(Health Korea News / Yoo Ji-in) ‘Medical 24 Hours’ is a corner that shows brief news related to the medical field that is often overlooked in the media. It may seem like trivial news, but it could be valuable information to someone, so I’m only summarizing the facts.
Around 10:15 a.m. on the 7th. 119 rescue team members from the Gangseo Fire Department were dispatched to the lake park within the Seoul Botanical Garden to rescue a drowning person in the lake.
Rescue workers broke through the ice at the point where the accident occurred, donned dry suits, and rescued the drowning person. Immediately upon rescue, the paramedics administered first aid and requested a helicopter from the 119th Aviation Squadron to transport the drowned person. After the accident occurred, it took about 5 minutes for the helicopter belonging to the 119th Aviation Corps to arrive at the accident site. The drowned person who climbed onto the helicopter using a hoist was transported to Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital (Director Joo Woong), where the heliport is located. It took only three minutes to arrive at the Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital heliport from the accident site.
At Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, which received news of the drowning person’s transport, the emergency room medical staff prepared and stood by for patient transport and treatment before the helicopter arrived. As soon as the hospital security official radioed that the helicopter had arrived, the medical staff arrived at the heliport in an elevator dedicated to transporting emergency patients and took over the patient from the rescue workers.
It took only 5 minutes for the patient to come down to the emergency room with the medical staff and receive emergency treatment. The total time it took for him to fall into the cold, icy water, receive treatment at the hospital emergency room, and maintain his life was only about 10 minutes. This is the result of joint training conducted by the Gangseo Fire Department, 119th Aviation Corps, and Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital to prepare for water accidents during the winter.
Although it is a simulation situation rather than a real situation, these organizations gained confidence in transporting and treating emergency patients by helicopter through this training. These organizations held a general meeting in the emergency room of Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital on the morning of the 24th of last month and prepared the training in detail, including training location, method, and number of participants.
◆Chung-Ang University Hospital medical volunteer group leaves for treatment of Vietnamese residents
Chung-Ang University Hospital will be conducting medical volunteer work in Vietnam for 8 days and 7 nights from the 11th to the 18th as a support project for the Community Chest of Korea. Chung-Ang University Hospital, which has resumed overseas medical volunteer activities in the post-corona era, has visited Nepal, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan, and plans to visit Vietnam again this year to add love and warmth to the global village.
Chung-Ang University Hospital held an inauguration ceremony for the Vietnam Medical Volunteer Corps on January 7 and appointed Professor Choi Yu-shin of the Department of Surgery at Chung-Ang University Hospital as the head of the medical volunteer group. This medical volunteer group includes Professor Kim Tae-hyung of the Department of Urology, Professor Kwang-seop Song of the Department of Orthopedics, Professor Dae-yong Lee of the Department of Pediatrics, and Professor Woo-jung Kim of the Department of Rheumatology, providing high-quality medical benefits. A total of 18 volunteer members, including nurses, pharmacists, and social workers from Chung-Ang University Hospital, and students from Chung-Ang University’s School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy, provided care to approximately 1,600 local residents at Vietnam’s Quảng Ngãi General Hospital and Binh My Public Health Center. Provides medical treatment and medicine to people.
In addition, Chung-Ang University Hospital Director Kwon Jeong-taek plans to visit Quang Ngai General Hospital on the 13th to donate hemodialysis machines, electrocardiographs, and patient monitoring medical equipment worth 30 million won.
◆Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital Professor Kim Chang-geun elected as APAAACI director
Professor Kim Chang-geun of the Asthma and Allergy Center at Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University, was elected as a director of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI). Professor Kim attended the APAAACI 2024 Congress international academic conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from December 12th to 15th as a speaker and moderator, and was elected as a director of the society on the 14th after review by the standing executive committee. The term of office is two years from 2025 to 2026.
At this academic conference, Professor Kim presented on the topic ‘Eosinophils as Biomarkers in Asthma’ and chaired the symposium session on ‘The Future of Allergy Immunology Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’.
Professor Kim has been active in APAAACI, which boasts a history of more than 30 years, as chairman of the immunotherapy committee, academic committee member, and publication committee member. He also served as the 28th president of the Korean Society of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, contributing to allergy and asthma disease research at home and abroad. Efforts to advance treatment have continued.
He conducted eosinophil asthma biomarker research for five years at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, and the University of Wisconsin. We hold U.S. and Japanese patents for the asthma allergy rapid diagnosis kit, and through this, we are contributing to the early diagnosis of asthma and the development of customized treatment methods.
◆Ilsan Paik Hospital exceeds ‘1 million views’ on Naver Post for two consecutive years
As a result of analyzing Naver Post operated by Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, it recorded more than 1 million views for two consecutive years.
Following a record of 1.05 million views in 2023, 1.417 million people subscribed to health content in 2024. Last year, the number of visitors exceeded 1.2 million. This is equivalent to an average of 117,000 people per month, or 39,000 people per day, visiting the Ilsan Paik Hospital Naver Post.
The content with the most cumulative views was Gastroenterology Professor Lee Yoon-seok’s ‘6 Suspicious Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer’, which ranked first with 880,000 views, continuing from last year. 2nd place was ‘Rotorator cuff rupture patients, 4 out of 10 lack this (Orthopedic Professor Jae-hoo Lee)’ recorded 140,000 times, and 3rd place was ‘11 diseases that can be detected through blood tests’ recorded 115,000 times ( Professor Young-Sook Yoon of the Department of Family Medicine won the prize.
Also, ▲Have I gained weight or is my body swollen? How to distinguish between obesity and edema (Professor Ko Gyu-yong, Department of Cardiology) ▲Positions that cause cervical disc herniation VS postures that prevent cervical disc herniation (Professor Byeong-ju Lee, Neurosurgery) ▲Four symptoms suspicious for lung cancer (Professor Seong-soon Lee, Department of Pulmonary Medicine) ▲In these cases, get a colonoscopy! (Gastroenterology Department) Contents such as Professor Seok-in Kang) recorded a high number of views.
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