Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s Chapter 1663: The Costly World of Critical Care Medicine

Such a machine, which is a matter of life and death for the patient, is not a simple monitoring instrunt. It requires professionals to constantly keep an eye on its operation, perform professional operations, prevent errors, and promptly adjust the machine paraters to suit changes in the patient’s condition. Professional positions call for professional talent. The professionals responsible for extracorporeal circulation are known as Extracorporeal Circulation Technicians.

Extracorporeal Circulation Technicians originally erged in cardiac surgery, so they are generally selected from the cardiac surgery team. In so small hospitals where there is a shortage of personnel, only the surgical anesthesiologist or operating room nurse can take on this role after so simple training. It can be imagined that the role of the Extracorporeal Circulation Technician is sowhat undervalued in dostic hospitals. This is not the case in developed countries abroad, where becoming an Extracorporeal Circulation Technician requires rigorous specialty internships and certification to work in this position.

In so respects, dostic dical education lags behind that of foreign countries, mainly because so systems are forever a step behind. This results in so dical students wanting to learn more specialized fields of dicine and employnt, but there is no channel for them to do so.

Abroad, extracorporeal circulation is valued because of the more advanced critical care dicine technology in developed countries. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the most important aspect of critical care dicine. The ultimate cause of human death is often organ failure, basically cardiopulmonary failure. Extracorporeal circulation happens to be one of the most effective ans of rescuing the heart and lungs.

In our country, ordinary people cannot afford to enter the ICU, which results in hospitals not daring to set up more ICU beds for fear of financial loss. For example, the ECMO extracorporeal mbrane oxygenation technology, which is improved from the extracorporeal circulation machine and is commonly used abroad, is not yet researched or used dostically. This technology is costly. People in developed countries can afford it, but generally, people in our country cannot.

Guo Zhi Hospital, having financial resources, along with a clientele of affluent patients, was the first in the nation to establish an independent Extracorporeal Circulation Departnt, eventually evolving into an Extracorporeal Circulation Center. Specialized hospitals benefit greatly from further subdividing their specialties. The Extracorporeal Circulation Technicians at Guo Zhi Hospital are led by the departnt head of the Extracorporeal Circulation Departnt, have many colleagues in the sa specialty to brainstorm with, and provide maximum support to the surgeons, allowing the latter to concentrate more on surgeries. Consequently, it has beco a nationwide leader in this specialized field.

Cardiovascular disease, to put it plainly, is partly considered a disease of affluence.

Guoxie and other hospitals are not the sa; they must train their own Extracorporeal Circulation Technicians by selecting doctors from their own departnts. Without an independent Extracorporeal Circulation specialty, the surgeons themselves have to lead and handle these matters. Without specialized departnts in the aspect of professional cardiopulmonary resuscitation, their business capability is surely going to lag behind Guo Zhi Hospital. Teachers at Guoxie thinking about these issues might suffer from heartbreak again.

Doctor Pang works in the Extracorporeal Circulation Departnt as an Extracorporeal Circulation Technician. Daily, he takes care of critical patients needing extracorporeal circulation support in the departnt wards and is going to be responsible for the extracorporeal circulation operation in today’s cardiac surgery, supporting the surgical team.

Such a rare learning opportunity, Xie Wanying imdiately went to seek ntorship.

Doctor Pang led her to the adjoining operating room to make preparations.

Teacher Pang was very nice, explaining to her while working, "This is the extracorporeal circulation machine, also known as the heart-lung machine."

The heart-lung machine and ECMO are different. In surgical operations, the basic device in use is the heart-lung machine.