Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 16

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#Episode 16

“…P-Professor.”

When the startled Da-som widened her eyes and stammered, Eun Hyeok turned around wondering what was wrong.

“Huk, shit, you scared me.”

A colorful curse flew out of Eun Hyeok’s mouth. Kang Hyeok laughed at Eun Hyeok and naturally took a seat next to them.

“Let’s eat together.”

…Hic.

I must be going crazy.

Suddenly hiccups came out of nowhere.

“Drink this.”

Kang Hyeok handed Da-som a glass of water.

Taking it, Da-som quickly gulped down the water before another hiccup could come out.

While swallowing the water gulp by gulp, she briefly wondered if this was okay.

But she couldn’t spit out the water she’d already swallowed, so Da-som finished all the water and quietly put down the glass.

“You’re not a child, yet you’re hiccupping.”

Though he spoke as if annoyed, Kang Hyeok had already noticed the water on her lips and pulled out a napkin to hand to Da-som.

“Th-thank you.”

She dabbed her lips and let out a silent breath through her shoulders. Kang Hyeok then focused on his meal and began emptying his tray.

In contrast, Eun Hyeok looked like he’d completely lost his appetite, alternately staring at Da-som and Kang Hyeok, trying to figure out what this situation was about.

“Jeong Da-som.”

In the midst of the awkward atmosphere as they barely managed to continue eating, Kang Hyeok suddenly called Da-som.

“…Yes?”

When the startled Da-som looked at Kang Hyeok, Eun Hyeok also looked at Kang Hyeok.

“Come to my room after your shift ends. You know where it is, right?”

“Ah, I do know where it is, but…”

“Hyung, why? What do you have to say to Cotton Ball?”

Before Da-som could finish speaking, Eun Hyeok interrupted. Then Kang Hyeok’s cold gaze turned toward Eun Hyeok.

“Ah, no. I mean, what does hyung have to say to her? Just say it here.”

“Then, would it be okay if I talked about it here? What do you think?”

Kang Hyeok looked at Da-som and asked.

Da-som, who knew all too well why he wanted to see her, quickly shook her head and answered.

“No. I’ll come to the Professor’s Room.”

Kang Hyeok smirked and glared at Eun Hyeok as if telling him not to say another word, then focused on his meal again.

Thud.

Eun Hyeok kicked Da-som’s foot. He looked like he was dying of curiosity.

‘What’s going on?’

‘I’ll explain later.’

Da-som, who carefully mouthed the words silently, glanced at Kang Hyeok who was calmly continuing his meal.

No wonder this morning went by too easily.

She had tried to naturally reveal her identity while reading the atmosphere, but he had figured it out first, so what could she do?

It was something she had to go through at least once anyway.

Today, the mixed grain rice felt exactly like chewing sand.

When she let out a deep sigh, Kang Hyeok only lifted his eyes to look at Da-som.

When his jet-black pupils glinting beneath thick eyelashes pierced into Da-som, her heart shrank tight.

Don’t tremble, don’t tremble. Surely he wouldn’t kill me, right?

Looking at those eyes, she thought he just might.

Haa, what should I do?

Though it was something she had already prepared for, now that it was right in front of her, she felt like her mind was going completely blank.

On top of that, the conversation with her mother that had been weighing on her chest kept flashing through her mind.

“Your sister becoming the hospital director’s wife would be nothing at all. Don’t you think?”

Maybe she should bring her sister, who was supposed to be the original blind date partner.

“Oh, but hyung. Didn’t you not eat beans?”

In the quiet atmosphere, Eun Hyeok suddenly looked at Kang Hyeok’s tray as if something terrible had happened. There were indeed quite a lot of black beans in the mixed grain rice.

“You’ve hated bean rice terribly since you were little.”

“Shut up.”

At Kang Hyeok’s quiet but firm command, Eun Hyeok shut his mouth.

“I like beans.”

Kang Hyeok defiantly picked up a bean with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

Then he made eye contact with Da-som.

“…Should I give you some of my beans too?”

Da-som saw Kang Hyeok’s eyes tremble slightly.

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“Professor, it’s an arrest!”

Beeeeeeeep.

At the ominous sound from the monitor, Da-som also rushed to the patient.

She had been relieved that the afternoon brought patients needing relatively simple treatments, but it seemed things wouldn’t go smoothly after all.

She noticed a woman pacing anxiously outside the emergency room, peering inside.

The patient who had just gone into cardiac arrest was a man in his mid-forties who had come to the emergency room complaining of breathing difficulties. And the woman waiting anxiously outside was his wife.

