My Wife, The Ice Queen President-Chapter 331 - 0330 - A Doctor’s Parental Heart (First Update)_1

Chapter 331 -0330: A Doctor’s Parental Heart (First Update)_1

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Rushing to the third floor, the entire department was in chaos.

Inside one of the wards, a patient with high blood pressure was lying on the bed, with limbs twitching incessantly, a sight that looked truly terrifying.

The night shift was mostly staffed with inexperienced nurses, who were so frightened that they stood to one side, at a loss for what to do.

The on-call doctor was also not very seasoned.

“These symptoms could very likely be a stroke induced by a brain hemorrhage. Get to the emergency room fast,” the on-call doctor said.

“There’s no guarantee there’ll be a doctor in the emergency room. Who is the most professional when it comes to treating strokes in this hospital?” Ye Xiong came over and asked.

“The deputy head,”

“The deputy head,”

the two nurses said in unison.

“Call her right away,” Ye Xiong urged.

The two nurses hesitated, neither of them moving.

“What are you waiting for, lives are at stake!” Ye Xiong urged.

“It’s already two in the morning; the deputy head is resting. She doesn’t like to be disturbed when she’s sleeping, and she rarely handles emergencies. Normally, you need to schedule an appointment for surgeries,” one of the female nurses said.

“In extraordinary situations, extraordinary measures,”

Ye Xiong could not care about that much at the moment and quickly took out his phone to ask, “What’s her phone number?”

“The emergency department of this hospital building isn’t under her jurisdiction,”

“I’m asking for her phone number, what is it?” Ye Xiong bellowed.

The female nurse had no choice but to give him a phone number.

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Ye Xiong dialed it, and after a short while, the call connected.

“Hello, who’s this?” The voice on the other end was soft, but very cold.

It seemed that Duanmu Linglong had been disturbed in her sleep and was not in a good mood.

“Deputy head, there’s a high blood pressure patient on the third floor of the inpatient building who may be having a stroke, the situation is very critical. I am asking for your help,” Ye Xiong got straight to the point.

On the other end of the phone, Duanmu Linglong was silent for a moment before saying one word, “Okay,” and she hung up.

Less than ten minutes later, Duanmu Linglong appeared in the inpatient building, dressed in simple clothes. It was clear that she spent the night in the hospital otherwise she couldn’t have arrived that quickly.

Duanmu Linglong first conducted a preliminary examination of the elderly patient’s pupils and various vital signs and then said, “Take him to the CT room immediately to check for brain hemorrhage.”

The group hurriedly whisked the elderly man to the radiology room for scanning, and soon the images were produced. Duanmu Linglong looked at the results and her brow furrowed deeply.

“What’s the situation?” Ye Xiong asked.

“It’s not optimistic. There’s a large area of hemorrhage in the brain. If not handled immediately, there could be life-threatening danger.”

“You mean, we need to perform a craniotomy right away?”

“Surgery is essential. But the success rate of craniotomies nowadays is below sixty percent, and even if successful, the patient’s quality of life afterward is questionable.”

“Is there another way?” Ye Xiong heard the suggestion in her voice.

“There’s another method, which is to use acupuncture to let blood and take hemostatic medicine at the same time. We use a silver needle to pierce the patient’s skull and release the congested blood,” Duanmu Linglong explained.

“You mean using the bloodletting method among the Nine Acupoint Divine Needles?”

Duanmu Linglong looked at Ye Xiong with surprise, not expecting him to guess her thoughts, and furthermore, how did he know about the Nine Acupoint Divine Needles?

“The Nine Acupoint Divine Needles are the treasure of the Lingnan Sect; who wouldn’t know,” Ye Xiong quickly explained, noticing her hesitation he urged, “It’s urgent, we can’t delay any longer.”

Duanmu Linglong shook her head, “I’m not yet strong enough to practice intracranial bloodletting, I’ve never operated it before. Apart from my father and my second uncle, no one else in the Duanmu Family has the expertise.”

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“Didn’t you say you have studied this?”

“But I have never done it in practice, and I’m afraid of delaying the craniotomy, which could cost a life.” This was Duanmu Linglong’s greatest worry.

“I believe you can do it. If your father could do it, why can’t you?”

After a long pause, Duanmu Linglong gritted her teeth and said, “Then I’ll try. Please prepare the surgical equipment for me.”

The nurse immediately ran out and quickly brought back the necessary supplies.

Duanmu Linglong took out a set of perforated silver needles, about four inches long, from her clothing and placed them aside to be sterilized.

“It might hurt when I insert the needles, so you help me hold his head still, don’t let him move. If the head moves, it could lead to bigger problems,” Duanmu Linglong said seriously.

Ye Xiong nodded, walked over, and held the elder’s head with both hands.

Duanmu Linglong’s hands trembled slightly. She took a deep breath and, after a long moment, managed to steady her hands completely before inserting the silver needle into the elder’s head.

According to the CT scan, she already knew the location of the bleeding, and in her mind, she had a rough idea of how to use the silver needle to draw blood.

As the silver needle was inserted, the elder instinctively struggled, but Ye Xiong held his head firmly in place, preventing him from moving.

Having inserted the silver needle about three inches deep, Duanmu Linglong’s chest was heaving, and her breathing became clearly more rapid. The urgency was written all over her face, clearly showing she was very tense.

Seeing no change at the small hole of the silver needle, Duanmu Linglong manipulated it, flicking and twisting. Her proficient movements impressed Ye Xiong.

He had always wanted to witness the Nine Acupoint Divine Needles technique firsthand, and now he finally had the chance.

Under Duanmu Linglong’s manipulation, after a few minutes, the needle hole began to show red. The congealed blood in the brain started to flow out, drop by drop onto the bed.

“There’s bleeding, that’s great,” the nurse said excitedly.

“I knew you could do it,” Ye Xiong said with a smile.

“The area of bleeding is too large. I must draw blood from five positions, and this is just the first one; there are four more to go.”

Duanmu Linglong wiped the sweat from her forehead and began to administer the second needle.

Emboldened by the success of the first needle, Duanmu Linglong confidently inserted the second needle, expertly using various acupuncture techniques to draw out the blood.

Seeing the success of the second needle, joy was evident on the faces of all three of them.

In the blink of an eye, all four needles were in place, with a lot of congealed blood flowing from each of the four needle holes.

The last needle was left.

Duanmu Linglong became extremely nervous and inserted the needle. Just then, a complication arose.

After many attempts, she couldn’t get the needle in; the silver needle was blocked by the skull at about one inch.

Duanmu Linglong was sweating profusely from the effort, but she couldn’t succeed, and the nurse kept wiping her sweat away.

“What’s the matter?” Ye Xiong asked.

“No wonder my father always told me not to perform intracranial blood-letting acupuncture. He was telling the truth. With my current level of Inner Strength, I can’t pierce the skull,” Duanmu Linglong said.

“How did you manage the first four needles then?” Ye Xiong asked, puzzled.

“For the first four needles, I avoided the skull,” she replied.

Ye Xiong looked at the previous four needles, noting they had all been inserted at an angle. He had wondered why, and now he knew it was to bypass the skull.

“Can’t you go around it now?” the nurse asked.

“I can’t. This is the location of the skull; there is no detour. This area has the most extensive blood clots and is the most dangerous. If we can’t draw blood here, the previous four needles won’t be very effective.”

Duanmu Linglong was frantic, trying many times but unable to insert the silver needle.

Just at that moment, the door to the operating room was pushed open.