With the arrival of rescue forces, the dilemma at the scene became how to treat the injured who had been rescued, and the pressure fell entirely on the medical staff.
Treating the injured is much more difficult than simply removing people from a disaster site.
By the middle of the night on the first day of the disaster, the shortage of medical care and medicine had not improved much.
The ambulance could not get in, and transporting seriously injured patients became a problem.
Some villagers could not wait and wanted to carry their relatives on stretchers and walk to the city hospital. Some villagers chose to trust the doctors on site and continued to wait for their professional instructions.
What do doctors think about this?
When Dr. Gu Hongnian slowly opened his eyelids, he seemed to hear his colleagues discussing his injuries.
"According to Doctor Song's judgment." Professor Pei, the oldest and leader of the team, organized the on-site medical meeting. He summarized the speeches of the doctors and took notes. "Doctor Gu's head injury is quite serious, causing him to be unconscious for a while. He may be awake for a short time in between, but it does not mean it is a good thing. He needs to be sent to a hospital with the necessary conditions for examination and surgery."
Doctor Zhao Zhaowei had a worried look on his face. Now everyone had assigned him to be the triage officer, which meant that he was the one who would label the injured with red, yellow, or green stripes.
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Thinking of giving his classmates a red stripe, Dr. Zhao put his hands under his feet and trembled violently.
Dr. Gu Hongnian took advantage of the time when everyone said he would be awake for a short time, and tried to look around with the corner of his eye. He soon saw Dr. Xiao Yang who was sleeping next to him.
Dr. Duan reported on Dr. Xiao Yang's condition.
After a second physical examination, Dr. Duan Sanbao believed that Dr. Xiao had a stress ulcer and that his previous vomiting had already shown that he had gastrointestinal mucosal bleeding.
There are many causes of stress ulcers. It is not ruled out that the bleeding in Dr. Xiao Yang's abdominal organs, which did not show any symptoms in his previous injuries, gradually became severe and manifested itself later.
Doctor Zhao Zhaowei's hands were shaking to his feet, so he was going to give his second teammate a red stripe.
Dr. Shen Xifei clenched her hands desperately to hold back her tears.
Speaking of the old man who saved her, all the doctors on the scene confirmed after consultation that he was also suffering from intra-abdominal bleeding.
These patients with internal bleeding must be sent to a large hospital for exploratory surgery as soon as possible. Even if the surgery is not performed in time, such injured people need support from whole blood and other blood products, which are not available on site.
When will the fastest ambulance arrive? A group of doctors again asked village cadres and other insiders.
Dr. Xie Wanying was right in predicting that the injured would need to be kept alive for at least 24 hours.
I urged again and again, the fastest time is 24 hours, tomorrow evening.
Considering that carrying the injured on a stretcher does not effectively shorten the transportation time and there are many dangers on the road, it would be faster and more efficient to wait for the road to be opened to traffic. The doctor's advice is that all the injured should wait patiently for a car to arrive before being sent to the hospital.
As mentioned earlier, the doctor's suggestions are only medical reference opinions, and the decision-making power lies with the injured and their families.
Some of the injured's family members could not hold it any longer and were preparing stretchers to carry the patients away. They would rather take a gamble than wait here and die.
The doctor couldn't stop them because he knew that there would be too many ambulances in the early stage and the number of ambulances would be too small. As mentioned in the previous cases, some must be slow and some must be fast, which means everyone has to give way to the others.
"Doctor Tong and Doctor Jiang don't know what's going on." Professor Pei sighed.
The village cadres said they would send someone to find the village chief and Dr. Tong.
Speaking of the village chief, he was supposed to lead the way for Dr. Xiao Yang and his team, but when he arrived at the destination, he went ahead for something else and ended up disappearing.
Many times, man proposes, God disposes.
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