Chapter 905: [905] Clear Diagnosis Chapter 905: [905] Clear Diagnosis Xie Wanying hurried to clarify for her teacher, “Doctor Zhou, if your hospital agrees, Teacher Nie will be the chief surgeon for this child because he was also the one who first provided emergency care.”

An expert performing the surgery himself, Doctor Zhou rolled his eyes upon hearing the news, “Why didn’t you say so earlier!”

Who wouldn’t agree? The county hospital would be more than happy to have Capital experts performing surgeries there every day.

Doctor Zhou made a call to his superiors to seek consent for the surgery.

The nurse had prepared the items needed for the abdominal paracentesis. With time pressing, Nie Jiamin performed the puncture himself. Xie Wanying was fortunate to witness Teacher Nie’s technique for the first time.

There was no need for anesthesia for the child’s condition. Taking a disinfectant swab, he carefully sterilized the child’s abdomen – the puncture region is generally a third of the way between the navel and the anterior superior iliac spine on a line connecting the two. Wearing sterile gloves, Nie Jiamin took the syringe and gently inserted the needle at that point, then pulled the plunger back.

His movements seemed like slow motion – slow, yet difficult to master.

It looks like just a gentle jab with a needle, but it actually required monitoring the child’s abdominal breathing fluctuations to act. The needle was inserted when the abdominal muscles were most relaxed, minimizing the pain felt by the child.

Teacher Nie is an extremely considerate person, Xie Wanying thought. That’s probably the minimum requirement for being an expert pediatric surgeon, which is why Teacher Nie had asked her to act as an “angel” for the child patients the first time.

On the other side stood Doctor Zhou, who was eagerly seizing the precious opportunity to learn from the boss with wide open eyes.

The non-coagulated blood drawn by the syringe indicated there was internal bleeding in the abdominal cavity.

Once the anesthesiologist was contacted, the child was taken to the operating room.

Accompanying Teacher Nie to the operating room to perform the surgery on the child, Xie Wanying called Senior He to report the latest situation.

“Wait a minute,” He Guangyou asked her to slow down, “You’re saying you’re going to operate on someone at the county hospital?”

“Yes.”

“Who decided this?”

“Teacher Nie. No one at this hospital can perform the surgery, and the child has lost too much blood to wait to be transferred to the city hospital.”

He Guangyou sighed heavily.

Knowing what the seniors were worried about, Xie Wanying continued, “We will seek consent from the family first. Wengui and his mother have arrived at the county hospital. I’m about to go see them with the hospital’s doctor to get the surgery consent form. A village official accompanied them here.”

He Guangyou couldn’t rest easy; after all, it wasn’t their own hospital, and if something unexpected happened, “Are you really saying there’s no one there who can perform the surgery on the child?”

“No. You should understand the situation at the county hospital, Teacher He.”

The technical capabilities of the county hospital were. That way, it was either save lives and embody the noble morals of medical compassion or do nothing and protect oneself. He Guangyou thought it over; Xie Wanying was right, it all depended on the family’s attitude.

If the patient’s family belonged to the rational type, then the doctor would dare to take the risk. If the patient’s family was emotional and unreasonable, then the doctor definitely wouldn’t dare proceed.

The county hospital staff had the same thoughts; even if a Guoxie expert was to perform the surgery, it was still being done at their county hospital, and they too feared the family’s reaction might implicate them.

“I’ll call Teacher Tao and explain the situation,” He Guangyou told her, “Teacher Nie’s Mandarin isn’t very good, so when he goes into surgery, you need to be there to help him communicate with the nurses.”