Chapter 1863
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In some TV series, there was often such a scene:
When the male lead (female lead) was seriously injured and unconscious, it was difficult to feed the medicine. Therefore, the female lead (male lead) would first pack the medicine into her mouth, and then feed the male lead (female lead) the medicine mouth to mouth!
Putting aside the need of the plot for the time being, from a pure medical point of view, did this method have a scientific basis?
Obviously not!
Not to mention that when a person was lying down, it was very easy to reflux and accidentally inhale the liquid into the trachea. Even if the medicine was fed mouth to mouth, it would not change this reality.
In addition, feeding medicine to a patient in a coma, no matter what position (lying down or sitting), was an extremely dangerous behavior in itself!
In modern medicine, coma refers to the complete loss of consciousness. It is a serious vision of a person who has completely lost awareness of things. It is a high degree of mental breakdown due to the serious suppression of the higher nerves for various reasons. The cause must be found as soon as possible, and effective measures must be taken in time to save the patient.
Generally, coma is divided into two types: shallow coma and deep coma. Shallow coma refers to the patient losing consciousness, but the pharyngeal reflex, corneal reflex, and pupil reflex still exist. The patient will still have a painful expression and slight movement in response to strong stimuli such as compression of the eye socket and stimulation of the nerves of the eye socket.
In deep coma, the patient does not respond to various stimuli. The clinical symptoms are muscle relaxation, incontinence, and so on.
It is impossible for such a patient in a deep coma to spontaneously swallow. Once the liquid is poured into the mouth, because the patient does not have the basic swallowing reflex, the liquid will not squirm along the esophagus to reach the stomach. Instead, a large amount of liquid will gather in the throat, making it very easy to reflux and accidentally inhale due to choking. In other words, these things will mistakenly enter the trachea and reach the lungs, resulting in aspiration pneumonia. In this case, a lung infection is often life-threatening.
Therefore, in modern hospitals, as long as the patient's swallowing reflex is not good (such as the neurological department's medulla oblongata paralysis), the doctor will consider feeding the patient with a gastric tube and nasal feeding diet as well as medicine and water. They will not risk the patient's life!
Although Gong Sun Liang did not know the professional terms such as' swallowing reflex 'and' advanced nerves', nor did he know that there was such an alternative method of feeding drugs through a nasogastric tube, it did not mean that one's personal problem-solving ability would be limited even if one's knowledge was limited by the age when one reached the peak of one's expertise in a certain field!
When he first examined Dugu Xin's injuries, Gong Sun Liang had not only checked Dugu Xin's pulse, but also checked Dugu Xin's eyelids, mouth, and other parts of his body. He wanted to confirm whether Dugu Xin was still conscious and whether he could swallow medicine on his own.
It was because he was certain that the unconscious Dugu Xin still had a certain level of consciousness that Gong Sun Liang gave him the prescription and dared to let the little medicine boy decoct and feed the medicine to Dugu Xin!
"Alright, Little Treasure! I won't feed him for now. Take the bowl of medicine and wait at the side! "
Under the care of the little medicine boy, Dugu Xin barely managed to drink half a bowl of medicine. If he was fed any more, the medicine would all flow out. Seeing this, Gong Sun Liang spoke up to stop him.
In his opinion, half a bowl of medicinal soup was enough for the two poisons in Dugu Xin's body to take effect!
"Yes! Master! "
The little medicine boy did not hesitate. After wiping the medicine from the corner of Dugu Xin's mouth with a handkerchief, he decisively took the bowl of medicine and stood aside.
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