The novel coronavirus has spread across many countries and regions around the world. The worrying situation leads to a growing amount of attention paid to Wuhan’s epidemic prevention and control experience. Recently Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University shared the protection and treatment experience with the United States, Italy, Brazil, Canada, France, Kenya and other countries, passing on confidence and strength to them through practical actions.
Renmin Hospital of WHU has mobilized all its personnel and material resources in the fight against the disease, with a total of 3,000 new beds and a total of nearly 5,000 COVID-19 patients being received and treated. It has made outstanding achievements in the early recognition and diagnosis of patients, the treatment of mild patients in the makeshift Fangcang hospitals, and the multidisciplinary cooperative diagnosis and treatment of severe cases.
On March 25th, two international academic video conferences on epidemic diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control were held in the Internet Hospital of Renmin Hospital. The Chinese medical professionals connected with their counterparts from the United States and Italy, the two countries with the fastest-growing number in COVID-19 patients currently.
Renmin Hospital connecting with OSU professionals
Upon receiving invitation from Ohio State University, President Dou Xiankang and Vice President Tang Qizhu entrusted Renmin Hospital to hold academic communications on behalf of WHU at the invitation of the United States. The first video meeting began at 8:00 a.m. on March 25th on the ZOOM online conference platform. Hal Paz, senior Vice President of Ohio State University and CEO of Ohio State University Medical School, together with American experts from departments of Anesthesiology, Emergency, ICU, and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit attended the meeting. Gong Zuojiong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Wei Jie, director of the Department of Emergency and Intensive Care, and Yu Zhui, deputy director of the Department of Intensive Care, all from Renmin Hospital, shared their experience on the treatment and prevention of COVID-19.
Renmin Hospital experts and American experts having online video meeting
Italy is currently the most affected region in Europe. At the beginning of February this year, when the epidemic was at its worst in Wuhan, Italy called Renmin Hospital to express sympathy and support. Now at the most critical moment of fighting against the virus in Italy, Renmin Hospital decisively lent a helping hand.
At 8 p.m. on March 25, Ivan Colombo, CEO of Humanitas group in Milan, Italy, led Italian experts to conduct in-depth discussion with experts on epidemic prevention and control of Renmin Hospital led by Vice President Tang Qizhu.
Online discussion between experts from Renmin Hospital and Italian experts
In the worst-hit areas, Italian experts are more concerned about the more pressing issues such as the progress of antiviral drugs and how to deal with the flow of early emergency patients. WHU experts gave detailed answers and guidance respectively.
In-depth discussion online at the Internet Hospital
At the request of the Italian side, WHU immediately agreed to donate the COVID-19 artificial intelligence diagnostic system for CT of the lungs developed by professor Du Bo of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to Italy. This will play an important role in accelerating the diagnosis of the disease and alleviating the shortage of radiologists.
Zhongnan Hospital of WHU took over COVID-19 designated hospitals including Wuhan No.7 hospital, Wuhan Keting Makeshift Fangcang Hospital and Wuhan Leishenshan Hospital. The headquarter of Zhongnan Hospital has equipped 2000 beds for COVID-19 patients. The hospital is the only designated hospital in Hubei Province that has adopted the "1+3" mode in receiving and curing COVID-19 patients. With more than 5,400 beds, it is the "flagship hospital" receiving and treating the most COVID-19 patients. The hospital has rich anti-epidemic experience, especially for its outstanding ability in critical COVID-19 cases treatment.
"What is the positive conversion rate from suspected to confirmed patients? What are the best precautions to avoid infection among medical staff? " At 8 p.m. on March 25th, a video conference was held where Chinese and foreign experts exchanged experience. Gao Yadong, deputy director of the Department of Rrespiratory Medicine from Zhongnan Hospital, Hu Bo, deputy director of the Intensive Care Center of Leishenshan hospital, Chen Xiangdong, director of the Office of Teaching and Research of Anesthesiology and the Department of Anesthesiology, and Tong Qiaoxia, director of the Department of Infectious Disease from Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, shared the protection and treatment experience online with the experts from Brazil. This is the fifth time that the hospital has connected with foreign experts in the past half a month .
