A doctor who travels through two eras

Wells Hospital is located on Hong Kong Island, and it is very inconvenient to cross the harbor to Kowloon.

In addition, the doctors who are available are currently resting at home, and it is very troublesome to call them one by one, so it will take at least half a day before they can arrive at Lingnan Hospital to help.

However, more and more parents and young patients are gathering at the scene, and even the pediatric outpatient hall and corridors are full of people waiting.

Lin Sanqi knew things were going to get bad and he had to think of another way.

Sure enough, the opportunity came immediately; a woman in the waiting crowd let out a scream:
"Baby, baby, what's wrong? Don't call for Mommy! Doctor, help! My son is having an epileptic seizure!!!"

Lin Sanqi was greatly alarmed, knowing that this was exactly what he feared: the biggest complication of fever in children is febrile seizures.

Typical symptoms include sudden loss of consciousness, limb convulsions, upward rolling or staring of the eyes, clenched teeth, bluish complexion, foaming at the mouth, and irregular breathing in children.

It felt like I was going to die.

This feeling isn't that of a doctor, but rather that of a parent, who feels that their child might die, and thus they all become hysterical and frantic.

Like what you see in the news decades later, in the freezing cold of Northeast China, there are parents wearing long underwear, carrying their children and desperately running to the hospital;

Or there are parents kneeling by the roadside holding their children, begging passing drivers to help take them to the hospital.

In most cases, this is a child suddenly experiencing a febrile seizure.

Because this disease comes on very suddenly, without any warning signs, it catches parents completely off guard.

Parents often experience a mental breakdown and become completely disoriented when faced with a febrile seizure, but doctors tend to remain calm.

Because this disease looks scary when it flares up, it is actually not harmful, and there are very few aftereffects. It may even get better on its own without treatment.

But if you, as a doctor, calmly walk over, glance at the medication, calmly say "put it on the bed," and calmly write an order for the nurse to fetch the medicine, then you're in for a beating.

People who lose their minds are terrifying, but parents who lose their minds are even more like a powder keg.

So Lin Sanqi, He Changping, and Yu Shifen quickly pushed through the crowd and ran over.

Just then, a middle-aged couple dressed in expensive clothes were seen holding a little boy who was convulsing and shouting, which frightened the other parents nearby, who all stepped back and made way for them.

After running over, Lin Sanqi casually pulled out an electronic thermometer.

Electronic thermometers hadn't been invented in this era, but that didn't stop Boss Lin from being a time traveler.

Using a mercury thermometer at this time, especially a rectal thermometer specifically designed for children, is extremely dangerous.

The child was already experiencing constant full-body convulsions; if you then insert an anal gag into their anus, the chances of it breaking are extremely high.

That would be a serious medical accident.

Lin Sanqi took out an electronic thermometer, pressed it against the convulsing child's ear, and announced: "Temperature 40.2 degrees Celsius."

Vice President He Changming, Director of Children's Affairs Yu Shifen, and the nurses who came to help all breathed a sigh of relief.

The higher the body temperature, the more certain the doctor is that the seizure is a febrile seizure, indicating that the problem is less serious.

A low temperature of 37.5 degrees Celsius, or the absence of febrile seizures, often indicates epilepsy or other brain disorders, which would be a serious problem.

When the other parents saw that Lingnan Hospital actually had such advanced temperature monitoring equipment, which could provide data simply by whispering a note into the ear, they all widened their eyes in amazement.

At the same time, I have even greater confidence in the hospital's capabilities.

The young patient's parents were still in a state of collapse, shouting and screaming:
"Doctor, save my son! He's the only son in three generations of our Li family! He can't die, he absolutely can't die!"

Lin Sanqi replied, feigning some anxiety:

"Don't worry, once you're inside the gates of our Lingnan Hospital, we will do everything we can to save your baby. We'll take care of everything. Please step aside, we need to make an emergency."

At this moment, the nurse had already pushed the emergency bed over.

Lin Sanqi personally placed the still convulsing child onto the resuscitation bed, feeling the child's spasms, and thought to himself that it did look quite frightening.

Yu Shifen glanced at him and reminded him, "Boss, should we be injecting aminopyrine intramuscularly now?" Lin Sanqi shook his head, thinking that the treatment methods of the 1960s were indeed crude, and then shook his head and said:
"Get him to the emergency room immediately and put him on cardiac monitoring with the monitor I brought. Also, prepare diazepam injection for intravenous push immediately; at the same time, insert two ibuprofen suppositories into his rectum immediately."

