0162 Car Accident
"Buzz, buzz, buzz..."
The man on the bed reached for his phone on the bedside table.
"Hello?"
"Taiqing, something's happened!"
"Make way! Make way!"
The sounds of wheels rolling and people running filled the emergency room lobby late at night.
Upon hearing this sound, the medical staff present became highly alert.
"What's going on?" Several doctors in white coats ran out of the examination room.
The doctor, pushing the ambulance as he got off, replied, "Multiple injuries from the car accident. Currently in shock and unconscious. Physical examination is unresponsive. Preliminary diagnosis: multiple fractures throughout the body, suspected organ damage, and injuries to the head, face, and neck..."
Upon hearing this, the deputy director of the emergency department immediately ordered, "Open the green channel immediately and notify relevant departments such as orthopedics, neurosurgery, and thoracic surgery to come for consultation!"
After entering the emergency room, under the direction of the deputy director, everyone carried out the rescue in an orderly manner.
"Press dopamine and adrenaline to stabilize your blood pressure and heart rate!"
After a series of rescue measures were completed, the vital signs shown on the electrocardiogram monitor were still not optimistic. The deputy director immediately said, "Notify the anesthesiology department and the operating room to prepare."
When Tantai Qing arrived at the hospital, they were just as they were pushing the person into the operating room.
Seeing Jiang Jifan lying on the stretcher, covered in blood and barely alive, his legs went weak and he almost fell over.
Song Yuchang quickly helped him up.
Tantai Qing shook him off and ran after the rapidly departing crowd.
When the medical staff saw him catching up, they hurriedly asked, "Are you a family member?"
"I'm a family member! How is she?" He reached out with trembling hands to touch her blood-stained face, but they stopped him.
"The situation is not optimistic. We're taking her to the operating room now. Please follow along." After saying this, the medical staff sped up the transport.
Upon arriving at the operating room, Tantai Qing was blocked at the door.
"Sir, please wait in the waiting area."
He turned around and sat down on the cold bench, feeling lost and disoriented. Recalling Jiang Jifan's critical and frail appearance just now, he felt his heart clench with pain, making it almost impossible to breathe.
"Director Cheng."
Tantai Qing looked up and saw Cheng Jing, dressed in a white coat, walking briskly in from outside.
Because the on-duty doctor was unavailable, Cheng Jing, who was on the second line, rushed over as soon as she received the notification. When she saw him, she didn't have time to chat and just said, "Don't worry."
After saying that, he went inside to change his clothes and wash his hands.
Chaos erupted in the operating room. The circulating nurse, seeing the patient's legs spread wide on the table and blood still flowing from her genitals, shouted, "Has the head of obstetrics and gynecology arrived yet?!"
As soon as the words were spoken, a woman's calm voice replied, "Coming."
Cheng Jing was putting on gloves at the time. Hearing the sound, she turned around, saw the tall figure walking in, and called out, "Senior Sister."
"Hmm." Zhong Ning responded softly, without bothering with pleasantries, and immediately picked up a set of surgical gowns, unfolded them, and put them on.
Seeing that the nurses were busy, she instructed Cheng Jing, who had just put on her gloves, "Cheng Jing, come and help me put on my clothes."
The so-called dressing was really just tying a knot at the back of her collar.
"Senior sister, where is your assistant?"
Zhong Ning instructed the nurse to open her instrument pack, and while disinfecting herself, she replied, "No need, I can handle it by myself."
She frowned as soon as she inserted the speculum and saw a bloody, mangled vagina under the light.
Ten minutes later, a nurse came out and asked about the relationship between Tantai Qing and Jiang Jifan.
“I’m her boyfriend,” he said without hesitation.
"The patient is undergoing surgery inside. You need to sign several surgical consent forms." The nurse handed him the consent forms.
Tantai Qing didn't bother to read the contents of the consent form. She signed whatever she was told to sign, afraid that signing too slowly would delay the surgical procedure.
As the nurse guided him to sign the consent form, she explained, "This is a diagnostic curettage procedure for abortion..."
"What did you say?" Upon hearing those two sensitive words, Tantai Qing paused, suddenly looked up, and her eyes were full of disbelief.
The nurse thought he hadn't heard her clearly, so she patiently repeated it again.
"The patient was over four months pregnant, but the baby is gone..."
Every word she spoke felt like a sharp blade slowly tearing at his heart. He could only feel his ears ringing, and everything around him was as silent as death.
Seeing him standing there in a daze, the nurse urged, "Family member, please sign the papers quickly. Every second counts in this emergency."
Tantai Qing's throat seemed to be choked by something, and he couldn't say a word. He could only sign his name in the family member column with trembling hands.