Zhongnan Hospital connecting with Brazil professionals
"The symptoms of COVID-19 in European patients are obviously different from those in Chinese patients, so we need to learn relevant prevention and treatment methods from Chinese counterparts." Zhongnan Hospital received invitations from hospitals in Canada and France two days ago to communicate on how to prevent and treat the novel coronavirus.
On March 25, Professor Zhao Yan's team from Zhongnan Hospital held a video link with nearly 30 doctors from Vancouver General Hospital and other hospitals in Canada. Faced with the severe situation of epidemic prevention, Canadian doctors consulted experts from Zhongnan Hospital on how to effectively control the spread of the epidemic, how to prevent medical staff from being infected and other issues. Professor Zhao's team carefully explained the effective prevention and control measures in China.
Zhongnan Hospital connecting with Canadian professionals
Canadian doctor said in the video that the measures provided by Zhongnan Hospital are very good and would soon be applied in Canada. They thanked the doctors in Wuhan for their selfless help to protect Canadian people from disease and death on behalf of Canadian medical staff and people.
Zhongnan Hospital connecting with Canadian professionals
On March 23th, doctors from Zhongnan Hospital of WHU and Georges Pompidou European Hospital in France shared their experience in the treatment of COVID-19 through online video. In view of the different characteristics of symptoms of COVID-19 between patients in France and China, Zhongnan Hospital shared their experience.
Georges Pompidou European Hospital is among the earliest hospital in France to contact COVID-19 patients, and feels it hard to deal with in the face of COVID-19. Doctors of 12 professions including the Respiration and Intensive Medicine, Emergency Treatment and so on, had video communication with professor Zhao Yan, Li Zhiqiang, professor of Neurosurgery, Peng Zhiyong, professor of Critical Care Medicine, Cheng Zhenshun, professor of Respiratory and Critical Care.
Zhongnan Hospital connecting with Georges Pompidou European Hospital
On March 22nd, Zhongnan Hospital of WHU Medical Imaging Department team, Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Health Cabinet Minister of Kenya and the country's medical experts, via international tele-consultation platform, conducted the video meeting, exchanging how to use CT examination and other means to screen and diagnose COVID-19 patients, make an accurate judgment of the attack of the disease, and help Kenya and the African countries master new methods of diagnosis and treatment for COVID-19.
Zhongnan Hospital medical imaging department team connecting with Kenyan medical experts
On March 13rd, a meeting for top medical experts from China and the United States to share their experience in fighting the epidemic was also held by video. Peng Zhiyong, director of ICU from Zhongnan Hospital of WHU, Cao Bin, Vice President of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Zhang Wenhong, director of infection department from Shanghai Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, as well as scientists from Harvard University, Columbia University, Washington University School of Medicine, director of ICU, respiratory and infection departments and deans from 100 top American hospitals, more than ten CDC staff, former majority leader of the United States Senate and chairman of the Public Health Committee, etc., nearly three hundred people in total, participated in the online video communication.
Experience sharing meeting between China and the US
The nearly 2-hour meeting covered many aspects of COVID-19, including diagnosis, treatment of ICU patients, self-protection of doctors, use of antiviral drugs, hospital management during the outbreak, etc.
Peng Zhiyong's team mainly treated critical COVID-19 patients, more than 72% of whom needed invasive mechanical ventilation, i.e. invasive intubation, and half of them switched to ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) artificial lung. Knowing that the rescue success rate of Peng's team reached 80%, and the recovery success rate of patients rescued by ECMO reached 50%, American experts raised their thumbs.
Peng Zhiyong
Rewritten by Li Sijie
Edited by Wei Yena, Hu Sijia
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IzeTrfthA1PllxQ1-Hl6lg
