The miracle you hope for (4)
Will heaven help?
There were less than three patients waiting in the emergency room.
Choi Ki-seok helped the man register at the night office and learned that the man’s name was Ko Yong-jin.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, I made it to the emergency room safely.”
Ko Yong-jin looked at Choi Ki-seok and said something.
It was sad to see him biting his lip and enduring the pain.
“Are you by any chance a doctor at this hospital?”
“Yes. It will be difficult, so don’t talk too much. Save it and use what you say to the doctor who examines you.”
During the brief conversation, Ko Yong-jin’s turn came.
The treating doctor is Lee Ki-woo, a second-year student at emergency medicine school. The thick eyebrows and sharp jaw line are impressive.
“Hello, senior.”
“What are you?”
Lee Ki-woo looked back and forth between Choi Ki-seok and Yong-jin Ko and then opened his eyes wide.
“I was outside for a moment and met a patient on the way.”
“They said it was the legendary Fanta, and it’s true. Now I’m picking up patients too… hmm.”
Kiwoo Lee realized that he had made a mistake and cleared his throat.
“That’s enough, go now.”
“I’m sorry, but can I stay with the patient until the treatment is over? Since you said your chest hurts, I think you might be a thoracic surgery patient.”
“Then do it.”
Since Lee Ki-woo readily gave his permission, Choi Ki-seok remained. And I watched Lee Ki-woo carefully as he was being examined.
“Where does it hurt the most?”
“My chest hurts so much. It feels like someone hit me with a hammer. It’s hard to breathe.”
Sweat beaded on Yong-jin Ko’s forehead.
Both hands were clutching the hem of his pants to hold back the pain.
“Do you have any chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes?”
“I have a pneumothorax.”
Lee Ki-woo furrowed his eyebrows at Go Yong-jin’s answer.
Lee Ki-woo had Ko Yong-jin raise his top and then examined his chest.
There were no signs of trauma, so I immediately listened to the heart using a stethoscope. Breathing sounds were greatly reduced, indicating a pneumothorax in the left lung.
Other than that, there were no other problems.
“I’ll take an X-ray first.”
“yes.”
Choi Ki-seok helped Ko Yong-jin get a chest X-ray.
While receiving treatment and taking pictures, I could see at a glance that the condition was worsening. It was heartbreaking to watch the patient, but I couldn’t just go forward.
Only then can they understand the patient’s condition with special abilities, but other doctors do not.
After a while, Choi Ki-seok and Ko Yong-jin returned to the emergency room.
“There is blood pooling in the patient’s chest right now.”
Lee Ki-woo spoke while looking at the radiograph.
“If you can see a shadow on an
“All right.”
Ko Yong-jin answered Lee Ki-woo’s answer with difficulty.
As time passed, Min-hyeok Min, the thoracic surgeon on duty, came down to the emergency room.
“Is it you again?”
Min Joo-hyuk stuck his tongue out when he saw Choi Ki-seok next to the patient.
Since I had been with Choi Ki-seok for a long time, I quickly figured out how things were going.
‘ah. ‘Fuck.’
Minjoohyuk checked the patient’s condition again and cursed under his breath.
This situation requires emergency chest intubation.
Chest tube intubation is literally a procedure where a tube is inserted into the chest. If the blood accumulated in the pleura is removed through chest intubation, the patient returns to normal.
The problem is that he injured his right wrist.
“Senior. Why are you doing this?”
“It’s nothing. Go get a chest intubation set.”
“yes.”
Choi Ki-seok spoke to the nurse and quickly brought the tools.
But that’s the moment.
“Keuuuuup!”
Ko Yong-jin, who was sitting on the bed, fell backwards, groaning in pain.
In an instant, everyone’s faces turned pale.
Hypovolemic shock occurred due to hemothorax.
While everyone was blinking in surprise, Choi Ki-seok was the first to step forward.
