Chapter 274 - Injuries Sustained by Fall (Part 3 of 5) (2/2)
Patients with fall injuries were usually those who attempted suicide by jumping off buildings.
“Do you think everyone’s like you, with natural talent, a good family background, opportunities, luck and health?”
“I have troubles too. There are too many girls chasing me and it’s really bothersome.”
“…”
Both of them jogged towards the emergency department.
A young woman was lying on the stretcher trolley, her exposed skin pale as if completely drained of blood.
The nurse had already inserted an IV catheter and was connecting it to a bag of saline.
An ECG monitor showed a blood pressure of 60/30 mm Hg and a heartbeat of 160 bpm.
From the upper right corner of his vision, Zheng Ren saw the System’s diagnosis: ruptured liver, ruptured spleen, multiple fractures in the pelvis, femoral shaft fractures on both sides, multiple fractures on the tibia, fibula, and calcaneus, retroperitoneal hematoma…
Fortunately, her chest area was safe. If she had ruptured lungs and multiple fractured ribs, Zheng Ren would have had to consider leveling his cardiothoracic surgery up to Master rank.
“Get the emergency B-scan ultrasonography; take her blood and send it to the blood bank,” Zheng Ren yelled.
Everyone worked according to standard protocol. Emergency department nurses were efficient; when the doctor from the emergency department arrived with the B-scan ultrasound on a trolley, they had already prepped the patient for gastric and urinary tube insertions.
Knowing the patient was going for surgery, they set everything up in case Chief Zheng began yelling again.
The doctor performed a B-scan ultrasound and reported the results accurately to Zheng Ren.
“Where is her family?” Zheng Ren asked loudly.
“I’m here,” a young man in his late twenties answered from behind Zheng Ren.
“What’s your relations.h.i.+p with the patient?”
“She’s my fiancée.”
“She needs emergency surgery, can you sign off on it?”
“Yes.” The young man seemed rather responsible, unlike some cowards who ran off the instant they heard that their signature was required.
“Su Yun, take him to sign the pre-surgery consent form and pa.s.s it to Chang Yue,” Zheng Ren ordered.
“Doctor, my fiancée won’t die, right?” the young man asked gravely.
“I can’t guarantee anything. Her condition is very serious, but we’ll try our best to save her.” Once the B-scan ultrasonography was complete, Zheng Ren called another physician and a nurse along to rush the patient towards the operating theater.
As he ran, Zheng Ren pulled out his phone and called the operating theater to prepare for surgery.
The journey to the operating theater was not far, but it could still save them a few extra minutes.
In an emergency rescue, every one of those minutes could decide if the patient lived or died.
They reached the operating theater at record speed. “Enter the hybrid operating room and prepare for laparotomy to stop the bleeding,” Zheng Ren said.
Another hybrid surgery? He truly had had no chance to rest after returning to the emergency department.
It was not that Zheng Ren’s duties were extra arduous. When he was not around, the patients would be referred to their respective departments for surgery since no one else was capable of doing it all at once.
After the emergency department doctor and nurse a.s.sisted the Chu sisters and Xie Yiren in transferring the patient onto the operating table, they left the room.
Zheng Ren slipped into the isolation suit as fast he could and entered the operating room.
“How long until the packed red blood cells arrive?” he asked.
“20 minutes. I’ve asked the emergency department to send for it.” Chu Yanran was reliable.
Zheng Ren said nothing further as he began sterilizing and putting on the sheets.
Under the surgical lamp, the patient’s skin was so pale that the light reflecting off it was eye-watering; it only regained a sense of vitality when iodophor was applied.
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