【1983】The only choice is to save the child

That is, after the mother's breathing and heartbeat stop, the fetus can survive for about thirty minutes. But waiting thirty minutes to free the fetus was too late. Because four or five minutes after the death of a pregnant woman, the fetus's brain cells will suffer irreversible brain damage due to poor tolerance to ischemia and hypoxia, and the removed fetus may directly enter brain death.

Based on this situation, once the pregnant woman's breathing and heartbeat stop, if the doctor fails to restore the pregnant woman's spontaneous circulation after continuing to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation for four minutes, immediate cesarean section must be considered to remove the fetus. Especially for the pregnant woman who is more than thirty weeks pregnant, a cesarean section or even a hysterectomy if necessary is very helpful in saving the lives of both the pregnant woman and the fetus.

Surgery requires the consent of the patient's family.

The doctors and nurses on duty here finally knew what the tertiary doctors came to rescue. The nurse ran out to prepare emergency surgical supplies.

Dr. Hu turned around and walked out from the emergency room curtain to speak to the patient's family.

I can't see with my eyes. At this time, I have the courage to talk directly to the family members who may lose their temper at any time. I can't help but sigh the terrifying courage of the clinical boss. The patient's husband was restlessly waiting for news about his wife outside. When he heard that the doctor had come out, he immediately walked over with sprained feet and asked, "Doctor, how is my wife?"

How should the doctor tell the patient that he was about to die at this time? The doctor on duty at the health center saw this and hid away. Fearing that the family members would collapse emotionally, they grabbed the doctor and called him. The main reason is that in such an unexpected situation, one person and two people may die, and the patient's family should not be mentally prepared to accept the bad news.

Dr. Hu's eyes were so blurry that she couldn't distinguish the expressions on the family members' faces, and her ears could hear that the family members were almost going crazy. She opened her mouth and said directly without hesitation: "Your wife is probably hopeless. So. , we are going to perform a cesarean section on her now.”

"I know, doctor, please operate on her and save her."

"Listen to me. We can only try our best to remove the child from her belly. Whether the child can survive after rescuing it depends on the follow-up situation. I hope you will agree immediately to let us perform surgery on your wife. A cesarean section is the last chance to save the baby in her belly."

"What do you mean, doctor?" After hearing these words, the patient's husband's throat trembled, "What do you think happened to my wife? What kind of child? Make no mistake, save my wife first!"

"It can't be saved." Dr. Hu spat out these three words, implementing her always scientific-oriented approach. She had no time to think about how to be considerate of the family members like the saint Du Haiwei.

The patient's husband grabbed Dr. Hu's arms and his whole body was shaking with excitement: "You, say it again."

"I'll tell you the truth, at the scene of the car accident, we already discovered that she might have been brain dead on the spot. We rushed her to the hospital not to save her, but to save her while her breathing and circulation had not completely stopped. children."

Wow, the patient’s husband cried loudly.

Dr. Hu listened to the crying on the other side with an expressionless face. No matter whether her eyes could see it or not, she could not deny the reality that had happened. She has been a doctor for so many years, and she has never seen anything like this. It's just that tonight is indeed special. It may be her last night as a doctor to save people. For this reason, she must adhere to medical principles even more.

In medicine, doctors can only save lives that can be saved first and give up lives that are no longer possible to save.