A Hospital in Another World?-Chapter 782: Animal Experiments with Defibrillation: Boss, Didn’t You Promise Me Pork?

Chapter 782: Animal Experiments with Defibrillation: Boss, Didn’t You Promise Me Pork?

With the abundance of data derived from zombies, Garrett’s progress on the project could be described as rapid. However, zombies are still zombies and can’t be transformed into living humans. The amount of current that can be used for defibrillation still needs to be verified...

"Garrett, how’s your research progress this week?"

In the meeting, the Lord of Thunder called out once again. Garrett, clutching his half-written paper, quickly looked up, his fingertips nearly crumpling the edge of the paper:

"Still need to do some animal experiments to verify some data! Next, if there’s a chance to test on patients, that would be even better..."

The book "Comparison of Damage Tolerance Between Zombies and Living Humans" had data detailed enough. However, the most crucial element was missing from these data:

Cardiac Electrophysiology.

After all, zombies don’t have a heartbeat.

Although Edgar, the great mage and Lin En’s teacher, told him that high-level—meaning 10th level and above—zombies have a functioning heart, Garrett lost interest in this path after borrowing a zombie for research:

The heartbeat of high-level zombies is sustained by dark energy, negative energy, or some other kind of energy. Garrett didn’t detect any electrocardiograms from them.

No electrocardiogram means no cardiac electrophysiology; no cardiac electrophysiology...

As experimental subjects, these things are unqualified!

For the final verification, Garrett had to return to animal experiments. This time, on his left and right were Bernard and Onkine, serving as his loyal assistants:

Assistants were necessary because Garrett couldn’t handle the magical beasts alone.

"Adult Arrow Bristle Pig, third level, first direct current defibrillation, begin! Step one of the experiment, induce ventricular fibrillation—"

A barbarian and a dark gold skeleton, one responsible for carrying the pig, the other for tying it. The clean, sleep-spelled adult Arrow Bristle Pig was placed on the experiment table, feet up. The barbarian rubbed his hands, and the dark gold skeleton turned its head, its jawbone clicking:

"..."

Garrett: ... I know you mean "Boss, let’s get started," you don’t need to rush me... Besides, even if I killed you, I wouldn’t eat you; it’s Bernard next to you who would...

Garrett used two steel needles to puncture the heart of the Arrow Bristle Pig from both sides. Then, he pulled over a wire from the mage tower—current controlled by MOSS—providing direct current, connected to the ends of the steel needles. Ř𝔞ŊóВĘṤ

Transcutaneous electrical stimulation, 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds!

The electrocardiogram on the screen changed drastically! The QRS-T wave group disappeared, replaced by a series of rapid, uneven tremor waves, with a rate of about 300 times per minute!

... So this is the benefit of using pigs as experimental animals. Garrett silently gave himself a thumbs up:

The average heartbeat of a healthy pig is 60-80 times per minute, similar to a normal human. The heart structure is the same, and the electrocardiogram waveform is similar. Many data obtained from pigs can be transferred to humans with little difference.

"Step two of the experiment, direct current defibrillation! Clear!"

At the command, Bernard quickly retreated to three meters away from the experiment table. As for Onkine, being a skeleton, it didn’t matter if it retreated or not. This level of direct current wouldn’t bother the dark gold skeleton even if it leaked a bit.

Garrett quickly pulled out the puncture needle, his palm extended forward, as if holding a defibrillator, aiming at the patient. The direct current defibrillation spell was cast, and the electrocardiogram on the screen began to appear. A few seconds later, an electric flash passed—

The data from third-level zombies enduring electric shocks, adjusted according to the "Comparison of Damage Tolerance Between Zombies and Living Humans," was used for direct current defibrillation.

Thus, the possible values on high-level extraordinaries were calculated, the spell structure adjusted, and the discharge triggered!

Go!

One discharge didn’t succeed, so they did a set of chest compressions. Another discharge, successful!

"Third-level Arrow Bristle Pig, successful defibrillation after two attempts in ventricular fibrillation. Consumption: two direct current defibrillations, second-level spells." Garrett quickly recorded:

"And one set of chest compressions (physical)."

Overall, the consumption wasn’t significant. Garrett breathed a sigh of relief and called out to his assistants:

"Bernard, Onkine, let’s switch to another pig. Work hard, we need to complete at least half of the third-level pigs today!"

"What! Complete all of them?!"

Bernard wailed. Garrett had prepared 24 pigs! 24 third-level ones!

It took half of Oak Grove Clinic’s security to herd these pigs into the pigsty under the mage tower. Now they had to herd 12, tie 12, and carry 12 in one night...

Thinking about the workload, even an eighth-level warrior, almost touching the ninth-level edge, felt weak despite the mage tower having an elevator.

"Bernard, keep going!" Garrett cheerfully encouraged him:

"The sooner we finish, the sooner we can kill and eat them! You also want your compatriots to have a feast of third-level magical beast meat, right?"

"But it’s still me who has to do the killing..."

