people in the community, so that more patients who unfortunately have strokes, cardiac arrests, accidents, etc. can be saved.
According to Associate Professor Co, in the US, Japan and many other countries around the world, not only medical staff know how to perform CPR and first aid for victims, but also university students and the general public are trained in first aid. The more people have first aid knowledge, the more likely it is that accidents in the community will be saved.
A9 Bach Mai nurse gives emergency treatment to foreign tourist with cardiac arrest
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