Now it was the other family members in the ward who were surprised. So young and already a grandfather?
While Li Chu was talking, his hands were also busy, and he quickly figured out the child's condition.
Then he glanced at the videos he had taken of the child.
As he had previously learned, the child had two tumors in his abdominal cavity, and they were quite large, having already displaced the internal organs.
In this situation, he didn't have any good options but to have surgery. Hoping to eliminate the two tumors with medication was simply unrealistic.
"Director Wang, Mr. Zhou, the best course of action for the child in his current condition is surgery. Using traditional Chinese medicine for conservative treatment is a waste of time. If it is not controlled properly and the tumor continues to grow, it will endanger the child's life."
Li Chu looked down at the child in his arms and saw that the child was staring straight at him with his eyes open. He smiled slightly, held the child in his left arm, and casually patted the child's chest and back four or five times with his right hand.
The young mother, who had been watching her child intently, suddenly noticed that her child seemed sleepy. The child first opened his mouth to yawn, then raised his hand to rub his eyes twice, and quickly fell asleep.
From the moment the expert holding the baby started patting him a few times until the baby fell asleep, less than a minute or two had passed.
The young mother stared wide-eyed at Li Chu. She knew her child well; he had never slept so smoothly since birth.
Seeing that the child had fallen asleep, Li Chu put the child on the hospital bed and then looked at Director Wang and Director Zhou, who were whispering to each other.
"Let's go to the conference room and talk to me about your surgical plan."
"Alright, Director Li, this way please."
"Comrade..."
Seeing that they were about to leave, the young mother quickly called out.
What do you want?
"Could you teach me the technique you used to pat my child to sleep? My child cries for ages every time he tries to fall asleep."
"Hehe, it's not that I'm unwilling to teach, but this is not something that can be learned easily. I've been pondering it for over thirty years," Li Chu explained with a smile.
Given her child's current condition, this mother doesn't know how much longer her child can live. All she wants now is for her child to be comfortable while she's still healthy.
After leaving the ward, Li Chu looked at Director Zhou and asked, "This woman is a bit unusual. Where is her husband?"
Director Zhou glanced back at the child's mother, who was talking to Director Wang in the ward, and sighed: "Xiao Chen's husband has gone abroad; he's a reporter for the Daily News."
“No wonder.” Li Chu nodded knowingly. “No wonder she seemed so calm.”
"There's nothing we can do if we don't stay calm. Even if we come up with a surgical plan now, to be honest, we're not sure if it will be successful. We can only leave it to fate."
"Director Li," who had been following the vice president who hadn't spoken, then asked, "Does your traditional Chinese medicine practice have any better methods of anesthesia?"
"Is Director Zhang worried that the dosage of anesthesia for infants and young children is difficult to control?"
"Yes, that's the biggest headache for our surgical plan right now. Because this surgery will take a long time, what if the child wakes up halfway through? What if we use too much medication and cause irreversible damage to the child's nervous system?"
"How do you normally administer anesthesia when performing surgery on infants and young children?"
"No anesthesia is used at all. The method used for infants and young children is to induce sleep and relieve pain. This method is okay for short surgeries, but it is not suitable for long ones because such young children cannot tolerate being in one position for a long time while they are asleep."
After giving instructions to the child's mother, Director Wang came out, and everyone went to the conference room together.
"Dean Zhang, if your only concern is the anesthesia, I have a solution: a decoction combined with acupuncture. I can guarantee the child will sleep for ten hours. I just don't know how long your surgery will take."
Li Chu's words invigorated the group.
"Director Li, our estimated surgery time is five to seven hours. You mentioned ten hours. Will the child move around a lot during that time?"
"That's definitely not the case; I'm certain of it when I say that."
"Will you need to stay in the operating room with them the whole time? Won't that interfere with your schedule?"
As a member of the health care team, Vice President Zhang of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital knew that these people often had no control over their time, which is why he asked this question.
"Just let me know in advance when you decide to have the surgery, and I'll take care of everything."
"Phew~ Thank you so much, Director Li. The specific surgical plan..." At this point, Vice President Zhang pointed to a stack of documents that had just been placed in front of Li Chu.
"Let's discuss the specific plan further, taking all possibilities into account, before deciding on the surgery time."
Li Chu picked up the surgical plan, glanced at it, nodded, and said, "Okay, remember to let me know in advance, don't do a surprise attack."
"That's definitely not the case."
"I remember Director Tong, who has retired from the Children's Hospital, seems to have performed quite a few open-chest surgeries on infants and young children. Didn't you invite her to come and consult?" Li Chu noticed that Director Tong's name was not signed at the end of the surgical plan. She was a leading expert in pediatrics. Although she was old, she could still provide guidance on surgical contingency plans without any problem.
"Of course we invited him, but Director Tong went back to his hometown of Shijiazhuang after retiring, and we couldn't get in touch with him at all."
"Wait a minute, Lao Zhou, didn't you see Director Tong this morning? I saw her this morning."
"Director Li, you mean Director Tong is back?"
"Yes, at least she went to the farewell hall this morning, and I even chatted with her for a bit. If you want to find her, try asking around at the Municipal Health Bureau's residential compound; she's staying with her son right now."
"Okay, thank you, Director Li. We didn't even know she was back until you told us."
"Why thank me?" Li Chu waved his hand, then stood up. "Alright, you guys continue discussing the surgical plan. I'll go over first. Let me know when you have any progress."
"Director Li, let us see you off."
"What's the point of giving me a gift? It's not like I don't know the way. Dean Zhang, Lao Zhou, I was the one who led your team for the promotion exams a few years ago. We're old acquaintances. Let's not do these formalities and get back to what we're doing."
After saying that, Li Chu didn't wait for their reaction and walked straight out of the meeting room.
"Alright, since Director Li says so, let's continue our work." Vice Dean Zhang smiled and sat down again.
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