"Boss, what did you find?" Su Yun asked after leaving the ICU.
"I suspect that the ventilator was inserted incorrectly. Too much gas was injected into the stomach through the ventilator, resulting in a series of reactions," Zheng Ren said.
"It makes sense and can be explained, but there are too few cases. There is no statistical significance." Su Yun understood immediately and shrugged.
Zheng Ren smiled. He just did not have the time. If he focused on his research, he could produce a thesis in a few days.
However, the thesis was meaningless to him. He was already a tenured professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. Why would he publish a thesis?
That was what Quan Xiaocao was supposed to do.
As for himself, his mission progress bar was the most important.
"Where are we going in the afternoon?" Su Yun asked.
"I don't know," Zheng Ren said. "Maybe he'll sit and read for a while. Maybe he'll take a stroll in the emergency department."
"Boss, let me tell you a secret." Su Yun's eyes narrowed.
"…" Zheng Ren's heart trembled. Although he did not look at Su Yun, he knew what he wanted to say.
With such a tone, he would definitely say that Uncle Ning would be back soon.
Zheng Ren's good mood vanished into thin air.
[They said they were going to write a love song soon …]
Before Su Yun could say anything, his phone rang.
"Hello, Director Luo."
"I'm in ICU.
Yes, I just came out. "
"Okay, I'll go take a look at the situation right away." Zheng Ren hung up the phone.
"What's wrong? Emergency? "
"No, it's a patient with a liver abscess. He looks very strange," Zheng Ren said.
"What's so interesting about a liver abscess?" Su Yun said, "Anti-inflammatory treatment. If it doesn't work, we can use ultrasound to locate the puncture and drainage. There will always be a suitable one."
"Do you think Director Luo doesn't know? He said that there was a problem, so it must be something else. "As Zheng Ren spoke, his footsteps quickened.
The two of them quickly arrived at the gastroenterology department. Zheng Ren glanced around and saw that Chief Luo was not in the doctor's office, so he went straight to the chief's office.
He knocked on the door and Chief Luo's voice came from inside. Zheng Ren pushed the door open and entered.
"Boss Zheng, come and take a look at this radiographic film." Chief Luo glanced at Zheng Ren, then his eyes returned to the radiographic film on the radiographic film viewer beside him.
Zheng Ren walked over and took a look. There was a 7 × 3 cm abscess in the right lobe of the liver. It was long and thin, protruding from the liver surface.
Uh … what the hell is this?
If it was a trauma patient, Zheng Ren would not hesitate. However, according to the radiographic films he saw in the Department of Gastroenterology, it should be a disease of the internal medicine system.
But what was this high-density substance? Liver stones? However, it was too big and too thin. It didn't look like it.
"Boss Zheng? What do you think this is? "Director Luo asked.
"Does the patient have a history of trauma?" Zheng Ren asked.
"No, that's what's strange," Chief Luo said. "He said that he had no history of trauma or surgery.
The patient was a 41-year-old male. A month ago, he had a fever for unknown reasons. At first, he thought it was a cold or a fever, so he went to the local clinic for treatment. After taking antibiotics for two weeks, there was no improvement, so he went to the county. During the chest X-ray, we found that there was a liver abscess, so we did this plain CT scan. "
"The medical history is that simple?" Zheng Ren squinted at the liver CT scan. He was sure that it was a foreign body.
However, the patient had no history of surgery or trauma. Did the foreign object teleport in? Or was it a high dimensional lifeform that placed it there?
This was simply too strange.
"No matter how I look at it, it looks like a foreign object." Chief Luo stared at the radiographic films. "When I went out to the clinic today, I saw the patient's radiographic films and kept thinking so. I'm not sure, so I asked Boss Zheng to take a look. "
"Chief Luo, I don't dare to." Zheng Ren was polite and said, "I also think it's a foreign body, and it's a relatively sharp foreign body. However, it's strange that there's no history of trauma. Are you sure? "
When discussing the patient's condition, Zheng Ren gave up on being reserved and asked very directly.
"To confirm this, I looked at the skin on the patient's chest and abdomen. There's no damage, nor are there any surgical scars. I also looked around the navel, but I've never done a single-site laparoscopy, "Chief Luo said.
Zheng Ren began to hesitate.
Chief Luo was indeed experienced. He had thought of everything that he could think of.
In order to rule out the possibility that the patient could not describe clearly or had forgotten some medical history, he even directly ruled out these possibilities during the physical examination.
There were no external injuries, but there was a foreign body. This was too strange.
A plain CT scan of the abdomen could not explain the problem. Zheng Ren began to frown and ponder as he did a three-dimensional reconstruction.
However, the result of the three-dimensional reconstruction was certain. Judging from the internal density of the abscess, it was a sharp and slightly sharp hard object.
Its density was not as high as iron, and it was not something like a bullet.
Could it really have grown on the liver by itself?
Zheng Ren began to search for information about liver stones.
Clinically, liver stones were the so-called intrahepatic stones. They meant that there were stones in the bile ducts in the liver, but they could also be simple primary intrahepatic stones.
However, the most common possibility was the accumulation of common bile duct stones upstream.
However, this did not make sense. Liver stones … Stones would not be so sharp and slender. Intrahepatic stones like stone forests?
Puncturing the bile ducts, piercing the surface of the liver, and finally causing a serious abscess?
Zheng Ren thought that this possibility was almost impossible.
He had read papers, journals, and magazines for so long, but he had never seen any case where the stones deposited in the bile ducts in the liver formed sharp needles that pierced the liver.
"Do you have any ideas, Boss Zheng?" Chief Luo asked.
"I have no ideas at all, but I think it's necessary to perform exploratory surgery based on the patient's condition," Zheng Ren said with certainty as he crossed his arms and looked at the radiographic films.
"Yes, that's why I asked you to come." Chief Luo did not hide anything and said directly, "What exactly is the foreign body? Are you confident in the surgery?"
"The surgery is a small surgery, but we have to make an incision or remove the foreign body under a laparoscope to know what it is," Zheng Ren said.
Chief Luo smiled.
Zheng Ren's answer and his own question were two completely different things.
He asked him if he was confident in the surgery, and all of Boss Zheng's attention was on what the foreign body in the patient's body was.
Boss Zheng probably had not considered whether the surgery would fail or not.
Perhaps for Boss Zheng, it was normal for such a difficult surgery to succeed. Failure was an extremely rare occurrence.
In fact, it was not even within the scope of consideration for the time being.
What a young man full of vigor and confidence! Chief Luo looked at Zheng Ren and smiled. "I'll send you the patient's phone number. I won't care about the rest. If you want to do the surgery or do a live broadcast, let me know in advance. I'll go up and take a look."
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