Chapter 1225: Patient with major hemorrhage [1225]
These principles, there’s no reason Li Chengyuan wouldn’t understand them, and he had never acted in such a way to curry favor with a medical student. Her classmate was always proud and aloof, making such behavior rather peculiar. Thinking of this, Xin Yanjun frowned slightly.
Contrary to what Teacher Xin might think, Xie Wanying knew for certain that Senior Li hadn’t approached her to have her immediately start learning emergency surgery. He was merely giving her a heads-up in advance, just like Teacher Fu and Teacher Nie had done before. The only difference was, the words Senior Li had said earlier to Teacher Xin served as constant reminders for her, as if he were silently saying: I know what you’ve been keeping hidden in your heart.
This was something she had never encountered before, which was why she had been quiet all the way.
"It’s probably because he went abroad and came back all puffed up, no idea what he learned out there." Xin Yanjun muttered, recalling that Li Chengyuan had recently been sent overseas by the hospital for further training.
Guoxie’s cardiothoracic surgery department, unlike their relatively weaker respiratory medicine department, had a rich history of development, which the hospital highly valued. They had three established academic exchange units abroad, so young and promising doctors frequently went overseas for exchanges and study.
It was the first time she’d heard that Senior Li had also gone abroad. He must be quite accomplished as well, which would explain why she hadn’t encountered him before. Xie Wanying thought.
Outside the main entrance, the wailing sirens of the ambulance indicated that Li Chengyuan had left with the emergency vehicle.
The emergency department could never hope for downtime. Patients always arrived in clusters, one batch right after another. Not long after Senior Li had departed, another wave of patients flooded the internal medicine consultation room.
While they were busy, a nurse from the triage desk rushed into the internal medicine consultation room, shouting, "Doctor Xin, come out quickly! There’s a massive hemorrhage patient—"
Don’t assume that the patients brought in by ambulances are the only critical ones. Plenty of severely ill patients don’t wait for an ambulance and instead take a cab straight to the hospital for emergency care.
Upon hearing the nurse’s urgent call, the doctors had to put down the current patients they were seeing to rush out and save the critically ill.
The patients who had just walked into the consultation room for treatment could only sit on the chairs and wait their turn.
A massive hemorrhage—most people, upon hearing those words, would immediately picture gruesome scenes of blood spurting profusely from large wounds.
What was surprising, however, was that the nurse hadn’t gone to call the surgeons right away but instead summoned the internal medicine doctors, which made it clear this wasn’t a case of bleeding from an external wound.
When the two internal medicine doctors rushed out, they saw as expected—this was not a trauma patient.
A female patient, supported by a friend, walked into the emergency room. She had no visible external injuries, only blood continuously trickling from her nose, which she was covering with her hand. The trail of blood that had flowed from her cab to the emergency room had nearly formed a river, a sight that was both alarming and startling.
Regardless of the type of bleeding—whether external trauma or otherwise—a person experiencing major blood loss was undoubtedly on the brink of hemorrhagic shock.
The emergency nurse was absolutely correct in calling for the doctors immediately.
"Have her lie down, bring some ice."
The medical staff worked in unison, like relay racers passing the baton. Those nearest to the refrigerator got the message and instinctively grabbed ice from the freezer and rushed over.
The doctors and nurses busily positioned the patient on the nearest stretcher, laying her down first. At the same time, towels and ice were delivered. The ice packs were wrapped in towels.
Xie Wanying took the towel-wrapped ice and placed it on the patient’s nasal bridge. Her movements were gentle; the ice couldn’t be applied directly to the nasal bridge. Instead, the cold towel, chilled by the ice, was used to compress the entire nose. The goal was to constrict the blood vessels inside the nose and stop the bleeding.