Caption: In the Neuromodulation Center of Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital, comatose patients can receive support from a multidisciplinary medical team Sources of treatment/provided by interviewees
With the improvement of treatment capabilities, the mortality rate of critically ill neurological patients has decreased significantly, but the number of comatose patients has continued to increase. According to conservative estimates, there are currently 500,000 to 1,000,000 comatose patients in China, and the frequency is increasing by 100,000 per year.
Car accidents, cardiac arrests, strokes, gas poisoning… all may cause coma. The treatment of coma patients has always been a worldwide problem that cannot be completely solved. March 22 is the “World Coma Day”. Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital launched a public welfare activity of “Caring for comatose patients, Donglei Brain Department is in action”.
“I like you…” Lao Zhang, who was lying on the hospital bed, confessed vaguely, making his wife, who has been accompanying and caring, both excited and sweet. This is the 8th month after his cerebral hemorrhage and coma, and more than a month after he was treated at the Donglei Brain Consciousness Disorder Center. He finally recognized his relatives and spoke consciously. Now, with the perseverance and careful care of his family and the personalized wake-up treatment provided by the Neuromodulation Center of Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital, Lao Zhang can walk slowly and communicate easily. This is a case of coma and awakening introduced by Zeng Ran, the head of the neuroregulation center in the live broadcast.
It is understood that in the Neuromodulation Center of Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital, comatose patients can be treated by a multidisciplinary medical team. During the whole process of treatment, the center has formed a set of early intervention and standardized wake-up procedures, thereby improving the effect of wake-up treatment.
What are the current wake-up treatments? What precautions should be taken during the rehabilitation process? In the live broadcast room, Director Zeng Ran and Chief Technician Li Li of the Neuromodulation Center respectively gave in-depth popular science explanations on the two themes of wake-up therapy and rehabilitation therapy, and answered questions online for the families of comatose patients.
After the live broadcast, Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital also conducted an online multidisciplinary joint free consultation for two coma patients with severe illness, from neurosurgery, neurology and rehabilitation departments. Doctors formed a multidisciplinary team of diagnosis and treatment, and gave more comprehensive and comprehensive treatment recommendations.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Zuo Yan