Hectic schedule (6)
“One more time!”
“Charge!”
“Clear!”
thud!
Even though the electric current struck the patient one after another, the electrocardiogram graph was motionless.
puck! puck! puck! puck!
Choi Ki-seok began performing chest compressions.
The pressure was so strong that I was worried that my ribs might break.
The patient’s body bounced precariously as if a defibrillator had been used.
‘Dangerous.’
Choi Ki-seok glanced at his patient and the patient Charles emergency medicine doctor was performing CPR on, and frowned.
Is it because the patient was dead on arrival?
There was no sign of his vitals recovering.
“Continue administering epinephrine every two minutes. “The oxygen concentration will also be raised further than it is now.”
“yes!”
The intern who was helping Ki-Seok Choi shouted bravely.
Hellish CPR followed.
With CPR being performed simultaneously on three patients, the atmosphere in the emergency room felt like a bomb about to explode.
Most of the staff could not take their eyes off the people performing CPR while doing their jobs. But there was already a deep sense of despair and sadness in their eyes.
Although it varies from case to case, the recovery rate for patients who are dead upon arrival does not exceed 20 percent.
Didn’t the 911 crews already perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation before arriving at the hospital?
It was rare for a patient’s life to suddenly be saved by performing CPR in a hospital.
Pop. Pop. Pop.
Thick beads of sweat fell from Choi Ki-seok’s face.
Although his eyes were sore from the sweat, Ki-Seok Choi gritted his teeth and continued CPR.
This patient has already passed away.
If you say something like that, your body may be at ease, but your mind will not be at peace.
Shouldn’t all doctors be afraid?
For the patient to leave his hands.
“Mr. Choi. “Do you think it will be difficult anymore?”
“It’s already been 20 minutes. There is no hope now. “I was able to perform CPR and administer medication.”
Charles and the emergency medicine doctor who were performing CPR said a few words to each other.
The faces of the two people were as messed up as Choi Ki-seok’s, and they clearly showed signs of exhaustion.
“Try a little harder. “It’s still too early to give up.”
Choi Ki-seok looked down at the patient and started CPR again, and the two people followed him as if they had no choice.
The tenacity felt in Choi Ki-seok’s eyes and tone of voice made the two people move.
“How…how did this happen?”
Suddenly, an old man burst in and stood next to Choi Ki-seok.
“Why on earth does my family…”
“Are you a guardian?”
“yes. “The patients are my sons and grandchildren.”
“I’m sorry, but I will explain the circumstances later. Treatment is more important now.”
The intern calmed down the person who appeared to be the guardian and made him keep his distance from the bed.
Continued CPR with guardian present.
Hehehe.
Choi Ki-seok discovered a faint light emanating from the body of his patient.
[The lifesaver title resurrection effect is activated.]
[Resurrection: When killed, there is a 20% chance that the dying patient will be temporarily revived.]
“Teacher! “There was just a faint movement on the EKG.”
“Good. Let’s keep going.”
Choi Ki-seok accelerated CPR with the help of an intern.
A faint ember bloomed from an extinguished candle.
This spark must be revived while the resurrection effect remains.
Time passed and forty minutes had passed since the patients arrived at the emergency room.
The situation in the emergency room was somewhat over.
Three patients were brought in dead on arrival.
One of them barely survived, and the other two lost their lives. As the patient died after a long treatment, the atmosphere in the emergency room was as dark as a dark cloud.
“You stupid bastards. why! why!”
Guardian Robert cried loudly next to his deceased son and grandson. The old man’s wailing became a dagger and pierced the hearts of the staff working in the emergency room.
Choi Ki-seok couldn’t find words of comfort, so he just stayed by the old man’s side.
Someone in this world is someone else’s hope and everything in life.
Looking at Robert, I could feel the meaning of that phrase deep in my bones.
After the storm passed, Ki-Seok Choi returned to Uiguk with Charles.
The two did not open their mouths as if they had made a promise.
I just stared at the monitor with a mesmerized expression.
Ride, ride, ride.
The sound of the keyboard waking the quiet country. Charles was writing a death certificate. Coincidentally, the patients Charles and the emergency medicine doctors were in charge of lost their lives.
“Would you like to come and see for a moment?”
Charles gestured to the monitor, and Choi Ki-seok stood next to him and looked at the chart.
The details of the incident were written in the emergency room record sheet.
These are the things written and handed over by 911 operators.
It is said that when the first crews arrived, briquette gas was filling the house.
The room was completely sealed.
Additionally, it is said that a can of sleeping pills and a will were placed on the table. The will stated that the father of the young men was pessimistic about life and would end his life with his sons.
“It’s bittersweet.”
Choi Ki-seok sighed as if the ground was sinking.
It often happens that a head of a family, in despair, takes his own life and that of his children. My heart ached even more as I personally experienced an incident that I had only seen on the news.
“I’m sorry Charles, but could you please look after the patient for just thirty minutes? “I have somewhere to go for a moment.”
“Are you going to see your guardian?”
“that’s right.”
“Don’t worry about me, just talk slowly.”
Choi Ki-seok expressed his gratitude to Charles and went down to the morgue.
We arrived at the waiting room in the morgue after passing through a dark and dreary hallway.
