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The recovery room of the hospital was in working condition. Ling Ran wheeled the patient into the recovery room together with Selena.
The recovery room of Guozheng Charity Hospital was a little larger than that of Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center. It was due to different points of view in terms of architecture as well as the fact that Brazil was scarcely populated.
Guozheng Charity Hospital, which only had a couple dozen doctors was not inferior in size at all compared to Yun Hua Hospital which had more than a thousand doctors. Even though they had very few operating theaters, their operating theaters were huge.
Ling Ran looked around and inspected the drugs in the cabinet. He then said to Selena, “Do go outside and inform the patient’s family members that the surgery went smoothly and that I’m waiting for the patient to regain consciousness. There’re risks involved in waking up from anesthetics. Since there’s no anesthetist around, I’ll stay here and keep a watch on the patient.”
Ling Ran spoke a lot, which was rare for him. This was because he was worried that Selena could not convey his message clearly. Under normal circumstances, he had resident doctors like Zuo Cidian to help him out. However, right now, he only had Selena who knew nothing about medicine. Hence, he had no choice but to explain things properly to her.
Selena was even more earnest than Ling Ran as she listened to him. Compared to Ling Ran, Selena was even more worried about the situation at hand. There were only a few people helping out in the hospital, and if the patient’s family members were to show their dissatisfaction, whatever order the hospital had could disappear, and it would descend into chaos at any moment.
However, since the patient needed Ling Ran, it was not like Selena could ask Ling Ran to head out and talk to the patient’s family members. Moreover, even if Ling Ran were to talk to them, he would need Selena as an interpreter.
“Alright, I’ll tell them that the surgery went smoothly and that the doctor is taking care of the patient…” Selena repeated what Ling Ran said in her language, and she sounded compassionate.
Ling Ran nodded and said, “Nandaman might not be able to handle cleaning the operating theater alone. You can ask the people outside if any of them is willing to help.”
“I can talk to the volunteers,” Selena quickly said.
Ling Ran did not agree or disagree. He said, “Do ask Nandaman about it. She’ll need to train them.”
An unclean operating theater posed countless risks, and due to the situation at hand, they could not filter out patients with infectious diseases. Hence, if they were to make a mistake, there would be a serious breakout of nosocomial infection.
Selena seemed a little nervous, but as an employer of Zheng’s Farm, she could no longer chicken out right now. Hence, she had no choice but to rush over to Nandaman and ask her about enlisting volunteers to clean the operating theater. She then left the operating theater and carefully conveyed Ling Ran’s message to the patient’s family members.
Ling Ran stood in the recovery room and observed the patients as he thought about things.
The bodies of patients recovering from general anesthesia were very weak, and there were plenty of risks involved. Coupled with the fact that the patient had just undergone surgery, a person could say that the patient was in a tremendous amount of danger. Usually, hospitals in China would send an attending physician or at least an experienced resident doctor to take care of the patient.
Since Ma Yanlin was busy in the main hall, Ling Ran shouldered the task of taking care of the patient.
He possessed Master Level Collaborative Anesthesia Care. Even though it did not make him a good anesthetist, it was a useful skill when it came to taking care of patients who were recovering from anesthesia.
Ling Ran was very excited to try out his new skill too.
Hence… Ling Ran stood in silence and kept watch over the patient.
The monitor showed that the patient’s vital signs were stable, so Ling Ran did not have to do anything.
He waited…
And waited…
After waiting for around fifteen minutes, there had not been any signs of trouble. Ling Ran heaved a soft sigh of relief. He then looked around, walked over to the drug cabinet and started dividing the drugs into categories.
Since it took time for the operating theaters to be cleaned, Ling Ran quietly divided the drugs into three categories to make things easier for the volunteers who would be coming in later.
Ling Ran first picked out the commonly-used drugs as well as the drugs which even people with no experience in anesthesia would have no trouble using. Meanwhile, the drugs which only people with experience in anesthesia knew how to use, but would be needed under certain circumstances fell in the second category. The third category consisted of drugs that might be needed even though people could easily make a mistake with them.
Compared to the original categorization, this categorization was obviously easier on people who were not specialized in the field of anesthetics.
Even though Ling Ran possessed Master Level Collaborative Anesthesia Care, it was impossible for whoever took over this task later to have this skill.
