To Save Lives: 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine

This book takes you into the world of the emergency room, where emergency doctors race against time to save lives on the brink of death... What should you do if you are struck by lightning? How should you perform first aid when your heart stops during exercise? Is hyperbaric oxygen therapy similar to flying on an airplane? What special triage methods are used when there are a large number of casualties? Every day in the emergency room, there are different "strange and difficult diseases". Emergency doctors face a variety of patients, such as car accident injuries, burns, strokes, heat stroke, snake bites, children's fevers, coronary heart disease, etc. They are waiting in front of the hospital door, each of them proficient in "eighteen martial arts". They must use their professional knowledge and experience, advanced equipment and facilities in the emergency room to treat various patients within the golden time. This book records the equipment of the emergency room, the sub-specialties of the emergency department, such as sports medicine, wilderness medicine, trauma medicine, etc., and the golden time for treating various critical illnesses, documenting the daily lives of a group of emergency doctors who "go up the mountain and down the sea" to save lives.