It was already past nine o 'clock at night. It seemed like the surgery would be over in the second half of the night.
Zheng Ren smiled bitterly. However, on second thought, surgery was better than socializing and dealing with a lawyer who flipped faster than flipping a page in the traffic police department.
The physician shook his head, puzzled.
What could cause intestinal obstruction? Or was it an overlay? Sticky bean bun?
Zheng Ren smiled and said, "Even if you ask, you still have to do what needs to be done when you come back tonight. Don't just argue with the patient's family."
With that, Zheng Ren left the emergency department and went to the ward to change.
The emergency ward was quiet. The patients who could go home had all gone home, leaving only a few postoperative patients. There was no television in the hospital, and the WiFi was slow. There was no entertainment, so everyone had gone to bed early.
The lights in the office were still on. Chang Yue was leisurely writing a medical record while Professor Rudolph Wagner was studying a Mandarin textbook.
Chang Yue was puzzled when she saw Zheng Ren enter.
"Chief Zheng, why are you still here? Is it because you're used to being on duty and want to replace me? "Chang Yue joked.
Who would want to sleep in the emergency ward's on-call room if they had nothing better to do?
The men's on-call room was dirty and messy. Who would be in the mood to clean the room when they were busy performing surgeries?
The nurses were diligent and helped out a little. It was only right that they did not help.
How could a place like this compare to a villa with a bathtub?
"I went to the emergency department and found a patient with intussusception intestinal obstruction who needs emergency surgery," Zheng Ren said as he walked. "I'll take the patient for a checkup. Get ready to receive the patient and write the medical record."
"Chief Zheng, you're really special to receive a patient in the middle of the night," Chang Yue said expressionlessly.
Despite her complaints, he still had to do the work.
Zheng Ren quickly changed his clothes. As he passed the office, he said, "The patient and his family aren't very compliant. Be careful."
"Got it," Chang Yue said perfunctorily. "Lil Fugui, go and take a look at Chief Zheng and help."
Professor Rudolf, who had been following Zheng Ren for a long time, replied, "Yes."
Zheng Ren was speechless.
In just a few days, the professor had changed his name to Lu Fugui and even learned the Northeastern dialect?
However, listening to the professor speak in a Northeastern dialect, Zheng Ren felt a sense of familiarity and the sense of distance between them instantly shortened.
"Boss Zheng …" As soon as the professor opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Zheng Ren.
"Don't call me boss. Call me Doctor Zheng or Chief Zheng," Zheng Ren said.
He was a bullsh * t boss. Zheng Ren was a person who knew his place. Every time he heard the word 'boss', he felt very uncomfortable.
But Su Yun's shout was another matter.
"Yes." The professor said, "What happened? Why are you here so late at night? If you didn't come, I would have gone back to the hotel to rest."
"There's a surgery. Are you going?" Zheng Ren asked.
"Chief Zheng, your working hours are extremely inhumane." Although the professor had changed his name and learned a Northeastern accent, he was still a German at heart.
"I'm not asking you that. I'm asking you if you're going to the surgery. If you can't come, I'll call someone. "Zheng Ren was expressionless as he walked quickly to the CT room.
"I'll go take a look at the scans. Don't you think it's against the law to let an interventional surgeon perform surgery …"
"Got it." Zheng Ren picked up the phone and dialed.
"How's the patient?"
"It's a little troublesome. I'll leave it to you."
"It's fine. There's an intestinal obstruction here. You don't have to come."
"There's really no need … Alright, I'm almost ready. Come and help me."
With that, Zheng Ren hung up.
Su Yun was taking care of Yang Lili. Her condition was not stable due to the severity of her injury.
Organ ischemia and reperfusion alone were enough to give her a headache.
Human organs were sometimes particularly resilient. Victims who were badly mutilated from car accidents could get out of bed in a few days.
Some were even more troublesome. Prolonged ischemia and reperfusion resulted in impaired organ function.
With current medical conditions, not all patients could be saved.
The ICU was like the gates of hell. Some patients could come out, but others would never come out.
