After visiting 100 emergency departments in one night, Liu Guolin was already so tired that his chest was sticking to his back. Once he returned to the dormitory and cleaned up, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
His mobile phone has been set to vibrate. He has a nurse girlfriend who also works in this hospital. She is on duty now, so there is nothing wrong with it.
As expected, Liu Guolin slept until he didn't know when, until the door was knocked, and someone shouted louder and louder: "Old Liu, old Liu!"
Who... when, the soul call in the middle of the night...
Liu Guolin reluctantly opened his eyes, took a look at the mobile phone on the bedside table, and saw that it was already six o'clock in the morning, and there were 15 missed calls... He was shocked, opened it, and it wasn't all calls from his girlfriend Yes, most of them were called by Director Li, within half an hour.
The spirit was so excited, he also heard clearly that the person calling the door outside was Zhang Wenjun, a female colleague from the department. Isn't this guy going to take over the day shift...
problem occurs? Liu Guolin was startled, looking at these missed calls, what happened...
"Here we come." He quickly got up, put on a pair of pants, pulled up a shirt and put it on, and hurried to open the door.
I saw Zhang Wenjun standing anxiously outside the door. As soon as she saw him, she immediately complained: "Why didn't you answer the phone, I thought you were missing, go to sleep, you slept really well... Come quickly from the Tianji Bureau Now, hurry up and tidy up, the director is in a hurry, the dean and the others are all here, ouch, hurry up!"
Liu Guolin was really confused, what...? Is someone from the Astronomy Bureau here
He immediately thought of the little girl in the last few consultations last night, blinking and making weird noises... Is this really related to supernatural power
How come, the patient clearly sees nothing, and the vital signs are all normal... What kind of disease is that
In the confusion of thoughts, Liu Guolin hurried to the bathroom to wash up, put on a white coat, and followed Zhang Wenjun to the outpatient building.
Although the Third People's Hospital of Nanxiang City is a third-class hospital, it has never been considered a big hospital even in the city. Blocked by the police and disease control, there is a different scene here.
The dean, deputy dean and other high-level officials came one after another. Zhang Dongliang, director of the emergency department, Zhou Guihong, director of the pediatrics department, and others rushed to the lobby of the isolation ward area. By the time Liu Guolin arrived and changed into light protective clothing, there was already a large group of big shots here, and he, the little doctor, was the one who arrived very late.
"Xiao Liu, you really are!" When Director Zhang saw Liu Guolin, he was so anxious that he almost cursed, "You have made a big mess."
"Director, I..." Liu Guolin hesitated to speak, but finally said nothing, and silently took the blame.
The dean who was not far away also cast their gazes, they were a bit harsh, Liu Guolin felt a little uneasy while taking the blame, feeling that he was going to be unlucky.
"Don't be convinced, go and see for yourself." Director Zhang sighed, "The three patients have the same symptoms and the same epidemiological characteristics."
Liu Guolin was startled, walked a few steps to the corridor, and looked at the three isolation wards, each of which contained a child, accompanied by their parents anxiously. The three patients were all 5-7 years old, all Girl, Guo Qinying who he saw last night was one of them.
"What's the situation..." Liu Guolin gently asked Zhang Wenjun next to him, why does this seem like an infectious disease...
Such obvious group characteristics already conform to the epidemiological outbreak.
"I don't know yet." Zhang Wenjun also whispered, the eyes behind the round-rimmed glasses were quite puzzled, "Director Zhang and Director Zhou have conventional judgments, it is very similar to Tourette's syndrome, but Tourette's syndrome is common in preschool children. The rate is about 1%, one patient is fine, we have three patients in one night, this is not normal... "
Tourette syndrome? Liu Guolin was startled, but he woke up the dreamer with a single word. That's right, why didn't I think of this rare disease last night...
At this time, Zhang Wenjun handed him a stack of materials, "Look quickly, the people from Dongzhou Tianji Bureau are here."
Liu Guolin took over the documents and immediately looked through them, seeing more and more cold sweat on his forehead, bad, really bad.
Tourette's syndrome, also known as Tourette's syndrome.
Its etiology and pathology have not yet been clarified, and it tends to occur in children, usually at the age of 5-8. It is composed of two main symptoms, tics and Tourette's disease.
Twitching refers to twitching in movement. Patients will feel an unwanted but unbearable impulse in the muscles, usually starting from blinking, coughing, throat clearing, facial wrinkling, etc. Make faces, and in severe cases, it will spread to the whole body, and symptoms similar to epilepsy will appear during twitching.
Tourette's voice is a convulsion in the voice. The patient suddenly makes a strange sound, which sounds like cursing, barking like a dog, and other strange sounds. But Tourette's symptoms only appear in a small number of patients with tics. Three patients in one night, all with two symptoms, this is of course not normal...
Normal Tourette's syndrome is not contagious and does not adversely affect the patient's intelligence or life expectancy. Some famous people have suffered from the disease, and some historians suspect that Mozart suffered from Tourette's disease.
In most cases, tics and Tourette do not require treatment, and there are currently no good medical treatments.
What patients need is psychotherapy and behavior management, and learn how to participate in the world of normal people with this abnormal attitude. However, patients will have comorbidities with a higher incidence, such as Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc., and it is often these comorbidities that need to be treated.
The problem is that just as Director Zhang and the others doubted...
The incidence of Tourette's syndrome is not so high, and after the onset of the disease, the patients do not twitch and make strange noises all the time, but intermittently, how many times a day, or how many times a few days, and some even in a year For a month or two it doesn't happen at all, but then it does it again.
Symptoms decrease in severity by the time most affected children reach adolescence, and in many patients their symptoms disappear completely as adults. Therefore, patients with this disease are not easy to be correctly identified. Many patients with mild illnesses do not even know that they have had this disease all their lives. They are just considered naughty, eccentric, active, impolite, and unprovoked by their parents, teachers, and friends. Just make faces and curse people.
Especially in China, this knowledge is not popularized yet. The older generation of parents basically don't pay attention to it, and the young parents don't know much about it.
Therefore, their doctors have been unable to diagnose one Tourette's syndrome patient for a long time, and now three...
What's going on? Liu Guolin looked at the three patients in different isolation wards in a daze.
This disease is more common in men, and the incidence rate is 3-4 times that of women. This also makes some parents misled by culture, thinking that it is normal for boys to bear a little bit.
But now... it's all little girls...
Before Liu Guolin had finished reading all the documents in his hands, it was only half past six in the morning when the people from Dongzhou Tianji Bureau arrived.
One team consisted of doctors, a middle-aged man led several young people, and another team, all wearing protective clothing. Seeing them coming, the dean, vice dean, director Zhang and others rushed to greet them, and Liu Guolin and Zhang Wenjun followed behind.