Chapter 815: [815] What is the heart rate? Chapter 815: [815] What is the heart rate? She fell, and Cao Yong had no choice but to use the arm he had placed behind her to cushion her head as they both crashed to the ground with a thud.
“My hand is fine, just scraped a bit,” Cao Yong said, as his arm and shoulder hit the ground first. This position was akin to falling while catching a ball and rushing out on a basketball court. Fortunately, he played basketball regularly, so it wasn’t a big issue.
As for the question Tao Zhijie asked him afterwards, he found it difficult to answer.
He managed to catch her when others couldn’t because he was more prepared for her sudden collapse. As a doctor, and possibly because he had feelings for her or because he was a neurosurgeon, he had a stronger intuition that she might collapse like this one day. Therefore, he had been keeping his hand behind her as a precaution.
Others, like him, feared this possibility, feeling very anxious and distressed. They must quickly check on her condition.
“Dr. Cao, let’s first help you up, then examine her body,” Tan Kelin suggested.
“I don’t need help,” Cao Yong replied, turning his head and fixing his careful gaze on the face lying on his arm, so close at hand.
Her eyes were closed. She should be in pain from the fall, but she hadn’t cried out at all, showing no signs of waking up from the pain. It indicated a problem with her brain consciousness.
“Yingying, Yingying,” Cao Yong called her twice.
There was no response, which was expected since she had fainted.
Yet, at this mont, she seed like a sleeping beauty, which turned his complexion ashen.
He quickly freed his right hand and placed it on the pulse of her carotid artery: there was a pulse.
“Give a stethoscope,” Tao Zhijie turned and instructed the people behind him.
He Guangyou hurriedly handed him a stethoscope, while asking Song Xueling, the Talented Scholar, “Have you figured out what caused her fainting?”
Song Xueling’s brows were tightly knit as he observed intently.
Sudden fainting usually indicates a problem with the heart or brain.
Tao Zhijie put on the earpieces and placed the stethoscope under her clothes to listen to her heart rate.
Cao Yong then turned her over, laid her head flat on the ground, took a dical flashlight from his fellow doctor, turned it on, and lifted her eyelids to check her pupils in both eyes.
“Take off her socks,” Tan Kelin instructed soone to remove her slippers and socks. He held her ankle with his left hand, stabilizing her lower leg, and with his right hand, he took a cotton swab and swiftly drew it from the outer side of her sole to the base of her little toe and then toward her big toe.
In normal people, the toes curl towards the sole, indicating a negative Babinski sign. However, she seed to have no reaction at all; it wasn’t the positive Babinski sign where the big toe dorsiflexes and the other toes fan out.
He then squeezed her calf’s gastrocnemius muscle, similarly, there was no response.
Seeing this, Cao Yong pulled open her clothes and similarly took a cotton swab, drawing it over the edge of her ribs, beside her navel, and the groin, observing the reflex status of abdominal nerves; the superficial reflexes were very weak.
He grabbed her wrist, pinched her middle finger, and lifted it up; her wrist was in a slightly hyperextended position. Then he swiftly flicked her middle fingernail with his thumb: no response.
He supported the back of her head and placed his other hand on her chest to perform a neck flexion movent: no rigidity, no ningeal irritation signs.
Temporarily, there seed to be no signs of brain hemorrhage, no pathological reflexes, but muscle tone was decreased, and the response to external stimuli was reduced.
“What’s the heart rate?” Cao Yong asked Tao Zhijie, who was listening through the stethoscope, actually feeling so anxious that he wanted to snatch the stethoscope to listen himself.
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