Chapter 1665: Chapter 1669: Panic in the Elevator! (First Update)
In the elevator, a slight clanking sound suddenly came!
Immediately, the lights went out, and the emergency lights switched on.
At this moment, everyone in the elevator, including Chen Cang, Deng Ming, the driver, and two patient family members, were trapped inside!
The unexpected incident made everyone’s faces change.
Deng Ming felt like his heart was about to explode!
First time on a task, and encountering such strange occurrences?
He could lose and accept failure!
But!
Could the patients?
Could the patient’s family?
No!
For the patient right now, life might only have one chance at failure!
Life isn’t a gamble; who can afford to lose?
The stifling air made the atmosphere in the elevator tense.
What to do?
Deng Ming glanced at Chen Cang, noticing that Chen Cang seemed unhurried and calmly adjusted the patient’s collar for observation!
It seemed like the power outage didn’t cause this man much panic or confusion.
Chen Cang had no choice either.
Stuck in the elevator, they couldn’t just wait idly, right?
Honestly, in these years of emergency work, it wasn’t the first time Chen Cang encountered such an event.
He just didn’t expect to have a patient with him this time.
Chen Cang said to the patient family: “Contact maintenance personnel, hurry and conduct repairs.”
“Deng Ming, come here, open the box.”
At this moment!
The patient’s family was already so angry they wanted to smash this broken elevator.
But this was in the middle of the eighteenth or nineteenth floor!
The elevator was just stuck like that!
The patient’s family was extremely anxious.
Pounding on the elevator and shouting loudly, the family outside could hear everything clearly too.
They were terribly anxious!
Terrified that the elevator might fall!
Of course, elevators nowadays have safety measures and won’t fall even if the power goes out.
Moreover, the elevator has emergency lights, though they’re not very bright, they can last for four or five hours without much problem.
But the most important thing is, can the patient hold on until the elevator is opened?
The son of the elderly woman was fifty years old, and his phone was of little use now.
Unlike newer elevators, this old community’s elevator had no signal inside.
Fortunately, the rescue phone in the elevator still worked, and the man quickly called for help!
Meanwhile, the family outside divided up to act.
One called the property management, while another called 119.
The situation was indeed very urgent now.
Another member, frustrated with the slow response by phone, anxiously ran down the stairs.
Usually, elevators have backup power during outages.
However… it’s not guaranteed these old communities are fully equipped.
After all, the capital has too many old communities.
Many old and dilapidated buildings around the Third Ring Road can’t be demolished, and aren’t properly repaired either.
You can even see old communities with people living in them near the “pants building,” even with windows covered in plastic, just waiting for demolition.
Many of these buildings have no meaningful property management; garbage under them isn’t cleared in a timely manner, let alone elevator maintenance.
Once the power went out, everything went into chaos.
However, no matter how chaotic and noisy the surroundings became, Chen Cang couldn’t afford to be flustered!
Chen Cang lowered himself to check the surroundings for anything useful.
Basic surgical instruments were available, there was a sterile operating package, rescue drugs were available, but no heart monitor…
What could be done?
There really wasn’t much that could be done inside the elevator.
But the old woman was elderly, and her body couldn’t cope as well as a younger person’s, so incidents were more prone to happen.
“Scimitar syndrome” itself is rare, but having it cause cardiac arrest was unheard of!
Chen Cang had to pay attention!
At this moment, Deng Ming was truly in a panic.
This was no mere eighteen floors; one step down meant eighteen floors into hell!
Indeed!
It’s not an exaggeration.
The elderly woman was already having difficulty breathing, and now in such a confined space, even with air coming in, it would only exacerbate the condition.
In the small elevator, the elderly woman’s son and daughter were both in their forties or fifties.
The man seemed angry and wanted to vent, mumbling curses, trying to pry open the elevator.
“Don’t pry it open carelessly; what if something goes wrong?” the woman couldn’t help but say.
“Then what do you suggest? Is it just us who can’t afford to wait, or can our mother afford it?”
The man was rather agitated and couldn’t help but shout at the woman.
The woman irritably said: “Alright, what’s the use of yelling at me, yelling won’t fix the elevator!”
The two argued, while the driver said: “Stop arguing, don’t disturb Professor Chen.”
The two had no real quarrel, just bottled-up anger.
Hearing the driver, both fell silent.
Deng Ming looked at Chen Cang, urgently asking: “Professor Chen, what’s going on here?”
Honestly, Deng Ming truly felt a sense of defeat!
Before coming to the emergency department, he was full of ambition, believing that his three or four years of experience with Doctors Without Borders could prepare him for all sorts of emergencies.
But!
Who would have thought that his first patient here would already present an unclear diagnosis!
Asthma?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Pulmonary edema?
Or…
Various diagnoses ran through his mind, and he couldn’t figure out what it was after pondering for a long time!
Just then, Chen Cang suddenly said: “With the heart shifted to the right, resembling a dextrocardia, frequent colds, a history of chronic cough, asthma, accompanied by dizziness and cyanosis, what do you think?”
Deng Ming was feeling muddled, his mind was a complete mess!
He seemed to have lost the ability to think.
Seeing this, Chen Cang said: “Emergency medicine tests not just your keen sight and deft hands, nor how skillful your techniques are.”
“But whether you possess the trait of remaining composed under pressure!”
“As a doctor, when facing patients, you must not lose your composure first.”
Chen Cang did not shy away from acknowledging the presence of patients here.
Deng Ming was different from the others.
He seemed to respect me very much.
But, this was just towards me.
He was actually a proud person, otherwise, he wouldn’t feel somewhat idle amidst the hectic emergency department.
He felt he should charge into the frontline.
However…
He didn’t realize that emergency doctors are not battlefield doctors.
You must first consider all sorts of complex situations of patients.
Why does the hospital often have a culture of “testing the new”?
It’s because, when you enter this field, no matter how much pride and confidence you carry!
Once in, you must bow your head down.
Because, the variety of diseases, the emergencies, will always catch you off guard even more than what you have encountered!
“A successful emergency surgeon is, first of all, a doctor, and as a doctor, you must learn the logic of a doctor!”
After finishing, Chen Cang continued: “This is a rare venous malformation disease characterized by the right pulmonary vein opening into the inferior vena cava.
It’s a syndrome caused by an abnormal partial pulmonary venous return!”
“So, what did you think of?”