Anti-epidemic pioneer

Chapter 14 Bear the brunt

After entering the ward of the intensive care unit, all the doctors from other related departments have also assembled at this time.

"If you have plasma, give him plasma first."

Li Renxin said.

Huang Zhiguang on the side nodded, and immediately began to deliver plasma to Zhou Wen.

After a while, Huang Zhiguang turned his head, shook his head at Li Renxin and said, "His airway has been tightly closed and cannot be opened. It can't enter the lungs, it still can't!"

"I can only go to ECMO."

Another doctor on the side suggested.

"Ah."

Li Renxin nodded, made a decisive decision, and immediately agreed to the treatment plan.

ECMO, also known as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, commonly known as artificial lung, is a kind of medical emergency equipment with great clinical effect.

For patients like Zhou Wen with sudden cardiopulmonary failure, ECMO equipment can help him provide continuous extracorporeal breathing and circulation support, so as to maintain the patient's life and buy precious time for emergency treatment.

"Give me an alcohol gauze, quick!"

Li Renxin turned his head and said loudly.

When the head nurse Ke Chunmei heard it, she immediately filled a piece of gauze with alcohol and quickly handed it to Li Renxin.

With the joint efforts of Li Renxin, Huang Zhiguang and other doctors, everyone quickly established and successfully started ECMO treatment for Zhou Wen.

With the help of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, Zhou Wen's oxygenation index, which had been very low because he couldn't breathe smoothly, finally showed signs of improvement.

"I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

Huang Zhiguang let out a long sigh of relief, but the water vapor from his mouth immediately fogged up his protective mask, making him extremely embarrassed.

Although Zhou Wen's life is not in danger for the time being, but in order to allow Zhou Wen to receive more effective treatment, Li Renxin decided to take advantage of the ECMO to help Zhou Wen, take advantage of the victory, and immediately give him a bronchoscope and administer Zhou Wen's sputum. drainage.

For patients like Zhou Wen who have been bedridden for a long time, the accumulation of phlegm will not only cause them breathing difficulties, but also the sputum will become a breeding ground for viruses, making their condition more and more difficult to control.

"Get ready for the bronchoscopy."

Li Renxin took the bronchoscope from the nurse, stood in front of Zhou Wen, slowly inserted the soft and deformable fiber tube into Zhou Wen's airway, and began to suction him.

Everything went very smoothly. Under Li Renxin's instruction, the nurse also injected some normal saline into Zhou Wen to dilute his sputum, which was more conducive to the smooth progress of their sputum suction operation.

"Cough cough!"

"Cough cough..."

Just when Li Renxin and the others were proceeding in an orderly manner to treat Zhou Wen, Zhou Wen, who had been lying quietly on the hospital bed, suddenly coughed violently!

This sudden scene immediately froze the atmosphere in the entire intensive care unit to freezing point!

In fact, normally speaking, since the bronchoscope enters the glottis, airway and other parts of the human body, it will indeed cause the patient to have physiological reactions such as nausea and coughing.

It is not surprising that such a situation occurs during the usual treatment of cardiopulmonary and respiratory patients. Logically speaking, it should not make experienced doctors like Li Renxin and Huang Zhiguang nervous.

But this time the situation is quite different!

Zhou Wen, who is currently lying on the hospital bed, is not an ordinary cardiopulmonary respiratory patient, but a severe patient with new coronary pneumonia!

With the terrifying contagiousness of the new coronary pneumonia, when he coughed like this, countless viruses rushed out of his open airway like a volcanic eruption.

In this way, the probability of all the medical staff in the intensive care unit being infected with the new coronavirus is greatly increased!

And here, the one who bears the brunt is Li Renxin who is the closest to Zhou Wen!

"Director Li!"

"Brother Li, step back quickly!"

Huang Zhiguang and the doctors beside him all hurriedly persuaded Li Renxin while retreating to the side.

But Li Renxin didn't move, especially the hand holding the bronchoscope, which was so steady that it didn't fluctuate at all. It was still sucking phlegm for Zhou Wen who was lying on the hospital bed in an orderly manner.

Finally, Zhou Wen's symptoms of respiratory failure finally stabilized.

Under the admiration or worry eyes of the people around, Li Renxin put down the medical equipment in his hand.

The head nurse, Ke Chunmei, wanted to go forward, but Li Renxin raised his hand to stop her, and said, "I should have a lot of viruses on my body right now, you all stay away from me first, I have to get disinfected quickly."

After speaking, Li Renxin quickly walked out of the ward first.

"It's best for everyone to disinfect as well."

Huang Zhiguang said.

After all, when Zhou Wen was coughing just now, although Li Renxin was the closest to him, the space in the entire intensive care unit was only so big. All the medical staff who participated in this rescue were actually at great risk of being infected. of.

"Hey, in the elevator before, Zhou Wen said that he wanted to be a young man with a sword like the characters in his novels, and Director Li, isn't he a warrior who holds a sword and never retreats?"

Little nurse Liu Tiantian suddenly sighed, her tone full of reverence for Li Renxin.

Everyone in the ward fell silent, but Zhou Wen, who was lying on the hospital bed, had two lines of hot tears rolling down uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes, soaking the pillow towel beside him.

……

"Brother Li, you bastard, didn't you say it before, for your wife, for your daughter, would you spare your life more than anyone else?"

On the way out of the hospital after get off work, Huang Zhiguang punched Li Renxin hard on the shoulder, and said, "In the afternoon, you were too desperate, right?"

"Kid stay away from me, I might be infected now."

Li Renxin pulled his mask, and then sighed: "I don't know what to say, maybe it's my responsibility as a doctor. Anyway, at that moment, I just felt that I couldn't let it go."

After finishing speaking, Li Renxin laughed at himself and said, "If we encounter the situation in the afternoon again, I dare not say that I will do it again, after all, I am just an ordinary person, who is not afraid of death? "

"Brother Li, you are the baby of our group, you can't die."

Huang Zhiguang smiled and said: "If you have any troubles, just the people in our group, and the patients in our ward, all of them can cry and pass out!"

"Stop exaggerating, I don't think your kid will cry."

Li Renxin joked with a smile.

"I cry! I must cry!"

Huang Zhiguang patted his chest and said: "If there is such a day, I will definitely cry harder than anyone else!"

After finishing speaking, Huang Zhiguang slapped his head, realizing that what he said was wrong, and quickly changed his words: "Bah, bah, there won't be such a day, bah, bah..."

Li Renxin on the side smiled faintly, but did not speak.

But from the depths of his eyes, there was a hint of worry that flashed imperceptibly...