He laid the patient on his back and attached a monitoring device to the patient.
My blood pressure soared, and my pulse began to plummet. The patient was still conscious, but his face turned pale and he was in a state of panic.
Even though no one ordered him to do so, Choi Ki-seok took additional measures.
Thanks to the Frozen Heart passive, my mind was clear.
What to do and in what order was clearly outlined. First, the patient’s legs were raised to help circulation.
Tiring!
[The Frozen Heart skill has risen to Lv.2. Special effect Cold Cold is now available.]
[Frozen Heart Lv.2]
– Analyze patients and illnesses cool-headedly without involving emotions.
– Abilities do not drop even in emergency or unexpected situations.
– Grows up to level 5.
– Extreme Cold: Not only you but also your allies you kill do not lose their composure and their abilities do not drop.
It was nice that my skill level had increased, but I couldn’t afford to be happy.
Now, patients come first.
Hehehe.
As the level increase occurred, blue energy emanated from Choi Ki-seok’s body. The moment the blue energy enveloped Min Joo-hyuk, his eyes regained their clear light.
“You measure the fluid. I will measure the dopamine.”
“yes!”
Afterwards, Choi Ki-seok and Min-hyuk Min worked together to take action. Although we have been in the operating room together before, this is the first time that we have treated a patient by dividing the tasks like this.
Still, the sum was fantastic.
The patient’s vitals quickly returned to normal.
“Let’s intubate quickly.”
Minjoohyuk wore surgical gloves.
However, halfway through, Choi Ki-seok caught him frowning and stopping. When I looked closely, I saw a patch attached to Minjoohyuk’s wrist.
Just in case, I checked the condition with Hippocrates’ eyes and found that my wrist was sprained.
It is not suitable for doing delicate work.
If you make a mistake and stab somewhere other than the chest cavity…
“Sir, aren’t you hurt on your wrist?”
Ki-Seok Choi approached Min-Hyuk Min and whispered quietly.
“It can’t be helped. It’s not like I can call my seniors or professors for things like chest tube intubation.”
“Then I will do it.”
“No. That patient is a much more emergency situation than a normal hemothorax patient. If you make even the slightest mistake, you won’t be able to fix it.”
“I know that, but your wrist isn’t normal.”
Choi Ki-seok slowly persuaded Min-joo-hyuk.
After persistently asking whether he would have to do chest intubation when he became a thoracic surgery resident anyway, and whether it would be okay to watch closely from the side, Minjoo-hyuk eventually raised the flag.
“Hmm… today is the perfect day.”
Min-hyuk Min continued speaking in a loud voice as if he wanted the staff around him to hear.
“The patient’s condition has improved, so I need to teach Ki-seok about chest tube intubation.”
“With a patient like that? And isn’t chest tube intubation usually learned in the first year of residency?”
Kiwoo Lee expressed concern.
“It’s okay if it’s Kiseok. He’s already had a successful thoracentesis, so whatever. I’ll be there to take care of him.”
Min-hyuk Min joked and stared at Ki-seok Choi.
This is the signal to start chest intubation.
Choi Ki-seok nodded slightly and raised the head of the patient’s bed slightly.
And I wore surgical gloves.
The feeling of squeezing my skin was particularly strong today.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
The intubated area was widely disinfected with povidone solution and then covered with a sterile cloth with holes.
“Lidocaine.”
“yes.”
The nurse handed me a syringe filled with local anesthetic.
Choi Ki-seok administered an anesthetic injection to the upper part of the ribs and prepared for a thoracocentesis.
This is to check the location of blood pooling and suction before inserting the chest tube.
“This would be good.”
Min Joo-hyuk pointed to the thoracentesis site with his eyes.
Choi Ki-seok also nodded because he was of the same opinion.
Fuuuuuk.
The needle pierced the skin.
Choi Ki-seok did not insert the needle all the way, but stopped and pulled the body of the syringe.
