Chapter 371: Meng Qingfei's Unobtainable Bed

Although Meng Qingfei had the key, in that split second, he did not get the correct answer.

He stood frozen outside the Emergency Rescue Room, watching the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor busy calming the Patient and rushing to perform a gastric lavage, while repeatedly and rapidly sorting through his own thoughts.

The Patient indeed appeared somewhat irritable; if his actions when first sent to the hospital could be called mild irritability, then now it could be called moderate irritability.

Something was wrong, very wrong! Meng Qingfei gradually began to form a line of reasoning.

The heart rate on the Cardiac Monitor had changed from 130 beats/minute to 138 beats/minute, and the Patient was waving his arms; Meng Qingfei's mind stirred, and he pulled his phone out of his pocket.

"Hello, Intensive Care? It's me, Emergency Department." Meng Qingfei called the Intensive Care Unit directly.

"We have a Patient here who might need a bed; please prepare for dialysis..."

"Ah? You're full?" Meng Qingfei stared fixedly at the Monitoring Instrument, saying with some helplessness.

If the ICU is full, there are several possibilities, the most likely being that the ICU doctor does not want to deal with him.

On that side, there is a high probability of having Patients whose condition is slightly lighter, with indicators hovering around the red line for transfer out of the Intensive Care Unit.

If there were truly a critical Patient, one could even squeeze them in.

Add a bed, negotiate with the Family Member of the Patient who can be transferred, coordinate with the receiving ward, and finish all the paperwork in about half an hour.

But sometimes, the condition of a newly admitted Patient is not even as severe as the Patient being transferred out, which is quite a farce.

Similar things have happened before.

The ICU doctor won't release the hawk until they see the rabbit; Meng Qingfei hadn't confirmed the diagnosis yet, so he had no confidence to yell at the ICU doctor over the phone—hurry up and clear a bed for me!

Meng Qingfei didn't have that ability.

He hung up the phone with regret; the heart rate value on the Patient's Cardiac Monitor had already become 145 beats/minute.

A soaring heart rate, an irritable Patient—what did it all mean? Meng Qingfei was rapidly cycling through one diagnosis after another in his mind, his hands inadvertently resting on the seat of his White Uniform, rubbing it constantly.

"Bai Chuzhang, hello, this is Ji Xiang."

Ji Xiang's voice interrupted Meng Qingfei's thinking.

"I'm in the Emergency Department. There's a Patient here who doesn't look very good. I don't have time to explain in detail, can you coordinate an ICU bed? The sooner the better, the heart rate is already 148 beats/minute."

"..." Meng Qingfei was stunned.

"Alright, if there's a need here, we'll push them to the ICU immediately. We'll also need to prepare Blood Filtration equipment, an Anesthesia Machine, and we'll talk about the rest later."

"Thank you, Bai Chuzhang."

Ji Xiang hung up the phone, and after Meng Qingfei felt a mix of laughter and tears, a few different thoughts welled up.

He couldn't get an ICU bed, but a Standardized Training Student could; that strange sense of displacement made Meng Qingfei feel as if this world were not real.

"Xiao Ji, I was just asking casually; I wasn't sure if there was a problem, I just wanted to assume that if there were a need, we could push them up." Meng Qingfei rubbed his hands forcefully against the seat of his White Uniform.

"I feel the Patient's condition is wrong, Meng Laoshi, I trust your judgment." Ji Xiang smoothly shifted the blame onto Meng Qingfei.

"..." Meng Qingfei was speechless.

The Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor was still busy; she had no time to think. Not just her, even Meng Qingfei, who was deep in thought on the side, didn't know exactly what condition the Patient was in.

A few minutes later, Lu Gang walked over with long strides.

"Xiao Ji, what are you stirring up again!" Before Lu Gang even reached Ji Xiang, he said with great reluctance.

"Teacher Lu, why are you here?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Bai Chuzhang asked me to come and coordinate," Lu Gang said, walking into the Emergency Rescue Room and seeing the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor connecting a QZD-B fully automatic high-efficiency gastric lavage machine, preparing to perform a gastric lavage on the Patient.

He asked about the situation briefly, and his face sank upon learning it was a Patient who had orally ingested 300ml of floral water.

"Xiao Ji, don't mess around blindly. Do you know how important an ICU bed is! How much work Bai Chuzhang has to coordinate to get you..."

He had just said this much when he saw Ji Xiang walk into the Emergency Rescue Room.

"Xiao Ji, don't go, what I'm telling you is very important." Lu Gang felt Ji Xiang was avoiding his "reprimand," so he chased after him to continue, "There are many Patients who orally ingest floral water, mainly children. Floral water contains a large amount of alcohol, because..."

Before he could finish, the beeping of the Monitoring Instrument became intense, sharp and irritable, suppressing the noise in the Emergency Rescue Room.

In just an instant, the Patient's Electrocardiogram changed from sinus rhythm to atrial fibrillation, and the heart rate shot straight up from around 150 beats/minute to 180 beats/minute.

"Prepare for defibrillation!" Ji Xiang shouted loudly.

He had long since located where the defibrillator was kept, pulled the instrument over, and ripped open the Patient's shirt.

With a *rip*, a button flew onto Lu Gang's face, like a small stone that knocked all of Lu Gang's words back.

Lu Gang was an academic, a theorist; his practical skills were not strong.

He watched blankly as Ji Xiang applied conductive gel to the Patient's chest, turned on the defibrillator to charge it, and then placed one electrode pad on the upper right of the sternum below the clavicle, while the center of the other electrode was on the left mid-axillary line.

"Bang!"

The Patient "jumped" on the stretcher.

It still didn't work, the heart rhythm was still atrial fibrillation; Ji Xiang repeated the previous step.

Lu Gang was inexplicably surprised.

The Patient had only orally ingested a large amount of floral water, and the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor was already preparing to perform a gastric lavage; there shouldn't be any other possibilities.

Can floral water cause cardiac arrest?

That's impossible!

Meng Qingfei was also dumbfounded; he knew the Patient had a problem, but he didn't know the Patient had such a major problem.

After a split second, the Patient suddenly evolved from sinus rhythm to atrial fibrillation.

Meng Qingfei's hands were ice cold, as if they had been placed in ice water; it was somewhat bone-chilling. He rubbed his hands against the seat of his White Uniform even faster.

"Excuse me, please move," Zhao Zhe said.

Meng Qingfei and Lu Gang stepped aside and saw Zhao Zhe pulling a stretcher in.

At the same time, the atrial fibrillation disappeared after the Patient was defibrillated 3 times.

Ji Xiang and Zhao Zhe lifted the Patient onto the stretcher; seeing the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor still in a daze, Ji Xiang immediately shouted, "Send the Patient to the ICU, hurry!"

The Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor relied almost on Muscle Memory to place the Monitoring Instrument onto the stretcher, raised the guardrail, and called for the Nurse to hurry up and follow with the emergency medicine kit.

Just as they exited the doors of the Emergency Rescue Room, the Electrocardiogram on the Cardiac Monitor went into a flurry of chaos, followed immediately by signs of flatlining.

Ji Xiang leaped up, straddled the Patient's abdomen without a moment's hesitation, and began Thoracic Surgery chest compressions.

"Move fast, hurry!" Ji Xiang roared while performing rescue efforts.

The rumbling sound of the gurney echoed through the corridor, gradually fading into the distance; Ji Xiang's final shout for someone to press the elevator button still lingered, but the person had already vanished from sight.

Meng Qingfei and the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor stared in a daze, unable to snap out of it.

(End of chapter)