"Okay, I'll go right away."
"Dr. Li, keep your eyes on this side first, especially the changes in electrolyte levels."
Zhao Sheng said briefly to Li Mujia.
"good!"
Li Mujia nodded.
Soon, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Hong came to the emergency hall, preparing to receive the ambulance carrying the poisoned patients.
"Mr. Nurse, did you tell me what type of poisoning it was?"
While waiting at the door of the hall, Zhao Sheng asked the head nurse Zhou Hong.
"It's food poisoning. The local hospital doesn't know exactly which one it is."
Zhou Hong said.
After a while, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Hong didn't wait for a while, and an ambulance roared over.
Just an ambulance?
The moment he saw the ambulance, Zhao Sheng was very confused. Wasn't it said that many people were poisoned?
Could it be that some poisoned patients were sent to other hospitals?
It seems that this is not necessary.
The ambulance quickly stopped at the door of the hospital, and the trunk opened. Zhao Sheng saw two people, one old and one small, lying on the stretcher bed. The older one was a middle-aged man in his forties, and the younger one was about four or five years old. The little boy seemed to be a father and son. The little boy had his eyes closed tightly and was in a coma, while the middle-aged man's eyes were slightly open and he seemed to still have some consciousness.
As soon as the back compartment was opened, a very unpleasant smell of vomit wafted out. Zhao Sheng took a look and saw a plastic bag next to the stretcher bed, which seemed to be filled with a middle-aged man's vomit.
When the male emergency doctor on the bus came down, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but asked the male doctor with some doubts: "Didn't you say that many people were poisoned? Why are these two here?"
The on-board emergency doctor pulled Zhao Sheng aside, and then said to Zhao Sheng with some regret: "The ones who were poisoned were a family of four and two elderly people, and now only the father and son are left."
"Four dead and two seriously injured?"
"What on earth did you eat?!"
Hearing this, Zhao Sheng took a breath of cold air.
What kind of food poisoning killed four people without even being able to get them here?
"I heard that he ate the sour soup that had been left behind. When the whole family was eating, the man went to the kindergarten to pick up the children from school. When he came back, there wasn't much left, so he ate a little."
The on-board emergency doctor said with a serious face.
"Sour soup?"
"Is it aflatoxin poisoning?"
This idea flashed through Zhao Sheng's mind for a moment.
Suantangzi is a homemade thick noodle-like staple food made by fermenting corn in water. If stored for a long time, it may become moldy and deteriorate, producing fatal aflatoxin.
For food poisoning with such tragic casualties, Zhao Sheng could only think of aflatoxin.
Aflatoxin is a highly toxic substance that has a destructive effect on human liver tissue and can cause liver cancer and even death. In past cases, it was mainly detected in home-made fermented foods.
"It's hard to say. The samples will be sent over soon, so I'll have to trouble you to do the testing."
said the on-board emergency doctor.
"Okay, leave it to me."
Zhao Sheng nodded solemnly.
Next, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Hong quickly transferred the father and son to the intensive care unit.
In the intensive care unit.
At this time, the middle-aged man was still slightly conscious. He opened his eyes, turned his head with great effort to look at his son lying on the bed next door, then turned to look at Zhao Sheng, and said to the doctor very weakly: "Doctor ..Save..Save my son!”
"Don't worry, we will do everything we can to save you."
Zhao Sheng immediately comforted the middle-aged man and said.
"Nurse, contact the dialysis center. There are two patients here who need bedside dialysis."
Zhao Sheng said to the head nurse Zhou Hong.
It is still unclear what toxin caused the poisoning of this family, so we can only say that symptomatic and supportive treatment, dialysis, and life-saving first are the most important.
The reality is not that there will be all kinds of poisons in it, such as seven insects and seven flowers, and there will be corresponding antidotes.
But in reality, many highly toxic substances have no antidote at all.
Moreover, it does not need to be as complicated as the seven insects and seven flowers. Some of the things we often eat in daily life will be life-threatening if not handled properly.
"good."
Zhou Hong, the head nurse, nodded and turned to call the dialysis center.
At this moment, Sun Li hurried in and said to Zhao Sheng: "Director Zhao, a police officer is here with someone to come find you!"
"Police officer? Are you sending samples for sampling?"
Zhao Sheng thought for a while and said.
"should be."
Sun Li nodded.
"Okay, I'll go right away. Let Dr. Li keep an eye on the situation here. If you need anything, call me anytime."
Zhao Sheng said.
This is the director on duty. Every moment, it is like a war. He is a firefighter, constantly rushing from here to there.
After leaving the intensive care unit, Zhao Sheng saw three police officers waiting for him. One was a person Zhao Sheng was very familiar with - Song Botao. The other two were one who looked about forty years old and one who was in his early thirties. They were two middle-aged policemen who came with him from the local area. They looked tired and dusty.
"Dr. Zhao, we meet again. No, I should call you Director Zhao now."
As soon as Song Botao saw Zhao Sheng, he smiled and said to him.
As soon as Song Botao said this, the middle-aged policemen in the two places looked surprised.
He looks so young and is already the director?
It really deserves to be called Zhongdu, with hidden dragons and crouching tigers everywhere!
"Just the deputy director."
Zhao Sheng said with some modesty.
"Team Wu, let me introduce to you. This is Zhao Sheng, the deputy director of the emergency center."
"Director Zhao, this is Team Wu from the branch."
Song Botao introduced Zhao Sheng and Team Wu respectively.
"Hello, Captain Wu."
Zhao Sheng stretched out his hand and said hello to Team Wu.
"Director Zhao, let me make a long story short. This time, I came here with a sample for testing. We must be present during the entire testing process until the results are obtained."
Team Wu said very simply and neatly.
This poisoning incident has a great impact and attracts many people, so it must be handled with caution.
The most critical point is whether the poisoning was caused by careless handling of the food, or whether someone maliciously poisoned it. This must be clarified!
"Director Zhao, I asked the forensic doctor in the bureau, and he said that we don't have the comprehensive toxicological testing here, so I can only trouble you."
Song Botao also continued.
If it is just a general toxicology test, then forensic medicine will definitely be competent, but when it comes to some rare toxins, especially biotoxins produced by fermentation bacteria, only large hospitals like the First Affiliated Hospital have specialized toxicology and pathology The research office has come to conduct research.
(End of chapter)
