Chapter 577: Chapter 525: Start Broadcasting Chapter 577: Chapter 525: Start Broadcasting The flight path was longer than usual, necessitating detours around war zones and no-fly zones.
What would usually be over an hour’s journey, took over two hours.
Safely, the plane successfully landed at Aden International Airport.
Upon disembarking, Hua’an Gold Shield staff imdiately received Yang Ping, escorted by an ard squad.
Yang Ping instructed them to unload the supplies they brought on the plane. These were sterile instrunts, gauze, anesthetics, analgesics, and antibiotics hastily prepared by Robert and Li Zehui. These items, during tis of war, were more precious than gold.
A comrcial vehicle transported Yang Ping and the supplies to the hospital.
The hospital was the Republic Hospital of Yen in Aden, similar to our People’s Hospital or Central Hospital.
This hospital was considered the best in Aden, but the level of dical care and equipnt could not compare to so decent county-level hospitals in our country.
The hospital was bustling with people, most of them with terrified and anxious eyes, so of the injured people had just arrived from the war zone.
Upon arrival, Yang Ping t Manager Qiu, who had been contacting him. He was in his thirties, strong, and his eyes were bright and focused, clearly a military man.
“Professor Yang, I am so grateful.” Manager Qiu was genuinely ecstatic upon eting Yang Ping, as if he had seen a savior.
Manager Qiu felt extrely painful seeing his comrades lying helplessly on the hospital beds. Now that Yang Ping had flown over from Saudi Arabia overnight, how could he not be excited?
“Where is the patient? Quickly, lead there.”
Yang Ping couldn’t wait to operate imdiately, he dared not delay for a mont.
Manager Qiu wasted no further ti and imdiately led Yang Ping to the observation ward of the ergency departnt.
Since the patient’s wounds were too severe and it was unclear which departnt should admit him, and the ability among departnts to collaborate and coordinate was lacking, the patient remained in the ergency departnt.
The attending doctor was also a Chinese doctor, Dr. Zhou from Hong Kong, who had been dispatched by the International Red Cross to provide dical support to this hospital.
“Dr. Zhou, our compatriot from Hong Kong. Professor Yang, from Nandu Province, has extensive trauma surgery experience.” Manager Qiu introduced them.
Dr. Zhou appeared extrely weary. His hair, sticky from an excess of oil, clung in strands to his scalp, and a thin film of fog had accumulated on his glasses.
He shook Yang Ping’s hand: “Your arrival is tily.”
Without wasting any words, Dr. Zhou got to the point:
“The patient has a total of 27 shrapnel wounds across the head, chest, abdon, pelvis, and limbs. I’m a trauma orthopedic surgeon and cannot do anything about the shrapnel injuries in the head and thoracic abdominal, which are the most deadly. We lack excellent neuro and thoracoabdominal trauma surgeons here, so they have been hesitant to operate. They can only maintain his life by blood transfusion and fluid replacent.”
This Hong Kong doctor, who often supported war-torn areas and has seen many critically injured patients, felt powerless when faced with this patient’s case.
“Take a break. I’m going to see the injured now.” Yang Ping imdiately began a whole-body examination.
The injured was lying on the bed covered with two quilts to keep him warm, all his clothes had been cut off, Yang Ping could still see his bloody clothes piled in the corner of the ward.
A few intravenous lines, including central venous and peripheral venous, were simultaneously transfusing blood and fluids into the patient’s body.
Dr. Zhou handed over a pair of gloves. Yang Ping put them on and walked to the bedside to begin his examination.
The gloves were slightly small, and Yang Ping had a hard ti putting them on.
“There’s a shortage of dical supplies here, we only have small-sized rubber gloves.” Dr. Zhou explained.
Yang Ping paid no attention to these things, his focus was on the patient, and he paid no mind to anyone else in the room.
His blood pressure was low, only 65/36mmg, much lower than a few hours prior.
His heart rate was very fast, exceeding 130 beats per minute.
His pulse was very weak and difficult to detect unless closely examined.
Even with two quilts covering him, his body still felt icy cold.
His paper dical report was handed over by the Yeni doctors. Yang Ping quickly reviewed it and imdiately deduced that the patient’s hemodynamics were extrely unstable. He could die from shock at any mont. The only reason he has lasted until now is that he has an excellent physical condition.
If the shrapnel in the cranium was not removed, it could lead to a brain hernia; the small invisible piece of triangular iron on the heart could rupture the heart at any mont.
Three fatal ropes tightly strangled the patient, and the situation was extrely critical.
The lucky part was that the injured must have been at so distance from the explosion when it happened. All his injuries were chanical wounds from shrapnel, without any blast injury. Thus, if he can be rescued, the prognosis of his organs’ functionality would be pretty good.
A family mber standing by the bed was the patient’s younger brother. He wanted to greet Yang Ping earlier but Yang Ping’s attention had been on the patient all along, completely oblivious to anyone else.
This younger brother was extrely anxious, unsure whether Professor Yang could save his brother.
Yang Ping raised his head, as if he was thinking.
The patient’s younger brother suddenly knelt down in front of him: “Professor Yang, please save my brother.”
Yang Ping did not expect this tall young man to suddenly kneel down, he quickly helped him up: “I will do my best.”
“The patient’s na is Chen Dashun, this is his younger brother Chen Ershun. It should have been him who was injured in the explosion, but his older brother protected him with his own body.” Qiu Zhiqiang told Yang Ping.
