When Li Zheng left the hospital, Xu Mingsheng's temperature had dropped and his vital signs had gradually stabilized. Chen Sufen and Xu Keqiang took his hand and thanked him repeatedly.
Li Zheng smiled and said that this is what he should do. Chen Sufen looked at him with an apparently uninspired appearance, with a helpless smile on her face, of course she knew what Li Zheng was thinking. This child looks mature and stable, but he still maintains a precious childlike heart.
"Little Zheng, the weight of life is too heavy, don't put it on your shoulders. Just go back and take antibiotics, and leave the rest to me. I'm a doctor, and I understand my responsibilities." Chen Sufen solemnly He opened his mouth to speak.
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "Master, you are serious."
Li Zheng is engaged in drug research and development. How to use or not use drugs is a doctor's business. He has done everything he can. Li Zheng left all the eighteen medicines he brought in at Queen Mary Hospital, and then he and a group of professors left. They had to go back and prepare enough antibiotics.
***
"Hey, what did the nurse ask you to do?" This is a young man in his early thirties, with a white shirt and black trousers, and a disposable mask on his face. He is here to take care of his father. The old man just moved a few days ago. Gastrointestinal surgery, I was infected with drug-resistant bacteria before taking care of it, and I have been having a high fever since the day yesterday.
In the 1980s, infections with drug-resistant strains were still very rare, especially this kind of large-scale infection, which was probably the first time in Hong Kong, so after the news of the closure of Queen Mary Hospital came out, the major newspapers in Hong Kong used great Page to report this incident, the report details the common sense of drug-resistant strains and the horror of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, so that people in Hong Kong suddenly understand that frequent antibiotics are also a dangerous thing.
After learning that his father was infected with drug-resistant bacteria, the young man had already prepared for the worst in grief, so he hurriedly left his job and stayed in front of the old man's bed 24 hours a day.
The middle-aged woman who was being questioned and her daughter looked at each other, then turned their heads and said with a smile, "It's nothing, just instructing some things to pay attention to. Isn't our old Yu recently operated on?"
The young man glanced at them suspiciously, but didn't think much of it. Everyone is the patient's family members who are sympathetic to each other. There is nothing to hide, probably because he thinks too much.
It's just that as time went on, he found that from time to time family members of patients were called out by the nurses. Although the nurses went to the bedside to call people in a cryptic manner, Zheng Cheng had been doing administrative work for so many years, so he couldn't see it.
His doubts peaked after a violent dispute broke out between a husband and wife.
"The nurses have said that Dad's disease is difficult to cure without this medicine. Do you want to watch Dad die? He's not your father, so you shouldn't be in a hurry, right?"
"You have to be reasonable, and the nurse also said that this medicine is toxic, there are risks, and the risks are still very high!"
"Three, and three were pushed out this morning. You read today's newspaper, the newspaper said that this bacterial infection is very serious, I asked my classmates who studied medicine, under the current medical level , this is simply incurable, since there is a glimmer of hope, why don't we give it a try!" The wife's emotions seemed very excited.
"A Fang..."
"You don't have to say it, this is my father, I will sign it later!"
The brows of the young man, Zheng Cheng, could not help but wrinkle, what are they talking about? what medicine? Why he didn't know, seeing his father's condition getting worse and worse, he couldn't sit still.
Zheng Cheng walked out of the isolation ward, just in time to see a young nurse explaining something to a middle-aged woman with a wad of paper. The middle-aged woman kept nodding and responding.
"Okay, I'll sign, I'll sign." Thanks to the media's popular science reports on drug-resistant strains and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the hospital has done a lot of work. Hearing that their relatives may have hope of salvation, let alone three or four layers, even if the probability is small, they are willing to try.
Chen Xuhua took the lead, Chen Sufen was in charge, and the front-line experts from Queen Mary Hospital quickly screened out patients who could receive drug injections. Their screening criteria are conservative, choosing patients who are young, resistant, and free of other serious diseases to try first.
In order to avoid the risks in the hospital to the greatest extent, they asked nurses to explain the risks of drug injection in detail one-on-one, and signed a waiver agreement on a voluntary basis. Although the agreement itself lacks legal force because carbapenem antibiotics have not passed biological experiments, it is better than nothing.
"Nurse? Excuse me..." Zheng Cheng said with a frown.
When the nurse and the middle-aged woman saw him approaching, they immediately stopped talking. The nurse seemed to inadvertently turn the top page of the paper.
"Mr. Zheng, is there anything I can help you with?"
Zheng Cheng glanced at the paper in the nurse's hand, and said with a smile, "I see that you have talked to a lot of family members, so come out and see if I have to pay attention."
"Ms. Chen, let's go first." The nurse said to the middle-aged woman, then turned around and told Zheng Cheng about Mr. Zheng's condition and related matters to be paid attention to, so that people could not see anything unusual.
