111 Lets See Who Wins 2 (1/2)
Hearing the word seizure being mentioned, everyone looked at the man. Of course, Ganghyuk looked as well.
”Seizure?”
”Indeed, goodness gracious.”
He was one of the patients that discharged continuously.
But even though he was discharging like the others, he had a seizure.
Naturally, all of them were dehydrated. Therefore, their voice was cracked. Thanks to that, their voice sounded more urgent.
”Let's go there.”
”Sure. Seizure… I thought the disease was only diarrhea.”
”I think the cause of seizure must be diarrhea.”
Ganghyuk hurried to where the man was and tried to think up of the cause.
He carried his home visitation bag with him.
'If it's a seizure, then it must be because of electrolyte imbalance caused by dehydration.'
If that was the case, it was a very big incident.
He could not take a blood sample and do a blood test. There was no laboratory around to do that.
'Sadly, I have no experience to treat electrolyte imbalance without doing a blood test.'
As a matter of fact, he also had no remedy to electrolyte imbalance even if he knew the blood test result.
In his home visitation bag, there was nothing to supplement electrolytes.
He only had an IV set.
'He may be the first dead body in this scene.'
If the situation becomes a reality, he would have difficulties in treating other patients.
When he gave an oral solution, patients felt anxious and thought twice before drinking it.
If a patient would die here, the patients would go to Dongpa rather than be treated by Ganghyuk.
In their eyes, Ganghyuk's treatment would lead to death, and they would then think that Dongpa's treatment makes more sense.
”Hey, I will examine the patient.”
”Yes, sir.”
Ganghyuk came closer to the patient with a seizure.
Several minutes have pa.s.sed since he started convulsing.
However, he was still convulsing.
His eyes were fixated to one direction and limbs were flailing.
It was a typical grand mal epilepsy.
Ganghyuk took the patient's head and put gauze in his mouth.
It was to avoid aspiration pneumonia or tongue biting by chance.
'It will not last long.'
He had seen such a seizure before.
Some of the patients that arrived in the Emergency Room had the same type of seizure.
Most of them were dehydrated because of bleeding.
This patient was better because the cause of dehydration was diarrhea rather than bleeding.
”Is he okay?”
”Pulse, first.”
Ganghyuk was placid but Heo Jun and Heo Im were anxious.
They haven't seen a seizure as serious as that.
”It will go away soon. I'm maintaining his airway, so he won't die. I need to measure his blood pressure. Please open the bag for me.”
”Ah, I'll measure it for you.”
”Oh, please do.”
”Okay, I'm good at measuring blood pressure now.”
Heo Jun rolled up his sleeves to work.
He might already be accustomed to the bad odor.
The saying 'Man is a creature of adaptation.' is a golden saying.
Ganghyuk did not cover his nose anymore.
Yeoju tried to come closer to the scene, though she still stayed far away from the patients.
”Heum. It stopped.”
”Indeed it has.”
Just like what Ganghyuk said, the seizure stopped. The man was breathing normally but he did not recover his consciousness. It seemed that this happened some time before.
”What is the blood pressure?”
”I can't read it… Too low.”
”Oh? Is it too low to read?”
”It seems like that. It's probably a 60 and a 40 or 50?”
”Heo.”
It was indeed too low.
He might be dead soon if he was left like this.
Even if Ganghyuk gave IV, it would not make much of a difference.
It might be 1 liter, but it was a liter of water and not blood.
1 liter of water to this patient would not make a difference at all.
'Heum. Is there any way I can conduct a blood transfusion?'
Ganghyuk wondered while he connected the IV set.
'The blood must be the same type for the transfusion. This is so I can avoid blood coagulation.'
It meant that he did not need to know the exact blood type. He had read the First Aid instructions of the American Army and it said they did blood transfusions without knowing the exact blood type of the donor and the patient.
He could not remember it completely because he was not interested in it back then.
'If I leave this patient without doing a blood transfusion, he will surely die.'
The patient could not swallow oral solution and Ganghyuk did not have much IV solution either.
In that case, blood would be the best answer.
There is a saying that the best IV solution is the blood of a healthy person.
The problem was how he would give the blood transfusion and who would become the donor.
Ganghyuk then looked at the kitchen.
'If Dolseok and Makbong could be the donor…'
The patients here could not give blood for others.
They were dehydrated as well. If Ganghyuk took some of the blood from the other patients to save this patient, he might kill a lot of them.
”We should take him inside.”
Ganghyuk pointed at a room in Bojewon building located a few meters away.
It was not far from the place where Ganghyuk examined the patients.
”Is there anything special inside? We need to take care of the patients here as well.”
Heo Jun said while looking around the scene.
Although the other patients did not have a seizure, their status was not any better when compared to the patient in front of them.
Heo Jun thought that one of the doctors must be here to take care of them.
Ganghyuk decided to give them oral solution rather than let them starve.
”Eum. Dr. Heo, could you stay here with Heo Im and give them the oral solution that I made? I will take care of him with Dolseok and Makbong.”
”Sure I can. Rest a.s.sured.”
”Thank you.”
Ganghyuk left the other patients to Heo Jun and Heo Im. He then called Dolseok and Makbong.
”Come here.”
”Yes, sir. I brought water.”
”I need you to help me transfer this patient.”
”Ah… yes.”
The two people came to Ganghyuk quickly.
They were sweating as they were boiling water before they came to Ganghyuk.
They looked very healthy.
'Indeed, if one of them had the same blood type with the patient, it will save him.'
Ganghyuk transferred the patient into the room, thinking up of a human blood bag.
As the three of them were healthy and strong, it was not difficult to carry a patient.
They could arrive at the room in the inlet soon.
There was also a futon in the room.
Ganghyuk opened the home visitation bag before nodding his head.