Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 26

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#Episode 26

She’s going to collapse again at this rate.

A moment later, a middle-aged man in a suit and a young man who appeared to be his secretary burst into the waiting room.

The middle-aged man supported the aunt who was struggling with grief and spoke with the paramedic to hear about the situation.

The aunt, held in her reliable husband’s arms, was breathing heavily with a haggard face.

Da-som was about to just pass by but thought she should inform the husband and approached them.

“The aunt collapsed in the emergency room. It’s a symptom caused by breathing too rapidly, so she needs to breathe deeply and slowly. Otherwise, she’ll collapse again.”

“Oh my.”

Even in his confusion, the husband listened properly to Da-som’s words.

“Just in case, I requested tests, but the aunt refused.”

“…Ah.”

The man who had been looking back and forth between the name written on Da-som’s gown and her face suddenly seemed flustered and covered his mouth with his hand.

“Yes, I’ll make sure she gets hospitalized for tests separately.”

Da-som thought he seemed worried because his wife was sick in the midst of all this, so she greeted them and left.

The crying voice of the aunt, who was in her husband’s arms in a daze, followed behind her.

Her heart felt heavy and her mood was poor.

In the resuscitation room, they would be fighting a battle for life.

Someday, she would belong there too.

While she was burning with motivation and her eyes were shining, Han Byeol approached Da-som and grabbed her arm.

Seeing the cold sweat beaded on her nose bridge, it seemed like there was some kind of trouble.

“What’s wrong? Is something happening?”

Han Byeol had been assigned to the pediatric emergency room.

“It’s a pulled elbow, but it won’t go back in properly. The child is staying still, but the guardian is making a huge fuss. That’s making me even more flustered so I can’t do it.”

“Let’s go.”

Da-som had Han Byeol lead the way and followed behind.

“No, how could you leave the child like this and go somewhere?”

She looked ready to grab someone by the collar if things went well.

From the mother’s perspective, she could certainly act that way. How could she be fine when her precious child’s arm was dislocated?

But admirably, the child was very well-behaved.

A pretty little girl like a princess was sitting on the bed with her arm hanging down.

“Mother, I’ll take a look.”

After glancing at the chart Han Byeol handed over, Da-som approached the child.

Five years old, Wojeong-i.

Even her name was so pretty.

She liked children so much that she wondered if she should have chosen pediatrics as her specialty.

The guardian glared at Han Byeol before shifting her gaze to Da-som.

Her eyes clearly showed suspicion.

“Doctor, can you really do this well? The child isn’t showing it, but how much must it hurt? She’s not moving at all like that.”

The mother was stamping her feet with a face that showed she was worried to death.

“Doctor, if you’re not confident, call the professor. Don’t make the child suffer.”

The guardian’s voice was getting louder.

“How did her arm get dislocated?”

At times like this, she needed to stay calm.

Da-som’s favorite patients were those with dislocated arms.

It might sound strange, but it was very simple and easy to put back in, and then they’d recover as if they had never been hurt.

When Da-som approached the child, the five-year-old glanced up at Da-som then immediately turned her head to the side.

Seeing how she subtly avoided eye contact, she was clearly scared despite sitting so well-behaved.

“It happened while I was holding her hand and walking. I didn’t even pull hard, but when her arm dislocated, she cried briefly and now says it doesn’t hurt.”

Da-som held the child’s left elbow with one hand and grabbed her wrist with the other hand, rotating it inward.

Then there was a clicking sound and the arm was immediately set back in place.

The patient child didn’t cry and just blinked her big eyes while looking up at Da-som.

“Wojeong-i is amazing. How can you be so brave?”

“Oh my, doctor, did you already fix it? That’s amazing.”

There was a method commonly used to check if the arm was properly set.

Da-som took out candy from her pocket and held it up.

“Wojeong-i, do you want some candy?”

Then she nodded and raised her right hand to grab the candy.

“Should I give you one more? Then try grabbing it with your other hand.”

When she took out another candy and brought it near her left ear, the child raised her left hand and took the candy.

Other doctors might have them grab their ear, but Da-som gave candy instead of having them grab their ear.

A smile bloomed on the lips of the incredibly adorable child.

Her plump cheeks and big eyes.

How could she be so lovable?

“Mother, her arm is properly set. Seeing how well Wojeong-i endures pain, it seems like habitual dislocation. When you’re with the child, you need to be careful not to pull her hand.”

