Chapter 518
Chapter 518
Chapter 518: Chapter 512: Seriously Injured Chapter 518: Chapter 512: Seriously Injured Tang Yuxin took off her cotton coat, but Gu Ning pressed a hand onto her shoulder, “Aren’t you afraid of catching a cold?”
“I have no time to worry about that,” replied Tang Yuxin, the stuff she needed was all in her pocket.
Both Li Jia and Lin Yile glanced at each other, also removing their cotton coats.
The do-it-all military coats were truly a godsend in the snow, but for them who were about to treat patients, it was a bulky liability.
After all, who would wear such a heavy coat to treat patients.
Tang Yuxin stepped into the makeshift tent.
It was surprisingly windproof.
It was spacious, and the ground had been swept clean.
...
There was a fire blazing inside, rendering the air mildly dry.
It wasn’t so cold anymore.
The moment they entered, the warmth inside melted the snowflakes on her eyelashes.
Two heavily injured soldiers lay on the ground.
Without delay, Lin Yile took out the first aid kit she had been holding close to her.
Because she had kept it against her body, its contents retained some of her body heat.
Meanwhile, Li Jia, who was holding two large boxes, faced a challenge.
Many of the contents were frozen solid.
She took out those items one by one, setting them near the fire to thaw, readying them for use later.
Seeing the patient’s critical condition, Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief.
She had an intuition that something like this might happen, which was why she had brought everything she could think of.
With what Lin Yile and Tang Yuxin brought, it should be enough to treat the two.
“Where are they injured?” Tang Yuxin asked as she uncovered a blanket and pressed her finger onto the pulse of one injured soldier’s wrist.
He was gravely injured indeed.
“Here,” Shen Fei squatted down, pointing at the soldier’s waist, “His waist here, the bleeding hasn’t stopped.
Thanks to the coagulation powder you gave Gu Ning, the bleeding has been intermittent.
However, due to the lack of medicine, the bleeding is still going on.”
Tang Yuxin carefully placed her hand over the soldier’s wound, and then gently pressed her other hand on his abdomen.
Her brow furrowed, and remained so, as she proceeded to examine the other patient.
She gently parted the eyelids of the other wounded soldier and pressed his abdomen.
“How does he look?” Lin Yile, who had prepared the medicine, had even readied the basic necessities.
“His body has multiple fractures,” Tang Yuxin put her hand behind the wounded soldier’s neck.
“His vertebrae are not affected.
Moreover, this patient had evidently lost a lot of blood.
Even if they could operate here, there was no way to perform a blood transfusion.
“Do we have enough of the medicine we brought?” Asked Tang Yuxin of Li Jia as a lot of the equipment was brought by her.
As to whether they had enough, Li Jia had to make the call.
“Let me see,” Li Jia stood up and walked over to the two large medicine boxes left in front of the fire.
“Syringes, glucose...
I brought them.
They’re all in small bottles.
I have five bottles of them.
Also, there are antipyretics and fever reducers,” she opened another box which contained basic tools that she brought out of caution in case they would have to stitch up some wounds.
“Li Jia, can we manage to perform a surgery?” Tang Yuxin started examining the patient’s wounds, determined to stop him from losing more blood.
“A surgery?
Impossible,” Li Jia didn’t think on it for even a moment.
“Perform surgery here?
Impossible.
We have insufficient medicine and blood to transfuse.
Conditions here are deplorable.
Even if we operate, it is highly likely for infections to occur.”
Tang Yuxin placed her hand on the patient’s forehead while the silver needle in her hand went to work on his body.
“If we don’t operate now, he won’t survive through the night.”
Li Jia fell silent.
She was a doctor, too.
It was impossible for her not to understand.
But how could they possibly perform a surgery here?
If they insisted on it, with Tang Yuxin’s skill, it might just be manageable.
But...
“We don’t have a blood source.
He’s already lost too much blood,” In Li Jia’s mind, this patient was as good as dying.
He wouldn’t survive through the night.
The loss of blood was too great to make it up.
“What blood type is he?” Tang Yuxin asked Gu Ning and the others.
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