Chapter 2 Beautiful Suturing
"He's unconscious. The key now is to immobilize him and prevent the foreign object from causing further injury, then bandage him to stop the bleeding. Do you have any extra strips of cloth?" Du Ruoxia asked gravely.
A pretty woman in the crowd immediately took off her coat: "Use my clothes!"
Du Ruoxia looked at the clothes; in the 1970s, such silk fabrics were definitely not cheap.
At this critical moment, she couldn't care less about anything else. Du Ruoxia suddenly tore her clothes apart, turning them into strips of cloth, which she used to bandage the bleeding points. Then she gathered the remaining strips into a ball and pressed them against her chest, which reduced the amount of bright red blood that was constantly oozing out.
Just then, the siren of an ambulance rang out outside.
Several nurses rushed over, pushing a trolley.
"Where is the injured person? Hmm? This bandaging technique is very professional! Is anyone here a doctor?" Rao Xue asked suspiciously.
Then they noticed that Du Ruoxia, a young girl, had blood on her hands. "Little girl, is this where you bandaged your wound?"
Du Ruoxia then realized that she was already seventeen years old, not the associate chief physician with a doctorate from her previous life.
It's certainly strange that a seventeen-year-old girl would use such professional first aid techniques.
"Saving lives is the priority," Du Ruoxia said.
Rao Xue immediately directed her coworkers to help lift the patient onto the ambulance. Although the ambulance from the 1970s was relatively old, it was still quite complete in terms of equipment.
Du Ruoxia also got into the car, and her hands never left the injured person's chest, continuously pressing to stop the bleeding.
"Give the injured person oxygen, pack their chest with sterile cotton pads, and if any organs are exposed, bandage them with wet sterile gauze!"
Rao Xue was even more surprised. This little girl knew so much; she was more like a medical professional than she was.
Emergency physician Guo Ruigang had just connected the oxygen tube and was about to administer oxygen to the patient when he heard Du Ruoxia's instructions and was taken aback.
However, before Guo Rui could even ponder, Du Ruoxia said again, "Heart rate 180! Oxygen saturation continues to drop, quickly replenish blood volume!"
Guo Ruidu became anxious. "The patient is experiencing continuous massive bleeding. Even with cotton pads packed into the chest to stop the bleeding, the average pressure keeps dropping. It won't last much longer!"
"How much longer until we get to the hospital?" Du Ruoxia asked.
Rao Xue: "Director Yang's injuries are too severe and he needs to go to the Municipal People's Hospital. It will take at least another twenty minutes to get there."
"Any later and Director Yang's life might be in danger! Damn it!" Guo Rui's mind was a mess. Knowing that the people in the ambulance weren't ordinary citizens, he became even more helpless.
Du Ruoxia: "Do you have any curved hemostats?"
Guo Rui: "What are you going to do?"
"Stop the bleeding!" Du Ruoxia couldn't help but question Guo Rui's professional abilities when she saw his blank expression.
Guo Rui immediately understood, "Yes, there is, but the bleeding point is very difficult to find and ligate!"
Guo Rui looked at the little girl in front of him, full of questions. Could she be a genius? She became a doctor at such a young age and remained calm in the face of adversity.
“I have a way to stop the massive bleeding. Give me hemostats, and 2-0 and 5-0 ligation sutures.”
"Young lady, are you really sure? There are no assistive devices in the car, and Director Yang's wound area is large, making it very difficult to find the bleeding point. Are you kidding me?"
Guo Rui disagreed. He was the emergency doctor in the car right now, and he couldn't bear the responsibility if something happened to Director Yang due to improper treatment.
Du Ruoxia urged, "Hurry! Trust me! Every second the patient waits is a second more dangerous for them. We must stop the bleeding immediately!"
Seeing Du Ruoxia's confident demeanor, as if she were absolutely certain, Rao Xue said, "Dr. Guo, let's listen to the young lady; maybe she really can succeed."
"Alright, alright, but I must make it clear that if any accidents occur, you will be responsible for the consequences!"
Guo Rui handed over the tools.
Du Ruoxia immediately began to take action.
"Sister, press here, and I'll tell you to release it. Then slowly release it."
"Understood." Rao Xue fully cooperated.
In her previous life, Du Ruoxia had seen wounds far worse than this, and as a cardiothoracic surgeon, she had extensive surgical experience. At this moment, she could pinpoint the location of the bleeding point with just a glance.
Du Ruoxia asked Guo Rui to help her hold the hemostat. For minor bleeding points, pressure or the hemostat itself was sufficient. However, the three major bleeding points required suturing, so she used a continuous eversion suture technique.
After all this was done, Du Ruoxia's hands were covered in blood.
"Hmm? The bleeding has stopped! The average blood pressure has gone up! All vital signs have stabilized!" Rao Xue said happily, looking at the monitor.
Ten minutes later, they finally arrived at the hospital, and the patient was taken to the operating room.
Du Ruoxia went to the sink to wash and disinfect her hands. Based on her experience, the patient's life was definitely saved.
Just as Du Ruoxia was walking down the corridor, a man brushed past her.
The man, clad in military green, was tall and slender. His facial features were sharp, as if cleaved by a knife and axe, with high and distinct cheekbones, sharp brows, a taut jawline, and a high, straight nose.
He's actually quite handsome!
Du Ruoxia couldn't help but stop and turn her head to look at the man a few more times.
The man went straight to Director Jiang Fuhai.
"How is my dad?" the deep voice asked, trembling slightly.
"Director Yang is out of danger. The emergency hemostasis was done perfectly. He has now been sent to the operating room for further treatment. I believe there will be no major problems."
Yang Zeyan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks to our highly skilled emergency physicians, the blood vessels in the heart and chest are not easy to find, and the timely intervention was crucial; otherwise, it could have been much worse," said Director Jiang. "Hey, who was the emergency physician today?"
Guo Rui stepped forward sheepishly, his eyes darting around, "It's me..."
Rao Xue immediately said, "Director, we owe today's hemostasis and suturing to that young girl."
Rao Xue quickly pulled Du Ruoxia over. She was a talent in the medical field, with courage, determination, and ability.
"Her?" Director Jiang was somewhat incredulous to see that a young girl could treat a punctured chest wound so well.
"Yes, Director, the young lady did all the suturing and hemostasis; I was just her assistant," Guo Rui explained.
Rao Xue asked, "Young lady, I didn't even have a chance to ask your name? Which hospital do you work at?"
Du Ruoxia naturally couldn't reveal her past life's identity, so she could only say, "My name is Du Ruoxia. I just graduated from high school and I'm not a doctor yet."
Even Rao Xue was taken aback. She had thought the young girl in front of her was some exceptionally talented medical genius! But she turned out she wasn't even a doctor?
"Little sister, are you from a family of doctors? Did you grow up surrounded by surgical procedures and the treatment of patients?" Rao Xue asked persistently.
Du Ruoxia innocently touched her nose. "My mother is a laid-off female worker, and my father is an ordinary worker in a glass factory."
Director Jiang was stunned, but he quickly smiled and said, "Miss Du, would you be interested in learning from me and becoming a qualified doctor in the future?"
Du Ruoxia thought for a moment, "Enn... my parents signed me up for the rural service program, and I'm leaving tomorrow, so I'm afraid I won't have the chance."
A sense of regret welled up in Rao Xue and Jiang Fuhai's hearts.
She's a natural-born doctor; sending her to the countryside is a waste of her talent!
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