Chapter 425: Airborne ICU

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"Huhuhu~"

Wang Dali lay on the ground, gaping and looking into the air.

There was a sound of strong winds overhead, and a few seconds later, a dark gray black spot appeared in sight.

The black spot was approaching quickly, the whirring in his ears became louder and louder, and a huge mechanical roar made the ground buzz.

"This, this is actually a helicopter?"

The black spots grew from small to large, and Wang Dali finally understood where the familiar voice came from.

Looking at the huge, rapidly rotating propeller, its smooth body and tail, Wang Dali was stunned for a moment and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

In his more than thirty years of ordinary life, he had never faced such a heavy steel raptor directly.

When the helicopter appeared overhead, his heart beat violently, adrenaline was secreted crazily, and something seemed to be burning in his whole body.

When any man sees the scene of a helicopter falling from the sky, the blood in his bones will instantly boil.

He is also included.

This was a WZ-8 transport helicopter. It hovered in the air for a while and landed slowly a few meters away.

The huge propeller kept spinning, whipping up strong winds and blowing away the dust on the ground.

Wang Dali came to his senses when he saw several medical soldiers running toward the helicopter carrying stretchers.

The pedal door at the tail of the Zhi-8 transport helicopter immediately lowered, forming a slope. The medical soldiers carried the two wounded people and carefully entered the cabin.

Wang Dali couldn't help but be a little confused: "Are we going to move the wounded away? Are we not going to treat them on the spot?"

The next second, he saw Dean Yin standing in front of the hatch, carrying a familiar first aid kit and waving to him.

Wang Dali immediately got up and ran over, asking loudly: "What are you doing here?"

The roar of the helicopter was so loud that he had to shout.

Dean Yin did not answer, but with a smile on his face, he gestured to come in, turned around and walked into the cabin.

Wang Dali followed closely and looked around curiously.

The cabin is quite spacious. There are two rows of seats on the walls on both sides. There are two wounded people on the ground, lying on red stretchers.

Wang Dali keenly observed that this stretcher was different from the ones he had seen before. It was probably specially made for use on helicopters to avoid secondary damage caused by turbulence during flight.

After the wounded were settled, the helicopter quickly took off and flew into the sky.

Dean Yin handed the first aid box in his hand to two random military doctors and walked towards Wang Dali.

"This time our exercise is a 'cross-sea and island' operation. Because many of the wounded are located far away from the rescue center, Z-8 transport helicopters were specially dispatched. Later they will provide air first aid to the wounded and then send them to Go to the semi-submersible vessel for follow-up treatment.”

"Of course, air ambulance is also an important part of the exercise. Let's see if an ordinary transport helicopter can be used as a temporary rescue helicopter after being equipped with a military medical integrated machine."

Wang Dali suddenly understood and nodded quickly.

Rescue helicopters are professional helicopters specially used to transfer critically ill and injured patients, transport rescue forces, and provide effective treatment.

Not only is it equipped with two medical staff, but the interior of the cabin is also equipped with necessary first aid equipment and has been certified for airworthiness.

Including defibrillation monitor, ventilator, syringe pump, suction device, high-pressure oxygen cylinder, three-dimensional stretcher, etc., it is like a small air ICU.

Random medical staff use onboard medical equipment to carry out treatment while the sick and wounded are being transported, seize the golden rescue hour and try their best to save lives.

However, this kind of helicopter is very expensive, costing about 30 to 40 million yuan per unit, and the number of injured people it can accommodate is also very limited, no more than 3 people at most.

The cost of a rescue mission is even more expensive, about 40,000 to 70,000 yuan an hour, which is really not something ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, rescue helicopters are not widely popular in China and are only available in first- and second-tier cities.

For battlefield treatment, the military often uses heavy-duty transport helicopters to transport personnel, which can hold at least 20 people, and even stretchers can hold seven or eight people.

Therefore, rescue helicopters are of limited use in situations such as the military where there are many wounded people.

Of course, in response to this situation, various countries have temporarily modified helicopters, developed and installed various so-called "helicopter comprehensive first aid units" that integrate monitoring and rescue functions to achieve a combination of treatment and delivery.

The helicopter comprehensive emergency medical unit can provide on-site first aid and helicopter evacuation to severely wounded patients as comprehensively as the ICU ward in the hospital under field conditions, and maintain the vital signs of the severely wounded.

But this thing also has a flaw, that is, it is very bulky, just like a three-tier bed. Even if it can be installed and disassembled at any time, a transport helicopter cannot hold a few of them.

This solution can only solve the problem of not having professional rescue helicopters, but it cannot solve the problem of too many injured people on helicopters.