Yang Ping nodded: “Arrange for the surgery imdiately! Manager Qiu, didn’t you say you could summon the dical plane stationed in Oman? Get the plane here. After the surgery, we will use the dical plane to transfer him to Saudi Arabia for continuing treatnt. I will accompany him during the transfer.”
“The hemoglobin level is only 40 grams!”
Dr. Zhou took a lab report from the director of the ergency departnt, which recorded the most recent blood draw results.
“Regardless of the hemoglobin level, we need to perform imdiate surgery on him. His condition is rapidly deteriorating. No matter the risk, surgery is mandatory. Find an assistant now!”
Yang Ping was assertive in his call.
“I’m ready to assist!”
Dr. Zhou volunteered eagerly and looked at this composed young colleague with admiration.
Before Yang Ping’s arrival, Dr. Zhou had briefly researched his dical papers. As expected, Yang Ping was a top expert in trauma surgery, particularly with cases involving severe and complex injuries. His work on ‘half-man’ surgeries, to save severely injured individuals, could be considered the pinnacle of trauma surgery. His theory on treatnt had been published in top dical journals, and it was extrely influential.
Dr. Zhou just didn’t expect him to be this young.
Outside the hospital ward, a flaring streak of artillery fire cut across the night sky in the distance.
The atmosphere throughout the city was extrely tense. It was as if a storm was about to hit.
“Arrange for the surgery imdiately,” Dr. Zhou ordered the Yeni ergency doctor, who was also the head of the departnt.
The Yeni director replied anxiously, “All of our operating rooms are in use. No room will be available for the next three hours.”
Originally, this hospital only had a limited number of operating rooms. The influx of patients in recent tis was overwhelming.
“Are there any surgeries that can be paused?” Dr. Zhou was decisive.
The Yeni director shook his head: “All of them are ergency rescue surgeries.”
“We can’t wait for an OR to beco available. Does the ergency departnt have a room where we can perform the operation? Even a makeshift one will do.”
Yang Ping didn’t want to waste any more ti waiting for an actual OR.
“Our ergency departnt has one surgery room, but it’s only equipped for simple wound cleaning and stitches. The necessary equipnt and an anesthesiologist are also both lacking,” the Yeni director explained helplessly.
This kind of operation required opening the chest, abdon, and skull. General Anesthesia was a must.
Without an anesthesia machine, how would the surgery be done?
“We’ll conduct the surgery here in this ergency surgery room. Have a trauma care equipnt bag ready and find a chest opener, two S-shaped hooks, two thyroid hooks and several different types of suture material. Start setting up imdiately! Find so way to get an anesthesiologist and an anesthesia machine from a nearby hospital!”
Yang Ping decided not to wait any longer. They had already missed the best opportunity. If they waited any longer, even divinity would not be able to help him.
Exceptional situations required exceptional asures. They couldn’t possibly just follow conventional requirents.
“Will these instrunts be enough?”
Dr. Zhou couldn’t believe it. This included thoracic, abdominal, and cranial operations to remove bullet fragnts, and to investigate and repair damaged organs. All of these consider major surgeries, Could they be completed only with these simple instrunts?
“Ali, go and prepare the instrunts! I’ll check the surgeries currently in progress, to see if we can combine anesthetics for one patient. Regarding the anesthesia machine, I’ll contact nearby hospitals right away.”
The Yeni director imdiately sprang into action, directing his staff with clear orders.
During normal circumstances, having one anesthesiologist handle two surgeries is strictly forbidden. But under current ergency circumstances, saving the patient’s life was the highest priority.
This rule was originally established to ensure the safety of patients. However, if they followed these regulations now, many patients would not have enough ti to get to the operating table.
The doctor called Ali ca running back in, covered in sweat, “All trauma care equipnt bags have been used. Can we use instrunts that have been sterilized temporarily instead?”
What a predicant! Even the trauma care bags were all used up, how were they supposed to do a surgery?
This was a surgery that would involve opening up the skull.
Yang Ping suddenly rembered that when he was leaving Saudi Arabia, Li Zehui and Robert had prepared several boxes of instrunts and dications. They would co in handy now.
“Hurry, there’s a full set of trauma surgical instrunts in the car that just picked up. Bring them here, and be careful not to break the sterile packaging. Have a doctor co with you,” Yang Ping sighed with relief.
Thanks to the instrunts prepared by Robert and Li Zehui, this problem was solved.
The Yeni director hung up the phone and told Dr. Zhou, “The staff hospital at the refinery can lend us an anesthesia machine. They can send it over imdiately.”
With the missing hands and instrunts now available, they could finally begin the operation.
Dr. Zhou, with two Yeni doctors acting as his assistants, went onto the operating table. Although Dr. Zhou was not proficient in thoracic, abdominal or cranial surgeries, he would still be able to assist in retraction, knot tying and cutting the thread.
“Manager Qiu, I’m about to perform surgery on him imdiately. We can’t wait any longer and have to operate here in the ergency surgery room. Has Oman’s dical evacuation plane taken off yet? Ask them to hurry up. After the surgery, he can’t stay here. He should be transferred to Saudi Arabia where the dical conditions are much better.”
“Prepare more blood of the sa type, we’ll need it during the surgery and afterwards.”
Blood transfusion equals a transfusion of life.
“Ershun, call the rest of the guys over, we need to continue donating blood.”
Chen Dashun had type B blood. Everyone in the company with type B blood turned out to give Dashun their blood.
Their blood types were all registered. The tag on their clothes had their blood type labeled. So, when an ergency arises, they not only imdiately know the blood type, but they can also quickly provide blood for each other.
The ergency surgery room was quickly cleared, and Chen Dashun was wheeled into the room along with his bed.
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