Chapter 143 - Dont Use Knife In A Quarrel (Part II) (1/2)

Chapter 143: Don’t Use Knife In A Quarrel (Part II)

Warm normal saline was used to irrigate the peritoneal cavity. Even though the surgery completion rate on the System panel was high and would reach 100 percent following the closure of the abdominal surgical wound, Zheng Ren still cautiously examined the peritoneal cavity for any active bleeding spots.

This was probably a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder that every surgeon suffered.

A detailed examination was absolutely necessary as reoperation due to postoperative hemorrhaging would be more damaging to the patient than simply undergoing one surgery.

A reoperation had a higher risk of complications.

Two thousand milliliters of warm normal saline was poured into the peritoneal cavity and aspirated until the fluid gurgling along the tube became light-colored and less turbid. Then, Zheng Ren and Su Yun closed the abdomen together.

Chu Yanran had been observing the patient’s vital signs and progression throughout the surgery.

At the beginning of abdominal wound closure, she made a note on the intraoperative anesthesia record and prepared medication for the patient’s anesthesia recovery.

On the other hand, Chu Yanzhi chatted leisurely with Xie Yiren for a while and stood behind Zheng Ren and Su Yun to observe the surgery’s progress from a different angle.

Each abdominal wall layer was sutured accordingly. As the last layer was being sutured, the patient gradually began to regain consciousness.

Since he had been admitted just in time, blood loss remained minimal and he merely suffered mild hemorrhagic shock. Thus, he did not need to be intubated or ventilated post-surgery.

However, due to a lack of nurses in the emergency department, Zheng Ren decided to transfer the patient to the ICU for one night.

The cost of treatment in the ICU would not exceed ten thousand yuan a day. If the patient’s postoperative blood tests revealed a hemoglobin count over 80, blood transfusions would be unnecessary.

He could get through the recovery phase with his hematopoiesis alone.

Following the completion of surgery, Zheng Ren remained onsite to a.s.sist with the patient transfer to a stretcher trolley, which was then escorted to the ICU by Su Yun and Chu Yanran. After that, he took a shower and changed his clothes before returning to the emergency ward.

Su Yun was nowhere to be seen as he was adhering to standard procedure.

Since it was a postoperative emergency surgical case, Su Yun would normally stay in the ICU and monitor the patient for one to two hours. When the patient’s condition had stabilized and no additional treatment plan was required, only then would he return to the emergency department.

An hour later, Zheng Ren informed the nurses on duty of his temporary absence before putting on a white coat and heading to the ICU to check on the postoperative patient’s condition.

Unless the surgery was very simple, every surgeon would do this as long as conditions permitted.

In the ICU, the patient had regained consciousness and his condition had stabilized.

However, a.n.a.lgesia had been administered for the pain at the incision site, so he was currently asleep at the moment.

Monitors revealed that the patient’s vital signs were stable as well. However, Su Yun was not making calculations with pen and paper by the ventilator and various monitors as he did the other critically ill patients.

Instead, he was chatting leisurely with the nurses.

Zheng Ren had no idea what they were talking about, but he could clearly see the euphoric smiles on the nurses’ faces as they spoke softly.

Apart from the slight discomfort of the ventilator tube, the old man with a ruptured hemangioma had basically stabilized and his blood pressure had normalized as well. Zheng Ren then explained the situation outside to him and calmed him down.

He was recovering well, which was a good sign.

Zheng Ren smiled and left.

All the chairs in the corridor were fully occupied with multiple sleeping bags laid all across the floor, but he had no idea if the patient’s lover was among them.

That was usually the case in the ICU. Family members were restricted from entering at all times, which was a necessity to prevent transmission of bacteria to patients’ exposed airways which could lead to secondary bacterial infection. Thus, they had no choice but to sleep outside, even on the floor as the hospital did not have a lounge.

The patient who had undergone surgery today was considered a minor case and could be transferred out of the ICU the next day, so his family had to suffer for only one night. However, for patients who were critically ill and relied on ventilators for life support, their families would be forced to wait outside indefinitely.

Zheng Ren called out the family member’s name several times. His voice was loud but not deafening.