Chapter 28 The Helpless Three Swordsmen
Dean Xu’s words are by no means alarmist.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xingcheng is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" hospitals in China. If even the First Affiliated Hospital is helpless, other hospitals in the province will be even more helpless!
"Having said that, but..." Vice Dean Jiang, who always liked to bicker with Dean Xu, became quiet this time.
"How long will it take for you to take out the other two bullets?" Dean Xu asked again.
"The one on the deltoid muscle is easy to remove. It can be done in ten minutes, including treating the wound. But the one on the calf is a bit tricky because the bullet has damaged the bone." Fang Hong said with a numb scalp.
As a surgical "sage" who has been practicing surgery for more than 20 years, he has performed at least 999 major operations, and has never failed. An operation like today that makes him hesitant is really the most important operation in his life.
First time.
"The patient has a strong willpower and a strong desire to live. For an ordinary person, he would not be able to survive before reaching the hospital... Therefore, no matter what the cost, we must save him! This is also an instruction from our superiors!"
Dean Xu said with a heavy heart after hanging up the phone.
"Let's join forces! Maybe we're 30% sure!"
Vice President Jiang sighed and said to President Xu and Fang Hong.
Since they became the dean and executive vice dean seven or eight years ago, they have basically not taken care of these things. They are so busy at work every day that they have no time to see patients and perform operations.
"I haven't touched a scalpel for many years..." A glimmer of light flashed in Dean Xu's eyes, "Even if the three of us perform the surgery ourselves, we are still not 50% sure. I just looked at his scalpel."
With gunshot wounds, it’s a miracle that he survives to this day..."
"If we want to successfully remove the bullet, we must first have a plan to stop the bleeding! Otherwise, we must not try it easily!"
The caliber of this bullet is 20mm, the diameter of the bullet is 12.7mm/14.5mm, and the bullet is stuck on the artery near the heart, just like a water pipe, which is inserted into the steel bar and then stuck on it. As long as the steel bar is pulled out, the water pipe will
water will gush out.
Moreover, the anatomical location is quite complex, and the warhead is close to the coronary arteries of the heart, making the operation extremely difficult and extremely risky. If the warhead is directly pulled out according to conventional surgery, it may cause massive heart bleeding and cardiac arrest.
In addition, he is currently very weak and has many wounds on his body. It is not an exaggeration to describe him as lying on the threshold of death. Therefore, this is also the reason why everyone dare not use the knife.
"Let's take out the bullet in his arm first, then take out the bullet in his calf, and finally work together to find a solution to the bullet near the heart!"
After Dean Xu was silent for a few seconds, he secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he would save him no matter what, even if he risked his life.
The question he took was just like the multiple-choice questions he took in school, starting from the easy ones and then moving on to the most difficult ones.
The reason is actually very simple. The bullet pressing on the aorta will not move for the time being, but the bullets in other parts are "moving", especially the bullet in the calf. The bullet has already touched the calf bone. If it is not dealt with, it may "penetrate".
"Crossing the bone, causing irreversible damage.
"Dean, all the wounds on the patient's abdomen have been sutured," a nurse said while putting away the needle and thread.
"Okay, it's a good sign if there's not much bleeding. Vice President Jiang and Director Fang, we are going to remove the other two bullets and do the surgery without further delay."
As Dean Xu said this, he washed his hands and disinfected them, then put on sterile surgical gloves and walked to the bed to prepare for the operation.
Joining forces with the famous "Three Swordsmen", this lineup definitely belongs to the "Heavenly Group" level.
Soon, the three people who were well prepared took out the bullet from the deltoid muscle of the patient's arm in just five minutes.
The pistol bullet only pierced the arm muscle and did not cause any other excessive damage. There was only a little blood. The wound only needed to be cleaned and then simply sutured.
"Next we are going to take the bullet from the calf..."
Dean Xu breathed a sigh of relief and said, he always had a bad feeling in his heart, but he couldn't explain the reason.
I have been practicing medicine and treating diseases for more than 30 years, and I have performed countless operations. This is the first time that I have been directly stumped by an operation like this.
But we can't think too much now. Let's take out the bullet first. Moreover, there is a deep stab wound on his body, which almost penetrated his lung. This is why everyone dare not move lightly, for fear that other wounds will bleed suddenly.
This can cause fatal complications.
Soon, the three people who cooperated tacitly took out the machine gun bullet from the patient's calf. At that time, the bullet was still "grinding" inside and had already touched the bone. Fortunately, it was taken out in time and there was no serious problem.
Now, two of the bullets in the patient's body and the shocking stab wounds have been treated, and there is no bleeding or infection for the time being.
