Surprising information about a nurse saving a foreign tourist from sudden cardiac arrest at a Da Nang restaurant

Fate saved a person suffering from cardiac arrest thanks to a delayed flight

At about 20:24 p.m. on March 3, Ms. Dang Thi Ha, a nurse at A9 Emergency Center - Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, was having dinner with 4 friends at a restaurant in Son Tra district, Da Nang. Right at the next table, a foreign man was having dinner with his wife when he stood up, moved and suddenly became dizzy, walked unsteadily, collapsed to the ground, lost consciousness, and had incontinence.

As soon as she saw the man staggering, Ms. Ha quickly moved out with this man's wife to help the patient. When she saw him unconscious, Ms. Ha helped him lie down on the hard floor, checked the carotid pulse, shouted to nearby restaurant staff to call 115 for assistance, and at the same time performed emergency chest compressions on the victim. .

Ms. Ha said, according to the schedule, at 20:24 p.m. on March 3, she will board a plane to return to Hanoi to go to work. However, in the evening, she received a text message from the airline announcing a delay until midnight. "At first there was a delay, my mood was like everyone else's, I felt bored because I thought it was too late and had to go to work early tomorrow. Will be very tired. But now that I think back, it could have been an arrangement, a predestined fate for me to meet the patient and save him. Because the plane was delayed, we decided to go eat at that restaurant and meet you," 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. The wife's hand was holding him tightly because she was worried, not understanding what was going on, and helped him to the floor to perform chest compressions."

After about a few dozen cyclic chest compressions, the patient regained consciousness, stabilized his vital functions, and was transported by Da Nang Ambulance 115 to the emergency room at a large local hospital.

It is necessary to replicate the first aid model in the community

Nurse Dang Thi Ha said she is 29 years old this year, has worked for 7 years at A9 Emergency Center - Bach Mai Hospital, witnessed many cases of cardiac arrest and circulatory arrest that required emergency treatment right in the hospital room. But this was the first time she encountered an emergency situation in the community.

“A layperson may not know a patient is in cardiac arrest. But I'm proud to be an employee of A9, and a nurse, so it's instinctive to see someone in cardiac arrest and call for emergency help. I just kept doing it, calmly, without fear or nervousness. Just think about the best way to do chest compressions for the patient. The sooner the heart rate recovers and the faster the brain perfusion will be, the patient will not be affected by the brain," Ha said.

Regarding the incident of female nurse A9 resuscitating a foreign male patient whose circulation stopped at a restaurant, on the morning of March 27, Associate Professor Dr. Dao Xuan Co - Director of Bach Mai Hospital said that the information he received, the patient The patient was awake and did not have any neurological or motor sequelae due to timely emergency circulatory arrest.

Director of Bach Mai Hospital shared that he is very happy that medical staff, wherever they are, whether in the hospital or in the community, can save lives. He also assessed that the case of a foreign man whose circulation stopped at a restaurant in Da Nang would have been difficult to survive if it were not for the A9 nurse who was there to provide emergency treatment.

Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Xuan Co assessed that out-of-hospital emergency treatment is very important to save patients. He proposed that the A9 Emergency Center, the Vietnam Poison Resuscitation Association, and the Department of Resuscitation coordinate to provide out-of-hospital emergency training to many people in the community, so that more patients who are unfortunate enough to have strokes or cardiac arrest. , accident... saved.

According to Associate Professor Co, in the US, Japan and many countries around the world, not only medical staff know how to do first aid to stop circulation and give first aid to victims, but students in universities and people are also trained. first aid. When more people have first aid knowledge, accidents in the community have a greater chance of being saved.