Source:People's Daily Overseas Edition
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the medical support team is the guardian of the athletes' safety. On the one hand, the athletes are racing against time to achieve good results; on the other hand, the medical service guarantee team is always on standby on the rescue "track" to protect the health of the athletes and staff.
Mutual cooperation and fast rescue
February 6 afternoon, in the capital stadium figure skating training hall, the national pair skating athletes are carrying out intense pre-game training. Suddenly, there was an accident on the training rink - a collision between a Canadian and an Italian skater, and Canadian female skater Vanessa James fell to the ground and was once unable to get up.
Chinese medical team members Tan Cunxin, Chen Jun, Gao Jianhai, Li Wanrong, who were on standby at the medical station at the venue during the game, immediately sought the consent of the Canadian coach to carry a first aid kit on the ice to save lives and assist the athletes to leave the ice, accompanied by the team doctor to arrive at the athlete's medical station, where Dr. Wang Jun, the doctor of the athlete's medical station, and Nurse Zhang Muhan are responsible for further examination.
Undertake the capital Pavilion figure skating training center medical support tasks are from the Peking University International Hospital medical team. Medical officer Wang Menghang said that after on-site diagnosis and further examination and disposal, the athlete was not seriously injured and successfully participated in the next day's competition.
"We have rehearsed this kind of scene many times." Wang Menghang said, "Our team's professional configuration is perfect, covering all sections related to the rescue needs of the race. The team members are young, mostly concentrated in the 20s and 30s."
Compared with the official competition venues, there are often 8 or even 10 athletes skating and jumping on the field at the same time in the training hall, and the medical team members must always maintain a high degree of vigilance. Wang Menghang said, these days the team worked up to 19 hours a day. Although the intensity of the work is very high, but we have no complaints, in the rescue "track" on the fight without honor.
"A few days ago during training, the U.S. team doctor came to the medical station to get ice, and specifically talked to us for a while, and praised the work of the Chinese doctors." Wang Menghang said.
Square Pod Clinic Save the Sharpshooter
"Square Pod Mobile Imaging Examination Room, equipped with the latest technology in medical imaging, 64 rows of depth of the sky eye CT and X-ray machine." In Zhangjiakou race area of the Winter Olympics village, Hebei Medical University Second Hospital Imaging Science and Technology Division Chief Fu Kailiang introduced, square pod design to facilitate the movement and quickly carry out treatment, is the diagnosis of sports injuries of a good helper, at the end of last year has been installed and put into use, not only for the athletes to provide protection, but also to serve the event staff and the delegations accompanying the team officials.
The ancient Yangshu venues group is the current Winter Olympics produced the largest number of gold medals venues group. The ancient Yangshu venues group director Guo Ying introduced, in order to timely response to the athletes in the snow project training and competition process may occur during the injury, the ancient Yangshu venues group configuration of 19 medical stations, 13 ambulances and 272 medical workers, there are 9 hospitals to provide medical services for the event support, the first hospital is the Peking University Third Hospital Chongli hospital area. The mountain broadcast center, which operates 24 hours a day in the arena complex, is also equipped with one media medical station.
The Genting Ski Park, with its multiple courses for slopestyle obstacle courses, obstacle chases, parallel giant slaloms, and U-shaped courses, is supported by medical care provided by teams from the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University and the Hebei Provincial People's Hospital. Dong Shimin, director of the emergency department of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, said, "This team of winter Olympic medical protection doctors has been formed for more than two years, involved in the FISU World Cup, the Winter Olympics test match and other series of events protection services, we will do our best to ensure that the injured athletes in the first time to get medical treatment."
Flying snow field guarding life
February 7, in the Yanqing race area of the small Haida Mountain National Alpine Skiing Center, men's rappelling competition is in full swing. Suddenly, the German player Dominik Schweiger in the high-speed skating process of the body lost balance, fell heavily on the track. The ski doctor who was nearby immediately rushed to check the injury, and then quickly transferred the athlete to the medical station with a sled boat for treatment.
Yuan Qiang, deputy medical officer of the National Alpine Ski Center Venue, introduced Schweigel was later transferred to the hospital, and after checking and treating the injury, he was stable and is now back in the Winter Olympic Village.
"When an athlete is injured, the golden rescue time is four minutes. After the head referee issued the command 'athletes stop starting' to 'close the track', the time left for rescuers is only about 1 minute." Yuan Qiang said, "For ski doctors, the tension of fighting for seconds to rescue an injured person on the snow track is no less than athletes fighting for gold medals."
"Alpine skiing is known as the 'crown jewel of the Winter Olympics', ornamental but easy to get hurt, fractures, spinal injuries, craniocerebral injuries, maxillofacial injuries and so on." Yuan Qiang introduced the alpine skiing medical support team of more than 100 people, including 38 domestic ski doctors responsible for track rescue, from more than a dozen tertiary hospitals in Beijing, including the Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking University Third Hospital and so on. Ski doctors have to keep an eye on the whole mountain and patrol the cold outdoors for long periods of time every day.
"People's Daily Overseas Edition" (February 10, 2022, page 06)