The barbarian muttered under his breath, but under Garrett’s smiling urging, he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. Garrett didn’t let them fight alone, instructing MOSS to dispatch some invisible servants to help.

Well, invisible servants could do rough work. As for killing pigs, they hadn’t been taught, nor was it recorded in the mage tower core. Bernard might still need to do it himself... Keep going, 24 pigs!

After a while, another Arrow Bristle Pig was carried onto the experiment table. Garrett randomly divided the 24 healthy, adult Arrow Bristle Pigs into four groups, two experimental groups, and two control groups:

Six pigs per group, three male and three female. The first group underwent transcutaneous puncture, electric shock-induced ventricular fibrillation, followed by direct current defibrillation;

The second group was fed a large amount of the magical potion [Foxglove] extract to induce ventricular fibrillation, followed by direct current defibrillation;

In one night, with the help of two assistants, Garrett completed the first two experiments.

Experimental results showed that electric shock-induced ventricular fibrillation, with defibrillation power between 420-450 joules, restored sinus rhythm after two to four shocks;

Feeding the magical potion to induce ventricular fibrillation, with the same defibrillation power and shocks, also restored sinus rhythm. After using [Detoxification], the fibrillation didn’t recur. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Overall, the results were satisfactory.

Well... Garrett was satisfied. Bernard was not satisfied at all.

"So, boss... we don’t kill any pigs?"

Bernard, running up and down carrying 12 pigs, performing one to three sets of chest compressions on each, was drenched in sweat. What made him more frustrated was that all 12 pigs survived, not one died!

Didn’t he say the sooner they finished, the sooner they could kill and eat them?

Did he just waste his time tonight?

"Don’t be impatient, don’t be impatient," Garrett said, smiling as he comforted him:

"I still need to see how long these pigs can survive after defibrillation. If they can live on their own for 24 hours, even 72 hours, then there shouldn’t be any problem..."

"What? We have to wait three more days to kill them?!"

Garrett eagerly waited for them to survive.

Bernard eagerly waited for one or two of them to die.

However, the result was that all 12 pigs, after direct current defibrillation and restoring sinus rhythm, with [Moderate Wounds Treatment] for the heart, were alive and kicking. Each one survived for 72 hours.

"Hmm, it seems the defibrillation effect is good." Garrett, ignoring the barbarian’s disappointed look, smilingly directed them to the next step:

"Come, next we do the control group..."

The progress of the control group experiments was much slower than the experimental group. The third group, electric shock-induced ventricular fibrillation, treated with healing spells—

"[Heal Serious Wounds]!"

Ventricular fibrillation didn’t stop, sinus rhythm didn’t restore.

Garrett maintained the rhythm, performing chest compressions every 2 minutes per set, casting "[Heal Serious Wounds]" each time, but the pig’s vital signs gradually weakened. Garrett gritted his teeth and increased the spell level:

"[Heal Fatal Wounds]!"

Eh, effective, the electrocardiogram was a bit more regular, but sinus rhythm wasn’t restored. After another set of chest compressions, Garrett cast another "[Heal Fatal Wounds]"...

Two fourth-level spells, "[Heal Fatal Wounds]," finally brought the pig back to life. Compared to the second-level spell "[Direct Current Defibrillation]," the overall consumption was much larger.

"I can’t go on, today’s spells are used up. Let me rest, we’ll do the next one tomorrow..."

Bernard silently carried the big pig back to the pigsty. He was too tired to protest about not killing a pig today.

The third group, electric shock-induced ventricular fibrillation, treated with healing spells. The fourth group, fed a large amount of the magical potion to induce ventricular fibrillation, treated with healing spells.

Conclusion, "[Heal Serious Wounds]" could only maintain vital signs, waiting for the heart to recover on its own. Only "[Heal Fatal Wounds]" could achieve defibrillation, turning disordered heart rhythm into sinus rhythm.

"So this is why ’[Heal Fatal Wounds]’

is a fourth-level spell?" Garrett thought silently, writing vigorously:

"First-level ’[Heal Light Wounds]’ and second-level ’[Heal Moderate Wounds]’ only have the function of targeted damage healing. Third-level ’[Heal Serious Wounds]’ has the function of maintaining vital signs."

This was also his experience using healing spells before. In fact, light and moderate wounds don’t drop vital signs significantly, so they don’t need extra spell energy to maintain:

"And only at the fourth level, ’[Heal Fatal Wounds]’ can reverse already declining vital signs and restart certain functions... Due to the lack of understanding of divine magic on human body functions, considerable consumption is required to achieve this..."

"Healing spell group has high consumption and low success rate. Out of 12 pigs, 10 survived, and two died. — Suspected to be due to the experimenter’s insufficient ability and exhaustion of spell power on the day."

"And in reality, a third-level warrior is almost impossible to receive a fourth-level ’[Heal Fatal Wounds]’ rescue... Therefore, it is clear that the development of direct current defibrillation and defibrillation spells is of considerable importance to save their lives..."

Bernard: ... So after all this trouble, we only got to eat two pigs in the end?