What is it like to die? Listen to this patient's account

Some people say that the soul has weight, and when a person dies, he or she will lose weight compared with his or her life, and that part of the weight loss is the weight of the soul.

I don't know much about this statement, but I met a patient who had a traumatic hemorrhage and told me how he felt when he experienced death.

This patient was a civilian worker in his 40s. At eight o'clock that night, he was carried by several workers on a bedpan to the hospital emergency room. When he came to the hospital, his left lower limb was already half severed, smashed by a stone slab.

The worker tied a strip of cloth on his thigh to stop the bleeding, but it was obvious - these cotton cloths could no longer stop the bleeding in this case, and the blood flowed down the plank, from the emergency room door to the resuscitation room. You can imagine how much blood this injured man had shed on his way here.

When he arrived at the resuscitation room, he was already in a state of shock, his eyes were already open, his face was kind of white, as white as paper, his lips were not bloody at all, especially dry, and his eyes appeared deeply sunken into that feeling.

After he saw us I think he wanted to shed tears, but could not come out. He opened his mouth and tried to say: "Save me, save me, I have a wife and children waiting for me at home.

Another doctor and I quickly stopped his bleeding. Because the cause of death in this kind of injury is due to excessive bleeding, resulting in hemorrhagic shock and insufficient blood volume. The artery in the leg is very thick and the bleeding is significant.

A pressure tourniquet was quickly applied to the root of his injured thigh, while local pressure, bandaging, hemostasis, and compression were applied. At the same time, the patient's blood pressure started to drop, and the highest blood pressure he heard when he arrived at our resuscitation room was only one sound, around 60 mmHg, and the low pressure could no longer be measured. His heart rate was fast, from 130 beats per minute to 120 beats per minute, but quickly fell to 80, 70, and 60, his blood oxygen was also 90, 85, 70, and 60 down.

Very dangerous! By this time, the patient was in a complete coma, completely unresponsive, and his body was very cold. At that time, all of us were working hard to bring him back. The nurses were squeezing the fluid bag with their hands, artificially pressurizing the fluid, and the three intravenous channels were all like small columns of water, squeezing into his blood vessels because this was the way to ensure the blood volume in the blood vessels.

After about three to five minutes, his blood pressure was up, his heart rate started to rise, and his blood oxygen also went up, and it felt like we were reborn together with him.

I remember very clearly that at that time, all the patients and accompanying nurses in our resuscitation room, none of them said anything and watched us from afar. When the nurse shouted: "There, there... What she meant by "there" was that the blood pressure could be measured. At that moment I felt that everyone in the resuscitation room breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon the injured man slowly opened his eyes and looked at us blankly with empty eyes...

We continued with further treatment, quickly gave him a blood transfusion, opened a green channel, went into the operating room, and performed the next step of surgery.

The man was saved and lived, but the leg was not saved and was amputated.

Later, I met this patient after he was discharged from the hospital to change his medication, and I asked him: What is it like when you are injured? He didn't know me at first, so I told him: I am the emergency doctor who was involved in rescuing you that day. He was in tears and said that although he had lost a leg, his life was saved, and he could go out to work to earn money for his family.

He said: at that time the moment of smashing, I think it's over, I'm finished, the mind is thinking of home and children, see the slab fell, I knew I could not run, I felt like my head was going to explode, the heart is like being clutched in the hand, and then I did not know anything. Any words he said to me after he arrived at the hospital were also not remembered.

He said: I had a feeling that the beginning was particularly painful, afraid to breathe as if standing on a cliff, water flowing on all sides, especially slippery, I stood there fingers gouging the cliff wall, not daring to move, not daring to move, not daring to look down into the abyss below, and not daring to breathe. Then suddenly I don't know how I feel like I have the power, I feel especially light, and then float up. After floating up he saw himself with his fingers gouging the cliff wall, he wanted to shout but couldn't make a sound, and then suddenly he had a special feeling of relaxation - he could breathe and return to normal.

After a very long operation in the operating room, he went to the ICU and woke up only after a long time. After that, he felt heavy and the whole flesh of his body was paralyzed in bed, he couldn't get up and moved, and his body was in special pain.

He told me: At that time, my mouth and teeth were covered with some sticky stuff, and it was hard to open my eyelids. When I closed my eyes, I heard my breathing and felt my heartbeat, my heart thumping there...

After that, he cried

In the emergency department, I saw too many life and death, sometimes people are very fragile, but sometimes they are very strong.

I hope that everyone: usually works or goes out to play when to pay attention to safety, usually pays more attention to some medical knowledge, first aid skills, the critical moment, a small knowledge may save a life, a family.