The blood slowly rose.
The thoracocentesis was successfully performed.
The game from now on is chest tube intubation.
“Just stay calm and don’t be nervous, okay?”
“yes.”
“Make an incision one node below the area where you just punctured. If you do it wrong, you’ll hurt blood vessels or nerves, so be careful.”
Min Joo-hyuk informed the intubation procedure, and Choi Ki-seok started the incision with a scalpel in his hand.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
As the scalpel passed, the patient’s skin split like paper.
“Kelly.”
In response to Choi Ki-seok’s cries, the nurse handed him hemostasis forceps.
Ki-seok Choi used hemostat forceps to gradually remove the muscles between the ribs. Then, after removing Kelly, he pushed his finger inside the incised skin.
The sticky feel of the pleura remained on my fingers.
“How is it? Can you touch it?”
“Yes. I can touch it.”
“Then put the tube in.”
Choi Ki-seok took the tube the nurse held out and pushed it into the pleura.
[You have succeeded in chest tube intubation!]
[You have succeeded in the second miracle of the hidden mission, and new items P.P
and the store will be opened.]
With the notification, blood flowed down the tube.
Kurrrrrr.
The sound of blood filling the drainage bottle was like the sound of rain.
“Good job. Sasha.”
Min Joo-hyuk, who was watching Choi Ki-seok anxiously, tapped Choi Ki-seok on the shoulder.
“It’s because my senior taught me well.”
Choi Ki-seok smiled and started to finish the intubation.
First, the incised skin was tied to a tube using sutures, and then covered with Vaseline gauze and Y-shaped gauze.
Finally, the gauze was fixed with a bandage.
“Hey. You’re good.”
“Can I stand on duty with Joo-hyuk?”
The staff who watched the treatment poured out praise.
Choi Ki-seok scratched the back of his head with a embarrassed expression.
It’s just a pity that I can’t reveal that I was a 3-year student in the past.
* * *
The duty room that evening.
“Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.”
Min-hyeok Min’s snoring was loud.
Minjoohyuk was completely stretched out after eating his late-night snack thirty minutes ago.
Ki-seok Choi glanced at Min-hyuk Min and lay down on the bed.
There were many rewards gained from successful chest intubation.
I needed to check.
Choi Ki-seok first examined the frozen heart.
As the level increases by one level, a new effect known as bitter cold appears on the frozen heart.
This is a kind of buff that can give the effect of frozen heart to colleagues.
It was probably because of this harsh effect that Min-Hyuk Lee, who had been embarrassed by the patient’s collapse, regained his composure.
‘Okay then.’
Choi Ki-seok checked the bottom part of the status window.
The next thing to look at
is P.P. In the past
, I had obtained a gem that raised my level of internal medicine and increased the amount of P.P earned.
At the time,
I didn’t know what P.P was, but now I know its identity.
NEW P.
P(Patient Point): 10.
[P.
P is the point you can get when you treat a patient, perform surgery, or provide surgical assistance.]
[P.
By collecting P, you can purchase various functions necessary for treatment.]
‘Is it like money in a game?’
Choi Ki-seok smiled and looked around the store.
NEW Store:
You can purchase items using P.P. Through this, you can improve abilities such as skill titles, gems, and items. Currently, stage 1 is open and additional missions must be completed to unlock the next item.
Below the description were items that could be purchased.
Contrary to the grand description, there are actually only three items that can be purchased.
NEW [Gem Box: Normal]
– In the beginning, life is just one shot. Draw a box that turns your life around!
– You can obtain gems from low to normal grades.
Next to the normal gem box, a rare gem box and a unique gem box were placed side by side.
The problem is that the purchase points of the gem box are not easy.
The points needed for the normal gem box alone were over 200.
Since my current P.P
is 10, I am unable to open a single normal gem box.
“Haa…”
Choi Ki-seok sighed as the ground fell.
This is too bad.