His tears fell in large drops onto his glasses, blurring his vision. By the time he finished signing, his face was covered in tears.
No wonder she always seemed so strange during our previous meetings, but because her attitude was so firm, he had some unwarranted misconceptions.
Tantai Qing covered her face in regret, hating her own slowness.
Faced with such a difficult case, everyone in the operating room was highly focused, racing against time to save their lives.
"Circulate, add water."
"Come over here and help me wipe my sweat."
"My glasses are about to fall off, can you help me hold them up?"
"Hey, Dean, what brings you here?"
Everyone looked up at the sound and were surprised to see Lin Qing in surgical scrubs standing at the door.
"Uncle Lin." Cheng Jing greeted him respectfully as he approached.
"Did Tai Ching tell you that?"
Logically speaking, unless it is a personal request from an acquaintance, these surgeries should be handled by them.
Lin Qing nodded, glancing at the woman on the operating table as he put on his gloves.
"How is the situation?"
Cheng Jing shook her head and replied, "Not really."
Then I briefly explained Jiang Jifan's current situation.
"Cheng Jing, you'll assist me. The rest of you, continue."
Seeing that even he had come out of seclusion, everyone knew what was going on and dared not be negligent, so they all gave way.
“The remaining tissue has been removed.” Zhong Ning put down the instruments in his hand.
"If there's nothing else, I'll head out now."
Only after receiving permission did she leave carrying the dirty cloth trash.
Half an hour later, a nurse brought out a yellow plastic bag.
"Do the family members need to see it?"
Seeing that Tantai Qing was staring blankly at the operating room door as if her soul had left her body, without saying a word, Song Yuchang asked for her help: "What is it?"
"This is the fetus that the patient expelled," the nurse explained.
Tantai Qing seemed to snap out of his daze, his gaze falling on the yellow plastic bag in her hand.
Song Yuchang glanced at him, afraid that he would be further agitated, and said with some reluctance, "Let's not watch anymore..."
"Let me take a look," he said in a hoarse voice.
As the plastic bag was opened, a tiny humanoid embryo, about the size of a palm, was found lying in a mass of blurry flesh and blood. It was a bloody mess, but its gender could be vaguely discerned.
The stench of blood assaulted her senses; for the first time in her life, Tantai Qing found the smell of blood to be so unpleasant.
He turned his head away, unable to bear to look any longer, tears silently streaming down his nose.
The nurse said it was a boy and asked if they wanted to handle it themselves or have the hospital do it.
With tears streaming down her face, Tantai Qing sat on the bench with a numb expression and empty eyes, as if she hadn't heard a thing.
Wouldn't trying to treat it myself be like rubbing salt into the wound...?
Seeing this, Song Yuchang sighed softly and made the decision for him, saying, "You guys handle it."
The nurse agreed and turned to leave, carrying the plastic bag.
His appearance was quite frightening, and it was heartbreaking to see. In Song Yuchang's opinion, it was even more serious than when Grandma Dan passed away.
Song Yuchang sat down beside him, patted his shoulder, and gently comforted him, "Taiqing, don't think too much. With Uncle Lin and the others there, the surgery will definitely be successful..."
Seeing that he remained silent, and remembering Xiang Nannan still lying in the emergency room, he felt somewhat uneasy.
"I'll go check on Nan Nan. Call me again if anything happens."
After he left, Tantai Qing looked at the closed operating room door, then sadly closed her eyes and leaned against the wall.
"The bleeding is too much; you need to transfuse another 100 units of blood."
"Dean, the blood bank says they're out of blood of the right type."
Lin Qing didn't stop what he was doing. He used an electric knife to stop the bleeding and said without looking up, "Then we'll borrow from other hospitals."
The nurse immediately made a phone call, but the result was not satisfactory.
Jiang Jifan has Rh-negative blood, which is already rare. People with the same blood type don't usually donate blood easily, making it the blood type they fear most when they are in a rescue.
Upon hearing the nurse say that they could only find someone with the same blood type to draw blood on the spot, Tantai Qing stood up abruptly and said decisively, "Then let's draw it on the spot!"
"I'll do whatever it takes, no matter the cost!"
The nurse looked somewhat helpless and explained, "Sir, this isn't about the money..."
After hearing her explanation, Tantai Qing calmed down, and several candidates popped into her mind.
The nurse suggested that he find several people with the same blood type to donate blood, in order to avoid any accidents caused by too many blood donations from the same person.
Tantai Qing outwardly agreed, but inwardly he was thinking—he couldn't care less about other people's lives or deaths; he only wanted to save her.
"Number 2043, come out!"
In the spacious prison, the prisoners, who had been fast asleep, were awakened. After realizing that they were not being looked for, they cursed and rolled over to go back to sleep.