Next, the bullet near the heart must be removed as soon as possible, lest the longer it stays, the greater the adverse reactions it will cause.
"Dean Xu, the spare blood is ready, and the patient's colleagues are also outside at all times," a young nurse came over and said.
"Okay!" Dean Xu nodded, looked at Fang Hong and asked, "How sure are you of stopping the bleeding?"
Fang Hong was silent for a moment and said truthfully: "Twenty percent. His condition is as unpredictable as a mother's blood clot. I have never seen such a weird gunshot wound. Look at his bullet. In fact, I think the bullet has entered the artery.
Yes, it's just that the CT scan cannot be seen clearly because it is wrapped by the tissue structure and blood near the heart, making it impossible to see clearly.
"While we are carefully opening the chest, we must also prevent the pressure from the air, thereby forcing the bullet to advance inward. Once an accident occurs when opening the chest, we will indirectly become murderers.
"Taking a step back, even if we successfully open his chest and find the bullet, how should we stop the bleeding? When the bullet is taken out, the blood in the artery will immediately spurt out... If we can't solve this problem in three minutes,
, his heart will stop beating immediately."
They all understood what Fang Hong analyzed, but the biggest problem was how to block the gap in the artery to prevent blood from leaking out.
"...Obviously, this gap cannot be solved by forcible hemostasis, blood transfusion, or injection. It seems that the only way is to rely on traditional Chinese medicine to inject acupuncture." After thinking for a long time, Dean Xu said in surprise.
He has been thinking about this problem for a long time. From the moment he received the call, he has been thinking about whether he can try to use traditional Chinese medicine to stop the bleeding.
"Dean Xu, in this case, I will never disagree with you. Let me ask you weakly, who in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture has reached the level of perfection in acupuncture?"
Vice President Jiang said that he was not going to be a naysayer, but people who understand would know that he was making excuses.
Dean Xu didn't answer, he just stared at the man on the hospital bed in a trance. He seemed to be struggling internally to make a major decision.
But on the surface, he looked very calm and collected.
"Traditional Chinese medicine treatment... may not be impossible, but as far as I know, among the acupuncture doctors in our hospital, we have not yet found a doctor who can intervene in the surgery."
Fang Hong's statement is very pertinent. Indeed, no one in the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine has broken the restrictions and participated in surgery.
After Dean Xu thought twice, he suddenly turned around and said to one of the nurses: "Hurry out and find someone for me and ask Jiang Shaotian from the Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to appear in front of me within 20 minutes. Otherwise, he will never do it."
Come to the hospital to work."
"Ah...oh, okay, I'll go right away." When the nurse heard this, she was confused and quickly ran out after realizing what she was doing.
"Dean Xu, you, you are fooling around again. When this operation is over, I will definitely complain to the superior department about you!!"
Vice President Jiang was so angry that he almost hit someone, then walked aside cursing.
“…”
Fang Hong didn't dare to say anything. After all, it was a competition between two deans. He only had to follow orders on how to perform the operation.
Others dared not say a word. If they tried to talk to each other at this time, wouldn't they be asking for death? No one can be offended by the two deans!
Even if Dean Xu steps down in the future, he will still be a skinny camel bigger than a horse. If he really doesn't have that ability, who can remain at the top for several years?
Dean Xu didn't speak, just stood there quietly, looking at the "Didi-Di" heart monitoring instrument in trance...
After the little nurse ran out of the operating room, she was like a headless fly running around the hospital asking questions, not knowing where to look for Jiang Shaotian.
"It's true, the dean, at least leave me a phone number! It's off duty now, where should I go to find him?"
Just when she was at her wits' end, a colleague came over and said, "What are you doing here? Aren't you getting off work?"
"Why are you off work! Let's make a long story short, have you seen Jiang Shaotian from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine? He's the handsome guy who has been in the limelight recently!"
Fortunately, Jiang Shaotian is highly recognizable. Although he is just a young doctor who has just shown his talents, there are not a few people who remember him.
"You're talking about the handsome doctor with a master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, right? I just saw him. He was eating beef noodles at the noodle shop in the back. It seemed that he was dragged there by a few people..."
"That's great! Thank you!"
The young nurse didn't wait for the female colleague to finish what she said, and immediately trotted out.
"...What's going on? Are they in a relationship?" The female colleague scratched her head and left the hospital suspiciously.
The street behind the hospital is basically filled with daily necessities stores, food stores, fruit stores, breakfast shops, Chinese restaurants, and hotels. Maternity and baby product stores are in the busy street next to it.
The little nurse ran all the way, looking for seven or eight powder shops in a row, and finally found him in a time-honored powder shop in Star City that was the largest, most expensive, and most luxuriously decorated.
Chapter completed!