Not long after, the first batch of selected patients were officially injected with carbapenem antibiotics.
All the front-line experts at Queen Mary Hospital, including the Director of Queen Mary Hospital, Mr. Adolphus, Deputy Director Chen Xuhua, Chen Sufen, and other department directors, all looked solemn and looked at the clock ticking on the wall. The atmosphere in the office was almost frozen.
There was a knock on the door of the "Bump" office, and Mr. Adolf said loudly: "Come in."
Wang Jing walked in from the door. She walked in with a thick stack of documents. "All the antibiotics Mr. Li Zheng left have been injected. Here is the disclaimer agreement signed by the family and the patient's medication record."
Dean Adolf rubbed his temples, "Oh, God, I really don't know if I made the right decision, may the Lord bless these poor patients to be healthy again, and bless your devout believers Keep his job."
Chen Sufen flipped through the medication records, nodded to Wang Jing, and then she stood up and clapped her hands, "Let's take your place, according to Lao Xu's experience in injecting antibiotics, the next few hours will be the most difficult in this battle. when."
Everyone nodded one after another, and then quickly left with their respective patient information.
For the next few hours, the atmosphere in the isolation ward suddenly became tense, as nurses and doctors watched the injected patients almost one-on-one.
After the injection of carbapenem antibiotics, most of the patients had severe side effects. Fortunately, with the example of Xu Mingsheng, the doctors and nurses were calm.
The family members of the patients who had been injected with antibiotics were nervous, and the family members who had not been injected slowly recovered. Especially in the afternoon, when the body temperature of the dozen or so patients who took the lead in injecting antibiotics dropped, the family members of the rest of the patients quit.
"Did they use any medicine? We need to use it too! Aren't we out of money? Why give it to them in the first place!"
"Yes, yes, we need to take medicine too!"
Emotional patient family members gathered to block the door to the doctor's office.
"Wang Jing, has the blood test report come out? You should send the patient whose condition has been controlled to the observation ward first." Chen Xuhua said.
Then he got up and walked to the door of the office.
"Quiet, everyone quiet, listen to me."
"Hello, I'm Chen Xuhua, the vice president of Queen Mary Hospital. Let me first clarify that our hospital does not favor one another over another, and the doctor has not accepted any red envelopes from the family members of other patients. You must have read the news in the past few days. , this infection of drug-resistant strains is a very serious matter. Even the most advanced medical level in the United States cannot cure people infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. You are lucky, one of our biopharmaceutical scholars in Xiangjiang happens to be While doing related research, he developed a brand-new antibiotic that is effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. But it may not be clear to everyone that the birth of a new drug requires countless experiments and improvements, and this process often lasts several days. Years or even more than ten years, but life waits for no one!"
Chen Xuhua paused, glanced at the patient's family members who had calmed down, and continued: "When our Queen Mary Hospital learned that this scholar had extracted a new antibiotic extract, we contacted him as soon as possible. However, the new drug, Without improvement after repeated experiments, there will be huge risks in random injections. Therefore, the first group of objects we select are young patients with strong resistance and no other major diseases. This is responsible for the hospital and for the patients. responsibility."
A group of family members of the patients were discussing in a rustling manner.
"Risk, what risk? It's better than waiting to die!"
"You don't know, the agreement says that the drug is poisonous, and the survival rate of any laboratory is less than three layers!"
"So low?"
"Who said it wasn't, it turns out that the nurse came to me too, and I didn't dare to sign it!"
Seeing that the scene was under control, Chen Xuhua coughed dryly and said loudly: "Don't worry, as long as the patient's resistance passes the test, the hospital will arrange injections. Everyone, go back quickly, the patients are still waiting for you to take care of them."
Although the patient's family members were still apprehensive, they left in twos and threes after seeing the doctor who had not rested for several days.
Chen Xuhua's face became solemn, and he looked at Chen Sufen, "Teacher, is there any supply of antibiotics in Mr. Li Zheng's place?"
Chen Sufen smiled bitterly, "I called to ask if it was a laboratory or not a factory."
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In Li Zheng's laboratory, everyone was already busy, and they almost wanted to use both hands and feet, but it was so easy to extract antibiotics.
All the professors from the School of Medicine of Hong Kong University were here, and even Su Changzhi went off to help. Yes, Su Changzhi was also born in a medical school, but he has not been in the laboratory for many years because of his poor health.
There are also the assistants in these professors' labs. Fortunately, there are still three vacant labs in Li Zheng's lab. Although these three labs are not P3 labs in the traditional sense, they are in a hurry. That's it.
The entire School of Medicine of Hong Kong University is like a huge machine, running quickly. The Academic Affairs Office also posted a notice that the relevant courses of the medical school have been suspended in the past few days.