As an internist, Dr. Zhang Desheng knew that it could be very fatal for patients in the nephrology department when their conditions became serious, so he ran all the way without daring to take a breath.

If you stay in a hospital, you will find that the frequency of rescuing critically ill patients in other departments is no less than that in the intensive care unit.

Here’s another little-known fact: patients who are not in the intensive care unit are the most seriously ill.

One reason is the shortage of intensive care unit beds.

Second, the high cost of intensive care units discourages patients and their families.

Third, each department director wants to build his own critical care unit, which can save a little money for patients, try to save patients' lives, and keep the business for himself to increase department revenue.

Is it possible for a department to build its own intensive care unit?

First of all, it is not an exaggeration to say that people jokingly say that a week in the intensive care unit costs as much as a house.

Medical expenses of tens or even hundreds of millions are common, and the doctor's surgery fees are like a calf compared to the intensive care unit.

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From this we can see that the cost of patients in the intensive care unit is not spent on medical staff, but is absorbed by the costs of various medical equipment and consumables and medicines.

To put it bluntly, there is no problem with these things as long as other departments are willing to introduce them and build special wards.

The only thing that other departments cannot compare with the intensive care unit is: people!

One is professional intensive care unit doctors and nurses. These are highly professional and technical personnel who need to be specially trained.

Another is the ratio of beds to medical staff.

Dr. Zhang Desheng is a critical care physician and is well aware of the strengths of the intensive care unit.

Thinking back to the beginning, the reason why he chose the intensive care unit was that he believed that this department was like neurosurgery to general surgery, which was the pinnacle of surgical technology, and the intensive care unit should be the pinnacle of internal medicine technology to general internal medicine.

From a purely technical point of view, Xueba Zhang was right.

The technology of the intensive care unit is dedicated to rescuing critically ill patients, and the technology used must be the most cutting-edge medical technology.

Many of the hospital's most advanced medical equipment are stored in the intensive care unit.

Another point is the strength of the top student Dr. Zhang. He has long realized that even if the equipment is complete, someone has to use it.

Other departments will provide relevant training to medical staff when they introduce advanced equipment. The problem is that in terms of the three aspects of courage to use, ability to use, and timely use, medical staff in other departments are far inferior to those in the intensive care department.

After all, it is impossible to be proficient in it like in the intensive care unit, where people are trembling with fear when using it every once in a while.

Just talking about timely use, Dr. Zhang Desheng himself once made a rough estimate and comparison of the response time from discovering that a patient is critically ill to rescue.

Without the assistance of ECG monitors and other equipment, medical staff in other departments can only rely on nurses' regular rounds or patients in the same ward to find out, which can lead to a terrible delay in response. Some even have a delay of more than ten minutes. For some patients, this means that they are doomed.

This problem would not exist in the intensive care unit.

Therefore, some doctors recommend that patients who can afford it must go to the intensive care unit for observation for a few days, not because there are complete equipment there, but because there are people there who can watch you at all times to prevent you from being in danger of death without anyone knowing.

"Yingying, it is said that a patient suddenly vomited blood and is in critical condition. The condition may have been very serious before. Please come over and help take a look at the situation. He is in the Nephrology Department." Dr. Zhang Desheng, who was in a hurry, hurriedly called classmate Xie for help before going to the Nephrology Department.

Doctor Xie Wanying listened carefully to every word of Doctor Zhang's call for help and said calmly, "Maybe not."

Doctor Zhang Desheng: What?!