This problem has always troubled Dean Yin, and he has sought solutions many times, but to no avail.

Until I met Sanqing, this pain point was finally solved perfectly.

This time, he is going to try it on a transport helicopter to see if the medical all-in-one machine can replace the comprehensive first aid unit, so that any ordinary helicopter can have the powerful function of aerial ICU.

At this time, two military doctors had already begun racing against time to provide first aid to the wounded.

The two of them watched silently, and Wang Dali took out his mobile phone to record the scene completely.

"Difficulty breathing, weak pulse, hypothermia..."

A wounded person had already put on a portable monitor. The military doctor looked at the physical parameters on it and combined it with his own examination results to quickly make a diagnosis.

Without any hesitation, he quickly opened the military backpack on the ground, which contained bulging equipment and medicines.

He casually took out the ventilation module, inserted the cricothyroid puncture needle into the casualty's trachea, and opened the casualty's airway.

Suddenly, the monitor that was monitoring vital signs in real time sounded an alarm.

"Too bad, many indicators of the injured are abnormal, and the body is suffering from severe hypothermia."

The military doctor quickly found a palm-sized equipment module from his backpack. After unfolding it, it turned into a golden thermal blanket and wrapped the wounded man.

Immediately afterwards, the military doctor took out a respirator from the first aid kit and put it on the wounded.

The respirator made a "whooshing" sound, and after a few seconds, the wounded man's chest began to rise and fall, and his breathing became smoother.

Wang Dali and Dean Yin looked at each other at the same time and took a breath.

Looking at the other injured person, the injury was also very serious, with extensive trauma to the chest and abdomen and bleeding.

"The chest suffered a penetrating injury and was judged to be a traumatic pneumothorax..."

Another experienced military doctor knew that in this case, the bleeding must be stopped immediately in order to save the wounded.

He quickly took out a can of hemostatic agent from the first aid kit and sprayed it on the chest and abdomen of the wounded person, which quickly had an immediate effect.

Then he took out a chest sealing patch from his military bag and quickly sealed the wounded man's wound.

After a while, the wounded man's spontaneous breathing gradually recovered, and everyone finally felt relieved.

This time, in addition to Sanqing's military medical all-in-one machine, the two military doctors each carried a heavy backpack, which contained all common first-aid medicines and equipment, which was regarded as another "treasure box."

Wang Dali couldn't help but nodded. With Sanqing's first aid kit and the military doctor's backpack, battlefield first aid was very comprehensive.

It not only has simple and easy-to-use consumables and first aid medicine, but also mid-to-high-end first aid equipment, which is absolutely foolproof.

Seeing that the two wounded soldiers received treatment and their injuries improved, the two military doctors could not hide their excitement.

"It's great. With this first aid kit from Sanqing, battlefield treatment is more efficient. No matter how hard or tired you are, you don't have to worry about it."

"Yes, portable respirators and portable monitors are very useful."

"It's just that the number is a little small. It would be nice if each wounded person was equipped with one set."

Having said this, the two military doctors instantly turned their expectant eyes to Dean Yin.

Dean Yin chuckled and looked at Wang Dali.

Wang Dali forced a smile: "Hurry, hurry up, I will send you 10 sets of prototypes by the end of this month."

Dean Yin pondered: "I think the quantity of each equipment needs to be discussed again. You might as well put a few more commonly used ones like monitors, as well as respirators and syringe pumps. As for color ultrasound, defibrillators, etc., one One in the box is enough.”

Wang Dali nodded repeatedly: "That's right."

At this moment, he felt the helicopter hovering and descending slowly, and was suddenly surprised.

"Are there more wounded?"

Dean Yin glanced at him: "That's natural. A helicopter has to pick up a lot of people on the way."

While he was talking, the helicopter had landed.

Another wounded person was carried into the cabin on a stretcher and placed carefully on the ground.

This time the medical soldier did not stop. After putting down the wounded, he turned around and left.

Two military doctors rushed over and took one look, and their expressions suddenly changed.

"Oops, open trauma, it was a gunshot wound to the abdomen."

"The wound is quite deep. I'm afraid it's hard to find the bleeding point."

"Stop the bleeding first, and then do a color ultrasound to see where the bullet was."

Fortunately, there was only one injured person. The two military doctors worked together and quickly found the bleeding point under the guidance of color ultrasound.

Looking at this familiar scene, Dean Yin couldn't help but smile.

However, the bleeding stopped, but the wounded man still lost a lot of blood.

"Intravenous fluids are necessary."

The military doctor took out another bag of regular unit lactated Ringer's solution and skillfully connected it to a set of intravenous infusion equipment.

