Chapter 2547: An Unexpected Incident

Along the way, they suddenly saw a night shift nurse from the PICU run back to the nurse’s station from outside and say to her colleagues:

“Bed number six sent to the operating room might be coming back.”

“Has her heart transplant surgery finished? So fast? Dr. Mu is going to set a record.”

“Don’t mention it, they didn’t even open the chest.”

“What’s going on?”

“Don’t you know? Dr. Han talked to Dr. Mu on the phone for half an hour. Everyone in the operating room is extremely anxious now.”

The nurse’s words were enough to make people worry about whether there was still hope for Xiaohui.

Xie Wanying and Wei Shangquan hurriedly ran to the operating room to confirm whether the news was true or not.

“Yingying, what do you think might be the reason? Did the family decide to retract the donation at the last minute?” Wei Shangquan anxiously said as they walked.

Last-minute retraction of donations happens often. Perhaps there was a family member who wasn’t informed, and upon learning the news, came to the hospital to stop the donation.

The two walked to the operating room’s office. A group of doctors who hadn’t finished their shifts crowded into the office, discussing heatedly, their faces full of anxiety.

This matter was extremely urgent and very serious.

Listening in, Xie Wanying and Wei Shangquan realized it didn’t seem to be due to the family’s sudden retraction of the donation.

It was even more troublesome. Family issues might be talked through, potentially turning the situation around. If there’s an issue with the donor heart, it could be unsolvable.

“It’s a rescue situation,” Dai Nanhui stood beside the two and said. At this point, this person was eager for academic exchange with them, setting aside his usual aloofness.

“Rescue?” Wei Shangquan suspected he might have misheard, “Already brain dead, what’s there to rescue?”

Who said brain death doesn’t require a rescue? Student Wei clearly forgot, unable to connect to the words Senior Cao said that afternoon.

Some family members, like Xiao Yu’s family, wait until the patient is completely gone before donating. This way of donation could cause the heart to face an emergency before it can be donated. A heart rescue might make doctors worry about whether the donor heart has sustained damage or undergone changes. This situation is far more severe than a mismatch in the size of the donor heart, as it could render the donor heart unusable.

“What should we do now?” Wei Shangquan turned pale for Xiaohui’s sake.

“It’s okay,” Xie Wanying said.

“Yingying?” Wei Shangquan questioned.

Dai Nanhui glanced at her, wondering if she could say something comforting.

“Whether the heart is damaged or has undergone changes depends on the examination results, random guessing is useless. What should be done now is to first lower the dosage of dopamine and other medications enhancing cardiac muscle strength. On this premise, without the interference from drugs, perform an ultrasound to check if the ejection fraction of the left ventricle is greater than fifty percent, if there are any abnormal changes in the valves and other structures of the heart, and examine the ECG for myocardial ischemia and conduction abnormalities and check cardiac enzymes, strictly ensuring the safety of the donor heart,” Xie Wanying said.

In summary, an occurrence of rescue doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem with the donor heart, it needs to be confirmed whether it’s a unilateral organic cardiac condition.

Her logical and orderly words made Student Wei and others blink, as they hadn’t expected her to provide a concrete technical analysis rather than comforting words.

Looking around, the seniors shifted their perspective, evaluating, “What she said makes sense.”

At this moment, the priority is to figure out how to ensure the safety of the donor heart: the speaking student’s logical chain was clear, calm enough to make people look at her in a new light.

Then they saw several people come to the door. Wei Shangquan hurriedly tugged on Student Xie’s clothes: is it the patient’s attending boss and who else?