Plague Doctor

Chapter 402: Acute radiation sickness [ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription]

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The night was dark, the car lights were bright, and the rumbling sound of the car resounded in this sparsely populated land.

The people in Maerwan District have been safely evacuated, and there are no residents or animals in the "isolation circle", and the plants here will become a thing of the past. In Mobei, even in towns, there are not many trees in many places, but it is precisely because of this that every tree here is very precious.

Tree-cutting vehicles, excavators, bulldozers and other large vehicles participating in the "isolation circle plan" are driving to the tree spots in the circle.

In the Mobei command center, Zhou Dajun, the commander-in-chief of the operation, has a middle-aged face. He is a native of Mobei. Over the years, the environment here has become better and better... "Do it!" The big carts drove towards the trees with spring leaves.

The creaking sawing sound, the bang clanging sound...

Trees fell one by one and were transported away by trucks without leaving a single sapling.

At the same time, raging fires are also burning everywhere, burning the weeds on the ground, burning the original color of spring, and burning all vitality.

In the dark night, they all turned into thick smoke and turned into ashes.

The isolation circle, the death zone, gradually and quickly appeared, surrounding a 30 square kilometer abnormal area.

In the medical department of Mobei Tianji Bureau, there are two operations being prepared in the surgery building.

The two patients were old man Tian Fuhou and police officer Bian Yi, both of whom had their right upper arm amputated.

They all once stuck their hands into the locust tree, resulting in mild burns below the elbow, which was due to the intense nuclear radiation exposure.

For the radiation absorbed by the human body, 1gy is approximately equal to 1sv, and sv is the dose equivalent unit, which is the product of the absorbed dose at a point in the tissue under study, the quality factor and all other correction factors.

The dose equivalents received by the two people are about 6.2sv and 4.5sv respectively, but the maximum absorption of the right hand reaches 1723sv and 1871sv respectively.

There are two other patients, the old man Zhang Maidong and the police officer Ma Zhenxing. The dose equivalents of the whole body are about 5.6sv and 4.2sv.

On the day when the incident happened, the symptoms of acute radiation sickness of the four people were getting worse, with frequent vomiting, dizziness and headache. After determining that it was indeed radiation sickness, the medical team administered sedatives, desensitizing antiemetics, and anti-radiation drugs. The situation of Zhang Maidong and Ma Zhenxing was temporarily under control.

But Tian Fuhou and Bian Yi, since noon, they felt severe pain in the skin of the burnt right hand.

1723sv and 1871sv are placed there, and the disease develops very rapidly. The burned skin first became more red and swollen, and then the ulcers rotted, and then the blood vessels inside burst and bled, the tissues collapsed, the damaged cells were decomposed, and the whole hand was no longer human.

Tian Fuhou was writhing on the bed in pain. He survived in this life and faced so many hardships. Even in those days when he didn't have enough food and clothing, the old man never shed tears.

But now, the old man was crying and wailing, but it was purely because of the huge pain in his body.

A 79-year-old man, such severe pain also caused his blood pressure to soar, breathing difficulties, various body functions are being damaged, and he is also at risk of cerebral hemorrhage and heart and lung failure. The medical team immediately injected a sufficient amount of morphine into the old man, but this had little effect on the pain caused by nuclear radiation, and there was no specific medicine for radiation sickness.

Officer Bian Yi's situation was no better, or even worse, because his dose equivalent was higher.

The cries of pain kept ringing in the nuclear radiation isolation ward where he lived, just like the cries of people tortured in hell.

The situation deteriorated rapidly to the point where amputation was necessary, the patient could not bear the pain, and the spread of radioactive substances in the body.

If there are not some problems to be clarified, at least there are more data to support these two operations during the day. The most important question is, is the nuclear radiation in the mutation area just nuclear radiation? Is this radiation sickness? Can I have anesthesia during surgery? Is it even possible to have surgery

The surgery building was busy, and the medical team from the spell department arrived in the afternoon, including Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan.

The two of them will respectively participate in one operation as the third assistant.

Faced with such a situation, they naturally thought of Gu Jun, but at this time in the pre-operative meeting in the conference room, they and others were very focused.

The staff in white coats of the two surgeries were gathered in the meeting room, as well as many experts and professors for consultation.

"As far as the current situation is concerned," a middle-aged and elderly man with a generous face stood in front of the meeting screen and said judgment to everyone. This is Professor Zhang Bohai.

Professor Zhang is the director of the first clinical department of the National Nuclear Accident Medical Emergency Center, and has a series of titles such as the Institute of Radiological Medicine and the Society of Radiological Protection. This authoritative big cow will lead ordinary medical staff to cooperate with the Tianji Bureau in the medical work of health prevention, nuclear and radiation emergency treatment and other medical work in response to this incident.

"The symptoms of the two patients are no different from those of ordinary acute radiation injuries, and there are no supernatural abnormalities in the indicators. We believe that the surgery can be performed according to routine procedures and under general anesthesia." Professor Zhang said, "The sooner the surgery is performed, the better." .”

Everyone nodded. If there was no anesthesia, Mr. Tian Fuhou might not be able to survive, even if his will was strong, his blood pressure would be unbearable.

Wang Ruoxiang also nodded slightly. This was her first mission after returning to the Magic Department.

But I didn't expect it to be such a serious disaster.

One of the difficulties of these two operations is that doctors and nurses have to wear bulky nuclear radiation protection suits to perform the operation.

But this issue is not in the consideration of Professor Zhang, he does not know how to perform surgery, Yang Rongzhong and Tan Bo who are the chief surgeons are the orthopedic aces of the Mobei Medical Department, plus the staff dispatched by the Magic Department, everyone is ready to deal with the operation abnormal conditions that may occur during the process.

After deciding that the operation would be carried out according to the routine procedure, the two chief surgeons decided on the operation plan with their teams.

After the meeting, all the white coats got up and went to the operating room.

"Sigh." Cai Zixuan fell behind, still looking at the picture of the lesion on the patient's hand on the meeting screen, and sighed.

The right hand of the old man Tian Fuhou, which was about to be amputated, planted hundreds of acres of trees in the wasteland.

"Zixuan, don't be nervous." Wang Ruoxiang patted his old classmate on the shoulder, "Anyway, if there is radiation, your hair will be gone."

In the past two years, she has also changed a lot, the only thing that remains the same is her hair.

"That's true." Cai Zixuan touched his bald head with a smile, knowing that the squad leader was kind enough to mediate the atmosphere.

The two were talking and chased after the crowd outside the meeting room. It was midnight, but they still had two battles in the operating room.