Mu Tao got in the car, closed the door, and rushed to the airport.
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Horqin Right Middle Banner of Inner Mongolia.
In the small Second Class Grade A Hospital, the intervention doctor was ignored.
His name was directly deleted when he signed up for earthquake relief.
The intervention department was considered a useless department. Did they know how to do emergency treatment? Was he younger than thirty-five years old? Was he not up to their standard? Was he going to cause trouble for the people in the disaster area?
What bullsh*t!
He was very dejected and walked back dejectedly.
The chain of medical contempt had always existed, and the Department of Interventional Medicine was a small department that was despised by all departments in the second-grade hospital.
It was so frustrating! The doctor from the Department of Interventional Medicine was in a daze because he could not go to the frontline.
Suddenly, his cellphone rang.
He picked up his cell phone in a daze and saw a very strange name.
It was the person who was the leader of a group of backpackers who were arranged by a friend from Imperial Capital to visit Inner Mongolia the year before last.
The intervention doctor had arranged everything very carefully. There was even camping in the desert and singing and dancing in the moonlight. Everyone returned to their places happy and left their contact details. Because they were all backpackers who liked to go outdoors, they had never deleted each other from their contact lists.
It was just that the person on the other side had not contacted him afterward. He would send a group message to greet him during the holidays.
He was the kind of person that probably had a social life.
Who knew? It had nothing to do with him. The doctor from the Department of Interventional Medicine answered the phone absent-mindedly.
"Hello."
"Liu Xuzhi?"
"This is Liu Xuzhi. What's the matter, Chief Zhang?"
"Do you want to go to the frontline?"
Without any greetings, the other party's words were like a knife, stabbing directly into the heart of the interventional doctor, Liu Xuzhi.
His heart trembled, and his hands could not help but do the same.
During that time, besides the frontline, where else could one be?
"Brother... Brother Zhang, really?" Liu Xuzhi's voice trembled. Happiness came too suddenly, making him feel like he was dreaming.
"Do you want to or not?" The voice on the other side was cold and impatient.
"Yes, of course I'm going!" Liu Xuzhi realized that as long as he hesitated, the call would be hung up.
During that time, everyone's patience had been exhausted. Simply put, it was fine to go or not.
After that, the person told him how to contact him and explained what mode of transportation to take and where to meet so that they could fly together.
After putting down the phone, Liu Xuzhi still felt like the whole situation was unreal. However, he did not suspect that the other party was lying to him. He immediately called his wife and told her that he was going on a business trip for a few days.
He did not go home. He simply packed up the toiletries in the department, bought a ticket, and was ready to step on the high-speed train to Hohhot.
He walked out of the hospital with light steps and saw the hospital's volunteer team waiting in front of the office building with a red flag. The hospital had sent two ambulances. They were sitting in the ambulances and carrying supplies. They were also about to set off.
'You guys didn't want to bring me!' Liu Xuzhi had a different emotion in his heart. 'Hehe, I'm going to take a plane. I'll definitely arrive before you.'
It made him feel really good.
It's like a piece of pie falling from the sky. It was so delicious.
'When you guys arrive by car, the most critical seventy-two hours have already passed. The best job is probably loading and unloading the mountain of relief supplies by then.'
Liu Xuzhi could not help but whistle. He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to ask for leave.
However, the thought only flashed through his mind and then disappeared.
Ask for leave? Why would he even need to? He was off duty, after all!
However, it was still necessary to inform the department group on WeChat. As for not giving leave... Anyway, he would already be at the frontline, so he would not care if it was given to him or not.
He got on the bus and rushed all the way to the high-speed railway station without stopping.
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The whole country experienced a violent vibration and countless people rushed to the frontline spontaneously.
They did not know what they could do if they went, but they could not just sit there and do nothing either. They always felt that something was wrong and their hearts were blocked. It was especially uncomfortable.
There were people like Mu Tao at the Mayo Clinic far away, and Liu Xuzhi at Horqin Right Middle Banner of Inner Mongolia, as well as countless others.
They were small streams that were converging together.
Ten thousand trickles formed water, converging into a river just like a surging song.
Chapter 655 - A Desperate Solution
Zheng Ren was troubled.
All the medical supplies that could be collected had almost been used up.
As for the helicopters, they could not land for quite some time due to the weather. According to Zhao Yunlong's news, the two helicopters from the military's aviation team took off to start their part of the rescue after they received the news.
However, after entering the mountain valley, the thick fog blocked their vision. They could not see anything.
Even after flying up another 2000 meters, it was still the same. After forcefully groping around for more than 10 kilometers, it began to storm and they had no choice but to return.
After experiencing a huge earthquake the weather was still unfavorable in the disaster area, increasing the difficulty of getting follow-up troops to continue their rescue efforts.
The use of helicopters for rescue in the area was extremely limited.
Not only were they unable to find the survivor's location, but they could not even drop the materials they carried when they were finally left with no choice but to return.
