In a blink of an eye, a few days passed. According to Zhang Desheng, Taotao's diagnosis was confirmed to be acute lymphocytic leukemia, and chemotherapy was started. I didn't expect that Zhang, who hated pediatrics, would go to the hematology department to visit this child several times in the past few days. It is possible that he was helping Xie monitor the movements of Zhang's family while visiting the child.
Aunt Zhang would continue to show up at the emergency department from time to time, but she didn't dare to go directly to Dr. Xie like she did last time. It's not easy to eliminate the psychological dependence of family members on a doctor.
Compared to Taotao, Zhu Xing's condition was much more critical, and his condition had not improved well. This was in line with the attending physician's expectations. If a suitable heart could not be found for a heart transplant, the child would probably not be able to leave the hospital alive.
That afternoon, Cao Zhao took a group of students to the PICU to check on the child. Pan Shihua asked for leave from Senior Brother Luo and came to join two surgical students to study rare cases.
As the teachers put on disinfected slippers, several students officially stepped into the PICU ward for the first time.
PICU is not NICU. The beds are the same size as those in ordinary pediatric wards, not the incubators commonly seen in neonatal departments. Each bed is almost a small emergency bed. Ventilators, suction machines and other equipment are placed at the head of the bed. Children with more serious conditions, as Xie said last time, will be equipped with cardiopulmonary assist devices. There is a curtain between the beds. Some children are intubated or tracheotomized like adults. At certain times, nurses have to suction the sputum of these children.
Here you can often see various life-sustaining machines connected to children's tiny bodies, making sick children look even more vulnerable and much more heartbreaking to watch than adults.
Every day, the inner corridor of the PICU is open for one hour for family members to visit. Family members can stand in the inner corridor and greet their sick children through the glass window and see the child's condition with their own eyes.
Zhu Xing's mother stood in the large group of family members, looking at her son lying on the hospital bed with a swollen face, tears falling.
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Generalized edema is a very common manifestation of heart failure progressing to total heart failure.
The doctor came to the bedside, checked the child's edema, and then checked the thermometer recorded by the nurse, which recorded the total amount of the child's body input and output over a 24-hour day.
Critical care is a separate discipline, and doctors in the intensive care unit have their own expertise, different from other specialists. Once children like these enter the PICU, they are under the charge of the PICU doctors. The treatment plan for the children here is basically determined by the PICU doctors. Even so, the ward doctors continue to be the attending doctors who treat the disease during the child's hospitalization. They will visit the children regularly, learn about the child's condition from the PICU doctors, and jointly discuss further treatment strategies for the children. Because children hospitalized in the PICU use the PICU as a transition period, the goal is to be transferred back to the general ward or undergo surgery.
Usually, when the ward doctor comes, the PICU doctor on duty will come along to discuss the child's condition.
After a while, Xie Wanying and the others saw Senior Sister Yu coming.
When Yu Minghui saw his fellow junior brothers and sisters, he waved his hands and smiled. But when he saw Cao Zhao's face again, it suddenly became much colder.
Several students remembered what Teacher Cheng said last time and didn't dare to get too excited with their seniors.
Cao Zhao's fingertips flipped over the child's medical record and saw that it was much thicker.
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