Chapter 703: 692 Making Use of Remaining Energy

Feng Xu Hui was in a state of hemorrhagic shock; after transfusion, his symptoms had already shown significant improvement.

But the steel bar is still inside his body; this kind of surgery needs to be done at the Provincial Hospital or Huaxi.

It's just that his thigh was pierced through; to the doctors at the Provincial Hospital, it's not a big deal.

He made a phone call, summoning doctors from the relevant departments to come down and work.

For Feng Xu Hui's injury, the Trauma Department could handle it, or the Orthopedics Department could handle it; there is no fixed boundary. If it were a smaller hospital where surgical specialties aren't finely divided, even the General Surgery Department would handle it.

As for other severe pelvic fracture postoperative patients, they cannot be admitted to the ICU, and they still have other fracture sites to some extent, so we simply call the Orthopedics Department down to take them all back.

The Orthopedics Department is also overcrowded, but there's no choice; aside from the Internal Medicine Department which has beds, almost all surgical departments are overcrowded.

An Orthopedics Department doctor wearing an Isolation Gown, sleepy-eyed, came down.

One could tell he had just finished surgery on the operating table, had taken a hasty nap in the Zhibanshi, and was called down by phone before he could even wake up.

"What patient, where from?"

"From Pengxi Xiang."

Upon hearing it was from Pengxi Xiang, he relaxed.

Most are postoperative pelvic fracture patients; sending them to the ward for blood transfusion and fluid treatment is sufficient. Even if complications arise, they wouldn't appear within a few hours.

"Oh, then I can still sleep a bit." The Orthopedics Department doctor muttered, "I've been working nearly 72 hours, just fell asleep, and got called again. Hurry up; when I go back I should still be able to continue my dream."

"I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep." The Emergency Department doctor pointed at Feng Xu Hui and said, "It's a rebar penetration injury; we need to operate urgently."

"This young man..." The Orthopedics Department doctor instantly perked up, completed the handover, and took Feng Xu Hui back to the department.

Orthopedics Department preoperative patients stay in their own wards; postoperative pelvic fracture patients are arranged to the Internal Medicine Department or other departments with beds.

In short, everything is geared toward operating for the wounded transported down from the frontline.

The Hospital's existing medical process has been completely broken; few patients come for treatment, those who can endure stay at home, not going to the hospital to add trouble.

The Orthopedics Department doctor called, asking when the Operating Room would have an available Shujian.

In the short term, all Shujian in the Operating Room were occupied; we could only wait a bit longer.

Although Feng Xu Hui's injury did not involve the major artery, the extent of injury to the small arteries, capillary network, and muscle tissue is unknown; surgery could be major or minor, but it's best to go to the Operating Room for appropriate treatment.

Anyway, no time to sleep; let's just check the patients. The Orthopedics Department doctor had just risen when he saw an elderly doctor with white hair appear at the ward entrance.

"Director Chen, why have you come?" The Orthopedics Department doctor recognized him; this was the retired Radiology Department director from the Provincial Hospital.

"I'm just making a round to see if there's anywhere I can still make use of my remaining energy." Director Chen is already over seventy, yet spirited.

Although he looks spirited, the Orthopedics Department doctor knows the elderly cannot endure several days and nights without sleep.

Moreover, a Radiology Department doctor performing Interventional surgery needs to wear Lead clothing; the elderly probably couldn't even complete one surgery.

"Old Director, please sit, please sit."

"No, I just came to see how many pelvic fracture patients still need Interventional embolization. After we finish surgery and recover, only then can you go up."

"Yes, yes. There are still twelve patients waiting for surgery; that's fine."

The Old Director took the Orthopedics Department doctor to examine the twelve preoperative patients; Feng Xu Hui was also assigned a hospital bed, awaiting surgery.

"Why are there so few patients needing hemostasis? I heard from people up front that there are many similar cases."

"Isn't it that a few Interventional doctors were parachuted into Pengxi Township Hospital? They performed surgery up front and transported back dozens of postoperative patients."

"Only Pengxi Xiang?" Lao Chen asked, but then realized the issue: "No, Pengxi Township Hospital I visited last year can only do vascular interventional surgery; they actually have two machines, but using them for pelvic fracture Interventional hemostasis surgery is not handy. What did you just say? How many postoperative patients were transported back?"

The Orthopedics Department doctor hesitated a moment; he had been on the Operating table all along and wasn't very aware of the situation below.

Seeing the Old Director's expression begin to change, as if he were about to scold someone, he immediately summoned the Head Nurse.

"Today, 36 postoperative patients of pelvic fracture Interventional embolization have been transported back; their conditions are all stable, and most patients' blood pressure has returned to normal." The Head Nurse, who had been downstairs and knew the situation better, spoke up.

"36 postoperative pelvic fracture patients? Impossible!" Lao Chen frowned, speaking seriously: "Take me to see; you don't handle this, so you don't know how difficult severe pelvic fracture Interventional surgery is. I performed our hospital's first severe pelvic fracture Interventional surgery fifteen years ago; do you know how long it took? Five hours!"

Lao Chen spoke while extending his fingers, five fingers clearly visible.

"Now there are many critical emergencies, but we can't be careless. We don't know the situation up front; we can't just believe rumors, because these are lives!"

The Orthopedics Department doctor nodded repeatedly, inwardly bitter.

But he daren't say anything; these old directors have tempers that are explosively violent, so he can only go along with what they say.

Moreover, Director Chen wasn't wrong; the more critical the time, the more careful we must be.

The Head Nurse respectfully led the two of them on ward rounds; the doctors were upstairs performing surgery, while she was fully responsible downstairs.

In one ward there were three hospital beds, three patients, plus three volunteer caregivers.

"Director Chen, here we have three postoperative Interventional patients; one is from our hospital just done, blood pressure not yet fully restored. The other two were transferred from Pengxi Xiang; their hemorrhagic shock has been corrected, electrolyte imbalance is mild, and one has a closed femoral shaft fracture, considering elective surgery."

Although Director Chen didn't believe it, the patient's images and Pengxi Xiang's case summary were written very clearly; the more he looked, the more puzzled he became.

Logically, these are severe pelvic fracture patients with clearly visible retroperitoneal large hematomas; but the number of these postoperative patients is also too many…

Could Pengxi Xiang have acquired new equipment? Then Huaxi and nationwide personnel were transferred to perform surgery? Otherwise it's impossible to transfer in 36 postoperative Interventional patients in a single day.

Before he could finish looking, the Orthopedics Department doctor's phone rang; finally a Shujian in the Operating Room had become available.

He quickly responded, taking Feng Xu Hui to the Operating Room.

Afterwards, accompanied by the Head Nurse, he continued onward.

Almost all postoperative patients of pelvic fracture Interventional embolization have shaken off the state of hemorrhagic shock; those with relatively simple conditions have already awakened and can speak a few simple sentences.

Strange... Director Chen couldn't figure it out, and with his hands behind his back he staggered out of the ward.