Chapter 462 - What About The Patient?
Chapter 462: What About The Patient?
While reading, she chatted with Xie Yiren. These days seemed so distant from Zheng Ren lately.
Xie Yiren was also very carefree in the operating theater. There was no emergency surgery today, so she was chatting with Chu Yanzhi.
Time passed by bit by bit before the first-aid alarm sounded several times. It was coming from both the internal medicine consultation room and surgery departments.
When the alarm sounded, a nurse would connect to the first-aid emergency center and ask about the patient’s situation to determine whether the internal medicine department or the general surgery department would be the ones to pick up the house call.
When the Internal Medicine Department made a house call, they would press the bell once.
When the General Surgery Department made a house call, they would press the bell twice.
Every time the bell rang, Zheng Ren and the internal medicine doctor in the opposite room would wait for a few seconds to decide who would be attending the house call.
Generally speaking, the number of surgical house calls would be a little more in the summer. However, the total number of house calls made to general surgery were usually less than internal medicine.
Zheng Ren’s luck seemed to be pretty good. When it was past eight o’clock in the evening, there was only one emergency first-aid call. The patient was not in a critical situation either. When he was taking a shower at home, he accidentally fell and fractured his sacrococcygeal vertebrae.
At around nine o’clock in the evening, the sharp and ear-piercing emergency bell rang again.
Zheng Ren quickly put on his shoes and appeared at the door at almost the same time as the physician.
The two of them waited patiently. A few seconds later, the second bell did not ring. The physician sighed, put on his coat, and rushed to the clinic.
The coat was given to him by the hospital many years ago. Most of it was already torn, the cotton exposed.
It looked tattered. If it were not for the fact that he was still wearing a white coat, people would believe that he was a beggar.
Zheng Ren heard the siren of the first-aid ambulance leaving. Just as he sat on the makeshift bed, the ear-piercing bell rang again.
Uh… Zheng Ren listened carefully and heard another sound.
Because there was only one physician on duty for emergency calls, when such a situation occurred, the doctor who was in the front had to go out immediately.
The patients in the emergency department would be handed over to the Chief Resident to deal with.
There were not many cases like this. Zheng Ren had come down to handle it once or twice.
This time, Zheng Ren went directly to the front to handle the patients.
However, before he could start his questioning, the bell for first-aid rang for the third time.
This time, there was no fluke. No matter how many bells rang, Zheng Ren had to get in the ambulance immediately and go to the emergency department.
At this moment, the emergency department’s matters would be handed over to the Chief Resident to handle.
Every day, there would be a senior doctor who was at least an associate chief physician on duty. He would be in charge of the occasional major rescue that required the mobilization of the hospital’s resources.
Under normal circumstances, two consecutive strikes would occasionally appear. Three consecutive strikes of first-aid emergency treatment might only appear three to five times a year.
Zheng Ren thought that his luck was not bad just now but the universe immediately otherwise, making him feel a little bad.
Luck +8 clearly was not helping him now.
Zheng Ren put on his military coat and jumped into the first-aid ambulance.
Sea City General Hospital only had three ambulances, so there would not be a four-hit situation. If a patient needed emergency first-aid, then the Sea City emergency center would arrange ambulances from other hospitals to replace them.
The first-aid ambulance was not particularly bad. After one went out for a visit, the other one came out from the basement and waited. Zheng Ren was wearing his military coat. He felt warm and alright.
People had to comfort themselves or life would be more difficult.
“What’s the illness? Where are we heading?”
“High blood pressure, Shu Guang residential area, building 3.” The nurse held the list in her hand and glanced at it before handing it to the stretcher worker in front.
Shu Guang residential area was a residential area in the city center, not far from Sea City General Hospital.
The patient had high blood pressure. Serious complications such as hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage immediately surfaced in Zheng Ren’s mind.
If the patient still had aspiration, he would need to intubate.
After calculating the possible complications, Zheng Ren began to itemize the equipment in the first-aid ambulance.
As if preparing for war, Zheng Ren was careful and cautious. He thought of all the possibilities in advance so that he would not be caught off guard.
The first-aid ambulance drove slowly on the road.
Because of the snow, the road had not been cleaned in time. Along the way, Zheng Ren saw many large snowmobiles and sanitation workers working throughout the night.
Once the snow stopped, they had to clean it up immediately. Otherwise, there would be many car accidents tomorrow morning.
Soon, the first-aid ambulance arrived at Shu Guang residential area.
Two stretchers were carrying stretchers. Zheng Ren was carrying the first aid kit. The nurse followed closely behind. The four of them entered the residential building.
They took a look at the elevator. It was on the 22nd floor.
The patient was on the 5th floor.
Zheng Ren did not hesitate. He led the nurse up the stairs. Because someone was carrying a stretcher, it was inconvenient for them to climb the stairs. Moreover, it was not urgent. They could wait for the elevator.
He climbed to the fifth floor as fast as he could. He was fine while the nurse was panting from exhaustion.
“Chief… Chief Zheng, your stamina is really good.” The nurse placed her hands on her waist and panted heavily.
One had to know that Zheng Ren was still carrying a first-aid kit that weighed about ten kilograms.
Zheng Ren also felt that his physical fitness was different. Of course, it was developing in a good direction.
Perhaps it was a benefit from the System? Zheng Ren pondered as he knocked on the door.
“Coming,” the person in the room said slowly.
Zheng Ren’s heart was immediately relieved.
The family was not in a hurry, which meant that the patient’s condition should not be serious.
It was good that the patient was fine. Zheng Ren did not want to show off his emergency treatment skills to the emergency nurse. It would be tiring.
Everyone being fine was the best.
The door opened, and there stood an old man in his seventies. Zheng Ren first glanced at the System’s diagnosis on the upper right side of his vision. He was not a patient.
The System’s diagnosis said that he had primary hypertension, but it could be considered a sub-health condition. His blood pressure was not high, and the background color of the System was light green.
“You’re here,” the old man said leisurely.
“Well, where’s the patient?” Zheng Ren immediately asked.
“Just me. Wait there,” the old man said leisurely.
Zheng Ren looked at the old man in surprise. He saw the old man walk into the bathroom and leave the door ajar.
What was going on?
He glanced around the room, but there was no one else inside.
Zheng Ren was completely lost.
After working for a few years, Zheng Ren had also gone to the emergency department once. He was in charge of first-aid patients for about half a year.
However, Zheng Ren had never encountered such a situation before.
It was simply too strange.
If this was a ghost movie, he would have revealed himself by now. Zheng Ren felt a little scared but still managed to hold on.
The nurse also felt that something was not right. She looked around and whispered to Zheng Ren, “Chief Zheng, what’s going on?”
Zheng Ren shook his head slightly.
After a few minutes, the old man was still in the bathroom. The stretcher-bearer had already taken the elevator up. When he saw Zheng Ren and the nurse standing in the room in a daze, he was also puzzled.
Every few minutes, Zheng Ren would speak to the old man.
The old man sat in the bathroom and answered Zheng Ren’s questions with great enthusiasm.
As time passed, Zheng Ren became more and more confused.