Chapter 1032: Opening the abdomen
Manbao was giving acupuncture while an imperial physician was listening to the patient's pulse with his eyes slightly closed. After a while, he nodded to Imperial Physician Zheng and another colleague, then shook his head.
Doctor Zheng was anxious, "What do you mean, has it stopped or not?"
"The effect is better than what we had before. At least the pulse isn't sinking as much, but it still hasn't stopped."
Manbao also felt the patient's pulse, then looked at the patient's stomach again and suggested, "Open the abdomen."
The three imperial doctors' expressions changed again and again, and no one dared to make a decision easily.
Manbao was already looking for her usual scalpel from her backpack. Manbao had a set of surgical supplies when she was studying in the system. They were given to her by Teacher Mo, and they were not worth much when sold in the mall.
But the material of that thing is too different from that in their world, and Koko does not recommend her to use it in reality. Teacher Mo said that he would help her ask someone to make a pair of surgical instruments with the same material and similar style to the knives in their world.
But before that, Doctor Fan sent a set.
Manbao found it quite good, and she used this method half of the time when doing research on anthropomorphic models.
But this package of things is rarely used in real life, and the most commonly used items are the suture needles.
Now Manbao took out the set of things, opened it, and directly took out a knife. He looked at the three doctors and asked, "Are you going to perform a dissection or not?"
The sword-wielding young man now understood what he had heard and came over to ask, "Why must it be dissected?"
Manbao glanced at him and asked, "Are you a family member?"
The sword-wielding young man looked down at her and said expressionlessly, "Yes."
Manbao explained to him, "You see his abdomen is swollen, it should be internal bleeding. I just saw the prescriptions written by the imperial doctors. They are all excellent hemostatic prescriptions, but how long has he been taking them?"
Doctor Zheng said in a deep voice, "It's almost an hour."
"That medicine is not only urgent, it's also very strong. It hasn't had much effect after an hour. Obviously, it can't stop the bleeding. If they continue to force-feed him, he might die before he bleeds to death. They also used acupuncture to stop the bleeding, but it still doesn't help much. My acupuncture method is the best at the moment, but it's not very effective. If this continues, he'll bleed to death in less than two hours."
Man Bao said: "So we can only open the abdomen, find the bleeding point, suture it, and then close the abdomen."
"Can you guarantee survival?"
"No, I'm only 50% sure."
The sword-wielding young man was furious, "You dare to cut open his stomach with only 50%?"
Man Bao said: "Last year, Ji Hao didn't even have a 50% chance of survival. I only know that if I don't perform a cesarean section, he will definitely die. If I do a cesarean section, there is still a 50% chance of survival."
The young man holding the sword looked at Doctor Zheng and the other two.
The three imperial doctors all lowered their heads and agreed with Manbao's words.
The young man clenched his sword tightly and said with a cruel smile, "Alright, alright, go ahead and cut him open. If you can't save him, I'll bury you all with me!"
Manbao finally noticed his self-proclaimed name, blinked, and turned to look at Bai Shan, "He is the prince?"
Bai Shan had noticed the first time he mentioned this self-proclaimed name, nodded heavily, and suggested, "So let's go?"
Manbao hesitated, "Is it incurable?"
The two of them spoke in a loud voice, and everyone heard it. Everyone turned to look at them, and they were all speechless.
The prince was so angry that he laughed, "You're here and you still want to leave?"
Man Bao said: "I am not an official, nor am I a royal doctor. If I can't cure it, I can leave."
"All the people in the world are my subjects..."
Manbao blinked and asked, "If the people of that world can't cure the person in bed, are you going to kill everyone in the world?"
Bai Shan also raised his head and looked at him.
The prince was choked and stared at them with his lips tightly pursed.
Doctor Zheng stamped his feet anxiously and said, "Doctor Xiao Zhou, the patient is more important. Let's get started."
Seeing that Manbao didn't move, he anxiously called the prince, "Your Highness..."
Manbao was right about one thing. She was not an official, nor an imperial physician, and had no obligation to obey the prince's orders. Anyone in the world who was knowledgeable and capable could disobey even the emperor's edict, let alone him, a prince?
He could kill the imperial physicians because they ate the royal food and enjoyed the glory and benefits brought by the royal family. If they failed to do their job well, he could just kill them. At most, he would be accused of being too strict with his subordinates afterwards.
But Manbao is a commoner, and killing her would be cruel and inhumane.
Even the emperor was wary of this reputation, let alone a prince who was coveted by others.
The prince took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and said, "Go and treat him. If he's cured, it's your fault. If he dies, it's their fault."
The three imperial doctors gasped and only then began to look at Man Baolai seriously. Then they felt a chill down their spines. He was too young.
Everyone was a little reluctant, and the other two doctors looked at Doctor Zheng and whispered, "Doctor Zheng, why don't you be the lead surgeon?"
Doctor Zheng smiled bitterly. He did want to, but he wasn't sure.
When Manbao heard what the prince said, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Okay, come here, move this table away and bring that couch over. The light is better here, and we'll open the abdomen here."
Before the three doctors could react, the servants in the room had already started to move. They quickly cleared the table in the middle of the inner room, brought over the soft couch that could only accommodate one person, and carefully lifted the mat and quilt under the patient and moved them onto the couch.
Servants holding lamps and candles also brought lamp stands over and placed them there, and lit more candles.
Manbao waved his hand in disdain and said, "Don't get too close, stay a little further away."
She wrote down two prescriptions for Doctor Zheng and the others to see. "These are two emergency prescriptions. What do you think?"
Doctor Zheng and the others immediately perked up, took the prescription, considered it for a while, and made some changes. Manbao took a look and found that it was indeed better than the one she had prescribed, so she nodded in agreement.
Someone immediately took the prescription and prepared the medicine.
Manbao then touched his abdomen and said, "Let's get started without further ado."
Doctor Zheng swallowed and asked, "Have you ever performed an abdominal surgery on anyone?"
"Human? I've never opened a real person." He had only opened the abdomen, chest, and head of an anthropomorphic figure, and that was no less than a hundred times.
Manbao had already boiled the instruments in boiling water to sterilize them. She expertly sterilized and dried them, then felt the patient's abdomen, vaguely drawing a line on the upper part of his abdomen before slashing open his skin with the knife...
The three imperial doctors didn't expect her to act so quickly. She started the operation right away without even waiting for them to prepare themselves mentally.
Manbao was still a little unfamiliar with the cut, but his flesh felt surprisingly similar to that of the anthropomorphic model. She slowly regained her feeling and continued to cut with a familiar force. A stream of blood splattered out with a "puff". Manbao was short, and his entire face was covered in blood.
She closed her eyes slightly without moving the knife in her hand. Bai Shan quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood off her face.
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