Zhao Yunlong and the others spent a lot of effort to tidy up a corner of the town center square and turn it into a temporary hangar. However, there was no need for it in the end.
Their materials had been exhausted and there were a hundred seriously injured people waiting to be rescued.
There was no plasma, no medicine, and even the surgical trays were all used up.
Zheng Ren looked at the seriously injured and dying people in a daze. He could not use all his strength right there and then.
He bought a surgical tray from the System's shop but there was no medicine for sale in the System.
After hesitating for a while, Zheng Ren still did not have the courage to operate on the patient who was still m.o.a.ning in pain. There was only local anesthesia. The patient who needed to be operated on had a ruptured organ, which was fundamentally different from appendicitis or even cesarean section.
The heavy rain poured down, making visibility extremely poor. It was very difficult to even build a bonfire.
"Damn the weather!" Zheng Ren cursed fiercely in his heart.
"Boss, do you know that there was no anesthesia despite there being a surgical operation taking place?" Su Yun muttered. No one knew what he was thinking.
His voice sounded a little erratic in the pouring rain.
Although it was still the afternoon, the sky was overcast as if it was already late at night.
Su Yun's voice was like a ghost. Zheng Ren frowned and wiped the rain off his face. However, it was useless. The rain was so heavy that even breathing felt a little difficu
lt. After wiping off the wetness on his face, the rain just continued to drench him.
Not anesthetizing... This seemed to be a little difficult.
The rescue team members searched for supplies and tried their best to shelter the injured from the wind and rain. However, no matter what they did, they could only use such simple and crude methods.
Zheng Ren stared blankly but his mind was on something else.
There were also local anesthetics. He had used local anesthetics to treat appendicitis, but the injured people who had hepatic ruptures and splenic ruptures on the spot...
Should he give it a try?
They had already entered a state of hemorrhagic shock. They did not have an acute sense of pain anymore so it might be possible.
When there was surgery with no anesthetic, it needed to be completed fast!
Zheng Ren knew that.
However, most of the surgeries were amputations during that time and the most primitive surgical methods were not able to remove and suture internal organs.
The idea of trying it out burned inside him like a wildfire that gradually became a prairie fire.
If there was time for surgical training, it would be fine to do a few surgeries first.
As for the surgical instruments, Zheng Ren was not worried about the System's fickleness.
The surgical tray that he bought from the System's shop could be disinfected with clean water and sterilized just like that.
However, the unreliable System did not provide any medicine, which made Zheng Ren feel a little disappointed.
He gave a perfunctory reply to Su Yun, then went to the System's space and bought the time for surgical training.
The simulation mannequin was a patient with a ruptured spleen. Zheng Ren entered the System's operating theater. Without hesitation, he began to sedate the patient with a local anesthetic before peeling back the skin.
The patient's blood pressure was low, and Zheng Ren estimated that the victim's highest pressure was at most 60 millimeters of mercury.
After making an incision on the mannequin, there was a little bleeding. It showed that the effects of local anesthetic were still acceptable.
Blunt dissection of skin and muscle tissue. At this point, everything was under control. However, the incision for splenectomy and appendectomy were different. More anesthetic was also needed.
When Zheng Ren opened the peritoneum and touched the ruptured spleen, the simulation mannequin convulsed violently. Dark red blood gushed out, his breathing and heartbeat stopping abruptly.
What the hell was this stimulation?
Zheng Ren was stunned.
What did he do? How could the simulation mannequin have such a big reaction?
Zheng Ren was stunned for a few minutes in the operating theater. After that, he shook his head and began his surgical training again.
He tried his best to recall the process of the local anesthetic appendicitis operation. He thought about how to stop the spleen from causing the system's nervous reflex to trigger.
The simulation mannequin's surgery progressed very slowly. They were changed one batch after another.
If he did not have a large amount of time for surgical training, Zheng Ren would not have had the heart or strength to do such a thing now.
Simulation mannequin... If this stuff were done outside, he would have been beaten to death by Zhao Yunlong.
With the experience provided by the simulation mannequin, Zheng Ren gradually gained a better understanding of the various reactions caused by pulling the internal organs.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, splenectomy could be performed with continuous epidural anesthesia or general anesthesia. All kinds of reactions did not need to be paid attention to. Under anesthesia, those sorts of things rarely happened.
Special events, special locations, and special circ.u.mstances forced Zheng Ren into a dead end.
The failure of hundreds of surgeries acc.u.mulated countless experiences. Zheng Ren also understood all kinds of reactions caused by trying to pull the internal organs out.
He gradually figured out where to use local anesthesia to achieve the best effect.
During that moment, Zheng Ren felt from the bottom of his heart that it was such a happy thing to be able to stand in the operating theater and operate with an anesthetist and scrub nurse. He did not need to worry about such things. He only needed to operate.
After practicing on the splenic and hepatic rupture, Zheng Ren had performed nearly 2000 surgeries.
Most of them were failures.
When he left the System's space, Zheng Ren felt a little tired for the first time.
