Chapter 1505: Chapter 1505: Clinical Situations Are Always Ever-Changing
âEat a bit more, how can you get better without eating?â Shang Siling urged her husband who had only taken two bites.
Xiao Shugang couldnât be bothered to respond to his wife. His body was weak on one hand, and on the other, his mind seemed stuck in the shattered and shocking world of the car accident, as if trapped in a quagmire and unable to escape.
âCousin, Cousin-in-law.â
Hearing the voice, Shang Siling turned her head.
A girl stood at the door of the hospital room, gracefully, with long hair draped over her shoulders, wearing a simple, plain beige sweater.
Shang Siling was stunned for a long time before she recalled who this beautiful woman might be and exclaimed in surprise, âYingying, have you become so beautiful?â
Cousin-in-law was so good at complimenting people that Xie Wanying almost felt embarrassed. She walked into the hospital room and said, âI havenât washed my face or brushed my teeth.â
âShugang, look, Yingying is much more beautiful than when we saw her as a child. Back then, her dad brought her and her mom to the provincial capital to visit and have some fun; she should have been graduating from elementary school, not yet in middle school. In my memory, she was a little pudding. Now sheâs turned into a big beauty.â
His wife was chattering like a sparrow, and within Xiao Shugangâs blind view, Xie Wanyingâs face appeared. Gradually, a bit of light shone in his eyes, and a weak smile appeared on his lips as he murmured, âItâs Yingying.â
âYes, itâs Yingying.â Shang Siling, upon seeing her husbandâs little cousin, for some reason felt she could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
She moved a chair for her husbandâs little cousin to sit, and asked, âHave you had breakfast?â
Not standing on ceremony with her cousin-in-law, Xie Wanying admitted that she hadnât had time to eat.
âYou said you were coming, and you really came. I didnât expect youâd get here so fast.â Shang Siling laughed, patting her shoulder, and took out her wallet to go downstairs to buy breakfast for her, âYou sit and accompany your cousin. The doctor might come for rounds later. You can ask the doctor about the specifics.â
Alright. Xie Wanying agreed to her cousin-in-law.
Xiao Shugang, too ill to speak much, didnât forget to remind his cousin, âPut down your backpack.â
Carrying a big backpack was heavy, so Xie Wanying put it down and walked to the bedside and crouched down.
Her elder cousin had drainage tubes after surgery. After thoracic surgery, there is usually a closed chest drainage. Normally, the thoracic cavity is at negative pressure; for post-surgery drainage, a closed drainage system must be used to prevent external air from entering, which is quite different from surgery in other body parts.
This is seen in the water inside the bottle connected to the end of a drainage tube, called the water seal bottle.
The water seal bottle uses the siphon principle to suck out the excess air and blood from the thoracic cavity into the bottle. Like observing other drainage bags and bottles, examining the substances drawn into the water seal bottle can indirectly reveal the healing situation of the patientâs thoracic cavity wound.
After surgery, this drainage should gradually decrease to none, followed by tube removal.
After careful inspection, Xie Wanying concluded that there wasnât much drainage, indicating the previous lung repair surgery was relatively successful. The wound in the patientâs thoracic cavity was healing well, yet unexpectedly, another issue arose.
Massive hemorrhage requiring hemostasis, with various hemostatic drugs to be administered. Once the bleeding was controlled, the hemostatic drugs were stopped. As long as the patientâs blood system was free of blood disorders, it would typically return to a healthy balance. Hence, this post-surgery problem for Xiao Shugang was something the doctors hardly foresaw.
Clinically, itâs always like this, with many unexpected changes catching doctors off guard.