Worker was seriously injured heart rupture doctors “repair heart” to save lives

  The morning of May 12, Kaifeng West District, a construction site, the hot sun baking is working workers. Near noon, busy morning Mr. Hu wiped a sweat on his face, looking for a shady place next to the site to lie down and rest. At this time, not far from the workers are demolishing the building’s external wall scaffolding. Mr. Hu just lay down not long, a sudden blow to the chest …… heard screams, the nearby workers rushed to Hu Jianjun side, found that he had lost consciousness, they immediately called 120 for help.  It turned out that the workers who were removing the scaffolding did not know that Hu Jianjun was resting next to the building, so they threw the removed scaffolding down casually, one of the steel pipes fell from the eighth floor and then bounced up high, hitting Hu Jianjun horizontally in the chest.  ”The patient was sent to the emergency surgery at 2 p.m. when his limbs were cold, incontinent, could not measure his blood pressure, and the situation was particularly dangerous.” The hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery deputy chief physician Meng Qingjiang said.  After examination, the preliminary diagnosis was heart rupture, sternal comminuted fracture, pericardial filling and bilateral multiple rib fractures. Because it was Mr. Hu who came to Bianbian from abroad, his family was not present and did not pay the fee, Kaifeng Downtown Hospital opened a green channel for him, and at 3 p.m., he was urgently transferred to the cardiothoracic surgery department, which was opened by the director of cardiothoracic surgery, chief physician Liu Yuwei, deputy chief physician Meng Qingjiang, and attending physician Zhuge Xuepeng for repairing the heart, fixing the thoracic ribs and other resuscitation surgery.  ”During the operation, we found that the cause of the patient’s heart bleeding was due to the impact on the chest, the apical part of the heart was severely bruised by the broken end of the sternum, there was a long 1.5cm rupture enclosure in the heart, from time to time there was a fountain of blood gushing out, which led to pericardial filling, blood pressure disappeared …… After 4 hours of heart repair Surgery, finally the patient’s life was saved.” Meng Qingjiang said, at present, Mr. Hu is conscious and his vital signs are stable, but he is still under observation in the intensive care unit.  ”This is the second patient sent from a construction site in the last month!” He Hui, head of the publicity section of the hospital, reminded that “the hot weather in summer is also a period of high risk of accidents in construction sites and other high-risk workplaces, so I hope that the majority of workers will be careful in the process of operation and raise safety awareness to protect their lives.”