Xiang Heping carefully pulled the catheter out and was shocked to find that the catheter was broken.
What the f * ck! MLGBD!！
Chief Xiang's mind was filled with countless alpacas galloping across the grassland, trampling on the grass.
He had done thousands of epidural anesthesia cases in his life. Why did this happen to his grandfather?!
Impossible!
Chief Xiang held the catheter and carefully observed the broken end. He wanted to deny his previous thoughts.
However, it turned out that his eyes were not playing tricks on him. It was a broken catheter. Xiang Heping was an anesthesiologist with twenty to thirty years of experience. He would not be wrong about this.
The assistant was stunned. What was going on? Was it a new technique that Chief Xiang had learned in Imperial Capital? However, it did not look like it.
Just now, he subconsciously wanted to flatter her, but he still swallowed his words tactfully.
Because he saw that Director Xiang's hands were trembling, shaking uncontrollably.
"Look for Chief Zhang!" Chief Xiang said immediately.
"Oh, okay." The assistant immediately picked up his phone and called Chief Zhang of the orthopedics department.
The hospital was not big but the orthopedics department was one of the biggest departments. Because trauma and car accidents all involved simple fracture fixation surgeries, the orthopedics department was one of the most common surgeries.
There were a few Chief Zhang's but the one he was looking for was the one from the orthopedics department.
As it was already time to get off work, Chief Zhang drove home and came back. It took him almost half an hour.
Looking at the situation, he and Chief Li from the general surgery department changed their positions. They used local anesthesia and cut open the catheter to see what was going on.
Following the puncture point of Xiang Heping's skin, they cut open the subcutaneous tissue using tissue forceps to look for the remnant of the epidural catheter.
However, the results were disappointing. Although they were very careful not to touch the remnant, there was no remnant of the epidural catheter in the skin or subcutaneous tissue.
Initially, Xiang Heping still had some hope. If there was a strand of the epidural catheter outside, he might be able to use forceps to clamp it out.
However, the truth told him that it was all a dream. The catheter had fallen into the epidural space.
Xiang Heping's face was pale. He sat on the chair behind him in a daze. It was not that he did not want to stand up but his legs were a little weak.
"Chief Xiang." Chief Zhang of the orthopedics department stood up and shook his head slightly.
No one else in the operating theater dared to speak at this time. Everyone maintained silence tacitly.
"Peace." A familiar voice with a thick local accent called out.
"Ah, dad, what's wrong?"
"Why aren't you performing the surgery yet? I'm tired of lying down, "the old man said.
"It's just a small matter. Lie down for a while."
Hearing the old man's words, the head nurse immediately walked up to him and comforted him gently. She had already found a sterile sheet and covered the old man with it to prevent the temperature from dropping too quickly.
At this time, she really did not know what to do, so the head nurse added a sterile sheet for the old man.
"Chief Xiang." Chief Zhang of the Orthopedics Department gave him a look and signaled him to go out.
Although the patient was Xiang Heping's father, there were some things that could not be said in the operating theater. Once the patient was nervous, wouldn't it make things worse if he had a heart attack at such an old age?
Xiang Heping nodded and tried to control his emotions. He walked out of the operating room with his weak legs. At this moment, he felt as if there was a foreign object pressing against his spinal canal and epidural, making walking a problem.
At the corridor, Chief Zhang of the Orthopedics Department asked, "Old Xiang, are you sure the catheter fell in?"
"Yes." Xiang Heping nodded.
"How much did it fall off?"
"About six centimeters, probably like this …" Chief Xiang almost cried.
"Let's leave it at that." Chief Zhang said, "You know better than me that the epidural does not connect to the brain. We always pass the sterile procedure. There's no need to be afraid of foreign objects, and the possibility of compression of the nerves and secondary infection is not high. Normally, there's no need for surgery, just conservative observation. "
Conservative … Xiang Heping was a little confused. The six-centimeter catheter was in the epidural, and they just left it there?
Although he would have made the same choice if he was clear-headed, how could he stay calm now? He felt uncomfortable all over when he thought of the foreign object.
"Old Xiang," Chief Ou of the General Surgery Department said, "I asked around, and some students have encountered this situation."
"What happened then?!" Xiang Heping asked quickly.
"Because the patient had no symptoms, they were prepared to fool them. In the end … they were unlucky, and when they explained the situation to the family, they refused to let it go. The surgery was to remove the catheter, and there were some problems during the surgery … "
This was a classic example of adding insult to injury. However, from another perspective, who would want to leave a medical residue in the spinal canal?
This would only increase the psychological panic, and Chief Ou of the General Surgery Department felt that it was particularly boring, so he immediately shut up.
In fact, he should not have been a little relieved. This was Xiang Heping's father. What would he do if he encountered other patients he did not know? Although the surgery had not been done yet, and it had nothing to do with him directly, there was always an indirect relationship.
It was inevitable that he would smell like sh * t.
"Sigh." Chief Ou sighed and did not speak anymore. He was in the General Surgery Department, and he had never seen an epidural catheter left in the body, let alone know what complications would occur.
It was better not to speak, and the more he said, the more wrong he would be. Anyway, he did not know what to do.
"Old Zhang, do you think my father will be paralyzed?" Xiang Heping asked with a sad face.
"Theoretically speaking, it shouldn't." Chief Zhang of the Orthopedics Department began to analyze, "I look at the position, there may be shallow sensory loss below the anterior superior iliac spine. It's just a decrease in sensory loss, so it should be fine. "
"…" Xiang Heping's brain began to stop working.
"This is the most optimistic analysis. If it's more serious, there may be movement damage to the spinal nerve or catheter fiber connective tissue wrapped around the corresponding segment of the nerve, and the previous underlying disease may worsen, leading to …" Chief Zhang said.
He said a lot, but Xiang Heping's mind was almost blank. No matter how much clinical experience he had, it was only a matter of probability that there was a problem or no problem.
Damn it, why did it fall on his head! Chief Xiang kept repeating this sentence in his heart.
Chief Zhang realized that Xiang Heping was not listening to him, so he tactfully said a few words and shut up. This kind of thing still depended on the choice of the patient's family. The person in front of him was both the patient's family member and the first person responsible. How should he choose?
"Chief Zhang, Chief Ou, please give me a suggestion." After a long silence, Chief Xiang pleaded.
"Suggestion …" The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
What suggestion could they have!
(End of this chapter)
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