Yang Lili's surgery was a success, but whether she could come out alive was not up to Zheng Ren.
Soon, Zheng Ren and the professor arrived at the CT room.
There were not many patients who needed emergency CT scans at night. When Zheng Ren and Professor Rudolph arrived, the patient who was diagnosed with intestinal obstruction in the emergency department was already in the CT room.
The family members fell silent when they saw Zheng Ren in a white coat and a blond foreigner following behind him.
Zheng Ren had some ideas. It seemed like he could consider keeping the professor here.
At the very least, it would save him a lot of trouble. The professor's appearance was indeed very good. He looked like an expert and scholar.
Zheng Ren arrived at the control room and greeted the doctor in charge of the CT scan room. Then, he watched the doctor operate the machine.
The doctor in the CT room saw Zheng Ren and knew the patient's condition was urgent. After the scan, he immediately pulled up the scans.
The images appeared on the machine and Zheng Ren quickly found the position of the intussusception.
The outer circle of the target indicated intussusception and the inner circle indicated intussusception. There was a sausage-like mass with alternating low-density fat and high-density intestines.
There were damaged blood vessels in the inverted wall of the intussusception, which was low-density in the thickened intestinal wall.
"Fecal intestinal obstruction?" said Professor Rudolph as he pointed at the image on the machine.
"It's not necessarily a fecalith. I think it's more likely to be food residue," Zheng Ren said.
The doctor in the CT room was confused. Did fecalith and food residue not mean the same thing?
Professor Rudolph did not believe him. "Chief Zheng, when is the surgery? I want to take a look. I think this Gada is a fecalith. It's definitely not undigested food. "
When faced with a foreigner who spoke fluent Northeastern Chinese, the doctor was a little surprised and looked at Professor Rudolph blankly.
It did not matter if he was a Chinese or a foreigner, as long as he spoke in Northeastern Chinese, he was one of them.
Like Fukuhara Ai … Unfortunately, the professor was not as cute as Fukuhara Ai. He looked a little fierce.
"Chief Zheng, do you need the scans?"
"Yes, please leave one of the family members to wait. If it's the report, I'll ask the family to send it back tomorrow. There's still time. "Zheng Ren left the control room to discuss the condition with the family member.
"Family, the patient's husband is here," Zheng Ren said.
At that moment, some of the people in charge of the quarrel left. A man in his fifties approached Zheng Ren timidly, his face full of worry.
Zheng Ren's explanation had scared him out of his wits. He had been afraid during the CT scan, hoping that it was not a serious illness that required surgery.
Now that he saw Zheng Ren with a serious expression, his heart sank.
He had long forgotten about the quarrel. Between anger and treatment, which was more important? Any rational person would not make the wrong choice.
"Doctor, I'm the patient's husband. Is she alright?"
"Intestinal obstruction due to intussusception. Emergency surgery is required. If there are no objections, follow me to the emergency ward for in-patient surgery. After that, prepare for emergency surgery, "Zheng Ren said.
The patient's husband felt dizzy and almost fell.
Zheng Ren quickly helped him to sit on the chair outside the CT room.
"Doctor, my blood pressure is high. I'm sorry." The patient's husband was no longer as fierce as he had been during the quarrel in the emergency department. He looked aggrieved. "You were fine yesterday. How did you get intestinal obstruction?"
"What did you eat yesterday?"
"Yesterday, we had a classmate gathering. We had hotpot at night and then went to karaoke. We didn't eat anything special," the patient's husband said uncertainly as he tried to recall yesterday's situation.
A human's memory was really unreliable sometimes.
"We'll know what it is after the surgery.
The situation is more urgent now. The intussusception is not very serious, but it has already delayed the best treatment time. If there is any more delay, it will cause intestinal necrosis and we will need to cut the intestine. "Zheng Ren told the truth and did not scare the patient's family.
However, even if he told the truth, it was still quite scary.
According to Zheng Ren's instructions, one person was left behind to wait for the radiographic films. The others quickly pushed the stretcher trolley and Zheng Ren to the emergency ward.
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