Chapter 1713: Chapter 1717: How About Asking Professor Chen?
New Year’s Day!
On such a special day, a fire added a lot of helplessness to what should have been a joyous occasion!
But actually, if you think about it, this kind of day might be happening every single day.
It’s just that not too many people pay attention.
At this moment, inside the emergency room of the surgical emergency center.
The elite forces from the capital’s orthopedic field were gathered.
Professor Yan Zhengjun from the PLA Hospital, Professor Yang Wenwu from the Jishuitan Hospital, and Professor Qu Jinguo from the Capital’s Third Hospital had all gathered in the office.
A remote consultation could no longer solve the problem.
On-site assessment was necessary to determine the patient’s condition so that a surgical or conservative treatment plan could be formulated!
Should they choose manual reduction and a neck-thoracic brace, or should they opt for surgery?
These are things that cannot be explained in a video.
The capital is not big, and as soon as the directors got the news, they rushed to the Capital Emergency Center in haste.
As doctors, no matter how esteemed you are, when a patient faces special circumstances, you still need to step up.
At this point, Lao Wu’s injury is precisely in the neck, between the cervical and thoracic vertebrae.
If a severe spinal cord injury occurs at this position, it will inevitably lead to severe consequences, from disability to death!
Moreover, the item Lao Wu rescued this time was a research product from the chemical research institute. In short, Lao Wu achieved something commendable this time!
However!
For Lao Wu’s family and comrades, it’s really hard to put into words.
Coming out only to be struck by something was truly unexpected.
Lao Wu is actually only 25 years old this year, he just looks a bit older, his family is from the capital, and he is very righteous and generous.
This probably stems from the serious influence of his family. As the son of a martyr, Lao Wu’s father was a criminal police officer who was severely injured while on a mission when Lao Wu was about seventeen or eighteen, and he never got up again after falling this time.
Lao Wu’s original name was Wu Jun, and he had always admired his father’s position as a detective but, due to limitations, later became a soldier and a firefighter.
Wu Jun’s mother strongly opposed his choice, but … she couldn’t resist her son.
At this moment, only Wu Jun’s mother, who is not even fifty, sat in the office in the hospital’s emergency lobby, crying her heart out.
This middle-aged woman was sitting there, truly in despair.
She didn’t understand why things turned out this way. Could it be that she really brings misfortune to her husband and son?
She stared at the emergency room with eyes full of hopelessness. She genuinely and truly didn’t want to receive another medal of a hero’s mother!
She longed for a simple and honest living. Was it really this hard?
Sixzi, sitting next to her, kept saying:
“I’m sorry, Auntie, it was my fault for not taking good care of Lao Wu!”
“It’s all my fault!”
The middle-aged woman bit her lip to suppress the sound of her sobs.
Because the shift changed, several of Lao Wu’s comrades and the team leader stood nearby, their faces slightly flushed as they watched Auntie.
Soon, the captain of the fire brigade rushed into the doctor’s office. Seeing the captain, everyone quickly turned around.
“Captain!”
The fire brigade captain, named Che Sha, wore a tense expression, his eyes filled with urgency as he looked at everyone and asked in a flustered tone, “How is it?”
He glanced down at the woman sitting on the chair, biting her lip and crying, and suddenly panicked, “Sister-in-law… I… I, how’s Xiaojun?”
“Speak up!” Che Sha’s voice was cold, as if he had a bad feeling.
Sixzi quickly said, “Captain, it’s all my fault. I didn’t protect Wu Jun!”
“He… he is now in the emergency room; he might have cervical and thoracic vertebrae injured by a falling object, with spinal fractures and potential spinal cord injury, potentially high… high… high-level paralysis!”
Sixzi gritted his teeth and finished his words in one breath.
After speaking, Che Sha was completely stunned, high-level paralysis!
Everyone knew what high-level paralysis meant. Frankly, for a young man in his twenties, it was worse than death!
It is no exaggeration!
This is a disease that tortures the family and the soul even more.
Che Sha looked at Wu Jun’s mother and couldn’t help but bow: “Sister-in-law… I… I am sorry to you!”
“I didn’t take care of Xiaojun.”
Che Sha’s voice was filled with guilt, as he truly owed Wu Family!
Years ago, he and Wu Jun’s father went on a mission together, during which Wu Jun’s father and he captured a notorious criminal, solving a ten-year-old major case. Initially, it was an opportunity for both of them to succeed!
But, unexpectedly, a child from the other side suddenly fired a gun. Nobody could have predicted that!
