Chapter 1496: Chapter 1496: Cardiac Injury
“My mom said we need to find a doctor from the Capital to treat my older cousin?” Xie Wanying didn’t really rember this detail about the matter. Now hearing her mother and cousin-in-law say this, she had a new understanding of her older cousin’s car accident injuries this ti around.
Before being reborn, she rembered people saying her older cousin was seriously injured in the car accident, but no one could clearly explain to her and her mother how severe it was. Before being reborn, when her mother found out about it, Xiao Shugang had already been discharged from the hospital, not still hospitalized. This ti, people reported it to Sun Rongfang promptly because they knew she, Xie Wanying, was studying in Guoxie.
All she rembered was that, after that injury, Xiao Shugang’s career and family life went downhill. It was said the injury was healed, but he never returned to his previous healthy state. This indicates whether the initial treatnt effectively addressed all the issues appearing in the patient’s body has a significant impact on later recovery.
“After returning to a regular ward, I noticed his mind seed less clear than before. He had a head injury, but it wasn’t serious. The doctors said to do another scan. After the scan, they said, the heart area is a bit troubleso. Going for an open-heart surgery again is unlikely.”
Heart disease caused by a car accident? It’s possible, but rare. Generally, the patient might have had an undiagnosed heart condition before the car accident without knowing it. Heart issues caused by a car crash are not the typical heart diseases; they are heart injuries, aning the heart’s various structures are damaged due to great external force. The myocardium could be damaged, or the ventricular wall, atrial wall, septum, valves might get damaged, or even rupture. Therefore, clinically the most common fatal cases due to heart damage are heart ruptures. The most vulnerable part of the heart is the right ventricle, as it is positioned most closely to the chest front like a brave warrior.
If there’s heart damage, the surgical team should have discovered it during an open-heart surgery and dealt with it simultaneously. It’s unlikely to only discover a heart rupture two weeks later. This probability is too low to ntion; Xie Wanying had never heard of it.
If the heart is not damaged to the point of rupture, such as valve damage, the preoperative CT scan at the hospital could detect so issues.
It’s possible that the doctors’ focus at the ti was on the lungs, and if the heart issues were minor, they might have been hard to recognize on the CT and got overlooked. For valve issues, it’s best to do a cardiac ultrasound, specifically the previously ntioned transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE), as this provides a more accurate view of valve problems.
Shang Siling continued to listen, utterly amazed as her husband’s little cousin rattled off professional terminology: Do today’s dical students speak better than doctors? Is it that the doctors are unwilling to explain clearly to the family or what? She had never heard these things from the doctors. The attending doctor here was very vague with his explanations.
So clinicians are willing to spend ti explaining dical details to patients and their families in depth. So doctors dislike it, finding it troubleso, believing it’s a waste of breath since the family isn’t dical staff and can’t understand professional talk. So clinicians have both approaches, choosing their words based on the person. If they think the family is reasonable, they’ll explain; if not, they won’t.
Her cousin-in-law is a university teacher and a cultured person; perhaps the doctors here were reluctant to explain clearly because they feared the family might overthink things.
After listening to what was said, Shang Siling suddenly realized it would have been better to seek out Xie Wanying than to rely on Zhou Ruoi and her family.
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