Growing children’s bones and tendons aren’t fully developed, so dislocations happen easily.

Usually, you should take X-rays to know the exact condition and treat accordingly, but when the radius bone is dislocated, unless there was a fall or injury, there’s no need to take them.

“Yes, I’ll be careful. Thank you, doctor.”

No medication or other prescriptions were needed.

Han Byeol gently squeezed Da-som’s arm with a grateful expression and let go.

Han Byeol, who was even less eloquent than herself, let out a sigh of relief with a blunt expression.

Da-som waved at the child and then moved to see the next patient.

Then suddenly, the face of the guardian who had collapsed on the lounge floor gasping for breath flashed through her mind.

If she was so distressed just from her child’s dislocated arm, what if it were a life-threatening situation?

Whether the child was old or young didn’t matter.

Our parents cherish their children more than their own lives.

Of course, there are parents like her own birth mother who abandon their children without a care, but still.

Da-som shook her head to shake off the sudden thought of her birth mother.

It wasn’t a very pleasant thought to have from the morning.

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Meanwhile, patient Kim Min-chan who had been moved to the resuscitation room was in a serious situation where his heart could stop at any moment.

“Let’s move the patient carefully.”

Kang Hyeok and the medical staff rushed to carefully move the patient to the bed.

“Check vitals and get blood tests done quickly.”

Kang Hyeok gave instructions to the surrounding medical staff without taking his eyes off the patient, then performed intubation on the patient first.

When spontaneous breathing is precarious, intubation must be performed to secure breathing.

“Mr. Kim Min-chan, can you hear my voice? Patient, if you can hear my voice, try squeezing my hand.”

Kang Hyeok held the patient’s hand and checked his consciousness.

“Mr. Kim Min-chan, can you hear me?”

He took out a pen light to examine the patient’s pupils and called to the patient again.

“Mr. Kim Min-chan. If you can hear me, try squeezing my hand. Mr. Kim Min-chan.”

It was an urgent situation. The young patient wasn’t regaining consciousness at all.

For the sake of the parents who were waiting so anxiously they collapsed from hyperventilation, he hoped the young son would regain consciousness, but the process didn’t seem like it would be easy.

Kang Hyeok examined the patient’s condition with sharp eyes and checked the situations that would follow.

“Blood pressure is 100 over 70 and heart rate is 92 beats per minute.”

The nurse’s report followed.

A patient with unstable vitals had to be stabilized in the emergency room somehow.

“Administer 1 ampule of epinephrine.”

“Yes, Professor.”

The nurse quickly inserted a syringe into the patient’s arm.

Then the patient’s clothes were quickly removed. Kang Hyeok used a stethoscope to assess the patient’s condition.

The left upper lung showed weak breath sounds, suggesting pneumothorax.

“Let’s start with a chest X-ray.”

The waiting radiologist took the image with a portable X-ray machine.

“Results are ready.”

As expected, the rib fracture had caused a slight tear in the left lung, resulting in pneumothorax.

Kang Hyeok decided to address the pneumothorax first and stabilize the vitals.

“It’s pneumothorax. I’ll insert the chest tube while Kyung-tae gets central venous access. And Su-ji, splint and immobilize the left femur.”

“Yes, understood.”

Rapid instructions followed.

“Chest tube.”

“Here it is.”

The nurse quickly handed it to Kang Hyeok.

With careful yet confident movements, Kang Hyeok inserted the chest tube into the lateral left chest, secured it firmly, and tied it off.

Kim Kyung-tae, positioned across from Kang Hyeok, inserted the central venous catheter on the right side opposite the heart, while Jeon Su-ji quickly immobilized the fractured thigh.

Now the emergency treatment that could be done in the Emergency Room was nearly complete.

“Alright, now let’s get CT scans of the brain, chest, and abdomen.”

“Understood.”

Given the unconscious state, there could be brain involvement as well. Hoping there would be no brain damage, he left the Resuscitation Room with a heavy heart.

The patient was moved to the CT Scan Room next to the Emergency Room to begin imaging. While waiting for the scan results, Kang Hyeok left the Resuscitation Room and headed toward the Station.

The imaging results would be available shortly.

The Emergency Room was now bustling with incoming patients. Not only the newly arrived First-year Residents but also the First-year Residents were doing their part and moving busily.

“What’s the name of that small, pretty female doctor over there? I didn’t even get to thank her earlier.”

A guardian holding a child was pointing at Da-som while speaking to a nurse.

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