That child, trembling in the corner, unexpectedly pulled the trigger!
At the critical moment, if Wu Jun’s father hadn’t taken a stand to save him, he would not be living such a life as Che Sha today!
Unfortunately, the departure of his comrade has always…
After leaving the criminal police force, he transitioned several times to the fire department.
The events of those years always lingered in his mind.
However!
When Wu Jun approached him, Che Sha hesitated.
A young man in his early twenties, much like his father, righteous and generous, cheerful and humorous.
He promised to take good care of him!
And now…
Now, the situation is worsened.
Let alone taking care, he is now paralyzed at a high level.
Thinking of this, Che Sha felt so ashamed and remorseful that he couldn’t confront Wu Jun’s mother!
At this moment, the woman took a deep breath and hoarsely said, “It’s not your fault… Captain Che.”
“It’s fate!”
“It’s Jun’s fate!”
“Their Wu family hasn’t had any successors yet…”
“This time, it’s completely over.”
The woman’s voice was hoarse and low, yet like a heavy punch, impacting those around her.
Sixzi couldn’t help but blurt out, “Mom! From now on, I’m your son, Sixzi!”
“I’ll take care of you, ma’am!”
“Yes! Mom, you’re our mom!”
“Mom!”
The echo of three or four voices caused the woman to burst into tears suddenly.
Since Wu Jun’s accident, she hadn’t uttered a sound, but now… she couldn’t hold back anymore.
Che Sha quickly turned around and walked outside.
He had to get the best doctors and the best specialists to diagnose and treat!
The fire brigade was no ordinary position; Che Sha’s rank was not low.
After several phone calls, unexpectedly, the skilled orthopedic specialists he could contact had already gathered in the emergency room!
This left Che Sha unsure whether to feel happy or worried!
After all, if no top specialists came, it meant there might still be hope. Now that the top capital experts had arrived and still gave the same diagnosis, it meant the trouble was significant!
Che Sha stood at the emergency room door, sighing helplessly!
This kid’s temperament, paralyzed at a high level, definitely couldn’t survive it.
But it can’t end like this!
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At this moment, in the emergency room, several experts still hadn’t decided on how to proceed!
Because spinal surgery is different from other surgeries.
Due to a spinal vertebra fracture, the vertebra has already embedded into the spinal cord.
This has already caused concussion and contusion injury to the spinal cord, leading to spinal cord compression.
The changes in the vertebral body and intervertebral disc have already caused severe vertebral damage, making surgery now very complicated.
Moreover, the most crucial thing is that Wu Jun’s fracture is rather special!
Now, the bone fragments and disc inside the spinal canal are pulling—once opened, it will inevitably aggravate the contusion of the spinal cord!
Once it causes bleeding edema in the tissues, it will inevitably lead to softening and necrosis next, which can easily induce spinal cord function loss!
To put it bluntly, it’s high-level paraplegia or even death!
Instead of opening it and causing secondary injury and being unable to perform effective surgery, it’s better to wait for a good plan to emerge!
The recovery of spinal cord injury function mainly depends on the degree of spinal cord injury, but early relief of spinal cord compression is the foremost problem in ensuring spinal cord function recovery.
Traction has been used now to temporarily adjust and control the compression!
However, this is ultimately just a means of relief to strive for a better surgical plan.
Surgical treatment is an important part of comprehensive rehabilitation treatment for spinal cord injury patients.
The purpose of surgery is to restore the normal axis of the spine, restore the diameter of the spinal canal, directly or indirectly relieve the compression of the spinal nerve roots by fracture fragments or dislocation, and stabilize the spine!
However, surgery is already the last resort at this point.
Once a closed neck cervical spine injury with spinal cord injury occurs, it is necessary to first perform skull traction.
At this time, several department heads felt their heads were about to explode!
There was still no key plan present.
PLA Director Yan Zhengjun suddenly said, “The bleeding inside the spinal canal isn’t severe, there’s still time to call for external support. If we wait until there’s bleeding inside the spinal cord, it will inevitably cause the nerve function to gradually worsen.”
Yu Yonggang frowned, “External support…who can it be?”
“All the top people in the field of orthopedics in the capital are gathered here. If none of us have a solution, who else could?”
What Yu Yonggang said was true.
Jishuitan Orthopedic Director Yang Wenwu, a decisive person, sighed and said directly, “Prepare for surgery then!”
“If we’re asking for external support now, who can we get? It’s the New Year, where do we find someone! The patient’s current condition can be delayed for at most 24 hours.”
