Chapter 1130: Chapter 1130: Liu Banxia Also Needs Support
When it comes to patients you should face, you have to face them bravely; running away is not a way to solve problems.
Anyway, Liu Banxia felt very solid inside; the decision at the time was risky, but it was the right one.
"Teacher Liu, how did it go?"
As soon as Liu Banxia walked out of the office, Xu Yino ran straight over.
"You’ve been following this the whole time?" Liu Banxia asked with a smile.
"Of course. I saw the expressions on the two of them when they came out, both looking all sour. Are they going to file a complaint?" Xu Yino asked.
"That’s not settled yet. They just said they’d think about it." Liu Banxia said.
"Whether they complain or not, we still have to do our work. From their point of view, what they went through today was a bit too intense; they really do need some time to digest it."
"I just asked the traffic cops—he was the one who cut in line, he was the one who threw the first punch, and he was the one carrying that galvanized pipe," Xu Yino said, unwilling to accept it.
"Then when someone grabbed the pipe away from him, he snatched the little spatula from the pancake stall instead, and that’s when the other guy used the pipe to stab him. That should count as legitimate self-defense for the other side, right?"
Liu Banxia couldn’t help laughing and crying. "I’m not a judge. The odds are probably pretty high though. How did you find out so much detail? They’re not likely to be telling all this to people outside."
"Heh heh heh, I eavesdropped." Xu Yino said with a squinty smile.
"Alright, bright future ahead. You can inherit Wang Chao’s mantle someday." Liu Banxia joked.
"But seriously, your liver mobilization today was really very good. I also noticed something, though: when you get excited, the quality of your surgery improves a lot; otherwise it’s just so-so."
Xu Yino stuck out her tongue. "Wasn’t it because I got provoked by how fast you were suturing? I could work myself to death and still never get to that level."
"I just can’t figure it out—how did you train those hands of yours? Swish swish swish, just a blur of needles flashing by; that was insanely powerful. Everyone’s still talking about it right now, saying that if we used half your suturing ability as the assessment standard, no one would get a high score."
"Speaking of which, that reminds me—these days I’ve been busy taking care of our two babies. How’s the assessment going?" Liu Banxia asked.
"Heh heh, the interns and standardized trainees in our emergency center are doing really well; we’re in the top tier. But the anorectal department can’t be underestimated either. Why do they take this part so seriously? It shouldn’t be like that, logically speaking." Xu Yino frowned.
"Director Jiang has big ideas. The director just finished a meeting. I’ll go report today’s situation to him." Liu Banxia said.
Xu Yino quickly stepped aside; this was important.
"If you’re主动 coming to me again, there must be something up. Next, you need to tighten up on triage and admissions. It’s peak flu season now, so we need to keep up the hospital’s disinfection work." Zhou Shuwen said.
"You can rest assured about that; it’s all part of our routine. Today we resuscitated a patient, and something a bit unexpected happened on the table. I’d like to report it to you." Liu Banxia said quickly.
He then briefly walked through what had happened at the time and the judgment he’d made.
Zhou Shuwen frowned slightly, but his expression soon relaxed. "It’s fine. In that situation, your judgment was pretty good too. I just didn’t expect that your hands had gotten this fast, kid."
"That was my limit. Then my hands started to tremble, and the rest of the operation was done by Dr. Wei leading Xu Yino and Li Hao; I just stood on the side watching." Liu Banxia said with a wry smile.
"I feel like my state at the time was like some kind of eruption. And when I made that decision, I actually didn’t think it through at all; the decision was just suddenly there."
"Strictly speaking, my hands were still operating, and then my brain very naturally came up with that idea, and the words just came out of my mouth."
"But at that moment there was no other option. There were no other thoughts in my head—just mobilize, just suture. It was only after the resuscitation succeeded that I suddenly felt a bit scared in retrospect. I don’t know if I’d become a bit fixated in that moment."
Zhou Shuwen laughed. "For a surgeon, we actually wish we had more of that kind of ’fixation.’ You, kid, it’s not easy—you can throw yourself into a surgery very easily. That’s a very good trait."
"Martial arts novels often talk about a state called Self-Forgetfulness. What you experienced then should be about the same, that’s why you had that kind of explosive speed."
"Of course that kind of operation will be exhausting. Don’t carry a psychological burden over it; it was really good. And in my opinion, your judgment today was actually very accurate."
"The time we have to make judgments is extremely short; we have to make snap decisions, otherwise we might miss the best window for resuscitation."
"And I think the odds of the patient being left with sequelae given such a short time frame are also very low. During the meeting today, the directors on the inpatient side were still complaining to me, saying this round of debridement assessments is probably going to discourage a lot of people."
Liu Banxia laughed. "I just asked Xu Yino about it—on the inpatient side, only the anorectal department can really compete with us; the other departments just can’t cut it."
