`Because I opened my heart… `Great doctors who continued surgery even in hospital fire

“Because I opened my heart…” Great doctors who continued surgery even in hospital fire

Input: 2021-04-04 10:08:13Revision: 2021-04-04 10:23:29Published: 2021-04-04 10:23:41

In the midst of a fire broke out in a Russian hospital and more than 120 people were evacuated, the fighting spirit of thoracic surgeons who continued heart surgery to the end is becoming a hot topic around the world.

According to various foreign media such as the BBC on the 3rd, a fire broke out in a hospital in Amur, Russia on the 2nd. Founded in 1907, the hospital’s roof was made of wood and the flames spread quickly. The hospital evacuated all 120 people who had been hospitalized.

At the same time, however, cardiac surgery was in progress at the 1st floor Thoracic Surgery. The operation could not be stopped because the patient’s heart was already open.

The hospital decided to continue the operation of the patient who had already opened the heart and continued the operation. In this operation, 8 doctors and nurses were all employed, and a fire broke out right after the operation started, but the operation was successfully completed in 2 hours.

Fortunately, firefighters mobilized an elevated ladder to extinguish the flames that started from the ceiling of the building to prevent the fire from spreading throughout the building, which allowed the doctors to complete the operation.

The patient who underwent surgery on that day was moved to a nearby local hospital and is currently in the recovery stage. It is known that there are no special health problems.

“There was nothing else we could do. We had to save the patient,” said the operating surgeon Valentin Pilatoff.

Park Jung-mi, reporter at Busan.com [email protected]