Surgery Godfather

Chapter 249: Chapter 0233 Blocked Again

“Their surgical demonstration has begun!”

Fujiwara Miyuki reminded Takahashi that Sanbo Hospital hadn’t canceled the surgical demonstration.

Takahashi glanced at the screen, which displayed the background image for Sanbo Hospital, “Wait patiently. The ambulance won’t be back before dinner. You haven’t experienced their traffic jams. The emergency lanes are blocked up tight. Sometimes even the ambulance may not be able to reach the accident scene.”

Blocking emergency lanes is indeed detestable. But people’s civilized behavior needs cultivation, and it can’t happen overnight. China’s development time has been short, and these things take time.

“Decades ago in Tokyo, it was common to see people urinating in public,” Fujiwara Miyuki casually said.

Is she Chinese or Japanese, always defending China?

Takahashi had a reason to question, who on earth this Miss from the Fujiwara family was.

“Their helicopter has taken off. With a helicopter, they can reach anywhere.” Fujiwara Miyuki was keeping track of the progress of the emergency rescue.

On the screen, captions provided information on when the helicopter and the ambulance had set off.

“This kind of rescue isn’t something that can be solved with a single helicopter. A complete rescue team, professional rescue tools, necessary medical equipment – how many people and equipment can a helicopter accommodate? Don’t harbor high hopes. You’ll see, systemic differences can’t be solved locally.”

Takahashi believed that he had hit the nail on the head, Fujiwara was always naive.

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Although the emergency lane was congested, the congestion was on the road section behind the accident site.

There was no traffic jam in front of the accident site, and ahead of the accident site to the nearest highway entrance, the road was clear of vehicles.

With eight casualties, including one already dead, this was considered a serious traffic accident. The district government had intervened in the rescue operation, and handed over medical aid to the most capable in the jurisdiction, Sanbo Hospital, and dispatched traffic police and firefighters to the scene for rescue.

The one who arrived at the scene first was an old traffic officer. His police car was stuck on the emergency lane and couldn’t move at all.

He was very experienced. After carefully analyzing the traffic conditions on the accident segment, he asked his colleague to stay in the car and walked down the highway on foot. He commandeered a Great Wall pickup truck from a farmer and took a detour on the rural road to get to the highway entrance ahead of the accident section. Then, with hazard lights on, he drove against traffic to the scene.

There was not a single car on this stretch of road, and he realized that the accident was serious. There must have been several cars involved, including heavy goods vehicles, which had caused the roadblock.

Upon arriving at the scene, the old traffic police officer immediately cordoned off the area, blocking all cars behind the accident.

He then reported to his superiors the general details of the accident and suggested a route for police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks to smoothly reach the scene.

As such, under the direction of the district government’s accident management task group, a police car took the lead, guiding the ambulance and fire truck from the nearest highway entrance, against traffic, up to the accident site.

To ensure that the ambulance could smoothly return to Sanbo Hospital, the task group planned a return route, dispatching traffic police along the way to facilitate the traffic, preparing to escort the ambulance through each checkpoint.

Once the main force arrived, all doctors and nurses got off and divided into groups to carry out emergency rescue on the patients, maintaining vital signs before tranferring them to the ambulance vehicles.

Training was very effective. The doctors and nurses cooperated seamlessly, wasting no time, orderly and properly prioritized.

The traffic police was led by Captain Qin of the squadron. He was having an IV drip at the hospital when he received a call from his superiors. He removed the drip himself and returned to duty.

“Captain Qin, there are a total of eight casualties. Dr. Lv has examined them. One has died and out of the remaining seven, five are in serious condition and two are less so. Among the five serious cases, three of them are stuck in the car and can’t be removed.” Old He, the veteran traffic police officer, reported.

Captain Qin said appreciatively, “Old He, without your timely suggestion, we wouldn’t have arrived so quickly.”@@novelbin@@

He then saluted Dr. Lv, “Thank you everyone for your hard work.”

A fire truck arrived, bringing many people and quite a few equipment.

They were very skilled, behaving instinctively the moment they got off the car, cutting, prying, and lifting whatever necessary.

They managed to rescue people even from difficult cuts by flipping the car to its side and cutting from the chassis.

The three trapped red tag patients were rescued and moved onto the stretchers.

As the leader of the pre-hospital emergency care team, Dr. Lv once again quickly assessed the injuries and provided necessary life support.

Patient one had severe traumatic intracranial hemorrhaging, half of the facial tissues had been torn and detached from the body. One side of the upper body was also torn and detached, and abdominal puncture indicated blood in the abdominal cavity, suggesting internal organ damage too. Both thighs were seriously deformed indicating probable comminuted fractures of the femur.

Blood transfusion and fluid resuscitation were administered for shock treatment, emergency tracheotomy was performed to maintain a clear airway, and a simple ventilator was used to maintain patient’s breathing. The detached tissues and body parts were preserved in a refrigerator. Dr. Lv quickly made this decision.

With a blood transfusion bus present, it was quick to determine the blood type, cross-match, and transfuse blood on the spot.

It was impossible to perform a surgery for intracranial bleeding on the spot, whether it was due to lack of technology or medical environment. After personally handling the first patient, Dr. Lv directed, “Patient one must be sent via helicopter. Rush them back to the hospital for surgery.”