"Okay, I'll do it right away."

The doctors and nurses were all well-trained and immediately began preparing for the rescue.

When a nurse was about to pull up the curtain, Lin Sanqi stopped her: "No need to pull it up, let everyone watch us do the rescue."

Everyone is gossipy, and Hong Kong people are no exception.

Sure enough, when the children at Lingnan Hospital were preparing to resuscitate a patient, all the other parents peeked out and gathered around the door to watch the spectacle.

Lin Sanqi certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity to advertise and let these Hong Kong natives see what kind of cutting-edge technology from the future is truly amazing.

Then he quietly instructed He Jiachang, the vice president standing next to him:
"Dean He, please go and call those reporters over immediately. Tell them that we are going to use new technologies and drugs to save critically ill children."

Upon hearing this, He Jiachang quickly nodded: "Okay, I'll go right now."

Before long, reporters who had caught wind of the situation arrived. Having already received several hundred yuan in travel expenses, they naturally knew how to speak well of Lingnan Hospital.

The scene was immediately filled with flashing cameras. (This actually violates patient privacy; please do not imitate it.)

Seeing that the assistants and onlookers were all in place, Lin Sanqi waved his hand and said, "Start the ECG monitoring."

Several electrode patches were attached to the chest of the child who was having convulsions, and a finger pressure oxygen device was attached to his finger. As soon as the electrocardiogram monitor was powered on, it immediately started beeping.

Various red and white numbers, as well as electrocardiogram bands, were displayed on the screen.

The onlookers gasped in surprise, and the reporters' flashes went off even faster.

To everyone else, the monitor on the bedside table looked like a color TV, but smaller and clearer.

Color TVs were not a rarity in Hong Kong. After they were invented in the United States in the 1950s, a few families in Hong Kong owned them, after all, it was an international metropolis.

But the shocking aspect of Lingnan Hospital doesn't end there.

While Director Yu and medical staff were performing emergency treatment, Lin Sanqi was introducing his products to reporters and onlookers.

"Dear journalists and citizens, I have some good news to share. Our Lingnan Hospital is the first hospital in the world to launch a fully automated electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor. You can see the numbers jumping around over there."

This represents heart rate, this represents blood pressure, this represents respiratory rate, and this represents oxygen saturation. Additionally, we can view the electrocardiogram (ECG) throughout the entire process.

These data monitor vital signs. If any one of the data points becomes abnormal, the machine will automatically sound an alarm, making it easier for doctors to observe and provide timely treatment. Don't you all think this is advanced?

In Hong Kong during the 1960s, vital signs monitoring was all done manually. For example, blood pressure was measured using a mercury meter, and oxygen saturation required a blood test to determine the result.

There's no problem in regular outpatient clinics, but it wastes time in emergency situations because real-time monitoring is not possible, which delays the diagnosis and treatment.

Just as everyone was making sounds of "oh," Lin Sanqi then introduced the machines next to him:
"Look, everyone, this machine is called a defibrillator. It's high-tech. If a patient's heart stops beating, we just need to place the machine on their chest and then discharge electricity to stimulate the heart to start beating again."

At this point, a reporter asked:

"What if the patient stops breathing as well?"

Lin Sanqi has launched a new machine:
"Breathing has stopped, that's a problem. Everyone thinks that if a person stops breathing and has no heartbeat, they are dead."

However, we at Lingnan Hospital don't think so. As long as the heartbeat and breathing stop within a few minutes, we have a way to save the patient.

For example, this ventilator. If the patient stops breathing, we can install this machine to help them breathe. What do you all think, should we go ahead with it?

The onlookers nodded repeatedly, each one looking very serious.

Lin Sanqi was satisfied, so like a salesman with an advantage, he continued to boast:
"In addition, as you can continue to look, we also have cardiac compression pumps, negative pressure fracture fixators, multi-functional resuscitation beds, negative pressure suction devices, fully automatic gastric lavage machines, micro-infusion pumps, peritoneal dialysis and blood purification, etc."

I'm not bragging, but even hospitals in the most developed countries like the US and the UK can't compare to our Lingnan Hospital in terms of equipment. It's no exaggeration to say that I would call us the most advanced hospital in the world.

Wow~~~
The onlookers murmured in admiration once more. (End of Chapter)