Chapter 655: A Desperate Solution
Zheng Ren was troubled.
All the medical supplies that could be collected had almost been used up.
As for the helicopters, they could not land for quite some time due to the weather. According to Zhao Yunlong’s news, the two helicopters from the military’s aviation team took off to start their part of the rescue after they received the news.
However, after entering the mountain valley, the thick fog blocked their vision. They could not see anything.
Even after flying up another 2000 meters, it was still the same. After forcefully groping around for more than 10 kilometers, it began to storm and they had no choice but to return.
After experiencing a huge earthquake the weather was still unfavorable in the disaster area, increasing the difficulty of getting follow-up troops to continue their rescue efforts.
The use of helicopters for rescue in the area was extremely limited.
Not only were they unable to find the survivor’s location, but they could not even drop the materials they carried when they were finally left with no choice but to return.
Zhao Yunlong and the others spent a lot of effort to tidy up a corner of the town center square and turn it into a temporary hangar. However, there was no need for it in the end.
Their materials had been exhausted and there were a hundred seriously injured people waiting to be rescued.
There was no plasma, no medicine, and even the surgical trays were all used up.
Zheng Ren looked at the seriously injured and dying people in a daze. He could not use all his strength right there and then.
He bought a surgical tray from the System’s shop but there was no medicine for sale in the System.
After hesitating for a while, Zheng Ren still did not have the courage to operate on the patient who was still moaning in pain. There was only local anesthesia. The patient who needed to be operated on had a ruptured organ, which was fundamentally different from appendicitis or even cesarean section.
The heavy rain poured down, making visibility extremely poor. It was very difficult to even build a bonfire.
“Damn the weather!” Zheng Ren cursed fiercely in his heart.
“Boss, do you know that there was no anesthesia despite there being a surgical operation taking place?” Su Yun muttered. No one knew what he was thinking.
His voice sounded a little erratic in the pouring rain.
Although it was still the afternoon, the sky was overcast as if it was already late at night.
Su Yun’s voice was like a ghost. Zheng Ren frowned and wiped the rain off his face. However, it was useless. The rain was so heavy that even breathing felt a little difficult. After wiping off the wetness on his face, the rain just continued to drench him.
Not anesthetizing… This seemed to be a little difficult.
The rescue team members searched for supplies and tried their best to shelter the injured from the wind and rain. However, no matter what they did, they could only use such simple and crude methods.
Zheng Ren stared blankly but his mind was on something else.
There were also local anesthetics. He had used local anesthetics to treat appendicitis, but the injured people who had hepatic ruptures and splenic ruptures on the spot…
Should he give it a try?
They had already entered a state of hemorrhagic shock. They did not have an acute sense of pain anymore so it might be possible.
When there was surgery with no anesthetic, it needed to be completed fast!
Zheng Ren knew that.
However, most of the surgeries were amputations during that time and the most primitive surgical methods were not able to remove and suture internal organs.
The idea of trying it out burned inside him like a wildfire that gradually became a prairie fire.
If there was time for surgical training, it would be fine to do a few surgeries first.
As for the surgical instruments, Zheng Ren was not worried about the System’s fickleness.
The surgical tray that he bought from the System’s shop could be disinfected with clean water and sterilized just like that.
However, the unreliable System did not provide any medicine, which made Zheng Ren feel a little disappointed.
He gave a perfunctory reply to Su Yun, then went to the System’s space and bought the time for surgical training.
The simulation mannequin was a patient with a ruptured spleen. Zheng Ren entered the System’s operating theater. Without hesitation, he began to sedate the patient with a local anesthetic before peeling back the skin.
The patient’s blood pressure was low, and Zheng Ren estimated that the victim’s highest pressure was at most 60 millimeters of mercury.
After making an incision on the mannequin, there was a little bleeding. It showed that the effects of local anesthetic were still acceptable.
Blunt dissection of skin and muscle tissue. At this point, everything was under control. However, the incision for splenectomy and appendectomy were different. More anesthetic was also needed.
When Zheng Ren opened the peritoneum and touched the ruptured spleen, the simulation mannequin convulsed violently. Dark red blood gushed out, his breathing and heartbeat stopping abruptly.
What the hell was this stimulation?
Zheng Ren was stunned.
What did he do? How could the simulation mannequin have such a big reaction?
Zheng Ren was stunned for a few minutes in the operating theater. After that, he shook his head and began his surgical training again.
He tried his best to recall the process of the local anesthetic appendicitis operation. He thought about how to stop the spleen from causing the system’s nervous reflex to trigger.
The simulation mannequin’s surgery progressed very slowly. They were changed one batch after another.
If he did not have a large amount of time for surgical training, Zheng Ren would not have had the heart or strength to do such a thing now.
Simulation mannequin… If this stuff were done outside, he would have been beaten to death by Zhao Yunlong.
With the experience provided by the simulation mannequin, Zheng Ren gradually gained a better understanding of the various reactions caused by pulling the internal organs.
Under normal circumstances, splenectomy could be performed with continuous epidural anesthesia or general anesthesia. All kinds of reactions did not need to be paid attention to. Under anesthesia, those sorts of things rarely happened.
Special events, special locations, and special circumstances forced Zheng Ren into a dead end.
The failure of hundreds of surgeries accumulated countless experiences. Zheng Ren also understood all kinds of reactions caused by trying to pull the internal organs out.
He gradually figured out where to use local anesthesia to achieve the best effect.
During that moment, Zheng Ren felt from the bottom of his heart that it was such a happy thing to be able to stand in the operating theater and operate with an anesthetist and scrub nurse. He did not need to worry about such things. He only needed to operate.
After practicing on the splenic and hepatic rupture, Zheng Ren had performed nearly 2000 surgeries.
Most of them were failures.
When he left the System’s space, Zheng Ren felt a little tired for the first time.
It was really tiring. Performing splenectomy and hepatic rupture under local anesthesia was completely different from what he had learned and mastered previously.
The problems he had to consider were completely different. The surgery’s difficulty increased exponentially.
Fortunately, all of that was over.
Zheng Ren felt that there seemed to be a change in his skill tree but was pressed for time so he could not take a closer look. After taking the self-disinfecting surgical tray he had bought, Zheng Ren left the System’s space.
After leaving the system space, the sound of the rain made him a little annoyed.
“I think we can give it a try,” Zheng Ren said. He put the surgical tray into his personal first-aid kit. “Let’s go and get ready.”
“What?” Su Yun felt that the rain was too loud and he had misheard Zheng Ren’s words.
“Local anesthesia. We can give it a try,” Zheng Ren said. “I’ve used local anesthesia for appendicitis in Sea City.”
“Boss, is an appendix the same as the liver and spleen?” Su Yun stared at Zheng Ren as if he was an idiot.
“It’s better than waiting for death.” Zheng Ren covered his eyes with his hand and looked up.
The sky was cloudy and the rain was pouring. There was no sign of it stopping.
In this kind of weather, the helicopter could not take off and land. Even if they cut open the wound to stop the bleeding, the wounded would not survive.
However, they still had to do something.
Zheng Ren narrowed his eyes and looked for Zhao Yunlong through the curtain of rain.