443 Be Careful (2/2)
Ling Ran placed the teacup which was already empty on the reception desk. He straightened his large white coat and put on a pair of gloves. He composed himself as well.
As Ling Ran had just learned how to perform hepatectomy, he needed to mentally prepare himself before every single surgery.
”The patient is a forty-eight-year-old male. He's conscious and there's trauma on his lower limbs and abdomen. His blood pressure is 106/75, his pulse rate is seventy-seven, and his respiratory rate is twenty-four…” The paramedic who was pushing the gurney into the hospital reported loudly.
Doctor Zhou walked behind Ling Ran as they walked toward the gurney.
The patient's eyes were open, and he greeted them. ”Hello. Doctors nowadays are all so young…”
”Let me take a look.” Ling Ran inspected the wounds on the patient's abdomen, and as expected, there was a lesion that had most probably caused hepatic trauma.
”I looked at it in the ambulance. I think that the liver is ruptured and that immediate surgery is needed.” The patient's family member who came along dashed out of the ambulance and suggested.
Ling Ran looked at the other party in astonishment.
”I'm an associate professor in the University of Chinese Medicine and teach sanitary science,” the patient's family member said, ”The patient is my husband.”
Ling Ran nodded at her and said, ”We're going straight to the operating theater.”
A nurse immediately went forward and called the person in charge of the operating theater.
”Let me take another look. Doctor Zhou, help me out.” Ling Ran commanded those around him as he shifted the patient's position a little.
”Be careful with his liver,” the patient's wife said in a soft voice.
”Dear.” The patient's lips were trembling due to excessive blood loss, and his gaze was a little lifeless. He grasped his wife's hand weakly and said, ”Don't shout like this outside. We're already old, and it's pretty embarrassing.”
”Nobody's shouting at you…” His wife was speechless. ”I was reminding the doctors.”
”All the more that you shouldn't shout… Cough, cough…” The patient spat out a mouthful of crimson blood and flashed a wan smile. ”Oh dear, I'm coughing blood.”
Doctor Zhou immediately examined the patient with a torchlight, and his originally tensed up body became relaxed again. ”The flesh in your mouth is torn.”
Ling Ran had already identified the bleeding point. He applied slight pressure on the muscles near the crush injury, and the patient who had just shifted positions immediately stopped bleeding.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
The patient's wife was extremely surprised. ”You stopped the bleeding?”
”It's a temporary bleeding control measure,” Ling Ran answered with certainty.
”How did you do it?”
”By applying external pressure. Sometimes, this works to stop the bleeding temporarily,” Ling Ran replied.
The patient's wife stared at Ling Ran in a daze for a few seconds before she realized something. ”Your surname is Ling, isn't it? Are you Doctor Ling from Yun Hua Hospital?”
”I am,” Ling Ran answered without hesitation. He was the only doctor with the surname Ling in Yun Hua Hospital.
”I heard that you performed Achilles tendon repair surgery for Liu Weichen.” As the patient's wife was also part of the medical circle of Yun Hua, she had heard a lot of legendary stories about Ling Ran. At this moment, Liu Weichen's operation was the first thing that came into her mind.
Ling Ran nodded. ”Yes, you should sign the informed consent forms now.”
”Alright.” The patient's wife merely glanced through the forms before putting down her signature in all of them. There was a total of six or seven forms, and she signed all of them at one go.
She knew very well that the faster she finished signing all the forms, the better it would be for the patient.
”Let's enter the operating theatre.” Ling Ran and Doctor Zhou felt rather relaxed when they saw how readily she signed the informed consent forms. They went to change into scrubs after informing the patient's wife that the patient would be sent into the operating theater.
The patient's wife who was not allowed to enter the operating theater hesitated for a moment and asked, ”Doctor Ling, who's going to be the chief surgeon?”
Doctor Zhou answered without hesitation, ”Ling Ran.”
”But Doctor Ling… aren't you an orthopedist?” The patient's wife inquired as she stood outside the door.
”I'm also very good at hepatectomy.” Ling Ran had nothing to hide at this moment and immediately said, ”I'm very skilled in bleeding control, hepatectomy, splenectomy, and orchiectomy.”
When the patient's wife heard the last example, she could not help but widen her eyes. She then gulped and said, ”Then… please take care of my husband well.”
”Okay.” Ling Ran nodded and headed to the changing room.
The patient's wife stared at the blue wall in a daze for a few seconds before she came back to her senses while she was outside the door. She whipped out her phone, and with trembling fingers, called the most recent number in her call history.
”Professor Huang, my husband has already entered the operating theater… Yes, Ling Ran from Yun Hua Hospital, that doctor who operated on Liu Weichen… Should be, you don't need to rush over anymore…”