Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s
Chapter 1569: Visiting Student Xie
"Okay." Director Liang thought he would go find other experts in the hospital to ask for advice together.
Zhang Huayao squinted his eyes, unhurried. Finding experts is useless. This type of patient doesn’t have a rare disease; it’s a common incurable disease seen in clinics. If you ask experts, they have a habitual way of thinking from seeing such diseases often; it’s better to ask a young person to see if they have any novel ideas.
It’s late, and it’s time to go home and rest. Director Liang also needs to get off work. He picked up his coat and said to him, "Director Zhang, let’s go together."
Zhang Huayao responded, "I need to go back to the emergency department."
Subordinates working so proactively? Director Liang was surprised, knowing Zhang Huayao wasn’t that type of person. Though Zhang Huayao’s mother, Teacher Lu, teased him as someone who wholeheartedly devoted himself to his career, he wasn’t the kind who stayed in the hospital year-round. He is a genius. A genius’s habit is to slack off when he can, to be lazy when he can, and to let others do things when it is possible.
To put it simply, Boss Zhang has been a charming and elegant gentleman since childhood. When others took an hour to do homework, he took ten minutes. When others were studying hard, he went out for a stroll, yet the results he achieved in exams were unmatched by others.
Understanding this, Director Liang became curious and followed Zhang Huayao all the way to the emergency department to see what attracted this genius to return for a look.
Before reaching the emergency department, he received a text from a contact informing him that Student Xie had gone to the interventional surgery room, at which point Zhang Huayao decisively turned to the interventional surgery room.
The atmosphere inside the interventional surgery room was somewhat tense.
The patient on the counterpulsation machine had some values that never reached the targets expected by the doctors. Doctor Chen, who had attempted several adjustments, was a bit at a loss.
Doctor Yang and Doctor Li Xiaofeng didn’t dare to breathe heavily, just seeing the teacher in anxiety, seemingly indicating that the surgical situation wasn’t very good.
Helpless, Doctor Chen had to ask the superior doctor for help: "Teacher Shim, while you’re watching, did you notice any problems that we might have overlooked?"
Shim Youhuan, holding the intercom, asked, "Did you adjust the machine?"
"I did." Doctor Chen was certain about this point.
Let’s first talk about what the counterpulsation machine can show the doctor and what operations it can perform. The sensors of the catheter and the electrodes attached to the patient’s body surface connect to the counterpulsation main unit, outputting signals, and the main unit monitor screen presents the waveform diagrams of the relevant data, with three in total.
The top diagram is green, representing the electrocardiogram. Unlike the electrocardiogram on a standard heart monitor, after the patient is on balloon pressure, the heart activity will inevitably be accompanied by the effect of the balloon. On this electrocardiogram, white segments represent the balloon’s inflation and deflation times.
Similarly, the second waveform diagram is a red wave, showing the patient’s arterial pressure, with the middle white parts also highlighting the balloon’s inflation and deflation periods.
The third diagram directly illustrates the balloon’s pressure chart, displayed as a blue waveform.
The waveform diagrams and displayed additional values allow doctors to intuitively understand the effect of balloon inflation and deflation on the patient’s heart, besides serving a monitoring function. Additionally, since the machine is operated by humans, there are bound to be many operation buttons.
As with many machines, increasingly modernized machines definitely come with a built-in easy mode, similar to a washing machine at home. Medical machines also have an automatic mode, where the machine senses the patient’s arterial blood pressure and other conditions to independently adjust the balloon pressure and inflation and deflation times, etc.