Chapter 124: Counselor came 1
Fortunately, thanks to the most timely chest compressions, Father Liu seemed to have no brain damage and quickly regained consciousness. His blood pressure and arterial pulse returned, proving that the patient’s life had been pulled back from the brink.
Father Liu’s eyelids fluttered, straining to open his eyes as if searching for the life-saving hero among them.
“Alright, take a rest,” Huang Zhilei said to his junior sister, giving her an inward thumbs up.
The cardiac compressions performed by his junior sister validated the standard and efficacy of chest compressions in resuscitating patients, something he couldn’t achieve when he first entered clinical practice.
“Senior brother, I’m not tired,” Xie Wanying looked up and replied to her senior brother and then saw Doctor Lin and Doctor Jiang staring intently at her from behind him.
She claimed to be untired, and indeed she was. This was observed by Doctor Lin and Doctor Jiang. Xie Wanying’s relaxed demeanor and the absence of sweat on her face, which couldn’t be simply chalked up to the winter season, gave her away.
In their medical careers, not to mention female doctors, even among the male doctors who performed cardiac compressions with the intensity that Xie Wanying had, few didn’t gasp for breath afterwards. Women’s physical strength was generally less than men’s, but Xie Wanying showed no signs of this weakness.
Xie Wanying secretly gripped the palm of her hand: Not bad at all, over three years of physical training had paid off.
Comparing herself to the crisis she felt more than three years ago when resuscitating an elderly patient with severe blood loss, she was quite satisfied with her current ease and determined to keep up with her exercise regimen.
Being a doctor really, really requires physical strength.
“Old Lin, aren’t you going to look at the medical record?” Doctor Jiang snapped back to reality and turned to ask his colleague.
Doctor Lin realized the gravity of the situation and hurriedly called for a nurse to fetch Father Liu’s medical record, explaining to his colleagues, “This patient wasn’t handled by me. I was needed in the operating room for emergency surgery this afternoon, so the department arranged for our graduate student to cover my shift in the ER. She’s the one who took over. She didn’t mention any danger with this patient’s condition when handing over the shift to me; instead, she said the patient was stable enough to be transferred. Just then, the patient at City Hospital No. 6 said their situation was very urgent.”
Doctor Jiang and the others listened to Doctor Lin’s explanation and could understand his special circumstances.
Just returning to the emergency department to take over for a colleague, Doctor Lin wouldn’t have had time to re-examine every patient. That’s the nature of the emergency department, where doctors may need to immediately attend to critical incoming patients during a shift handover, leaving less urgent cases for later.
Could it be that the person handing over the shift to Old Lin missed the severity of Father Liu’s condition and thus didn’t inform him?
“Honestly, Old Lin, we wanted to check the medical record because she thought the patient’s condition might be severe enough to be a triple vessel disease?” Doctor Jiang, reaching this point, confided the reason to Doctor Lin. This time, he wasn’t afraid of being scolded by Doctor Lin. He believed that after having witnessed Xie Wanying’s performance, Doctor Lin would have gained a new understanding of this trainee.
“Triple vessel disease?” Doctor Lin was taken aback, his brows furrowing tightly. If true, the situation was more complicated. He feared his previous graduate student had missed or misdiagnosed the condition, saying, “If so, we need to immediately call for a cardiothoracic consultant.”
“Are you looking for someone from cardiothoracic surgery?” Suddenly, a head peeked through the crack in the door of the resuscitation room.
Everyone turned at the sound to see who it was.
Yue Wentong was the first to recognize the face of their instructor, nervously asking, “Teacher Ren, when did you arrive?”