With only half an hour, the medical workers in a field hospital of a brigade stationed in Tibet successfully finished their operation on a soldier who was diagnosed as appendicitis patient with the field operating van. After the comprehensive treatment of medicines and portable oxygen cylinder, 9 High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema suffering officers and men were healed and left hospital in 3 days. This was what the reporter saw at a field hospital at an altitude of 5000 meters in early September.

For many years, the brigade stuck to the principle of "tackle one difficulty in one year". Every year, the brigade organized the hospital to strange plateau area to conduct medical guarantee exercise under real war conditions to train the medical workers. They have explored treatment methods for more than 10 common altitude diseases and tackled more than 20 difficulties such as appendicitis operation, stomach and intestine acute diseases treatment methods in high altitude regions and accumulated precious experience for the medical guarantee in high altitude conditions of future war. At the same time, the brigade also attached important to new equipment such as field battle operation van, portable plateau oxygen cylinder and field battle X-ray vehicle. Mastering of the usage of these new equipment boosted the generation of battle effectiveness and the upgrading of medical guarantee ability. Presently, most common altitude diseases can be treated in field hospital.

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