According to Da Nang Hospital, patient Le.H.D (26 years old, residing in Son Tra district) was repairing electricity and water at home when he was electrocuted. When the ambulance arrived at the scene, it was found that the patient had stopped breathing and had to undergo CPR, intubation, and continuous resuscitation for 20 to 25 minutes before being transferred to Da Nang Hospital for emergency care.
At the Emergency Room, Da Nang Hospital recorded that this patient still had no circulation. The patient continued to receive emergency care, chest compressions, and balloon pumping via endotracheal tube. Doctors from the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department quickly assessed and initiated the ECMO red alert procedure.
Head of the ECMO team for the patient, Specialist II Doctor Bui Van Dung said that at the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poisoning, the patient showed very serious symptoms such as: acute circulatory failure, acute respiratory failure, brain hypoxia after circulatory arrest, severe fluid leakage from the blood vessels, and multiple organ damage.
The patient was treated with all modern and advanced intensive resuscitation measures such as: ECMO to support circulation, mechanical ventilation to support breathing, hypothermia to bring the target body temperature down to 33 degrees Celsius to protect the brain damaged by circulatory arrest, plasma exchange, continuous blood filtration, internal medicine to treat sedation - muscle relaxants, antibiotic therapy...
After more than 100 hours of intensive resuscitation, the patient's circulation was restored, he was weaned off VA ECMO and continued to receive intensive medical treatment.
Specialist Doctor II Ha Son Binh - Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Anti-Poison, Da Nang Hospital said: "This is a very serious case, seemingly hopeless in the first 24 hours. However, with the determination of the entire Da Nang Hospital using all the most modern measures of the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison specialty, the patient was miraculously revived from the brink of death."
