In the blink of an eye, a few days passed. According to classmate Zhang Desheng, Taotao’s diagnosis was confirmed to be acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and chemotherapy was started. Unexpectedly, Zhang, who hates pediatrics, would go to the hematology department to visit this child again and again in the past few days. It is not ruled out that besides visiting the children, he would help Xie monitor the movements of the Zhang family.
Aunt Zhang would continue to show up in the emergency department from time to time, but she didn't dare to go to Dr. Xie directly like last time. It is not easy to eliminate the psychological dependence of family members on a doctor.
Compared with Taotao, Zhu Xing's child's condition was much more critical, and his condition was not relieved well all the way. This situation was as expected by the attending physician. If a suitable heart cannot be found for a heart transplant, the child may not be able to leave the hospital alive.
That afternoon, Cao Zhao took a group of students to picu to check on the child's condition. Classmate Pan Shihua and Senior Brother Luo took leave and came to join two surgical classmates to study rare cases.
After the teachers put on disinfectant slippers, several students officially stepped into the picu ward for the first time.
Piicu, the hospital bed is the same size as a general pediatric ward, not an incubator that is common in neonatology departments. Each hospital bed is almost a small emergency hospital bed. Equipment such as ventilators and sputum suction machines are placed next to the bedside. Children with more severe symptoms will be equipped with cardiopulmonary assist devices, as my classmate Xie said above. There is a curtain between the beds. Some children undergo tracheal intubation or tracheostomy just like adults. Every certain time, the nurse will suction these children.
Here you can often see various life-sustaining machines connected to the small bodies of children, making sick children even more fragile and more worrying than adults.
Every day, family visiting hours are open for one hour in the picu's internal corridor. Family members can stand in the inner corridor and greet their sick children through the glass windows, and see the condition of their children with their own eyes.
Zhu Xing's mother stood in the family line-up, looking at her son who was lying on the hospital bed with a swollen face, and she was crying.
Generalized edema is a common manifestation of heart failure that progresses to complete heart failure.
The doctor who came to the bedside checked the swelling on the child's body, and then looked at the temperature chart recorded by the nurse. Here was the total of the child's body's daily intake and output for 24 hours.
Intensive care is an independent discipline, and intensive care unit doctors have their own specialties that are different from other specialists. Once children like these enter the picu, the picu doctor is in charge. The treatment plan for children here is basically determined by the picu doctor. Even so, the ward doctor continues to treat the child while the child is hospitalized. The attending doctor will visit the child regularly to learn about the child's condition from the picu doctor and jointly discuss the child's further treatment strategy. Because children hospitalized in picu use picu as a transitional period, and the goal is to be transferred back to the general ward or undergo surgery.
Usually, when the ward doctor comes, the picu doctor on duty will come with him to discuss the child's condition together.
After a while, Xie Wanying and the others saw Senior Sister Yu coming over.
When Yu Minghui saw her junior brothers and sisters, she raised her hands and smiled. When she saw Cao Zhao's face again, she immediately became a lot colder.
Several classmates remembered what they had been taught by Teacher Cheng last time, and they did not dare to have a heated exchange with their senior sister.
Cao Zhao flipped through the child's medical record with his fingertips and saw that the child's medical record was much thicker.
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