His smugness and confidence were instantly replaced by fear and panic. As if he had seen a ghost, he rushed to the instrument, his eyes fixed on the rapidly falling data. His hands trembled uncontrollably, and large beads of cold sweat poured down his forehead!
"Impossible! This is impossible! It was clearly stable just now! How could it suddenly worsen?! Why?!"
"Doctor! What happened?! What's wrong with the data?!" Yuan Guoyao was the first to react, rushing forward with a hoarse, shrill voice due to tension!
"Tell me quickly! How is Captain Sheng?!"
"Doctor! Please think of something!" The crowd erupted in a frenzy, their voices of worry, fear, and urging overwhelming the doctor!
The attending physician's lips trembled, his face was deathly pale, and he stared at the electrocardiogram that was almost a straight line. He stammered, barely able to utter a complete sentence.
"No...no good...the patient's vital signs...are...are dropping rapidly! Heart...heart rate and blood pressure...are...about to disappear!!"
"What--?!"
Everyone was completely stunned by the news!
"What are you waiting for?! Start them right now!!"
"Doctor! Quick! Stabilize the patient's condition!!" The crowd was terrified and screamed at the doctor, urging him to treat the patient immediately!
However, the attending physician seemed to have lost his soul, standing there with a blank look in his eyes and at a loss for what to do!
Emergency treatment? How can we perform emergency treatment?!
He didn't even know how Sheng Xu had survived, or what effect those needles had had!
Now that things have suddenly worsened, he has no idea where to begin!
The doctor's mind went blank; all his medical knowledge became worthless at that moment!
"Doctor! Say something! Please save my husband, Lao Sheng!"
Seeing the doctor standing there dumbfounded, Sheng's wife completely broke down. She rushed over like a madwoman, grabbed his white coat, shook him violently, and screamed with tears streaming down her face.
"Didn't you just say everything was fine?! Didn't you say you were a professional?! How could this happen?! Save him! Save him now!!!"
Shaked and swayed by his wife, the attending physician's face was filled with embarrassment, despair, and deep fear. He almost cried out in a sob.
"I...I really don't know what happened! How...how did he wake up just now...I don't understand at all...Now...now I really...I really don't know what to do!!"
The attending physician's tearful words, "I don't know what to do," touched the hearts of everyone in the emergency room!
That's it, even the doctors are helpless.
Everyone's hearts sank; their last glimmer of hope was completely shattered.
The police officers who had just been praising the doctor to the skies were now filled with embarrassment and despair, and their gazes toward the attending physician had changed.
It turns out it wasn't him who saved the person, but that kid surnamed Xu!
"I remember now!" Yuan Guoyao slapped his thigh suddenly, extremely anxious. "Xu Kuo! It's Xu Kuo! Before he was taken away, he desperately shouted that he wanted to give Captain Sheng water! It seems like... yes! He said he needed to replenish his body fluids immediately!"
Hearing Yuan Guoyao's words instantly awakened everyone!
"Yes, yes, yes! I heard it too! He said that if people aren't given water, they'll be in danger!"
"It seems that's really the case! Captain Sheng woke up just now after that kid got a few acupuncture needles!"
"My God! Could it be... that Xu Kuo really saved Captain Sheng?!"
The discussion surged like a tide, and the gazes of the crowd toward the attending physician were filled with doubt and disdain.
The attending physician blushed with embarrassment and indignation under the gaze of everyone, but at this critical moment, with lives at stake, he couldn't care less about saving face.
Upon hearing Yuan Guoyao's words, he instinctively defended his professional authority, gritting his teeth and almost shouting them out.
"Nonsense! Director Yuan! How can you still believe that charlatan?! The patient's vital signs are extremely unstable, and his internal organs are dysfunctional. Giving him water rashly will only worsen the danger! It could cause aspiration and increase the burden on his circulation!"
"This is basic medical knowledge! Absolutely do not feed them! Whoever feeds them is responsible!"
Even if Xu Kuo had been saved by chance before, he absolutely cannot be given water in this situation!
This is a matter of principle! If something goes wrong, who will take responsibility?!
"Common sense?! Does common sense mean just watching my husband Sheng die?!"
Driven mad by despair and fear, Sheng's wife suddenly raised her tear-streaked face when she heard the doctor still trying to stop her. A desperate, almost insane look flashed in her eyes!
She shoved aside the police officer next to her and stumbled to the old thermos she had brought with her—it was a thermos of warm water she had hurriedly filled before leaving home, thinking that her husband might be thirsty when he woke up.
"What are you doing?! Stop her!" The attending physician was terrified when he saw this and screamed as he rushed forward to stop her.
"Get away!!" At this moment, Sheng's wife was incredibly strong. She flung the doctor's arm away, unscrewed the thermos lid, and, not caring whether it was sugar and salt water or not, poured it into her husband's chapped lips with trembling hands!
"Old Sheng! Drink some water! Have a sip of water! Listen to Xu Kuo! Just drink it and you'll feel better!"
At this moment, Sheng's wife no longer cared about the advice of the professional doctor; all she could think about were Xu Kuo's words.
"You're insane! You're absolutely insane!" The attending physician lunged forward and desperately pulled at Sheng's wife's arm, causing the thermos to tilt and spill most of the warm water, soaking the sheets and Sheng's wife's clothes.
But in the end, a few mouthfuls of water still flowed down Sheng Xu's pale lips and into his throat!
"Beep beep beep beep beep—!!!"
The next moment, the electrocardiogram monitor seemed to be completely enraged, and it burst out with an alarm that was sharper and more ear-piercing than ever before!
The numbers on the screen plummeted like a free fall, almost breaking through the lowest value, and the red light flashed wildly!
"It's over!!" The attending physician looked at the precipitous drop in data, his face ashen. He abruptly pushed away his wife, pointed at her, and his voice trembled with fear as he hysterically berated her.
"Look what you've done! Murder! You've killed someone! I told you not to give him water! Not to give him water! Even if Xu Kuo was lucky enough to save him once before, it was just a fluke! Giving him water in this situation is a death sentence! It's over! It's completely over!"
He knew this would happen; even a miracle couldn't save him!
"What?! How could this happen?!"
"Doctor! What do we do now?! Is there any hope?!" Everyone panicked completely, surrounding the doctor in a state of utter confusion, their voices filled with fear and pleading.
The attending physician was a little calmer at this moment. Perhaps out of utter despair, he snorted coldly, with a sense of "what's the use of trying" in his voice, and glanced at Sheng Xu, who was breathing weakly on the hospital bed.
"What are we going to do? Humph! Prepare for the worst! Even a god can't save us!"
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