326 Rotten Hand (2/2)
”I don't know what happened. I didn't eat or drink anything.”
”Did you smoke?” the resident doctor asked sternly.
”I didn't smoke.”
”Did you smell any smoke?”
”No.”
”Was there anything pressing your hand down? Did you take your medicine?”
”No, I was just quietly watching Korean dramas. I was just crying. Look.” Qi Leqiu showed the waste tissues to the resident doctor.
When he saw the basket full of crumpled tissue paper, the resident doctor's face turned green, just like how he went home that one time to see his ex-girlfriend lying lazily on the sofa, and there was a basket of crumpled tissues and a condom beside the bed. She had been too careless at hiding it!
”Didn't I tell you before that you had to be calm?” the resident doctor asked calmly.
Qi Leqiu cowered a little. ”I feel very calm.”
”Can you be even remain calm if you cried so much?”
”I cried because I watched Korean dramas. It's is not the same as really crying. You don't understand women.”
The resident doctor chuckled, and thought, 'Women...'
”Doctor, what should we do now?” Qi Leqiu's mother had calmed down, she asked nervously.
”Wait for news from the attending physician.” The resident doctor was only an emergency doctor. Although he was familiar with some related resuscitation knowledge after the Emergency Department had expanded to include finger replantation surgery, he was not confident in handling the subsequent steps required for treatment.
After around two to three minutes, Lu Wenbin came rushing in. His clothes were still stained with spots left behind by marinade.
”What's the situation?” Although it was not Lu Wenbin's working hours, he still came at first notice. This was the professional nature of a doctor, they would always give up rest to save lives.
”The temperature of the finger is below the standard, heparin has been used... The effect of intravenous perfusion is not good,” the resident doctor whispered and explained the situation, although he did not know much.
”Venepuncture.” Lu Wenbin had accumulated the experience of attending to hundreds of patients who received finger replantation surgery. He probably had attended to more patients of such nature than the orthopedists from general hospitals. He had a lot of experience in this sort of situations. Just by looking at the patient's condition, he immediately said, ”Carry out venepuncture for the replanted fingertips. Soak the finger pulp in heparin sodium, make an opening to the nail bed and also perform venepuncture for it. Do it to all four fingers.”
He said as he took the gloves and started to do it himself.
The resident doctor on duty was assigned the index finger and learned to do it.
Anyone could do an incision and carry out venepuncture for the fingertip. Performing an incision and carrying out venepuncture below the nail bed required more skill. It had to be done with a scalpel tilted to sixty degrees, and it had to cut through the nail directly after it was disinfected.
Qi Leqiu did not understand it at first. When Lu Wenbin cut one of her fingers, only then did she come to an understanding. Her tears flowed out instantly, ”Are you guys using torture to coerce me to confess, what do you guys want to ask…?”
Qi Leqiu's mother felt sorry for her, and she tried to persuade them in determination, ”Can't you use some anesthetics? My child is in immense pain...”
”It's too late.” Lu Wenbin could only give this reply as an answer, and he said, ”Please go out, ma'am. You will be interfering with the resuscitation if you are here.”
”Why does she need resuscitation…?” Qi Leqiu's mother was worried and anxious.
”Thrombosis is very dangerous,” the nurse spoke and gently pulled the mother out of the door.
They came face to face with Ling Ran as he walked over briskly.
Qi Leqiu's mother immediately recognized him and even said, ”Doctor Ling, please quickly take a look at my daughter.”
Ling Ran nodded as he skillfully stretched out one of his arms while pulling the other back. He moved to the right, moved forward one step, and evaded Qi Leqiu's mother's embrace.
Once he entered the room, Qi Leqiu's mother was blocked outside.
Ling Ran asked loudly, ”What's the situation?”
”Blood circulation crisis, we're about to lose the middle finger and the ring finger,” Lu Wenbin shouted without turning his head back.
”Is urokinase used?” Ling Ran asked.
Lu Wenbin was stunned and said, ”No...”
”Urokinase, one hundred thousand units. Into the vein,” Ling Ran ordered very quickly before he looked at the patient and asked, ”Who came first?”
”Me,” answered the single resident doctor who lost his ex-girlfriend.
”Lu Wenbin, go out and inform the mother. Prepare for an exploratory surgery. Get the operation consent form signed.” Ling Ran then went to look at the patient. He said, ”You are a patient who had four severed fingers replanted, because of it, you have a higher risk of being exposed to complications. Now, you are suffering from blood circulation crisis. For safety measures, we will first prepare you for an exploratory surgery. If it is necessary, we must cut the skin and redo your blood vessel anastomosis.”
Qi Leqiu's head spun as she was hit by the series of information. ”I was only watching a Korean drama.”