The next night, Teacher Tan invited me to dinner for the second time.

They agreed on the phone that Teacher Tan would drive over to pick her up after get off work and asked her to wait at the gate of Shouer.

The next day was my first day at work in the Second Department of Pediatric Cardiology, so it was quite busy.

The work procedures in the department are basically the same. There is a morning meeting to hand over the shift and then go to the ward for rounds.

During the morning meeting, the older Director Lu asked about what happened in the PICU yesterday. Unlike the National Hospital, there are many female surgeons in the Capital Hospital, but there are none in the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department. Director Lu was very interested in this female student of the Fairy Brother: "What's your name? I only heard your teacher mention it once, remember the pacemaker? Have you ever had a pacemaker installed?"

"I haven't done it." Xie Wanying answered honestly. She had never been to the cardiology department and had little contact with interventional surgery. She had just come to the cardiac surgery department and was just learning, so she hadn't had the opportunity to learn many new things yet.

"Let Teacher Cao guide you." Director Lu said to her and Cao Zhao gently, "This operation is not difficult to do."

After hearing what the old director said, several students once again guessed what the most difficult operation in pediatric cardiac surgery was. This question is not easy to answer, but the common diseases here can be seen immediately during the ward rounds in the department.

Today we had a general ward round. The team of doctors was huge and checked from the first bed to the last one. Director Lu took the lead and acted like a general.

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The characteristic of pediatrics is that you see some children in the ward who seem to be in serious condition, but the problem is that they cannot be admitted to the PICU. The reason is simple, there are many children with more serious conditions than this. This shows that the child's condition is really developing rapidly and it is easy to deteriorate. In some adult departments, you can see patients who come to the inpatient department simply for recuperation and physical examination, but you can't see this in pediatrics. One of the main characteristics of hospitalized heart disease patients is hypoxia, which is the same for adults and children. Many patients have to wear nasal cannula to breathe oxygen.

The image of a pediatrician wearing a stethoscope and examining a child is full of childlike fun, as if he is examining a wilted little flower or a lively puppy or kitten.

For example, Director Lu stood in front of the child, bending over, like a KFC grandpa, holding the child's hand and coaxing him while listening to his heartbeat. The child looked at Director Lu, his eyes were as big and transparent as glass balls, full of innocence. Eyes are windows to the soul, and it can be seen that the child's mind is as pure as boiled water. Who wouldn't feel distressed when seeing such a child get sick?

This is what a young child looks like when being examined by a doctor, about three years old or younger.

Older children, like Zhu Xing, can be persuaded by doctors at the beginning, but it is difficult to fool them over time. Really, children over three years old are very naughty. There is a scientific basis for classifying children under three years old as infants. The developmental characteristics of children in this period are very special and can be said to be very important. When a child is just born, the brain development is only 25% of that of an adult, and then before the age of three, the brain develops to 80% to 90% of that of an adult. Now you can understand why it is not easy to fool children over three years old when they go to kindergarten.

Since the hospital has relaxed the age limit for admission, we can even see teenagers aged 16 or 17 preparing for congenital heart disease surgery. Isn't it said that the earlier the surgery for congenital heart disease is done, the better? Generally speaking, this is true. However, for some diseases, the early symptoms may not be obvious, and parents and children themselves may not easily notice that they are sick, so they fail to go to the hospital for treatment in time.