Jiang Jiping threw off the covers and got up, his face showing obvious impatience and irritability at being disturbed from his sleep.
"What are you doing?"
"Enough talk, follow me!" The prison guard locked the prison door and turned to leave.
Upon seeing the two nurses carrying medical kits in the interrogation room, he frowned, a bad feeling rising in his heart. He cautiously stopped and refused to go in.
"What are you standing there for? Go in!" The prison guard nudged him and urged.
Jiang Jiping turned to look at him, lowered his eyelids, his aura was imposing, and he said coldly, "What do you want to do?"
"Don't be nervous, we're just here to draw your blood for a patient who's in critical condition," the nurse who was there to draw blood explained softly.
"Who?" Jiang Jiping immediately retorted.
He was slightly taken aback when he heard her say Jiang Jifan's name.
What's wrong with her?
After the nurse briefly explained the situation to him, she beckoned him over, saying, "Come on over quickly, the hospital is waiting for blood."
Jiang Jiping thought of Tantai Qing. It was indeed something that person could do, being able to use his connections to draw blood from him in the middle of the night. He walked to the table and sat down with some doubt.
Seeing that his attitude had softened, the nurses all breathed a sigh of relief and immediately took out the blood-drawing equipment.
After nearly 400ml of blood was drawn, the nurse next to her hesitated and whispered to the nurse in charge of drawing blood, "It's almost 400ml, should we continue drawing blood?"
An adult can donate a maximum of 400ml of blood at a time, and should not donate excessive amounts.
The nurse in charge of drawing blood glanced at the thin Jiang Jiping and looked troubled.
"Keep smoking," Jiang Jiping said, lifting his eyelids slightly.
Anyway, someone like him wouldn't be a loss even if he died.
Upon hearing this, the two nurses exchanged glances, remembering the instructions from above, and could only grit their teeth and continue drawing blood.
As the two nurses finished packing and were about to leave, Jiang Jiping suddenly stopped them and asked, "Will she die?"
The nurses paused for a moment, then finally said, "We will do our best."
Then he hurriedly picked up his things and left.
"Brother Taiqing..."
Xiang Nannan, who had just regained consciousness and was less seriously injured, insisted on coming over with Song Yuchang's help after learning about Jiang Jifan's situation, despite the advice of others.
Tantai Qing looked up upon hearing the sound.
His heart was completely tied to Jiang Jifan. If it weren't for her appearance, he would have forgotten that others were also injured in the car accident.
Xiang Nannan glanced at the closed operating room door, and tears instantly welled up in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Tai-Ching..."
"If it weren't for Ji Fan protecting me, she wouldn't have been so badly injured..."
At the time of the incident, they were on their way back when, as they crossed an intersection, a medium-sized truck suddenly went out of control and crashed into the car they were in.
The direction where Xiang Nan Nan was located was directly in front of the truck's impact. In the critical moment, Jiang Ji Fan, who was on the other side, desperately shielded her in his arms, using his body as a shield to block most of the damage for her.
There were three people in the car. The driver died on the spot, Jiang Jifan was seriously injured and her condition was unknown, and she was the only one who survived.
It took Xiang Nan Nan a long time to accept this terrible and shocking fact after she woke up.
Looking at her standing perfectly fine in front of him, Tantai Qing thought of Jiang Jifan, who was still lying on the operating table, his life hanging in the balance. He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles cracked.
As soon as Xiang Nannan finished speaking, she saw that her usually gentle neighbor brother was staring at her intently, with bulging veins on his forehead and bloodshot eyes filled with a fury and indifference she had never seen before.
It's hard for anyone to accept the fact that someone they deeply love has put themselves in danger to protect their friend.
Knowing all this, all Xiang Nannan can do now is apologize.
"I'm sorry, Tai-ching, it's all my fault..."
Fearing he might do something uncontrollably to Xiang Nan Nan in the next second, Song Yuchang quickly shielded her and advised, "Tai Qing, I understand how you feel, but this isn't what Nan Nan wants to see either..."
It's unclear how much effort Tantai Qing used to barely suppress the anger in his heart, but he slowly shifted his gaze away, unwilling to look at them anymore.
Now was not a good time to talk, so Song Yuchang half-dragged and half-carried Xiang Nannan, who wanted to stay in the waiting area and wait with them, away.
Once again, only Tantai Qing remained in the large waiting area.
He took out his phone, his hand trembling as he touched the screen saver image of the beautiful Jiang Jifan, his mind filled with countless repentance and prayers.
Tantai Qing lowered his head and pressed his face against the screen, just like he had done countless times with her, but his trembling shoulders betrayed his true emotions.
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