Chapter 045: Helpless

  Zhu Zhi-xiang's heart skipped a beat, and some hospital leaders who had followed him over were also stunned.

  They work in the hospital and are very clear about what kind of doctor is mainly responsible for coming out during surgery, let alone Director Ma's face looks so bad when he comes out, as if his own father had died.

  This is also why Director Zhao couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw them like this. Anyone would be heartbroken seeing such a scene.

  Deputy Director Li Ji hurriedly walked forward and asked urgently: "Director Ma, what's going on?"

  When Li Yu asked the question, the dean and others stared at Director Ma with eager eyes. Everyone's heart rate accelerated involuntarily, and a few people quietly retreated backwards.

  The hospital cured or successfully rescued Director Zhao's father, which is a good thing, or a good thing to show one's face.

  If it fails, and Zhao's father appears with an unfavorable outcome, the good deed will turn into a bad one. If Zhao sees this, he'll definitely be in trouble if he remembers it.

  Everyone knows that Director Zhao is very filial, if his father had died in the Third Hospital, it would be unbelievable for anyone to say that he has no other views on the Third Hospital.

  Director Ma shook his head and said slowly, "The situation is very bad. The patient's condition this time is not just a simple cerebral thrombosis, but also accompanied by acute cerebral embolism. There are many thrombi in the blood vessels at present. After emergency treatment to dissolve the thrombus, we cleared away part of it, but there are still several key positions that cannot be removed, especially the pons and cerebellum. At present, there is no way at all!"

  Director Zhao, who was lowering his head and wiping away tears, suddenly raised his head after hearing their words and grabbed Director Ma.

  "Doctor, you're saying... my dad is still alive?"

  "Yes, Director Zhao, we have now controlled the condition, but it has not yet passed the critical period. Dr. Yang and I came out together to tell you this!"

  Director Ma hastily nodded, and the doctor from the Provincial People's Hospital who followed him out also said: "Director Zhao, although we have controlled the condition for the time being, it is only temporary. We have at most twelve hours to think of a solution, otherwise the patient will still be in danger!"

  Dr. Yang from Provincial People's Hospital is not as polite to Director Zhao as he was to Director Ma.

  Shengyi Hospital is the most famous hospital in Changjing. The most important thing is that this hospital is directly under the provincial health department and is not within the jurisdiction of the health bureau. They came to help because they are from the same system.

  So he didn't seem as nervous or flattering to Director Zhao like Dr. San and the others did.

  "Dr. Yang, we're transferring hospitals, can you cure him if we transfer to your hospital?"

  Learning that his father had not yet reached the worst outcome, Director Zhao's heart rose with new hope. After Dr. Yang finished speaking, he immediately came to the front of Dr. Yang and asked a question directly.

  His words made the faces of many doctors in San Yuan Hospital look slightly unpleasant. Zhao's words were equivalent to directly disbelieving their hospital. Normally, Zhao might not have spoken like this, but today he was really anxious and didn't care about his tone.

  "No way, our hospital's best cardiovascular experts are all here. If it can't be treated here, it won't work anywhere else. Even if we go to other places in the country, I estimate the success rate will not exceed 30%."

  Dr. Yang shook his head, and Director Zhao's heart immediately cooled down a lot, he understood what Dr. Yang meant.

  Actually, Dr. Yang had told him before that Zhao Lao's condition was not very good and he should go to Kyoto or some hospitals in Hong Kong for a thorough check-up. Director Zhao had been worried about it but was too busy with work, planning to take his father to those hospitals after this period of busyness and also bring the old man on a tour at the same time.

  Unfortunately, he hadn't gone yet when the accident happened.

  "Three-tenths, it's so low, isn't there a suitable place domestically?"

  Director Zhao stood there in a daze, his heart growing even colder. This Dr. Yang was the best cardiovascular specialist at Provincial Hospital and had some reputation nationwide. His words meant that no one in the country could have more than a 30% chance of saving his father.

  Three percent, this hope is really too low, many doctors are even unwilling to accept such patients.

  Moreover, in Changjing it's still okay to say, he is after all the director of the Health Bureau, even hospitals directly under the jurisdiction of the Health Department will give him some face. But once outside of Changjing, who would still care about his face, his connections wouldn't reach that far. Such a serious illness, if delayed for just a moment, the consequences are unthinkable.

  Dr. Yang shook his head again: "No, if Mr. Zhao only had an acute cerebral thrombosis, our provincial hospital would have at least a 60-70% chance of rescuing him back. But this time he was accompanied by cardiac embolism, which is equivalent to heart and brain complications, making the condition much more complicated. For such a disease, currently only one hospital in the United States has had multiple successful treatments, they should have a 70% chance, but that hospital is too far away, and the patient is not suitable for such a long transfer at present!"

  After finishing speaking, Dr. Yang also let out a soft sigh.

  Cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism both belong to cerebrovascular occlusion, which are often easily confused in daily life. However, they are absolutely different, with a low probability of occurring together. Nevertheless, once they occur together, the consequences can be very severe.

  This is also the reason why Dr. Yang refused Director Zhao's request to transfer hospitals, as they didn't even have a 30% chance of success, so it was better to stay at the Third Hospital, and at least this matter wouldn't be related to their provincial hospital, even if the patient couldn't be rescued, Director Zhao couldn't blame their provincial hospital, their doctors had already done their best.