Thirty minutes later, Selena entered the operating theater and informed Ling Ran that the operating theaters had been cleaned. Ling Ran turned away from the pile of drugs and said, “Ask Ma Yanlin about the situation outside and tell him to send another badly wounded patient into the operating theater. Also, tell him that he’ll be taking over the task of watching over this patient.”
Selena hummed in acknowledgment and immediately did as Ling Ran said.
After a short while, Ma Yanlin entered the recovery room with an extremely conflicted expression.
“Doctor Ling, there’re way too many patients. Something is bound to happen if this continues,” Ma Yanlin said a little agitatedly the moment he stepped into the recovery room. He had been treating the wounded alone in the main hall, but due to limitations related to his abilities, he was only capable of treating those who were not so badly injured. This feeling of inferiority and anxiety made Ma Yanlin extremely uncomfortable.
After working in Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center for quite some time, Ling Ran was quite used to this kind of dire circumstances. He asked flatly, “What is bound to happen?”
“Someone’s going to die!” Ma Yanlin even raised his voice.
Back when he was in Yun Hua Hospital, Ma Yanlin was used to following Ling Ran around and being invisible. Now that he was suddenly presented with the opportunity to take charge, he realized that he did not have enough time to treat more patients. And this sent him into a mini breakdown.
Ling Ran, though, had participated in countless rescue missions. Hence, he was better at judging the conditions of the wounded compared to Ma Yanlin. He merely glanced at Ma Yanlin and said, “Not necessarily.”
Ma Yanlin bared his teeth. “Not necessarily?”
“As long as we make fewer mistakes, there’s a high chance that all the patients will survive,” Ling Ran said calmly.
Ma Yanlin said helplessly, “Things are not so simple…”
Ling Ran gazed quietly at Ma Yanlin.
Ma Yanlin asked in a soft voice, “Are things really this simple? Will all of them survive?”
“If we make too many mistakes, someone might die. Moreover, the fact that there are too many patients and too few doctors would also cause someone to die. A patient might also die if his injury is too serious.”
Ling Ran’s words made Ma Yanlin panic. “What do we do, then?”
“We do our best and focus on keeping the patient at hand alive.” Ling Ran was obviously neither skilled nor prepared to give a pep talk. He merely uttered a sentence before he rose and said, “I’ll head to the operating theater. Keep a watch on this patient and send him to the ward when he wakes up.”
“Oh… alright,” Ma Yanlin answered. He then asked, “How long should I wait? I mean, I would like to head outside to help out as soon as possible.”
“This patient might take a while to regain consciousness. I administered quite a large dose of anesthetics earlier. I’ll be more careful with the next patient.” Ling Ran nodded and left the recovery room.
When Ma Yanlin heard Ling Ran’s last sentence, his knees shook a little.
Ling Ran, though, slowly figured out how to administer the right doses of anesthetics as well as the right way of doing it.
There was no one around to guide him. Moreover, he did not know when help would arrive. Hence, he had to be extra careful and serious in his tasks.
If something were to go wrong, he would not be able to get any help within a short span of time. The patients had it even worse, as they might lose their lives.
Ling Ran was in high spirits due to the strong sense of responsibility he was feeling as well as the fact that he had to administer anesthetics and operate on the patients all by himself.
Surgeons were innately arrogant creatures. For them, it was an extremely amazing feeling to operate on a patient all by themselves. This might even be something they dream of doing.
Outside the window, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the chances of them evacuating were becoming slimmer and slimmer. Even the possibility of receiving additional supplies was becoming lower.
The atmosphere inside and outside the operating theaters slowly became gloomier.
The patients and their family members were in low spirits.
After all, patients and their family members could hardly be satisfied with a hospital that had only two doctors inside.
Ling Ran stayed calm in the face of adversity.
Ling Ran was never good with emotions, and he never cared much for them either. Instead, he was good at saving patients’ lives and treating them as best as possible.
Ling Ran carried out surgery after surgery.
As the volunteers in the operating theaters became more and more skilled, Ling Ran could alternate seamlessly between the two operating theaters. Hence, the gaps between surgeries became shorter and shorter. At the same time, Ling Ran was getting better at administering anesthetics.
Soon, Ma Yanlin realized that he was actually trapped in the recovery room. There were also lesser and lesser moans and calls for help ringing out from the main hall.
