On March 21, the Department of Hematology and the Department of Blood Transfusion of the First Hospital of China Medical University jointly completed 2 cases of hematopoietic stem cell collection and 1 case of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Hours complete the transfer of life.
On March 17, the Department of Hematology of the First Hospital of China Medical University received the task of the China Marrow Bank – accepting a special non-blood-related hematopoietic stem cell donation volunteer.
Ms. Tian, 35, is the head nurse of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine (ICU) of Fuxin Mine General Hospital of Liaoning Health Industry Group, and an outstanding Communist Party member. In early 2020, she went to Caidian, Wuhan with the first medical team Department of Intensive Medicine of the District Association and Jiangbei Hospital, and was appointed as the leader of the fifth intensive care group of the Liaoning Medical Team. During the 56 days of assisting Wuhan, a total of 27 patients who were on the verge of death were successfully saved, and the mission of assisting Hubei was successfully completed.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in February 2022, Ms. Tian received a call from the Red Cross Society for a successful match. She was very excited to receive the call and immediately agreed to donate hematopoietic stem cells.
After the Spring Festival in 2022, the review and matching were successful, and the donor passed the physical examination, ready to donate stem cells to the patient. However, it coincides with the outbreak of the epidemic in Liaoning, and Shenyang’s epidemic prevention and control requirements have brought a lot of inconvenience to the admission and collection of volunteers. However, in distant cities, patients waiting for transplants have started pretreatment chemotherapy and are in urgent need of the seeds of life.
Ms. Tian came to the Hematology Department of the First Hospital of China Medical University without hesitation. The department immediately launched an emergency plan under the leadership of the director, Professor Yan Xiaojing and the head nurse Xia Xuejiao. Arranged to stay in a separate isolation room, and received nucleic acid tests every day, she has no complaints and actively cooperates.
On March 21, the hematology ward implemented closed-loop management in accordance with the hospital’s epidemic prevention and control requirements. Professor Hao Yiwen, director of the blood transfusion department, still actively supported the shortage of manpower, and sent a doctor early in the morning. to the hematology ward. After the preparations were completed, the blood cell separator was used to separate and collect stem cells. After four and a half hours, the collection of hematopoietic stem cells was successfully completed and handed over to the volunteers of the China Marrow Bank on time. The distant patient underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
On the same day, an allogeneic donor in the hematology ward was waiting to donate hematopoietic stem cells to his son who had undergone pretreatment chemotherapy in the laminar flow ward. The recipient of the stem cells is a 32-year-old leukemia patient who is also a cadre who aided Xinjiang. Unfortunately, leukemia was detected during the aid process. Donors are the key regional control population for the new crown. In order to rescue the patients in time, under the coordination and support of the hospital leaders and the infection control department, after the implementation of strict epidemic prevention measures, the medical staff of the hematology department and the blood transfusion department worked together without stopping, and the previous donor was quickly disinfected and transported after the collection. equipment, changed the isolation suit, and moved to the second case of stem cell collection. After the collection, the medical staff immediately gave the patients in the transplant chamber to transplant and infuse hematopoietic stem cells. The whole process went very smoothly, and it was nearly 10 pm when all the work was completed.
During more than ten hours of preparation, collection and transplantation, Professor Cai Dali, Professor Yan Xiaojing, Lun Yuanyuan and Nurse Yu Qiuhong from the Department of Hematology, especially those from the Department of Transfusion Dr. Yang Ronghui has been guarding the two donors to ensure medical safety.
Since March 18, there are still more than 50 patients in the Hematology Department of the First Hospital of China Medical University, and the medical staff in the department have been sticking to their posts in the ward. Our hematopoietic stem cell transplant donors are caring, dedicated, and shed the seeds of life; our medical workers have responsibilities and responsibilities, delivering new hope for life.
Source: WeChat public account “The First Hospital of China Medical University”
Editor: Yang Minghao