All the medical staff rushed over due to the sudden change during basic examinations.

“Intubation tube, please.”

Kang Hyeok quickly secured the patient’s airway and completed the endotracheal intubation. The first-year resident began squeezing the AMBU bag.

“Give 1mg epinephrine IV every 4 minutes. Also shoot 20cc of normal saline.”

Kang Hyeok gave instructions calmly but quickly while looking at the flat-line graph.

“Start chest compressions.”

“Yes.”

Da-som rushed to the patient and began chest compressions. Then Eun Hyeok beside her busily prepared the defibrillator, holding the paddles in both hands.

Da-som continued chest compressions while watching the monitor that remained flat-lined.

“One minute passed. Da-som step back, first-year resident do compressions.”

“Ah, understood.”

Kang Hyeok led and gave instructions.

“One, two, three!”

Da-som counted to three and switched with the first-year resident, stepping back. When the first-year resident, who was bigger and stronger than her, began compressions, the patient’s chest sank deeply.

Da-som wiped the sweat from her forehead, caught her breath, and watched the monitor.

“Ah, Professor, it’s V-fib!”

The monitor that had been flat-lining began jumping erratically.

While electrical shock was useless in asystole, if it was ventricular fibrillation, applying electrical shock had a high possibility of restoring the heartbeat.

“Defibrillator!”

Kang Hyeok shouted while looking at Eun Hyeok.

“H-here it is.”

Eun Hyeok handed the paddles to Kang Hyeok. Taking them, Kang Hyeok shouted.

“Charge 200 joules!”

Eun Hyeok began charging the defibrillator.

“Ready!”

“First-year resident, clear! Shock!”

The first-year resident quickly stepped away from the patient. When Kang Hyeok placed the paddles on the patient’s chest, the patient’s body jumped up with a bang.

Da-som watched the monitor hopefully, but it was still in ventricular fibrillation.

“Charge 250 joules!”

In her urgency, Da-som rushed to the patient and performed cardiac compressions. Meanwhile, Eun Hyeok finished charging 250 joules.

“Ready.”

“Clear! Shock!”

Bang!

The patient’s body bounced up a little higher. But he was still in ventricular fibrillation.

In her desperation, Da-som climbed right onto the bed and began chest compressions on the patient.

Crack.

When she flinched at the feeling of a rib cracking, Kang Hyeok looked into Da-som’s eyes and nodded as if telling her to continue.

Though Da-som had heard that ribs could crack during CPR, this was her first time experiencing it.

Though she was scared and trembling, Da-som continued the compressions with the thought that she had to make the patient’s heart beat somehow.

Mister, please, please breathe. Your rib is cracked!

Da-som gritted her teeth while talking to herself internally.

Sweat dripped down along the bridge of her nose.

How long had it been?

“…One, two, three, four… Please just beat!”

She shouted in frustration, but the monitor still showed ventricular fibrillation. Kang Hyeok, who had been watching the condition, shouted.

“Charge 300 joules!”

“Ready!”

Da-som jumped down from the bed. Her ankle twisted and her body staggered, but she didn’t even have time to feel the pain.

“Shoot!”

Bang!

As the patient’s body bounced up, this time Kang Hyeok threw down the pads and rushed to the patient, starting chest compressions.

Da-som, who had been anxiously staring at the monitor, saw it making beep, beep, beep sounds in a regular rhythm and shouted.

“He’s back!”

The eyes of Kang Hyeok, who was doing chest compressions, and Da-som met. Though it was just a brief moment, she saw relief flash through Kang Hyeok’s sharp gaze.

Perhaps because they had overcome a critical moment together, an indescribable emotion stirred in Da-som’s chest.

Seeing Da-som like that, Kang Hyeok smiled slightly, then stepped back from the patient and began giving instructions.

“Do an ABGA (arterial blood gas analysis) and measure oxygen saturation. Send out a full lab too.”

When Da-som looked for a syringe on the cart to draw arterial blood following Kang Hyeok’s instruction, Kang Hyeok blocked her way and gestured to Jeon Su-ji, who had just arrived.

“Su-ji, you do it.”

“Understood.”

Jeon Su-ji took the syringe from Da-som. Da-som stepped back awkwardly.

Between causing the patient’s rib to crack during chest compressions and this, it seemed she was indeed unreliable.

As she watched Jeon Su-ji skillfully draw arterial blood, Kang Hyeok looked at Da-som and said.

“Jeong Da-som, go to the Medical Department right now.”

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