Chapter 57: Turning on the

"It must be a problem with the instrument connection." General Manager Wu applied the Dressing and didn't pay it any mind.

The Anesthesia Doctor frowned, shook his head slightly, and kept his eyes fixed on the Monitoring Instrument.

The Circulating Nurse was clearly somewhat unhappy, but out of caution, they still checked the lines.

Could it be that the blood oxygen saturation clip wasn't attached properly? The Circulating Nurse tried two different fingers, but the blood oxygen saturation was still not ideal, so they attached the clip to their own finger.

Blood oxygen saturation 100%!

The Anesthesia Doctor and Ji Xiang narrowed their eyes at the same time.

Something is wrong!

Both of them realized that something was off, especially Ji Xiang; he looked at that Emergency Task and knew that the Monitoring Instrument alarm was definitely caused by an Air Embolism.

But where did the Air Embolism come from? Ji Xiang had no clue.

Ji Xiang held his breath and focused, entering the System Space.

"Teacher, something has truly gone wrong! What do you think I should do?" Ji Xiang didn't bother with pleasantries after entering and asked the System NPC for help directly.

Although the flow of time in the System Space was different from the outside, the pressure of a Patient having an accident after surgery made it impossible for Ji Xiang to remain calm.

Even though a certain surgical procedure had reached Level 9, Ji Xiang was still a Clinical novice.

Facing life and death,

Facing an Air Embolism,

It was difficult for him to remain as calm as usual.

"Don't panic." The System NPC nodded and led Ji Xiang into the System Operating Room.

In the Operating Room, the Monitoring Instrument was sounding a frantic alarm, just like in the Operating Room in the real world.

The System NPC's back seemed to straighten a little, as if a sleeping beast were beginning to awaken.

Ji Xiang looked at his back, feeling a slight sense of shock in his heart.

When he used his skill—Gaze of a Senior Doctor—it made Mo Chenggui and Zhou Jiaoshou listen to him in a trance.

Yet the System NPC hadn't used any skills, and he already made Ji Xiang perceive that oppressive aura.

It was an aura honed by countless years and countless emergency rescues.

The moment he straightened his back, Ji Xiang felt the air in the entire System Operating Room freeze; even the alarm sound of the Monitoring Instrument seemed to quiet down a bit.

And he subconsciously became cautious, listening carefully, afraid that missing a single word would delay the rescue and diagnosis.

This was a true senior physician!

Ji Xiang felt a bit of envy, but he knew that he was an almost infinite distance away from the level of the System NPC.

Perhaps after years of Clinical tempering, he could reach this level.

The System NPC didn't know about the complex emotions in Ji Xiang's heart; he picked up a stethoscope and began to auscultate.

After listening for over ten seconds, he then performed a careful physical examination.

The Circulating Nurse, Instrument Nurse, and Anesthesia Doctor beside him were all exceptionally vigilant; Ji Xiang felt as if their ears had pricked up, and if the System NPC said a single word—even if he asked for the moon in the sky—they would deliver it to the System NPC's hands at the first opportunity.

Teamwork!

Coordination!

Ji Xiang realized this point.

Coordination increased by 100%, perhaps that was what this meant.

Although the Anesthesia Doctor, Nurse, and Ji Xiang in the system had never had any interaction, it was clear that the system's designer had modeled them based on the team the System NPC belonged to.

Even though they had no life, Ji Xiang felt a special atmosphere—solemnity.

Just like soldiers waiting to charge, their blades were bright and sharp, making Ji Xiang even more serious and focused.

The Patient's heart rate rose, blood oxygen saturation dropped rapidly to around 78%, and blood pressure also fell to 72/52 mmHg.

Ji Xiang tried hard to recall the content his teacher had lectured about regarding Air Embolism.

Because this was an extremely serious complication that almost announced the Patient's death once it appeared, the teacher hadn't said much about it. The teacher himself was helpless when encountering similar Patients, let alone the students listening to the lecture.

"Prepare the Ultrasound." The System NPC said suddenly.

The Nurse left the room immediately and soon pushed the Operating Room's B-ultrasound Machine inside.

During this process, the System NPC began to adjust the Right Renal Fistula Tube.

Strangely enough, Ji Xiang hadn't seen the System NPC do anything, but by the time the Nurse pushed the B-ultrasound Machine in, the blood pressure, heart rate, and blood oxygen saturation on the Monitoring Instrument had already begun to stabilize.

Could it be magic?

Ji Xiang was somewhat surprised.

As a medical student, Ji Xiang believed in science and materialism.

Yet, when facing a serious complication like an Air Embolism, the System NPC seemed to do nothing, just fiddling with the Right Renal Fistula Tube like those charlatan Qigong masters, and the Simulated Human's vital signs were stabilized.

This was simply incredible.

"Go get a tube of Erythromycin Ointment for Ophthalmology." The System NPC gave the medical order.

Ophthalmology?

Erythromycin?

Ji Xiang was stunned.

The Nurse didn't question it in the slightest, turned around, and trotted off to retrieve the Erythromycin Ointment.

