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Chapter 446 - Chapter 446 【446】If a major blood vessel is ruptured

Chapter 446: [(446)] If a major blood vessel is ruptured Chapter 446: [(446)] If a major blood vessel is ruptured We must find the source of the patient’s bleeding by any means necessary.

Tan Kelin, who stepped up to the operating table, was equally aware of this fact. He came with the same purpose as Gao Zhaocheng, to quickly locate the bleeding site.

But in front of him lay a vast sea of blood; the entire abdominal cavity seemed to be filled with blood, causing him, a surgeon, to shiver involuntarily. Honestly, anyone who came to look would likely feel the same; the situation was dire.

All their past medical experiences were telling him and Gao Zhaocheng that they were in trouble, big trouble. The odds were not in favor of saving this patient. As a doctor, the choiceless choice was to keep fighting to save the patient until the last moment. What they needed now were more useful suggestions to reference, to quickly determine where the greatest blood flow was. This was the reason he had brought his students.

“What are your thoughts?” Tan Kelin’s gaze sharply pierced into the surgical field as he asked in a deep voice.

The people surrounding the operating table looked up upon hearing his voice: Who are you talking to?

Doctor Pan, thinking he was asking about the previous patient’s condition to decide the next step, approached and reported, “When the patient came in, his blood pressure was alright, I don’t know why there was bleeding once the laparoscopic was inserted.”

“Did you hit a blood vessel?” Gao Zhaocheng urgently asked him from across.

“I didn’t insert any other surgical equipment, I just inserted the laparoscope to check the situation!” Doctor Pan exclaimed until his voice was hoarse.

“You could have hit a blood vessel when inserting the laparoscope, you know?” Gao Zhaocheng countered.

Doctor Pan’s eyes widened in realization, knowing that Gao was right. But where could such a large vessel be that was so fragile a mere contact with a laparoscope, even without a sharp tip, would rupture it? It could only mean the patient’s blood vessels had some serious flaw.

“Could it be a rupture in the abdominal aorta?” others could only guess. With such a high volume of bleeding, could it be a rupture of that dreadful large vessel in the human abdominal cavity?

“Abdominal aortic rupture?” Gao Zhaocheng said outright, “If that’s the case, there’s no saving them.”

“If it were an abdominal aortic rupture, shouldn’t the blood be spraying out?”

Whose voice was that? A girl’s voice?

Was it the scrub nurse? No, the scrub nurse was too busy counting items, too panicked to function. If a patient died on the operating table, the nurses would have a lot of trouble to handle.

“Right, you’re correct. If it were an aortic rupture, the blood should be spraying out,” Gao Zhaocheng nodded vigorously, wondering who had such calm and clever reasoning when he turned his head and caught a glimpse–it was the junior sister who had arrived.

The aorta is the blood vessel with the highest blood pressure in the human body, coming directly from the left ventricle of the heart, with the highest pressure. The spraying blood often depicted in TV dramas mostly comes from this major artery. The right ventricle of the heart also has an artery called the pulmonary artery, but its pressure is only one-sixth of that of the aorta, incomparable.

That Tan Kelin, he brought his junior sister here. Gao Zhaocheng squinted his eyes, admiring how, despite the surgical mask, her revealed double-lidded big eyes were remarkably calm and determined.

Tan Kelin’s previous question had found its addressee.

“You, speak!” Tan Kelin said to his student.

“Teacher Tan, give me the suction device, I need to confirm,” Xie Wanying replied decisively.

“Give it to her!”

As the command was issued, the Second Assistant holding the suction device was taken aback. A resident doctor was expected to give way to an intern?

Doctor Pan approached, “This? Dr. Tan, you–”

Dr. Tan, please don’t give up on my patient. This was the loud subtext in Doctor Pan’s heart. Otherwise, why suddenly call upon an intern to do this.