Late last year, doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital took turns to manually give a woman cardiopulminary resuscitation (CPR) for 280 minutes -- more than four-and-a-half hours -- and succeeded in saving her life.
According to a report in a local Chinese-language newspaper, the hospital organized a ceremony yesterday morning to mark the return home of the patient, a young woman identified only as Hsiao Wei (
In late November, 27-year-old Hsiao Wei, a dancer for superstar singers Jay Chou (
PHOTO: CNA
She was first admitted to hospital and placed under observation, but was transferred to National Taiwan University Hospital's emergency ward. Yu Hsi-yu (虞希庾) a surgeon at the hospital, said that three or four staff gave her a heart massage for 280 minutes.
If vital signs have not returned after 10 minutes of CPR, there is very little chance of a patient recovering. If more than one hour passes, brain damage is probable even if the patient survives.
Yu was quoted as saying that despite her pulse and blood pressure being extremely weak, Hsiao Wei was still able to blink, move her hands and seemed to be full of the will to live. The doctors persisted until her condition finally improved.
After being placed on life support, Hsiao Wei's heart and kidneys stopped functioning. It was later determined that Hsiao Wei suffered from fulminant myocarditis. After 10 days, a heart and kidneys were located and the transplants saved her life.
AGING: As of last month, people aged 65 or older accounted for 20.06 percent of the total population and the number of couples who got married fell by 18,685 from 2024 Taiwan has surpassed South Korea as the country least willing to have children, with an annual crude birthrate of 4.62 per 1,000 people, Ministry of the Interior data showed yesterday. The nation was previously ranked the second-lowest country in terms of total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime. However, South Korea’s fertility rate began to recover from 2023, with total fertility rate rising from 0.72 and estimated to reach 0.82 to 0.85 by last year, and the crude birthrate projected at 6.7 per 1,000 people. Japan’s crude birthrate was projected to fall below six,
US President Donald Trump in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday said that “it’s up to” Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) what China does on Taiwan, but that he would be “very unhappy” with a change in the “status quo.” “He [Xi] considers it to be a part of China, and that’s up to him what he’s going to be doing, but I’ve expressed to him that I would be very unhappy if he did that, and I don’t think he’ll do that. I hope he doesn’t do that,” Trump said. Trump made the comments in the context
SELF-DEFENSE: Tokyo has accelerated its spending goal and its defense minister said the nation needs to discuss whether it should develop nuclear-powered submarines China is ramping up objections to what it sees as Japan’s desire to acquire nuclear weapons, despite Tokyo’s longstanding renunciation of such arms, deepening another fissure in the two neighbors’ increasingly tense ties. In what appears to be a concerted effort, China’s foreign and defense ministries issued statements on Thursday condemning alleged remilitarism efforts by Tokyo. The remarks came as two of the country’s top think tanks jointly issued a 29-page report framing actions by “right-wing forces” in Japan as posing a “serious threat” to world peace. While that report did not define “right-wing forces,” the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was
PREPAREDNESS: Given the difficulty of importing ammunition during wartime, the Ministry of National Defense said it would prioritize ‘coproduction’ partnerships A newly formed unit of the Marine Corps tasked with land-based security operations has recently replaced its aging, domestically produced rifles with more advanced, US-made M4A1 rifles, a source said yesterday. The unnamed source familiar with the matter said the First Security Battalion of the Marine Corps’ Air Defense and Base Guard Group has replaced its older T65K2 rifles, which have been in service since the late 1980s, with the newly received M4A1s. The source did not say exactly when the upgrade took place or how many M4A1s were issued to the battalion. The confirmation came after Chinese-language media reported
RSS