Dr. Lv called Director Xiong Sihai and relayed the patient’s conditions. After that, he gave instructions to the medical care team responsible for the patient.

A few firefighters helped to lift the stretcher, and patient one was promptly moved to the helicopter.

Patient two was also unconscious and sustained serious injuries. Their skull was likely fractured due to the panda-like discoloration around their eyes, indicating brain injury. Their intestines were squeezed out, spilling all over the place, some already necrotic. The doctors performed protective bandaging and gave blood transfusion and fluid resuscitation for shock treatment before sending them to the ambulance.

Patient three, the one twisted like a pocket knife – judging by the position of the injury, it seemed that they had been sleeping with their legs propped up at the time of the accident. With the violent impact, they had slipped under the seat and was squashed back and forth, causing their spine to fold forcibly into a pocket knife shape at the waist.

The preliminary judgment is a spinal fracture and dislocation, both lower limbs have lost sensation and can’t move. It’s unknown whether the spinal cord or the horse tail nerves are damaged, but luckily, the patient is conscious, with stable vital signs. They’ve been tagged as green, no immediate action needed, ready for surgery upon return.

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Of the eight injured, only seven could be transported. One boarded the helicopter, six in the vehicles, all of them receiving blood transfusion.

After finishing the rescue, Captain Sha came over to greet Dr. Lv, even offering a salute, “I heard from Qiangzi, you guys are racing the Japanese in emergency rescue?”

“It’s an academic conference, live broadcast, not a competition!” Dr. Lv raised his hand in salute, ready to get into the vehicle.

“Keep it up,” Captain Sha said, “returning with only seven, unfortunately, one was beyond saving.”

A traffic police officer’s motorcycle screeched to a stop. The officer quickly dismounted, removed his helmet, and rushed over to report to Captain Qin, “Captain, we have a problem! The highway exits we just passed are totally jammed.”

“What happened? It was perfectly fine just now, another accident?” Captain Qin scratched his head.

“Exactly, no casualties, but the roads are blocked. The traffic jam is getting worse.” Officer He, who has been riding the motorcycle out of concern, was helpless.

After swallowing nervously, Captain Qin realized how dire the situation was. The closest highway exits were blocked, indicating something happened up ahead, and the ambulance was now stuck in the middle.

With no exits, what could they do? Today was really an unlucky day.

Upon hearing the news, Dr. Lv felt like he’d fallen into an icehouse. How could this happen?

The helicopter could only take one patient at a time, half an hour to get back and forth, plus the time to land at both ends. More than forty minutes, so at most two could be saved this way, the rest would be doomed.

Just like last time, carry the patient on foot to find the car. But last time there was only one patient, now there were several, and they were stuck on the highway, no way out in the wilderness.

Officer He’s face is dark and grooved, the traces left by years of duty.

“You wait here, don’t worry, I’ll think of something, Captain, you come with me.” Suddenly, Officer He seemed to have an idea.

Captain Qin mopped the sweat off his brow and bellowed, “Let’s go!”

There’s a traffic jam, the ambulance can’t get back for now.

As soon as the news reached them, the conference room exploded with chattering. Now they’ve embarrassed themselves. What a mess it would have been avoided had the live surgery demo been cancelled.

Upon receiving the news, Director Tan was as fretful as an ant on a hot pan, trying to maintain composure so as not to reveal his anxiety.

The first step of pre-hospital emergency treatment was already flawed. The ambulance had barely managed to go in and was now unable to return, and they were in a real embarrassing position.

“Director Han?” Director Tan asked.

Director Han seemed very calm, “Don’t worry, we, the Chinese, can overcome any obstacle. The traffic police are working on it.”

With eight injured, it was already a major traffic accident. The district government had already been involved.

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“Didn’t I say, the ambulance won’t be back by dinnertime?”

Takahashi’s words came true, making him even more triumphant.

Fujiwara Miyuki was very anxious, “They’ll figure it out.”

“Didn’t you hear? It’s jammed up at both ends, the vehicles can’t get off the highway. What will they do? Oh, what a crowd of riffraff,” Takahashi whispered, still caught by Fujiwara Miyuki.

“Takahashi–” Fujiwara was extremely disgusted with his arrogance.

“Miss Miyuki, please, don’t be upset. I am merely stating a fact, without any ill intentions.” Takahashi defended himself.

He lifted a bottle of mineral water, took a sip, wishing he could just avoid drinking the water here, if he could choose.

—Dr. Sasaki finished the exposure, cautiously removed the steel plate, and placed it in the curved dish. He sighed with relief. Finally, their chances seemed a bit better for the poor little guy.

He began hemostasis and repair on the peanut-sized liver, sutured the torn common bile duct, and meticulously repaired the spleen and intestines.

All that’s left was the pancreas, too fragile, the little guy twitched from time to time, making every stitch a challenge for Dr. Sasaki.

Suspended his hands in midair, stitching the pancreas smaller than a peanut, a mistake in a couple of stitches could tear the pancreas, the consequences were unthinkable.

Pancreatic surgery was always high-risk and difficult, even for adults.

For such a little guy, injuries involving the pancreas and liver, the organs and ducts all require meticulous repair, difficulty upon difficulty.

Finally, there was a tear from one of Dr. Sasaki’s stitches.