Chapter 2467 【2467】Come to PICU
In a blink of an eye, a few days passed. According to Zhang Desheng, Taotao's diagnosis was confirmed, it was acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and chemotherapy was started. Unexpectedly, classmate Zhang, who hates pediatrics, would go to the hematology department to visit this child again and again in the past few days. It is not ruled out that in addition to visiting the children, it is to help classmate Xie monitor the movements of Zhang's family.
Aunt Zhang would continue to show her face in the emergency department from time to time, but she didn't dare to go directly to Dr. Xie like last time. It is not easy to eliminate the psychological dependence of family members on a doctor.
Compared with Taotao, Zhu Xing's child's condition is much more critical, and the condition has not been well alleviated all the way. This situation is as expected by the attending physician. If a suitable heart cannot be found for a heart transplant, the child may not be able to leave the hospital alive.
That afternoon, Cao Zhao took a group of students to the PICU to check on the children. Pan Shihua asked for leave with Senior Brother Luo, and came to join two surgical students to study rare cases.
After the teachers put on the sterile slippers, several students formally stepped into the PICU ward for the first time.
The PICU is not the NICU, and the bed is the same size as a general pediatric ward, not the usual incubator in the neonatology department. Each bed is almost a small rescue bed. Place ventilator, sputum suction device and other equipment beside the bed. Children who are more serious will be given cardiopulmonary assist devices as classmate Xie said last time. There is a curtain between the bed and the bed. Some children were intubated or tracheotomized like adults. Every time a certain time comes, the nurse will suck up sputum for these children.
Here you can often see various life-sustaining machines connected to the small body of the child, making the sick child even more vulnerable and worrying more than adults.
One hour of family visitation time is open each day in the interior corridors of the PICU. Families can stand in the inner corridor and greet their sick children through the glass windows, and see the child's condition with their own eyes.
Zhu Xing's mother stood in the family team, looking at her son lying on the hospital bed with a swollen face, tears streaming down her face.
Systemic edema is a common manifestation of heart failure progressing to full heart failure.
The doctor who came to the bedside checked the swelling on the child, and then checked the thermometer recorded by the nurse. Here is the total amount of the child's body intake and output for 24 hours a day.
Intensive care is a separate discipline, and doctors in the intensive care unit have their own specialties different from other specialists. Once these children enter the PICU, the PICU doctors are in charge. The treatment plan for children here is basically determined by the PICU doctors. Even so, the doctor in the ward will continue to treat the child during the hospitalization. The attending doctor will visit the child regularly, learn about the child's condition from the PICU doctor, and jointly discuss the child's further treatment strategy. Because children who are hospitalized in PICU use PICU as a transition period, and the goal is to transfer back to the general ward or undergo surgery.
Usually, when the ward doctor comes, the PICU doctor on duty will come with him to discuss the child's condition.
Not long after, Xie Wanying and the others saw Senior Sister Yu coming over.
Yu Minghui raised her hands and smiled when she saw her juniors and juniors, and when she saw Cao Zhao's face again, her face turned colder.
Several students remembered what they were taught by Teacher Cheng last time, and they didn't dare to come and go with the senior sister.
Cao Zhao turned over the child's medical record with his fingertips, and saw that the child's medical record was much thicker.