Chapter 1733: 1674 Hydrogen Peroxide and Popping Candy

Xie Yiren clamped a piece of sterile large gauze pad and handed it to Lao He outside the sterile area.

"Squat down, block your face a bit." Zheng Ren said, "Right, put on your gloves."

Fully equipped, just in case something happens.

Lao He felt a chill in his heart and quickly did as Zheng Ren instructed.

He suppressed his curiosity, squatted behind the divine person, and extended the bottle of external saline toward Zheng Ren's position, stopping when it was 30 cm away.

Using the gauze pad to block his face, Lao He had no view and could see nothing.

Zheng Ren clamped the loach with forceps, glanced at it— the upper third of its body— then loosely covered the lower part with the gauze pad to prevent blood from splattering everywhere when the loach moved back and forth.

The emergency patient had not been tested for hepatitis B, syphilis, or HIV; if there were any issues, transmission through mucosa could occur, and regret would come too late.

It seemed I had just told Su Yun that endometrial ectopic lesions could be implanted, doing a stage surgery—none of that was enough to be mentally exhausting.

Although I thought that, Zheng Ren's hand was steady. He pulled the loach out of the blood pool with the forceps, turned slightly, and pointed the loach's head toward the external saline bottle's mouth.

Without contaminating the oval forceps, after sending the loach's head inside, he loosened the forceps.

A streak of blood and blackness spread in the external saline.

The loach darted about lively, its body speckled, faintly revealing flesh and bone, with some spots showing gas bubbles.

This is the condition after being corroded by hydrogen peroxide.

This loach probably won't live much longer, but in its dying moments it caused the patient great trouble.

Zheng Ren glanced at it, turned back, and said, "Lao He, put the lid on."

Lao He immediately plugged it with a rubber stopper, then carefully examined the extracted loach.

Some parts of its body had been corroded by hydrogen peroxide down to the muscle layer, some parts were shallower, the tail suffered heavier damage, while the head burn was lighter.

The loach swam about lively in the bottle of external saline; if the view were magnified a hundredfold, it would look like a mutant shark.

"Lao He, tilt the bed 15 degrees to the right." Before Lao He could look closely, Zheng Ren immediately said.

"All right." Lao He placed the external saline bottle against the wall and adjusted the bed's angle.

Raising the left side caused blood, feces, and foreign matter to flow to the right, and the spleen finally became evident.

The suction device kept sucking blood continuously, and it still hadn't been cleared completely.

Zheng Ren, seeing the field, reached in, grasped the spleen, and began the splenectomy.

"Zheng Ren, be careful." Xie Yiren, a little afraid, said anxiously.

"Mm." Zheng Ren nodded.

Because there was an operative field, he didn't worry about being bitten by anything. Even so, Zheng Ren remained on guard, not knowing what might happen.

After a few minutes, the spleen was removed, and Zheng Ren tossed it into the pathology basin.

The blood in the abdominal cavity had also been mostly sucked away, and a large amount of feces clogged the suction device twice.

Constantly flushing with saline allowed only a bare continuation of sucking out the fecal residue and blood.

A dead loach's "corpse" appeared before his eyes.

Its lower half had been bitten off; it was probably caused by an attacking live loach after being stimulated.

The circulating nurse had returned, warming the blood, busy as could be. Still, Lao He took a new bottle of external saline and placed the loach inside.

Upon further examination, Zheng Ren found a third dead loach; likewise, he put it into the external saline bottle for dead loaches.

"Boss, the contamination is too severe." Su Yun looked at the abdominal cavity situation, feeling somewhat helpless.

Feng Jianguo said, "Flush it, rinse a couple more times, and try to reduce the contamination somewhat."

"Hmm, the ruptured intestinal spot doesn't seem large; repairing it should be fine." Zheng Ren flipped out the damaged intestinal location, examined it, and said.

"This person really has guts." Su Yun sighed.

"I don't know where this folk remedy came from, claiming loach can treat stubborn constipation." Feng Jianguo sighed and said, "Two years ago I admitted a similar patient, but knowing he'd be scared, he came to the hospital right after inserting it. The colonoscope removed it, and no major trouble ensued."

"This patient initially refused to talk no matter what, but after I scared him, plus the boss saw the white snow bubble sign and inferred hydrogen peroxide use, he finally told the truth." Su Yun said, "If you didn't know the situation, reaching in would get you bitten. Old Feng, you could just take it out and show it to the patient's family."

Su Yun told a very cold joke.

One couldn't even think about it; just thinking of Feng Jianguo made him shudder.

Normally, the loach's aggressiveness is not high. But after being stimulated by hydrogen peroxide, it becomes different.

Thinking of another loach that would have its lower half cut off, Feng Jianguo felt a chill, as if it were his own finger.

If bitten, should one get a tetanus shot or a rabies vaccine? It's said bats carry rabies virus; unknown whether loach carries it.

"Boss Lao Ban, how can you tell from the image?" Feng Jianguo asked.

"Just look closely." Zheng Ren really didn't want to explain, brushed it off, and said, "Old Feng, go show the loach to the family. Put it in saline; it'll die soon."

"Oh, okay." Feng Jianguo glanced at the people in the room, knowing he'd have to do it himself.

Quan Xiaocao had already been scared pale, hiding in the operating room corner. If not for fear of scolding others, she would have likely stepped down by now.

Zheng Ren and Su Yun were operating on stage, and Lao He couldn't leave.

"You go ahead." Feng Jianguo sighed, picked up two bottles of external saline, and walked out.

There was a lot of retained feces in the abdominal cavity; the circulating nurse brought a plastic bag, and Zheng Ren began working as a feces remover.

He scooped out the retained feces handful by handful, throwing them into the trash bag.

At this point, saying anything about sterility is useless; in every space of the laminar flow operating room, bacteria are fewer than in the patient's abdominal cavity.

This is also unavoidable.

He stirred for a full five minutes before the large chunks of feces were cleaned out.

Afterwards, warm saline flush; the two suction devices began whooshing as they sucked away the remaining residue.

"Boss Lao Ban, what should we use to flush and disinfect?" the circulating nurse asked.

"Uh..." Zheng Ren pondered a few seconds, then said, "Hydrogen peroxide."

"This is using hydrogen peroxide inside, and also outside the rhythm?" Su Yun laughed.

"Standard procedure, there's not that much to say." Zheng Ren took the hydrogen peroxide basin that Xie Yiren handed over, and began to pour it into the abdominal cavity.

The swishing sound rang out, bubbles continuously frothing white on the peritoneum and intestinal wall.

"Boss, have you ever eaten popping candy?" Su Yun suddenly asked.

"Doing Shou Bing, don't say such disgusting things." Zheng Ren said solemnly.

"Popping candy, what's disgusting about it?" Su Yun scoffed. "One look and you can tell it's an unfortunate child without a childhood."

"Warm saline." Zheng Ren, seeing the peritoneum begin to turn white under the irritation of the hydrogen peroxide, requested warm saline to continue again.

After flushing it five times, Zheng Ren finally felt somewhat relieved.

Excess is as bad as deficiency; putting it here is more suitable. Too many hydrogen peroxide flushes will greatly increase the probability of postoperative intestinal adhesions and obstruction.