Chapter 2374: All Is Good
Is it the electrocution causing "Rutherford" muscle necrosis leading to severe arrhythmia, or the electrocution causing severe arrhythmia leading to "Rutherford" muscle necrosis? Similar to the chicken or egg dilemma, it may vary depending on each patient’s specific situation.
The only thing doctors can know is that if there is a structural change in the heart, causing substantial damage to the heart muscle resulting in severe arrhythmia, medication alone is difficult to resolve.
For example, the most common medications for treating arrhythmias are nothing more than receptor and ion blockers, which cannot treat necrotic heart muscle cells. Clinically, the only medication for heart muscle damage is those that nourish the heart muscle. Internal medicine doctors generally perform symptomatic treatment for such patients. The only way to tackle the underlying disease cause is through surgery.
Xie Wanying’s heightened vigilance towards such cases comes from the cruel lessons learned from her own family. Both her grandfather and her cousin had experienced such painful encounters. If clinical doctors just wait for the patients to recover on their own, they are actually waiting for Death God to come and take away the critically ill patient, as some patients’ bodies simply do not have the ability to self-rescue.
Duan Sanbao held a notebook in his left hand, with a ballpoint pen in his right, occasionally jotting down notes as if he was diligently recording her report on the patient’s condition.
Suddenly noticing her silence, he couldn’t help but look up at her face, her slightly pale profile causing him to wonder if he had seen wrong.
The others on the scene were equally puzzled by her excessive quiet at the moment.
Pan Shihua thought: Student Xie seems to be recalling something, just like last time.
The door to the rescue room creaked open, and a distinguished figure in a white coat slipped in.
Everyone quickly turned around and saw it was the leader entering, and they all called out, "Director Cao."
Walking into the midst of everyone, Cao Zhao first turned to ask Duan Sanbao, whom he had sent to investigate: "How is the situation?"
Duan Sanbao remained silent, the tip of the pen in his hand tapping on the notebook, seemingly organizing the data from Student Xie’s report, needing to compute and summarize before reporting back to the mentor.
Seeing him deep in thought, Cao Zhao walked to the patient’s bedside to prepare to examine the patient. Since Student Pan was performing an EKG on the patient, he stood behind Student Pan.
The arrival of the mentor doubled the pressure on everyone.
Student Pan wore a serious expression, his hands moving swiftly, swiftly wiping alcohol and quickly connecting the leads to the patient for the EKG. After turning on the machine, in a smooth operation, the EKG machine started spitting out paper.
A group of people including the nearby doctors all kept their eyes on the EKG display of the machine. As soon as the paper finished ejecting, Pan Shihua grabbed one side of the paper and swiftly tore it off, deftly holding the printed EKG chart of the child in his hand.
His seamless actions exhibited skilled clinical techniques that caught the attention of several mentors.
The important steps of conducting an EKG have been previously discussed, requiring the leads to be placed accurately on the patient’s body surface, equivalent to having a comprehensive understanding of the patient’s surface anatomical landmarks.
Luo Jingming nodded appreciatively, noting that the junior fellow performed well. Though Student Pan appeared like a vase, his efficiency in handling tasks was on a different level.
Not daring to let his guard down, Pan Shihua cautiously held the EKG paper, looking down to read and analyze. Present at the scene was Student Duan, who was adept at exploiting vulnerabilities, and Second Brother Cao, a profound Devil Teacher. None of them praised him.
It is said that this child is no longer of infant age but is a big child now, making it easy to count the rib positions on the body surface, but it is challenging for children under three years old and newborns to conduct an EKG.