Robert, who had lost his son and grandchild, was frozen like a stone with his head down.
“This is Ki-seok Choi, whom you saw in the emergency room earlier.”
At Choi Ki-seok’s words, Robert raised his head and stared at him.
The eyes lost focus and looked empty.
“I want to say I’m sorry once again. Because I couldn’t protect Robert’s precious family…”
“That’s enough. “I have no desire to blame the hospital.”
Robert continued speaking with difficulty.
“I have already heard in detail what happened at home and what treatment I received at the hospital. “If you blame someone, the only target you can blame is God.”
“….”
“But, teacher. “There is something strange.”
“yes. Please speak.”
Choi Ki-seok suddenly felt a powerful force from Robert’s hand holding the gown.
An energy that I have never felt before.
I found something unusual there.
“I had a conversation with the police earlier. They claimed that my son attempted suicide after giving his grandchildren sleeping pills. “The evidence is that he left a suicide note in the room and sent a text message to his ex-wife saying he wanted to die.”
“I guess Robert doesn’t think so.”
Choi Ki-seok was the first to stab him.
“That’s exactly what I said! I won’t deny that Jack had suicidal thoughts. “Jack has been sensitive and had difficulty in social life since he was young.”
“….”
“But I’m not the type of person to leave the world like this. At least… at least he wouldn’t have laid a hand on his children. “I believe my son is innocent.”
“To put it simply, does this mean it was murder?”
“That’s right. No one has watched Jack as long as I have. I’m sure. But the police didn’t believe me.”
Robert slumped his shoulders with a sullen expression.
“Is there any way? “A way to clear my son’s name.”
Tiring!
[The special mission ‘Unjust Death’ has been created. If you uncover the truth behind Jack’s death, you will receive a special reward.]
Ki-Seok Choi checked the status window and rubbed his chin.
From Robert’s perspective, this incident is definitely suspicious.
This is because it can be assumed that someone who knew about Jack’s suicidal impulses planned it.
“All right. “I will do as much research as I can.”
“Please, Dr. Choi. “I can’t let my son and grandchildren go like this… in vain.”
Robert held out his hand first, and Ki-Seok Choi took his hand.
An unbelievable warmth came from my wrinkled hands.
Uiguk that morning.
After entering the training room, Choi Ki-seok started practicing his teacher’s new surgery one after another.
The surgical method previously taught by the teacher and Charlotte’s surgical method.
The goal was to find a middle ground between the two.
First, the teacher set the desired surgical range and then applied Charlotte’s unusual surgical technique.
The conclusion is a huge failure.
As the scope of surgery expanded, Charlotte’s total care actually took longer than her teacher’s surgical method.
During the second surgery, half of the procedures were performed using the teacher’s surgical method, and the other half followed Charlotte’s surgical method. However, this also led to unfavorable results.
It felt like I was drinking a juice mixed with two incompatible fruits.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that the surgery was a separate activity.
As if his premonition was correct, the overall rank after surgery was F.
“Phew….”
Choi Ki-seok scratched the back of his head after coming out of the training room.
Where did it go wrong?
Would it be right to ignore Charlotte’s surgical method and follow the existing teacher’s method?
Is it just that there is a third way and I haven’t been able to find it?
My head was a mess with a thousand thoughts.
To change his mood, Choi Ki-seok drank a can of coffee in the lounge and walked around the hospital room.
The handover time was 30 minutes away.
I wanted to check on the patients before that.
The first place we visited was the hospital room of Kelly, who suffers from June Syndrome.
Choi Ki-seok took the treatment tools, took an air shower, and entered the isolation room.
Kelly was fast asleep like a baby angel.
Just looking at her now, you would completely forget that she was suffering from a rare disease.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Wearing surgical gloves and disinfecting the surgical area.
Afterwards, Choi Ki-seok placed his hand on the retractor attached to Kelly’s chest and unscrewed it.
The cheerful sound of metal clicking together.
After checking the scale of the retractor, he increased it by 1 millimeter to the left and right. Kelly’s body shook from the sudden stimulation, but she soon fell back to sleep.
The previous treatment had expanded Kelly’s ribcage by 12 millimeters.
If this is the case, the target of 28 millimeters is not far away.
Should I say that Benson’s Rambo show is progressing step by step?
Ki-Seok Choi completed the treatment and moved to the surgical intensive care unit.
The second person he found was Victor.
Victor is the only surviving member of Jack’s family who arrived dead on arrival (DOA).
Currently, he was barely surviving while relying on ECMO.
Vital signs dropped once in the morning, but there were no other problems after that.
Choi Ki-seok looked down at Victor for a while and bit his lip.
What kind of picture will unfold when he regains consciousness and realizes what happened in his house?
Just imagining it made my eyes dizzy.
The round that follows.
Choi Ki-seok returned to the medical office after carefully examining the patients’ conditions with the eyes of Hippocrates.
The duty of the duty doctor ends with handing over to colleagues who have come to work.
He changed into casual clothes in the dormitory and got into the car.
Grumbling.
The car easily left the MHC with an exhaust sound.
Oliver, the world’s first triple board thoracic surgeon.
Today is the day I go to meet her.