  Director Zhao's face revealed a hint of despair, and he couldn't help but cover his face and squat down there.

  America is a place of hope, but Dr. Yang also said that at this time his father was not suitable for long-distance transfer, and even if he could be transferred, it would not be possible to arrange a plane to send his father over right now.

  He is just a director of health bureau, has no such power and is not a rich man, having money to charter a plane, this hope for him is equivalent to nothing.

  "Director Zhao, don't worry, your father is a good man, and good people have good fortune. We will immediately organize all the best doctors for a consultation, and we won't give up on any hope!"

  Zhu Zhixiang hurried over and comforted him in a low voice. He was well aware of the difficulties of this disease, but he couldn't help saying so.

  In his heart, he was also secretly scolding himself for being unlucky. Why did Director Zhao's father have to be near their hospital? If it were another hospital, this unfortunate incident wouldn't have fallen on them.

  If the father of his superior really died in his own hospital, just thinking about it would make his head swell.

  "Is consultation still useful?"

  Director Zhao slowly raised his head, looking somewhat hesitant. Going to the United States was impossible; Dr. Yang had also said that his father was not suitable for long-distance transfer. But there was a glimmer of hope and he wouldn't give it up. Zhu Zhi-xiang's words had struck a chord in his heart.

  "I'll have to try hard to know, I'm going to arrange it now!"

  Zhu Zhi-xiang said in a low voice, and directly stood up to call for all the doctors who specialized in cardiovascular diseases in the hospital to come over. Zhao's father's condition couldn't be delayed any longer, there was no time left, finding a treatment method that could succeed as soon as possible was currently the most important thing.

  The office next to the operating room was temporarily requisitioned by Zhu Zhi-xiang, and soon more than a dozen doctors wearing white coats gathered inside, Wu You-dao was also invited over by Zhu Zhi-xiang.

  Sometimes, some Western doctors can't do things that traditional Chinese medicine can. Wu Youdao is a truly skilled old Chinese doctor who is very famous in the province and even has a reputation nationwide.

  Let Wu Youdao come in and help, it's also a bit of extra strength.

  A dozen or so doctors quickly discussed the condition of Director Zhao's father, each expressing their own views.

  Some people suggested clearing the emboli that had passed through the heart first, because these emboli of varying sizes were a huge danger wherever they stopped, and clearing them out would allow us to focus on dealing with those in the brain.

  Unfortunately, this proposal was immediately vetoed by Dr. Yang.

  If it were that simple, they wouldn't have come out to tell Director Zhao these things. The current locations of these blood clots are all very troublesome. There are two small clots in the cerebellum that came from the heart, and this blood vessel is not large, but the clots just happen to be stuck in the middle of the cerebellum, making it impossible to perform surgery.

  Then other doctors also expressed their own views and suggestions, and finally all these proposals had a common result, that is, no plan could be implemented.

  It's also true that if it were really possible, Dr. Yang wouldn't have said those words either, what can be thought of he had already thought of long ago.

  After a two-hour discussion, Director Zhao's father had another crisis, but thanks to the joint efforts of Dr. Yang and Director Ma, they managed to get through it. However, they also discovered that the previously estimated time had been shortened by quite a bit. Director Zhao's father might be able to hold on for only four or five more hours at most.

  This still didn't have an unexpected situation like just now, if there's another unexpected situation, it might be over immediately.

  "Mr. Wu, do you have any good ideas?"

  Zhu Zhixiang was completely out of options and looked at Wu Youdao before asking directly.

  He didn't pin his hopes on Wu Youdao either, but in his heart he held a glimmer of luck, hoping that Wu Youdao's traditional Chinese medicine had some way to deal with this situation.

  "I can't!"

  Wu Youdao gently shook his head. Actually, just now when they were discussing, he was also thinking about whether the patient's condition could be alleviated with traditional Chinese medicine.

  He also specially followed to see the patient's condition for this.

  The final result was very disappointing to him, and he had no way to cure this disease. Treating such sudden onset diseases is indeed the strong point of Western medicine. As the saying goes, 'acute illnesses are treated with Western medicine, while chronic illnesses are treated with traditional Chinese medicine.' In terms of treating acute illnesses, Western medicine is indeed stronger than traditional Chinese medicine.

  Zhu Zhi-xiang's eyes were somewhat dim, as if he had anticipated it. Director Zhao's anger was triggered by his father's death in this very place.

  "But there's one thing I'd like to mention, the disease that the patient has contracted this time, whether it's a cerebral thrombosis or a cerebral embolism, is all a type of cerebrovascular accident. And what kind of disease a cerebrovascular accident is, everyone should be very clear about, right?"

  Wu Youdao looked at the dozen or so people in front of him and slowly said another sentence. Many people were confused, scratching their heads, Wu Youdao's words they naturally knew, this was the most basic foundation.

  Wu Yu had said these words, but they did not understand their meaning.

  "Let me remind you again, a few days ago our hospital misdiagnosed a patient who had acute myocardial ischemia!"

  After finishing this sentence, Wu Youdao gently closed his eyes, and that young face appeared in his mind again.

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