My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points
Chapter 362 - 174: Reality of the Family, Excessive Electrocoagulation

He manages five patients, three awaiting surgery and two in the post-operative recovery phase. Overall, it's relatively relaxed.

Having such a rare relaxed moment, he began to review each patient's medical reports with a learning and responsible attitude, understanding their current symptoms. He now has quite some experience in communicating with patients and their families.

After all, he has been in residency training for quite a while.

Starting the conversation with issues that concern the patients or their families easily opens up the topic and garners their favor and trust.

The patient in bed 16 underwent a thoracic duct ligation two days ago and currently all vital signs are stable and recovering well. No complications have occurred post-surgery.

The patient in bed 17 has a cardiac artery aneurysm.

According to the medical reports, the aneurysm is quite large. There are various surgical options for treating aneurysms, such as aneurysm embolization, stenting, vascular replacement, and clipping.

If it is an ascending aortic aneurysm, stenting cannot be done.

Director Xue has decided on a surgical clipping of the aneurysm for this patient, probably because the affected area is not suitable for interventional surgery.

"Clipping the main aortic aneurysm might not be so easy to operate!"

After reading the medical report, Zhou Can believes that this surgery will be quite challenging.

He hasn't performed a cardiac artery aneurysm clipping surgery, but he has done intracranial aneurysm clipping surgeries.

And he has done several.

He has a relatively rich experience in the technical difficulties of clipping aneurysms.

Director Xue is the chief physician. She daringly set the surgery, definitely after a comprehensive evaluation of the risks and technical difficulties. It indicates she is confident.

Zhou Can doesn't need to worry about this.

The most formidable surgeon in Cardiothoracic Surgery should be 'the Steadiest Surgeon'—Director Hu Kan.

Zhou Can is particularly looking forward to witnessing Director Hu Kan's surgical prowess sometime.

"Xiao Zhou, the department has urgently scheduled a surgery for bed 19 at around 9:50. Send the patient to the operating room! You follow up on this!"

This VIP patient just got admitted and is undergoing surgery?

Though it's just a simple pectoral muscle suturing surgery, isn't this handled a bit too hastily?

Even in the Emergency Department, performing general anesthesia surgery is very cautious.

"He just got admitted, right? How about the preoperative 12-hour fasting rule?"

Zhou Can asked.

For adults undergoing general anesthesia, fasting is often required for 12 hours before surgery and no liquids 4 hours prior. Otherwise, after anesthesia, if the stomach contents reflux and enter the respiratory tract, it would not be a trivial matter.

"The attending physician has already asked, the patient hasn't eaten since 5 PM yesterday."

Dr. Zhao explained somewhat impatiently.

"Alright then!"

Zhou Can began to proceed with preparing patient 19 for surgery.

Conducting preoperative understanding and necessary tests are very essential. Helping the patient prepare well for surgery in the best state is crucial.

They must be sent to the operating room by 9:50, which is quite pressing.

Zhou Can could only attend to this matter first.

He went straight to bed 19, where three family members surrounded the bed, attentively caring for the man on the bed.

It was clear that this man had been spoiled by his parents since childhood.

An average adult male, even in intense pain from injury, would not cry out like a woman.

At the moment, the man, having received a painkiller injection, was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

His beautiful wife was sitting on a small plastic stool at the head of the bed, incessantly playing with her cellphone.

Zhou Can glanced over, and felt dizzy.

She was actually on Baidu, looking up what to do about a pectoral muscle injury?

The most feared are these types of patients who self-educate online. They like to use knowledge from the internet to judge whether the doctor's actions are correct or if there are any tricks.

"Hello, please give me the patient's medical report to review!"

The medical report was in her hands, and Zhou Can could only ask her for it.

The woman looked up at him reluctantly and retorted.

"Is it really necessary?"

Zhou Can had been making rounds at the bedside, they surely had noticed him earlier.

Family members of ordinary patients are usually very respectful towards doctors.

But this family of four was not ordinary.

Feeling connected to the chief physician of Cardiothoracic Surgery and possessing some influence, they did not consider Zhou Can, who they saw as a 'menial' doctor, to be important.

"The patient will undergo surgery at 9:50, we must make immediate preoperative preparations! We need your active cooperation."

Zhou Can spoke to her seriously.

"Who will be performing the surgery on my husband? Who is the chief surgeon? Even for a pre-operative consultation, shouldn't the chief surgeon personally come to talk to us? We are quite familiar with your Director Xue!"

After a series of questions, she even mentioned her relationship with Director Xue.

Medical staff find such patients very troublesome.

Because they are difficult to deal with.

Believing themselves to be familiar with hospital procedures and demonstrating a show of intelligence and superiority.

Of course, their intention is to obtain higher quality medical resources.

"The surgical plan will be discussed by the chief surgeon with you later. I am the attending doctor, responsible for following up on the surgery, helping the patient prepare for the necessary pre-operative procedures." Zhou Can was a bit headachy from her questioning.

The patient's parents stood by, silent, letting their daughter-in-law show off her knowledge and capability.

Probably this woman also wanted to perform well in front of her in-laws.

So, she was quite troublesome.

"Fine, fine, I knew you, an attending doctor, wouldn't know anything! I will talk to your chief surgeon later to get the details." Reluctantly, the woman handed over the medical report to Zhou Can.