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When a tourist from the United States suddenly collapsed for no apparent reason while visiting the SeaWorld adventure park in San Diego on Feb 22, she was lucky to have doctor nearby to bring her back to life.
The doctor, Tang Ziren, is from Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital and just happened to be strolling in the park only about 10 meters from where the woman collapsed.
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Tang Ziren (1st L) is giving a tourist cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the SeaWorld adventure park in San Diego, US, on Feb 22. [Photo/bjby.bjwmb.gov.cn] |
He explains, "I didn't hesitate. I saw that she had lost consciousness and had no discernible pulse and had stopped breathing. After telling her family I am a Chinese doctor and getting their permission, I began to give her cardiopulmonary resuscitation for more than 10 minutes. After that she recovered with the help of a defibrillator."
Tang said that he deals with emergencies and could not just stand by doing nothing.
And this was not the first time Tang had to help someone like this. On March 14, 2014, he and a colleague saw a person fall down for no apparent reason in front of the Chaoyang Hospital complex and they managed to save the person who was very grateful for it.
Tang, who is 45, says that, for him, these things are natural or instinctive after more than 20 years of emergency care work, even if he has to put himself in danger.
For example, when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Yushu county, in Qinghai province, known for the largest salt water lake in China, on April 14, 2010, Tang signed up for the hospital's medical team and joined the medical assistance there after only two days. Because the elevation was so high, Tang and other team members all had headaches, pain in the chest and some nausea.
Even so, they still carried all their heavy medical equipment and materials and got to work immediately. Tang said "Putting medical equipment aside means leaving injured people to die. Though they are so heavy, we have to take them and carry on."
At the Yushu airport he saw young soldiers whose lips were dry and chapped, and he took care of them immediately. The altitude stress made Tang feel suffocated, but he also gave as much medical rescue as he could.
They continued for 14 days with a lack of water and electricity in freezing cold weather until they finished the tasks completely. They also left food for the women and children in the area as well as their coats and medicines.
In another instance, Tang was on the front lines in the fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS) that swept China in 2003, taking on a heavy workload and facing high risks until the epidemic was under control.
Saving the woman in the US made him well known and has understandably won him a lot praise and applause, but Tang just takes it as a common daily thing. He said "I just did what I should do and what a doctor should do. I wanted to do it and I did it. I saved as the patient and am just happy for that."
Tang is a doctor with responsibility and ethics, and his actions explain what he wrote in his micro blog: "Whether you believe me or not, in the face of death, my hand is in yours, and won't let you go."
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| Tang (L) is dubbed a good Chinese tourist.[Photo/bjby.bjwmb.gov.cn] |
