My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points-Chapter 1205 - 476: Snobbish Family Members, Infection Caused by Artificial Materials
Only the Third Hospital first considered Tuya Hospital, which is like a foolish rabbit preferring to nibble on grass near its burrow.
Zhou Can began to study this troublesome patient closely.
The patient was found to have a sternum tumor and underwent a wide sternum resection and chest wall reconstruction.
Currently, the patient has post-operative incision infection and sternum osteomyelitis, causing the wound to remain unhealed for a long time.
The Third Hospital has tried many methods to treat the patient, but unfortunately, with no success. The family fears that if the treatment continues, the patient may die at the Third Hospital. Therefore, they ’actively’ requested a transfer to another hospital.
According to the family’s introduction at the time of the visit, the doctors and nurses of the Third Hospital, including the family members of patients in the same ward, all said that Tuya Hospital’s medical skills are excellent.
Two days prior to the transfer, when a nurse was giving the patient an infusion, due to prolonged infusion at the site of the indwelling needle, severe edema occurred.
In trying to insert the needle on the other hand, the nurse made several mistakes, requiring three attempts to find the vein.
The original attending physician took leave due to personal matters and was replaced by a new one who was careless and extremely irresponsible. Both the family and the patient voiced their concerns to the attending physician, only to be met with procrastination and perfunctory responses.
Coincidentally, a family member of a patient in the same ward secretly informed them, having heard that Tuya Hospital’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department had recently treated several difficult cases successfully.
The family was therefore tempted.
They strongly demanded a transfer for treatment.
Zhou Can smirked; these manipulations by Xinxiang Hospital clearly indicate a patient transfer encouragement, don’t they? Though the family doesn’t understand the intricacies, Zhou knows well.
Another interesting point is whether the praise for Tuya Hospital’s medical skills from Xinxiang Hospital is heartfelt, or perhaps they owe a debt to Tuya Hospital and are returning the favor?
Such things are hard to say.
To speak of repaying a debt might be a bit far-fetched.
Back in the day, Xinxiang Hospital joined forces with Provincial People’s Hospital and the Third Hospital to besiege and exploit Tuya’s Cardiothoracic Surgery business.
Perhaps it was Tuya Hospital sending expert teams to sit clinics at Xinxiang Hospital that left an indelible impression on them.
Tuya’s might has already deeply penetrated the hearts of Xinxiang Hospital’s medical staff.
Additionally, Tuya’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department has recently been quite high-profile, frequently showcasing success in curing or significantly improving difficult cases. This further creates an image of strength to outsiders.
The cause of this patient’s condition is clear; it’s a post-operative infection accompanied by sternum osteomyelitis.
The challenge lies in the treatment.
After the patient developed a post-operative infection, Xinxiang Hospital provided various anti-infection treatments. Unfortunately, they were completely ineffective.
Sometimes, antibiotics are not omnipotent.
Especially with some severe infections, merely using antibiotics feels inadequate.
To give the simplest example, a patient has an abscess with symptoms of infection and inflammation. Treating with antibiotics via intravenous infusion only suppresses the condition as long as the abscess is present, but it’s difficult to cure.
The correct approach must first involve draining the pus from the abscess, then cleaning the cavity. After ensuring there is no source of infection, then antibiotics should be used.
Only in this way can a cure be achieved.
Moreover, the use of any antibiotic comes at the expense of damaging the immune system.
Truly skilled and experienced doctors exercise extreme caution in using antibiotics.
Some patients, particularly fond of visiting small clinics for drips, will seek infusion treatment for mild headaches or fevers. Usually, the effect is rapid; as soon as the infusion is administered, they recover quickly. But the next time they catch a cold, the condition becomes more severe.
This is because the use of antibiotics weakens the immune system.
In recent years, many pediatric experts in China have advocated that most newborns with colds and fevers during the breastfeeding period can achieve self-healing with the antibodies in breast milk. Each time infants self-heal through their immune system, their immunity strengthens a bit more.
This is akin to an infant, upon entering this new world, undergoing repeated natural tempering of the immune system for environmental adaptation.
If some families, out of excessive concern for the baby, frequently take the infant to the hospital for injections and medications, it results in the infant’s immune system missing out on many excellent training opportunities. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
These children’s bodies, after weaning, exhibit noticeably weaker resistance.
Hence, in recent years, the voice advocating for breastfeeding has grown increasingly louder.
It not only prevents infants from drinking toxic milk powder but also allows them to enhance their immunity through the natural antibodies carried in breast milk.
The post-operative treatment given to this patient by Xinxiang Hospital mainly involved anti-infection methods.
This is quite similar to the above-mentioned abscess treatment, failing to clean the cavity and only using antibiotics.
Firstly, one must find the source of infection and clear it; then supplementary antibiotics might lead to a cure.
Analyzing from this angle, it indicates Xinxiang Hospital’s lack of depth.
Performing sternum resection and chest wall reconstruction did not stump Xinxiang Hospital’s surgical experts. But post-operative management posed issues, and the subsequent treatment of the infection utterly defeated them.
Zhou Can began to meticulously comb through each surgical step and every post-operative examination the patient underwent.
The surgery is not complex; basic steps include general anesthesia, tracheal intubation, determining the location of the malignant sternum tumor, choosing the incision site.
Next, cut through the skin and subcutaneous tissue, expose the sternum lesion area, and sever the muscles attached to the sternum.
Then excise the lesion along with part of the surrounding normal tissue.
When removing such malignant tumors, any somewhat experienced surgeon will opt for more extensive resection, without hesitation.
