Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s
Chapter 553 - Chapter 553 【553】The patients condition turns critical

Chapter 553: [(553)] The patient’s condition turns critical Chapter 553: [(553)] The patient’s condition turns critical Zhang Wei’s mother was asleep on the accompanying bed, snoring.

Not dealing with it was the right call. Xie Wanying let out a sigh of relief and walked to the nurses’ station. Sister Lingling sat there catching her breath, just having been busied and frustrated by the patient in bed 38 making a stealthy exit.

“How’s bed 38?” Xie Wanying asked.

“You’re back,” Sister Lingling let out a sigh, “I told her to sleep, but she’s hiding under the blankets trying to make a phone call. I’m thinking about confiscating her phone.”

The recharge card was in her white coat pocket. Xie Wanying thought for a moment, trusted her senior nurse, and handed the card over to Sister Lingling, “You decide when it’s appropriate to give it to her.”

“I’ll give it to her during the day. If she keeps this up, there’s no need for her to sleep tonight. I’ll give the card to her attending physician during the day,” Sister Lingling decided.

Xie Wanying sat down beside her, taking a rest.

Since she didn’t say anything, Sister Lingling, also exhausted, didn’t notice anything unusual about her and busied herself with writing the nursing records for the night shift.

Looking up at the clock, it was nearly 4:30 am. Xie Wanying wondered whether to lie down for a while longer when she suddenly remembered her classmate Li Qi’an, “Has he gone to sleep?”

“Your classmate? No, he went to see patient 23’s aunt after checking that bed 9 was alright because I told him her blood oxygen saturation was low,” Sister Lingling said.

Everyone knew what patient 23’s condition implied. Xie Wanying got up and walked to the ward.

Li Qi’an’s gaze was fixed on the numbers on the monitor, followed by a long sigh.

He tried increasing the oxygen supply for the patient, but it had little effect on her blood oxygen saturation.

If this step had been effective, it wouldn’t have been left for him to do late at night; the daytime doctors would have already done it. The medications that could be used had already been administered by Gao Zhaocheng that morning; now, they were just trying to prolong the patient’s life as much as possible. The patient was hanging on only by the stimulation of the drugs, but ultimately, medication is no miracle cure, and it couldn’t keep her hanging on for much longer.

Aunt Wang’s tumor had metastasized to her brain. Late-stage brain metastases differ significantly from primary brain tumors in that the cancer cells tend to spread diffusely throughout the brain, which means that surgery is not an option for these patients. So Huang Zhilei’s visit that night only concluded that chemotherapy was the next step to try.

The cancer cells were besieging the patient’s vital junctions, resulting in a terrifying hypoxia. Hypoxia is one of the most feared clinical signs. Once a patient’s blood oxygen saturation remains below ninety and cannot be corrected, experienced clinicians know that the patient doesn’t have much time left, unless a miracle occurs.

Could a miracle happen? Li Qi’an hoped for a miracle. So did Dr. Gao, the attending physician, as did all the medical staff. The patient’s daughter-in-law and grandson also hoped that their loved one would survive.

Xie Wanying approached the bed and saw the patient’s lips were almost black and purple; no wonder her classmate didn’t dare leave.

There would be no miracle. So-called medical miracles often occur when doctors have not fully understood certain aspects of life science. And Aunt Wang’s condition required an understanding that doctors already had; a miracle was impossible.

“Make a call to have her family come over,” Xie Wanying decided decisively, turning back to her classmate.

Li Qi’an was taken aback, “At this time?”

Four in the morning. Call the family? How would they get here? Take a taxi in the middle of the night?

“Just make the call,” Xie Wanying told her classmate firmly.

Right, how could such things be considered at a time like this?! Li Qi’an’s mind cleared, and he stepped out to call Miao Fen, “Hello, this is Doctor Li from the hospital. Please come over now with Mingming. Aunt Wang is in very bad shape. Dr. Gao should have mentioned it to you before.”

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