401 Beep, Beep, Beep (2/2)

There was a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, with its owner who looked almost fifty years old standing beside it. The lights of the car and the eyes of the car owner sparkled.

The man in the tight-fitting suit and the young man in a large white coat sighed in astonishment at the same time. They then turned and looked at Tian Qi.

Tian Qi happily entered the Volkswagen Jetta and was talking to Ling Ran with a vibrant smile on her face.

Ling Ran turned the ignition, but he was not in a rush to start driving. He let his car warm up a little before he slowly drove the car out of the parking lot.

In the parking lot, another car let out a ring, but people no longer cared about it.

”Where should I send you to?” Ling Ran asked Tian Qi.

”I'll just go to Yun Hua Hospital,” Tian Qi answered.

Even though Ling Ran did not understand why Tian Qi wanted to head to Yun Hua Hospital, his personality dictated that he did not ask such questions.

Tian Qi did not say much either. She watched Ling Ran as he drove with a smile. She did not care about where she was headed.

The Volkswagen Jetta made it to the underground parking lot of Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center smoothly. Tian Qi followed Ling Ran obediently as he took the elevator upstairs. The place was extremely quiet at this time, and this was exactly what Tian Qi hoped for.

The elevator doors slid open.

All kinds of sounds, layer upon layer, loud and soft, immediately rang out.

”It hurts!”

”Doctor, doctor!”

”Can you please take a look.”

The treatment room and resuscitation room were filled with people in distress.

Ling Ran calmly walked through the atrium. This was a common scene in the Emergency Medical Center. The louder a patient's screams were, the milder their symptoms usually were. Patients who were truly critically ill would not have so much strength to yell out loud. Most of the time, they would experience shortness of breath and tightness in the chest, causing their bodies to go limp, just like that old woman in the corner.

Ling Ran could not help but stop in his tracks.

”What's wrong with this patient?” Ling Ran walked towards the corner. The Emergency Medical Center's treatment room was extremely huge, and patients were only separated by curtains. The hospital beds were placed quite far apart, and some of them were equipped with life-saving instruments. Most were not equipped with those instruments, as patients who truly needed life support would be sent to the resuscitation room or the ICU.

At this moment, a houseman stood in the corner beside the old woman. The houseman was a little taken aback by Ling Ran's sudden question. He picked up the old woman's medical record in a flurry of motion and flipped through it. ”The main complaint is gastrointestinal pain, and she has been experiencing continuous cramps and dull pain since she had her lunch. She vomited once, and the vomit mainly consists of gastric content. She has a history of chronic gastroenteritis…”

”When was the last time you experienced stomach discomfort?” Ling Ran cut the houseman off and took out a stethoscope from the emergency medicine cabinet beside him. He took a few moments to warm the diaphragm with his palm before placing it on the patient's chest.

”I've not taken any omeprazole for quite a few years. I feel like… my illness has returned.”

”Hmm... let me check.” As Ling Ran spoke, he pulled the houseman aside and said in a hushed tone, ”This patient is in urgent need of electrocardiography. Call people from the Cardiology Department over for a consultation.”

The houseman hesitated for a few seconds. He wanted to ask Ling Ran something, but Ling Ran had already turned and left.

To be honest, the houseman did not have much faith in Ling Ran when it came to an emergency diagnosis. Even though Ling Ran was a renowned figure in Yun Hua City, he had only performed normal diagnoses, and all his work were related to the field of orthopedics. He really did not spend much more time in the treatment room and resuscitation room of the Emergency Medical Center compared to most housemen.

If emergency medical specialists wanted to look down on anyone in the chain of contempt in a hospital, all they could do was to regard orthopedists in disdain. Of course, this was only in the context of the nobility of the work they do instead of the pay they receive.

But all housemen knew very well what it meant when a patient needed electrocardiography and had to be consulted by cardiologists.

He turned to look at the old woman whose forehead was drenched in cold sweat and remembered some of the things he studied before such as sudden cardiac death. He suddenly realized the gravity of the situation and started running out of the treatment room with his head lowered.

In a flash, three nurses rushed over with an ECG monitor. One of the nurses closed the curtain, enclosing both Ling Ran and Tian Qi within the space. The two other nurses hastily placed electrode sheets on the old woman's body while placing a blood pressure cuff around her arm...

The old woman finally realized what was happening. ”I… Am I…”

As she spoke, the ECG monitor that had just been set up started beeping.

”Ventricular fibrillation!” The nurse who set up the ECG monitor was experienced, and she immediately yelled out loud as it only took one look for her to know that it was not a false alarm.