The System NPC didn't explain to Ji Xiang immediately; he began to perform an Ultrasound on the Patient's precordial area.

The probe was pressed very low, and the System NPC's eyes remained fixed on the Ultrasound screen.

Ji Xiang couldn't understand it, so his attention was entirely on the System NPC and the Simulated Human's Monitoring Instrument.

The Erythromycin Ointment was brought back; the System NPC hung up the Ultrasound probe and squeezed the ointment to fill the area around the indwelling tube in the Kidney region.

It's the air that entered from the outside, Ji Xiang thought to himself.

However... he had countless questions in his heart, but he didn't ask them out loud for the moment, instead watching the System NPC's movements carefully.

After finishing the treatment, the System NPC began to use the Ultrasound to monitor the Patient's vital signs again.

After 12′22″, the Simulated Human's vital signs returned to normal.

In Ji Xiang's imagination, an Air Embolism should involve a team starting up like a giant machine, busy running off their feet, using countless pieces of equipment he had never seen before to perform rescue.

And finally, narrowly saving the Patient.

But the System NPC did nothing at all...

If one had to say they did something, it was a tube of Erythromycin Ointment.

This was no longer medicine; it was magic.

Teacher, I don't know magic! Ji Xiang wailed in his heart, looking helplessly at the emergency task issued by the system.

If the System NPC taught him "magic," should he use it in reality?

Ji Xiang fell into a dilemma.

"The rescue is finished." The System NPC wiped the Coupling Agent off the Simulated Human's chest with a tissue, then hung up the B-ultrasound Probe, turned around, and said to Ji Xiang.

Ji Xiang scratched his head.

"This matter is actually not difficult; the problem lies in..." The System NPC began to explain to Ji Xiang in detail the purpose of every step just taken.

Asking when one doesn't understand, Ji Xiang also voiced the doubts in his heart, and the System NPC answered every point he didn't understand with emphasis.

Ji Xiang nodded continuously; the entire rescue process became clearer and clearer, more and more explicit.

So that's how it is!

Wu Zong didn't take it seriously at first, but ten-plus seconds later, after seeing the Anesthesia doctor and the Circulating Nurse adjust the connection wires of the Cardiac Monitor, he saw the Patient's vital signs dropping continuously and was instantly dumbfounded.

The Patient's blood oxygen saturation had already plummeted off a cliff to 76%, and at the same time, the heart rate rose while blood pressure dropped.

Everything indicated that there was a problem with his surgery, and the Patient's body was undergoing a stress response.

But where the problem lay, Wu Zong did not know.

"Supine position, give pure oxygen!" the Anesthesia doctor was the first to react, shouting loudly.

Their assistant blankly followed to change the Patient's position, and the oxygen concentration provided by the Anesthesia Machine was raised to 100%.

"Wu Zong!" The Anesthesia doctor's voice increased by 32 decibels, and there was a faint echo in the Operating Room.

"Huh?" Wu Zong was a bit dazed.

"What do we do next?"

Only then did Wu Zong react.

The Urology Department rarely encountered similar situations; he... was after all a Resident Chief, and even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had seen pigs run.

Forcing himself to steady his mind, Wu Zong began to preside over the rescue.

"Norepinephrine 0.2mg intravenous injection!"

"Dexamethasone 20mg intravenous injection!"

Wu Zong was somewhat flustered, but he still gave the medical orders.

The Circulating Nurse immediately used her hands to break open the ampoule, draw the medicine, and inject it.

The leisure of the previous small talk had vanished; her work was done nimbly, cleanly, and meticulously.

"Wu Zong, let's take a look..." Ji Xiang suddenly said.

Wu Zong looked at Ji Xiang with disgust.

In an emergency rescue, was there any room for a Standardized Training Student like him to speak?

He couldn't even figure out the matter himself; a Standardized Training Student could only cause trouble!

He really wanted to kick this inattentive Standardized Training Student who had no self-awareness out of the Operating Room.

"Call the second-line!"

"Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate 40mg, Epinephrine 0.01mg intravenous injection!"

"Epinephrine pump infusion!"

"Wu Zong, what is the rate?" the Nurse asked.

"0.05μg/kg·min."

Although Wu Zong had never seen an Air Embolism, his basic qualities remained, and he realized it and took emergency measures at the first opportunity.

Ji Xiang sighed.

He was only a Standardized Training Doctor; it was normal for the Resident Chief not to listen to him.

If Wu Zong followed his every word, that would be the most terrible and absurd thing.

There was no other way; he could only use that idiot skill.

It wasn't that Ji Xiang was worried about the "Gaze of the Superior Doctor" skill consuming a bit of Surgical Points.

The reason he was unwilling to use it was that for a Standardized Training Student to act like an old professor was somehow strange and awkward.

But now it was an emergency rescue; time waited for no one.

Click, charge.

Ji Xiang heard the click of a bullet being chambered in the void.

【Gaze of the Superior Doctor】, activate!

He stepped to the side of the Patient.

"What are you doing!" Wu Zong roared sternly.

Ji Xiang turned his head and gazed at Wu Zong.

(End of chapter)