It was really tiring. Performing splenectomy and hepatic rupture under local anesthesia was completely different from what he had learned and mastered previously.
The problems he had to consider were completely different. The surgery's difficulty increased exponentially.
Fortunately, all of that was over.
Zheng Ren felt that there seemed to be a change in his skill tree but was pressed for time so he could not take a closer look. After taking the self-disinfecting surgical tray he had bought, Zheng Ren left the System's space.
After leaving the system space, the sound of the rain made him a little annoyed.
"I think we can give it a try," Zheng Ren said. He put the surgical tray into his personal first-aid kit. "Let's go and get ready."
"What?" Su Yun felt that the rain was too loud and he had misheard Zheng Ren's words.
"Local anesthesia. We can give it a try," Zheng Ren said. "I've used local anesthesia for appendicitis in Sea City."
"Boss, is an appendix the same as the liver and spleen?" Su Yun stared at Zheng Ren as if he was an idiot.
"It's better than waiting for death." Zheng Ren covered his eyes with his hand and looked up.
The sky was cloudy and the rain was pouring. There was no sign of it stopping.
In this kind of weather, the helicopter could not take off and land. Even if they cut open the wound to stop the bleeding, the wounded would not survive.
However, they still had to do something.
Zheng Ren narrowed his eyes and looked for Zhao Yunlong through the curtain of rain.
Chapter 656 - Taught By Old Chief Physician Pan
"Boss, I think I must be too tired." Su Yun's voice sounded like it was haunted.
Zheng Ren knew that since yesterday, he had been in a state of nervousness and excitement. Coupled with the freezing rain on the road at night, he had been in a state of panic when he came to Nanchuan Town. Even a strong man could not endure it.
Su Yun was still considered pretty good. The other students had long exhausted all their energy. When they could not take it anymore, they found a place to take a nap. After waking up, they got up to continue the search and rescue mission.
"If you're tired then you should sleep for a while. Anyway, we just need a small incision for the surgery not larger than a pinkie. We don't need you." Zheng Ren struggled to spot Zhao Yunlong's figure in the rain.
"I heard you say that local anesthesia will be used for a splenectomy and liver repair. I think I must have schizophrenia." Su Yun's gaze was lifeless. The long black hair on his forehead was limp and wet, sticking to his handsome face.
"Well, schizophrenia is good too," Zheng Ren said perfunctorily. "At least if you encounter something, we can talk it over. If you can split out more than ten personalities and a few of them are girls, then you can talk to yourself until the end of time."
Su Yun cursed in his heart. Zheng Ren was indeed a monster. How long had he been tormenting him? How could he still be full of energy?
His words were still unpleasant to hear while he felt absent-minded.
Su Yun really did not have the energy to bicker with Zheng Ren. It was as if his brain had stopped working and he did not want to do anything other than sleep.
"I'm going to rest for a while. I'll be up in half an hour." Su Yun shook his shoulders, the action ext
remely lifeless.
Zheng Ren sent Su Yun under the shade beneath a tree as he took off his coat and threw it to Su Yun.
Su Yun did not try to act tough. Although all his clothes were wet, a little more could help him keep warm.
His inner sweater kept the newborn baby warm. Now, there was a draft blowing underneath his camo clothes, making him feel a little cold.
If there was another freezing downpour, he would probably be frozen to death if he fell asleep.
His vision was very poor, so Zheng Ren shouted at the top of his voice to find Zhao Yunlong.
Soon, a tall figure passed through the rain and rushed over.
"Chief Zhao, the seriously injured can't take it anymore. I want to operate on them." Zheng Ren did not say anything unnecessary as it would only exhaust the rest of his energy reserves.
"You want to operate?" Zhao Yunlong looked particularly irritable. His forehead was swollen and bleeding, his eyes red and bloodshot. "What surgery methods will you be using?"
"Local anesthesia. I still have a surgical tray," Zheng Ren said. "The surgical tray can be rinsed and used again. At a time like this, we can't fuss too much on the details."
Zhao Yunlong was silent. He had the same thoughts as Su Yun. Had he heard the other wrongly?
"Look for an injector, lidocaine, gauze. That's all I need." Zheng Ren did not discuss it with Zhao Yunlong further. Instead, he just told him the necessary items.
Zhao Yunlong was the oldest and the highest-ranking person at the scene, so he had been in charge of the rescue work ever since he came here.
There was not much medicine left, and every one of them had to be carefully calculated in case of an emergency.
"Comrade Zheng Ren..." Zhao Yunlong hesitated for a moment.
He knew the situation regarding the seriously injured. Lack of medicine, severe hemorrhagic shock, and even their blood and sugar levels were extremely low.
They had already lost a lot of blood, so it would be a death sentence for them if they continued to prolong treatment any longer.
Why not give it a try? What if Zheng Ren really had a way to get it done? Zhao Yunlong immediately made up his mind.
Although Zheng Ren's statement felt unreliable, he said it with conviction and at that point, it was the only choice they had.
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