Chapter 1232: [1232] Commitments to the patient must be fulfilled
It seems Teacher Xin might face some trouble.
Opposite her, Liu Wenyu overheard the medical staff’s conversation and showed a hint of panic on her face: Could it be she wouldn’t get treatment again?
“It’s fine,” Xie Wanying said, trusting in the capable Teacher Xin to handle these issues, and continued treating the patient in front of her. “Sister Seo, please help draw her blood, and also hang a bag of glucose. Judging by her condition, she probably hasn’t eaten properly, so let’s start by giving her some sugar. For the rest, we’ll wait for the test results to come back and decide on other medications. I’ll talk to Doctor Xin about it then.”
Sister Seo agreed with her suggestion, as it would avoid the need for another blood draw or a separate injection later, sparing both the nurses and patients extra trouble.
“Is this tonsillitis?” Sister Seo softly asked Xie Wanying, trying to gauge the patient’s possible condition.
Ordinary colds rarely cause high fevers. Typically, the most common issue would indeed be tonsillitis. From tonight’s influx of patients, most haven’t escalated to pneumonia; it’s mostly tonsillitis. Young people generally have stronger immunity compared to the elderly, who are more prone to pneumonia. Instead, for younger individuals, symptoms tend to manifest as inflammation of immune-related organs.
As an emergency department nurse, Sister Seo was very experienced with evaluating common emergency ailments like these.
Xie Wanying glanced at the patient in front of her but did not rush to a conclusion. She first asked about the patient’s symptoms directly: “Besides a sore throat, nasal discharge, and fever, is there anywhere else you’re feeling discomfort? For example, do you feel chest tightness or have frequent coughing?”
The patient shook her head.
“Let me listen to your heart and lungs,” Xie Wanying said, pulling a stethoscope from her pocket.
For patients in this age group suffering from colds, it is especially important to rule out myocarditis. Although the patient claimed she didn’t have cardiac symptoms, doctors still need to pay extra attention to this possibility.
Placing the stethoscope’s chest piece on the patient’s front chest, Xie Wanying inserted the earbuds and started listening.
Meanwhile, Sister Seo stepped out and relayed Xie Wanying’s suggestion for glucose infusion to Xin Yanjun, who approved the plan. She brought back a bag of 10% glucose, hung it on the IV stand, and asked the patient to extend her arm to draw blood.
The treatment process proceeded smoothly.
After eleven o’clock in the emergency department, the number of patients typically decreased rapidly. By midnight, unless a patient was in a critically severe condition, most people would refrain from rushing over in a taxi to the hospital and would instead wait until morning.
The emergency hall became considerably quieter compared to earlier. Family members accompanying the patients and the patients themselves were all drifting off to sleep, as the night’s natural biological rhythm urged the human body to rest.
“Doctor! Doctor—!”
Suddenly, two loud shouts shattered the tranquil atmosphere.
Who? Has an emergency patient come in?
“It’s okay. There’s an OB-GYN doctor outside; she should check on the situation first.” As a seasoned emergency nurse, Sister Seo calmly reassured Xie Wanying.
Shen Xifei was in the emergency area with a patient, waiting for the OB-GYN team upstairs to prepare a bed before escorting the patient up.
“Doctor! Doctor! Where the hell are all the doctors?”
No one responded to the caller, eliciting angry curses from them.
Sister Seo turned her head in surprise: The OB-GYN team isn’t here? Didn’t the OB-GYN patient still need to be transferred? Where could the doctor have gone?
As she was thinking this, the friend of the patient to be admitted for OB-GYN care, who had a nosebleed, rushed to the door of their consulting room and spoke to the medical staff: “You need to come out and see; it’s terrifying.”
Terrifying? The word sparked a question mark in both Xie Wanying and Sister Seo’s minds.