BXBX NOVEL Chapter 173 - 174: Marry You When I Grow Up!
Chen Cang took the scalpel and began the procedure!
1 he human body is the most precise and complex instrument, and the neck is a bridge within the body.
1 here are many things there, but those most closely related to our daily lives are the trachea and esophagus.
Interestingly, both the trachea and esophagus are directly connected to the pharynx above. During breathing, the airway to the trachea opens while swallowing, the food passage opens, and the airway closes to prevent errors. Therefore, when we perform nasogastric intubation or gastroscopy in clinical practice, we often need the patient to cooperate by swallowing to prevent the tube from mistakenly entering the trachea, causing choking and endangering life. I he common practice of not talking or laughing loudly while eating is also to prevent food from mistakenly entering the trachea and causing suffocation. Even when performing artificial respiration, one needs to lift the lower jaw and tilt back the neck to open the airway, facilitating the entry of air into the lungs during artificial respiration.
The trachea is in front, the esophagus behind. Kids who have watched ‘Saw’ might remember a scene where a man, unable to breathe with a fishbowl over his head, used a pen to pierce his own trachea directly, opening the airway, thus preventing suffocation and death.
So this tells us that we should have medical knowledge, because even if we’re captured by Pighead, we wouldn’t end up killing ourselves with a pen trying to open the airway…
Of course, I don’t recommend learning this, because the neck is the most dangerous place. It’s not advisable to try this…
The surgery slowly proceeded!
Chen Cang started making an incision just below the cricoid cartilage, right up to the suprasternal notch in the middle, layer by layer peeling back his tissues.
He cut through the subcutaneous tissue, slit through and separated the platysma muscle, and bluntly dissected along the incision direction until reaching the thyroid gland.
He lifted the lower pole of the thyroid isthmus, exposing tracheal rings 2 to 4. Chen Cang took the forceps, bluntly cut through the pretracheal fascia to expose the trachea, and made a midline incision between the 2nd and 3rd rings; by then, the obstructing foreign body could be seen.
Chen Gang’s eyes caught sight of a red “eraser” there!
Chen Cang suddenly realized his eyes were stronger than any bronchoscope, CT, X-ray, or MRI.
Of course, this was under the precondition that he had opened the skin and tissue to see inside, which was a limitation. He should probably send feedback to the system and see if his eyesight could be upgraded.
Chen Cang made an incision below in the airway, and logically extracted the object!
It was a piece of eraser covered in blood, now successfully removed.
Next was suturing.
This was the first time Chen Cang had performed a trachea suture, but in fact, the principles are all similar.
The surgery was completed.
The little girl’s condition gradually improved, and her breathing became smoother.
She should be able to wake up before long.
Xiao He looked at Chen Cang, unable to resist giving a thumbs-up, “Impressive, Dr. Chen! Your emergency skills are truly remarkable.”
The surgery itself wasn’t difficult; the only concern had been the possibility of intraoperative complications. Now that the patient was stable, Chen Cang naturally felt the tension easing.
Hearing Xiao He praise him, Chen Cang smiled slightly, “I just know a bit of emergency care; it’s nothing to joke about, Director Xiao.”
Xiao He chuckled, impressed with the young man.
“Dr. Chen, give me your phone number. In the future, our endoscopy room will surely need the emergency room’s help often. With you there, I also have less running around to do,” Xiao He said to Chen Cang, not addressing him as “Little Chen” but as “Dr. Chen.”
Chen Cang nodded, exchanged contact information, and pushed the little girl out of the endoscopy room.
After coming out, Xu Liang and his wife were already anxiously waiting and quickly approached.
“Dr. Chen, is everything all right?”
Chen Cang nodded: “Everything’s fine; the surgery went smoothly, and she should wake up in a bit, but she’ll stay in the emergency room today to be observed.”
Xu Liang kept nodding, feeling like he had been redeemed now that his child was out of danger!
The woman stopped crying, running back and forth nervously.
After returning to the emergency room, Chen Cang asked the man to settle the fees and asked the duty nurse to clear the expenses with the endoscopy room.
Emergency room charges were always more complicated, and the nurse’s job in the emergency room was more cumbersome than in regular departments since it involved dealing with multiple departments, leading to more intricate financial entanglements.
About an hour later, Xu Liang rushed in, “Doctor Chen, Doctor Chen, Sweetie’s awake!”
(Ding! Mission accomplished, saved the little girl with a foreign body airway obstruction, reward: Skill points +2!]
He begrudgingly accepted the two skill points, muttering to himself: Lost a point…
But skills were permanent, and emergency skills like these were essential. Besides, even without a reward, who would just stand by and not save a dying child?
Who would leave a little girl hanging there for twelve hours?
Not something Chen Cang could do!
Chen Cang smiled, stood up, and said, “Let’s go see the child.”
Xu Liang smiled eagerly and led the way.
Inside the observation room, the little girl’s face and lips were ruddy and lustrous, and she had a smile on her face. Upon seeing Chen Cang, she tried to speak, “Uncle… cough, cough!”
Chen Cang smiled and walked to the bedside, “Don’t talk these next few days, your throat might hurt. You can’t stuff things into your nose or mouth in the’ future, got it?”
Chen Cang patted the little girl’s head, rubbing her soft hair, and in that moment he suddenly felt that spending a few extra skill points was all worth it.
1 he little girl, upon hearing Chen Gang’s prohibition from speaking, quickly covered her mouth with her little hand, her big eyes earnestly looking at Chen Cang as she nodded vigorously.
This caused everyone present to burst into hearty laughter.
Chen Cang looked at the adorable little girl.
This must be the sense of accomplishment in medicine, right?
When you see each critical life pulled back from the brink by your hands, the sense of achievement is unparalleled.
The happiness of a bird is to have the sky.
The happiness of a fish is to have the ocean.
And the happiness of a doctor is to have no patients.
Chen Cang remembered a saying: “I’d rather have dust on my medicine cabinet than see the world’s people ill; if everyone in the world were happy, I could do without this system.”
1 he little girl, staring at Chen Cang, suddenly stood up, walked slowly over, hugged Chen Gang’s head, and whispered in his ear, “Uncle, you’re so handsome. When Sweetie grows up, can I marry you?”
That sentence left Chen Cang astonished.
Is it that obvious I’m single?
Even a three-year-old girl can tell I’m single!
1 hinking this, Chen Cang couldn’t help but feel a mix of amusement and resignation.
Chen Cang whispered in response, “Why’s that?”
‘I he little girl, with an innocent face and sparkling big eyes, looked intently at Chen Cang, took a step back, stood on the bed, and performed a sincere curtsy, saying word by word, “To repay the life-saving grace, this little girl has nothing to offer in return but to pledge herself to you!”
Chen Cang almost burst out laughing at her earnestness!
The patients around, including Xu Liang and the child’s mother, all burst into uproarious laughter.
Children these days, so clever and adorable!
Chen Cang stood up, patted the child’s head, “Uncle will wait for you!”