“But with these twenty-four hours, what we get might not be better than us—it’s better if we complete the surgery quickly now, maybe the nerve damage isn’t too serious, and it won’t lead to necrosis!”
Qu Jinguo from the Third Hospital in the Capital looked at the scans thoughtfully, “This surgery, tough one!”
The others turned around, looking at Qu Jinguo, “Have you found anything?”
Qu Jinguo couldn’t help but shake his head, “I think we’re being a bit too optimistic about the patient’s condition!”
Everyone was stunned, only to see Qu Jinguo pointing at the scans and said, “Look, the soft tissue isn’t this color; this is clearly caused by spinal cord injury. Spinal cord injury…once it’s severed, nerve regeneration and recovery are essentially irreversible.”
“I think the possibility of the patient having high-level paraplegia is quite high!”
Qu Jinguo wasn’t trying to dampen everyone’s enthusiasm, the patient’s situation was indeed that dangerous.
Qu Jinguo said, “We’d better communicate with the family first, after communicating, let’s contact Director Xue Zhengren and Yang Ming to see if there’s a possibility of spinal cord recovery.”
Upon hearing Qu Jinguo’s words, Yu Yonggang nodded, “Alright, I’ll go talk to the family.”
At this moment, the director of the Chemical Research Institute had already arrived at the hospital.
Seeing Yu Yonggang, he hurriedly ran over!
“Director, how is it? Is there still hope for the patient?”
Yu Yonggang glanced at the director of the Chemical Research Institute and couldn’t help but sigh, “The situation is a bit complicated, saying anything now isn’t very meaningful, we can only say that the chance of paraplegia is quite large!”
Upon hearing this, the director’s face changed immediately, “You must save him, he’s saved us from so many losses!”
“We will certainly cover all costs!”
“Can we invite an expert?”
Yu Yonggang was helpless. Honestly, such things are frustrating for anyone. Who would want to see a hero go without treatment?
He bitterly smiled, “We’ve already invited the best doctors in the capital!”
The director of the Chemical Research Institute directly said, “What about from abroad?”
These words made Yu Yonggang pause for a moment.
He didn’t go to find the family but headed directly back into the emergency room.
“Does anyone here know any international spinal surgery experts?”
The others were slightly stunned!
“I have some contact with Carmen Hamill from the GICUP organization in Italy, I can reach out!” said Qu Jinguo, the orthopedic director of Peking University Third Hospital.
The GICUP organization is a global alliance for precision treatment of paraplegia, gathering experts from around the world.
After all, this isn’t a rare disease.
This is simply a critical condition!
There are millions of spinal cord injury paraplegia patients in our country, and several hundred thousands of new cases are rapidly increasing every year.
This disease, whether in terms of mortality or disability rate, is extremely high, mostly occurring in young adults, placing a heavy burden on the nation and society!
But, no matter how many patients there are!
Until the core technology is broken through, no one can do anything.
Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the nation has also established a global alliance for precision treatment of paraplegia.
This organization gathers top experts and scholars from various countries, and it is also a public welfare organization.
Equivalent to a remote consultation function!
Qu Jinguo is a domestic member of the alliance.
He hurriedly contacted the organization, sending over the patient’s scans and situation!
“Hello everyone, this is a firefighting hero from our country, only 25 years old, who suffered a spinal trauma 2 hours ago, leading to…”
“Here are the scans, we are currently formulating a surgical plan, hoping everyone can discuss it!”
Carmen Hamill is the spinal surgery director at the University Hospital in Siena, Italy.
Meanwhile, countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden also saw Wu Jun’s examination results.
After reviewing them, everyone began discussions!
Thirty minutes!
A time not too long, not too short.
But the result was extremely disheartening.
These top experts, after reviewing, all fell silent!
Even Carmen, the vice-chairman of the precision treatment alliance for paraplegia, said helplessly:
“Professor Qu, as you know, with the patient’s spinal cord severed, solving nerve regeneration and recovery has always been a challenge!”
“We still don’t have this means right now!”
“While we can participate in spine structuring and curvature treatment, as for nerves…we really are powerless!”
Carmen’s words left everyone in despair!
Is there really no chance?
“I have great respect for this hero, I’m currently in Japan, I’ll take the fastest flight to the capital, no matter what, I’ll participate in this surgery!”
Carmen Hamill’s words warmed everyone’s hearts!
But, it was also desperate.
Even if he comes, can we save him?
Just when everyone was in despair, a weak voice suddenly sounded.
Everyone turned to see that it was just a young nurse.
“Director Yu, perhaps…ask Professor Chen?”
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