"Actually, the assessment standards are the same as before; they’re just more specific now, and we’ve added patient feedback. There’s definitely some bias in there, since patients’ tolerance levels vary."
"But overall, they don’t take it as seriously as we do. Even though this isn’t some earth‑shattering assessment, you can still see the differences between them in these basic operations."
"Alright, go get back to work. I’ll be going on a trip in a couple of days. When the time comes, you and Xuehai keep a close eye on things here." Zhou Shuwen said.
"Don’t worry, I’ve already managed to pull my thoughts away from my two babies. Let Qiaoqiao and Qing Kewa stay home and play with them; I’ll see them as soon as I get back." Liu Banxia said with a smile.
"That second baby of yours is something else. I held him once, and the way he cried was really fierce." Zhou Shuwen shook his head.
Liu Banxia could only grin.
Looked like his own second baby really had become famous, truly not an easy one to handle.
Walking out of Zhou Shuwen’s office, Liu Banxia felt much more relaxed.
Even though he was the respected Teacher Liu of the six little ones, and also Director Liu of the emergency center, he still needed other people’s support and encouragement.
And in the entire emergency center, the only one who could give him that was Zhou Shuwen.
"How are today’s patients doing?" After coming outside, Liu Banxia asked.
"Not bad, today it’s mainly flu patients. What we can do is bring their fever down, relieve symptoms, make them a bit more comfortable." Qi Wentai said.
"There aren’t many patients in beds right now; only the one you admitted needs to go up to the OR. But he’s really something, incredible, too incredible."
"Don’t praise me, or I might end up with a complaint." Liu Banxia said.
"Let’s hope the young guy has a good outcome. Anyway, he’s been sent to the ICU, he should be able to pull through. The organ damage is severe, and he lost too much blood."
"Oh right, the director just said we really have to buck up for what’s coming next. This wave of flu is pretty intense, a lot of hospitals are probably already overflowing with patients."
"There are several just in our industrial park alone. My father-in-law has given Qiaoqiao a strict order: since she’s in her confinement period anyway, she’s not allowed to go out."
Qi Wentai laughed. "If it were someone else, they’d probably behave and do their confinement properly. From what I saw when she was discharged yesterday, she was in a very good mood."
"Sigh... she’s too headstrong, and there’s nothing I can do. She doesn’t listen to us, and we don’t have much authority either." Liu Banxia said with a wry smile.
"Especially now that she’s got Qing Kewa backing her up. I figure if she can manage to stay cooped up at home for a week, that’s already a big hurdle. And that’s with my mom and Old Qiu’s wife keeping an eye on her; otherwise it’d be even more hopeless."
This was another thing giving him a headache, and could be counted as a side effect of Qing Kewa’s arrival.
Qiaoqiao’s theory was that abroad, after giving birth, you just go right back to whatever you were doing; you can give birth today and still go to work tomorrow. Besides, she’d already been in the hospital for so long, and her recovery was really very good.
What else could he say? He could only offer advice from the angle of racial differences.
He really was thinking of Qiaoqiao’s own good. If she really ended up with confinement-related problems, she’d suffer for the rest of her life, and it’s not something that’s easy to fix.
But Qiaoqiao’s constitution really was quite good; otherwise she couldn’t have recovered this quickly. That was her confidence, and made her somewhat "lawless."
Actually, this flu thing is really a tough one.
There’s no way to cure it, you can only relieve it. Those cold medicines are mainly antipyretic and analgesic—that’s what symptom relief is.
So people telling you to drink more hot water actually have a point; it can speed up your body’s metabolism.
But if you have other immunosuppressive conditions, you really need to be careful when you catch a cold. Because after you catch a cold, your immune defenses will drop sharply, giving other diseases a chance to slip in.
This is no joke. Many times we think someone is very healthy, then suddenly we get news that a small cold took their life.
In fact, it’s all the result of different diseases interacting with each other, with the trigger being the drop in immunity after a cold.
It’s similar to diabetes or hypertension. They don’t look like a big deal and seem very common. But if you ever give them an opening, they can really wreck you.
While he was chatting with Qi Wentai, a patient suddenly started vomiting.
Fortunately, the emergency center had been prepared for this; otherwise, with such sudden vomiting, things could have gotten very ugly.
"This wave really is quite serious." Qi Wentai commented.
"Isn’t it? We have to do a good job with disinfection and sterilization." Liu Banxia said with a smile.
"Especially our medical staff, we must做好防护 when seeing patients. Even if wearing a mask is uncomfortable, we have to stick with it. If we’re short-staffed, we won’t be able to hold the line."
"Teacher Liu, come quickly, the patient’s passed out, heart rate is very low."
At this moment, Liu Yiqing shouted.
Liu Banxia looked over; it was that same patient who had just vomited. Without thinking, he ran straight over.
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