Lactated Ringer's solution contains almost all the electrolytes in plasma and is often used to rescue patients with massive blood loss because the lactic acid contained in it can be metabolized into bicarbonate by the liver and can be used to correct intracellular acidosis caused by severe blood loss.

He put a portable monitor on the injured person to monitor physical parameters in real time, and then carefully performed a venipuncture on the arm.

The most critical point during infusion is to monitor the status of the wounded at all times and adjust the drip rate of the liquid according to the status.

Overdosing the drug or instilling it too quickly can easily cause adverse reactions, which can even be life-threatening.

Dean Yin stepped forward, took the infusion bag, helped lift it, and reminded: "There is a microinjection pump in the first aid kit."

"That's great. I didn't expect that there is such a good thing as a syringe pump."

A military doctor took out a syringe pump, put it on the infusion tube, carefully adjusted the drip speed, and nodded with satisfaction after a while.

The syringe pump can accurately control the flow rate and flow rate of the delivered medical solution, and can alarm for abnormal conditions during the infusion process, and automatically cut off the infusion path in a timely manner.

With a syringe pump, you don’t have to worry about the drip speed being too fast.

He hung the IV bag on the shelf next to him and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now they are all alive. The treatment of the three wounded has been successfully completed."

The four of them looked at each other and smiled happily.

Wang Dali felt relieved and said with a smile: "Dean Yin, it seems that this helicopter has completely turned into an aerial ICU."

Dean Yin laughed loudly and said: "This air ambulance drill was so successful. It was exactly what I thought."

Along the way, the helicopter stopped twice more to pick up two wounded people.

One suffered cardiac arrest and required the use of a defibrillator and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The other's right leg was shot and fractured. After simple bandaging, the injury gradually improved.

Dean Yin was on the side, watching all the first aid procedures, smiling happily and nodding.

After this actual combat exercise, he finally became confident. He believed that after being equipped with a military medical all-in-one machine, an ordinary transport helicopter could also function as a professional rescue aircraft, and it would be able to treat many more wounded at one time than usual. .

Wang Dali looked all the way and fell into deep thought.

He was thinking that as long as it is equipped with Sanqing's first aid kit, it can have the function of an airborne ICU.

Then, an ordinary helicopter, equipped with a first aid kit, can completely replace the rescue helicopter.

An ordinary 4-seater helicopter is much cheaper than a rescue helicopter.

Only four to five million, which is only one-tenth of the cost of a rescue helicopter.

Even a 6-seater helicopter only costs more than 20 million, which is only half of that of a rescue helicopter.

If it is just a simple civilian first aid, ordinary helicopters can be used instead.

As long as Sanqing's first aid kit is available, the patient can be given simple first aid and then quickly transferred to a large hospital in the rear.

In this way, the cost of helicopters has plummeted, and the cost of a dispatch is also much less, which will naturally make it more popular among the people.

Nowadays, a helicopter rescue mission costs at least 40,000 yuan an hour.

Then switching to an ordinary light helicopter can reduce the price to several thousand yuan per hour.

It is absolutely possible to popularize helicopter rescue and benefit all people just like in foreign countries.

Domestic rescue helicopters are originally very rare compared to foreign countries, and the price is even higher. Even large general hospitals cannot afford to equip them.

Even if there is insurance, it is difficult for ordinary people to insure specifically for this kind of rescue.

However, once the price of a rescue is lowered, the price of a rescue is controlled between 5,000 and 10,000.

There are certainly many seriously injured patients who would be willing to try it.

After all, helicopters are the most efficient rescue method in the world today.

Not only can it quickly reach special areas that ground ambulances cannot reach, but in terms of first aid and transporting patients, helicopter rescue is five times faster than ambulances. Within the golden hour of rescue time, the accident mortality rate can be reduced by more than 40%.

Especially in some big cities where traffic jams are common, for hikers who are trapped in deep mountains and old forests, and even during natural disasters, it is difficult for ambulances to pass smoothly. At this time, rescue helicopters are often needed, but the number of people the helicopter can carry is very limited.

If ordinary helicopters or even military transport helicopters can be dispatched, it will undoubtedly greatly increase the number of rescuers and save countless lives.

The more Wang Dali thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt that a broad road shining with holy light was slowly opening in front of him.

However, he quickly remembered that this device was customized by the military and was still under confidentiality.

"I will report to the General Health Bureau later to see if it can be transferred to civilian use as soon as possible."

"This is a good thing for the country and the people, so there should be no problem."

He thought silently in his heart and couldn't help but smile.

(End of chapter)