My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points
Chapter 369 - 176: Slow, It Really Can Be Deadly. Save The Situation_2

The human body's blood makes up about 8% of its weight.

A 100-jin adult has about 4000 milliliters of blood. If it's a 200-jin overweight person, having 8000 milliliters of blood inside is not surprising.

Most adults have a normal blood volume of around 5000 to 6000 milliliters.

Taking an adult with 4000 milliliters of blood as an example, actually only about 70% of this blood, at most 80%, is truly circulating within the body.

The remaining 30% of the blood is stored in various tissue cells within the body.

When our body is injured and loses 500 milliliters of blood. Do you think the blood in the vessels will decrease?

It will not.

After the blood system in the body senses a decrease in the blood volume, it will quickly mobilize body fluids to replenish it.

Most of our bodies are made of water.

The water content in newborns can even be as high as 80%, and in adults, it's slightly lower, around 60%.

So, theoretically speaking, even if the body loses 4000 milliliters of blood, if this process is not in a very short period of time. Our body can replenish the lost blood and always maintain it at around 4000 milliliters.

Of course, after all, it's a replenishment of body fluids, the total blood volume remains unchanged, but the concentration of the blood is diluted.

The body will definitely develop problems.

Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, albumin, globulin, clotting factors, electrolytes, these trace elements lost cannot be quickly replenished by body fluids.

This will cause disorder throughout the body's circulatory system.

The consequences are very serious.

Theoretically speaking, donating about 200 milliliters of blood each time is harmless to the body and can even be beneficial. Donating more than 400 milliliters at once may cause some harm to the body.

Donating blood frequently in a short period of time is also very harmful.

According to scientific judgment, it is harmless for an adult to donate blood about once every half a year.

The patient on the operating table has been bleeding continuously and has already bled a lot, which is actually quite dangerous.

Doctor Long definitely realized this as well, as sweat continuously beaded on his forehead while he was separating the tissues around the ribs.

Time slowly passed by, and although Zhou Can had the ability to perform better and faster than Doctor Long.

But as a resident and a newcomer, his role determined that he could only stand by idly and quietly wait for the opportunity.

Showing off in front of a senior doctor, unless approved by that senior doctor, is simply asking for trouble.

"The patient is nearly gone! How much longer will it take to stop the bleeding?"

Dr. Guan remained silent.

At this moment, watching the patient's vital signs weaken like a dying oil lamp, Dr. Guan was truly anxious.

"This rib and surrounding tissue separation is very difficult, I'm afraid of damaging important blood vessels and nerves if I hasten the process. Dr. Guan, try to hold on a bit longer."

The lead surgeon and the anesthesiologist are like comrades in battle.

One responsible for cover, the other for the charge.

"Ask the blood center again, can we get two more bags of plasma?"

Dr. Guan spoke to the circulating nurse.

"I'll ask right away!"

The nurse made a call to expedite the plasma.

Sometimes, with some rare blood types, there really isn't much plasma in stock.

Even for a provincial top-tier hospital like Tu Ya, if it had been a smaller hospital, they would have already been making calls everywhere to borrow some.

About a minute later, Doctor Long's expression became extremely solemn, and his actions almost completely stopped.

Doctor Long saw this situation, almost upset enough to stomp his feet.

The other medical staff observed this and were equally tense.

Lead surgeon Doctor Long seemed to have encountered a problem.

Under normal circumstances, taking the surgery slow wouldn't be an issue.

Because meticulous work yields fine results.

However, with the patient having a major bleed in the chest cavity, time is life, fearing the patient wouldn't last long.

The medical staff dared not even breathe heavily, just hoping Doctor Long could quickly overcome the difficulties in the surgery.

"Damn it, whatever I fear most is exactly what happens. This area has dense blood vessels and nerves, making separation extremely difficult. Normally, I can successfully separate them slowly. Now with immense pressure, I'm too tense, I can't perform well. I might only have to request assistance from Director Hu."

Doctor Long, while cursing under his breath, finds an excuse for himself.

That explanation was rather reasonable.

Director Hu Kan is the touchstone in the heart of all Cardiothoracic Surgery doctors.

When encountering insurmountable issues in surgery, the first thought is always to seek help from Director Hu Kan.

Dubbed 'the most stable scalpel,' and he has never let the Cardiothoracic Surgery doctors down.

"Director Hu has been called to obstetrics to preside over a joint surgery, he might not be able to come now," the surgical nurse said.

This news made Doctor Long feel like he had plunged into an ice cellar.

His heart sank as well.

The more proficient surgeons in Cardiothoracic Surgery all inherited Director Hu Kan's 'steady hand' trait.

While pursuing stability, it inevitably leads to the surgical process becoming slow.

In this world, nothing and no one is perfect.

With strengths, there must be weaknesses.

"I remember Dr. Zhou's separation skill seemed very commendable."

At this critical juncture, Dr. Guan spoke again.

All eyes turned to Zhou Can, this penalized resident, what's his story?

The anesthesiologist seemed very optimistic about him.

Separation Skill is recognized as one of the hardest surgical skills to master.

Incision Skill, Suturing Skill, these are just common surgical skills, but Separation Skill is listed as an Advanced Medical Skill.

There aren't many doctors who are proficient in it.

"He, a resident, being able to practice even once on sewing up skin is already good. Separating important tissues, blood vessels, nerves, he did well?"

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