Department of Ultrasound, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
International Exchange Center for Military Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Apr;16(2):835-839. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.420. Epub 2021 Mar 17.
From June 28 to November 22, 2018, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy - PLA(N) - Peace Ark hospital ship had conducted Mission Harmony 2018, providing humanitarian medical assistance and carrying out international cooperation, in 4 Pacific island countries and 6 Central and South American countries. Compared with its application only in onshore outreach medical teams in the previous Mission Harmony, portable ultrasonography was used both onboard and onshore in Mission Harmony 2018. The purpose of this study was to assess the performance of onboard portable ultrasonography in PLA(N) Peace Ark hospital ship during Mission Harmony-2018, share our onboard working experience, and provide a reference for humanitarian assistance missions in the future. A retrospective review was performed on a cohort of patients checked by onboard portable ultrasonography. Patients' gender, age, the distribution of examined organs, and multiple applications of the portable ultrasonography were analyzed. Some limitations of portable ultrasonography on the mission and possible improvements in the future were also discussed. A total of 5277 cases (mean age: 43.74 years; range: 2 months-105 years) of ultrasound examinations were performed during the mission; among them, 3126 (59.2%) cases were performed by portable ultrasonography, including 3024 onboard cases and 102 onshore cases. The portable ultrasonography had been applied in many scenarios, for example, onboard emergency triage process, onboard bedside medical support, and onshore outreach medical service, which had become one of the indispensable auxiliary examination methods for its compatibility, portability, and flexibility. The onboard deployment of portable ultrasonography played a versatile and irreplaceable role in the humanitarian medical assistance and medical cooperation carried out by the PLA(N) Peace Ark hospital ship, and will contribute to such kind of missions in the future.
2018 年 6 月 28 日至 11 月 22 日，中国人民解放军海军-中国人民解放军海军（PLA(N)）-和平方舟号医院船执行了 2018 年和谐使命，在 4 个太平洋岛国和 6 个中美洲和南美洲国家提供人道主义医疗援助并开展国际合作。与之前的和谐使命中仅在岸上外展医疗队中应用相比，便携式超声检查在 2018 年的和谐使命中既在船上又在岸上使用。本研究的目的是评估和平方舟号医院船上的便携式超声检查在 2018 年和谐使命中的性能，分享我们的船上工作经验，并为未来的人道主义援助任务提供参考。对通过船上便携式超声检查的患者队列进行了回顾性分析。分析了患者的性别、年龄、检查器官的分布以及便携式超声检查的多次应用。还讨论了任务中便携式超声检查的一些局限性以及未来可能的改进。在任务期间共进行了 5277 例（平均年龄：43.74 岁；范围：2 个月-105 岁）超声检查；其中 3126 例（59.2%）通过便携式超声检查进行，包括 3024 例船上病例和 102 例岸上病例。便携式超声检查已应用于多种场景，例如船上紧急分诊过程、船上床边医疗支持和岸上外展医疗服务，由于其兼容性、便携性和灵活性，已成为不可或缺的辅助检查方法之一。便携式超声检查的船上部署在和平方舟号医院船开展的人道主义医疗援助和医疗合作中发挥了多用途和不可替代的作用，并将为今后的此类任务做出贡献。
