Chapter 128: Medical History Collection (Part II) (3/3/7 Subscription Update!)
Without Ms. Iweala's explanation, Sun Lien could guess that Lieutenant Park was the Asian officer who snatched the pistol from Huon's hand. The officer at least seemed to be a character who could communicate peacefully, and since Ms. Iweala had said so, Sun Lien decided to ask about the situation.
In the corner of the camp, Sun Li-eun found Lieutenant Park, who was "able to communicate peacefully". Presumably overly frightened by the appearance of his superiors in front of him, Lieutenant Park chose a very stupid method to soothe his spirit. When Son found him, Lieutenant Park had two bottles of Jack Daniel's under his feet, and he was still pouring the third bottle with a trembling hand—and there was only one bottom left in the third bottle.
"God, are you trying to commit suicide?" Sun Lien hurriedly snatched the wine glass from the other party's hand. The capacity of a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey is 700 milliliters, and three bottles are almost four catties to drink...... This amount will really kill people if you drink it in one sitting.
Lieutenant Park seemed to want to rebel against Sun Lien, but after drinking too much, his arm did not obey at all. After grabbing it twice in mid-air, he fell headlong to the ground.
Sun Lien sighed. After seeing the eye-catching "acute alcohol poisoning" on the top of the other party's head, Sun Lien knew that the most common job in the emergency department came back to report to him.
"What's the matter with this person, he's sick too?" Hu Chunbo was startled when he saw Sun Lien carrying a person back. After putting the person on Sun Lien's back and putting it on the ground, he smelled the strong smell of alcohol that could penetrate the N95 mask, "Drinking too much?"
"Yes. Sun Lien nodded concisely, "I guess I saw my superior getting sick, and then I was scared." "When I just looked at the status bar, Sun Lien had already verified. Lieutenant Park Shin-yong did not have symptoms of acute meningitis, he simply drank too much. "Do we have naloxone here? I drank three or four pounds of whiskey. ”
"Xiaohu went to count the pharmacy, you ask her. As soon as he heard that this rammer had actually drunk so much wine, Hu Chunbo hurriedly began to rummage through the medicine box, "I'll induce vomiting for him first...... Do they have a gastric lavage machine here?"
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It turns out that the medical facilities are not too bad where the American GIs are stationed. Hu Jia not only found a bunch of restricted-use antibiotics from the warehouse, but also found four sets of ventilators that had not yet been opened. Even a gastric lavage machine has been found, not to mention the activated carbon used in the matching.
After counting the warehouse, Hu Jia couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration, "Sure enough, they are all rich." "Even the ECMO has a medical team, she's never heard of it anyway.
Sun Lien ran over to her out of breath just now and asked her for naloxone, although I don't know whether it was a patient who overdosed on fentanyl that caused respiratory depression, or someone in the camp who drank heavily and caused alcohol poisoning. Anyway, Hu Jia first found two bottles from the pharmacy and handed them to Sun Lien. Now that the inventory is almost complete, she can finally return to her place of work to check on the situation.
"That's not good, calm down!" Hu Jia had just walked to the quarantine area when he heard Hu Chunbo's shout, and it was obvious that the condition of some patients was not very good. "Sir, sir!"
In the isolation room, Sun Lien and Hu Chunbo were doing their best to rescue the white officer who had just fallen ill. When Hu Jia entered the room, he could see the officer, who was close to 1.9 meters tall, shaking chaff on the bed as if he had been electrified. After a short while, this widespread shaking turned into an even more frightening contraction of the whole body. Lying on the bed, Hunn's fists clenched and his body spasmed. But the expression on his face was very indifferent, just a pair of eyes staring big and round, staring to the right.
Hu Chunbo took the flashlight and shook it on his eyes, "The light reflex disappeared, and the pupils were dilated." He raised his head and said solemnly towards Sun Lien, "It's a generalized tonic-clonic seizure." ”
"He had no previous history of epilepsy, which should be a completely new symptom. Sun Lien, who had finished injecting 20 mg of diazepam, frowned, "This must have something to do with meningitis." ”
"There's no second explanation. Hu Chunbo put down the flashlight, sat on the stool next to him, and slowly rubbed his legs with his hands, "This is progressing too fast......
From the onset of acute meningitis to the onset of grand mal seizures, only four hours passed. This rate of progress is very fast even from an emergency point of view.
Hu Chunbo was frightened. Most of the diseases he dealt with in the past were extremely incurable and had serious sequelae, but basically no longer progressed. He really didn't come into contact with this kind of disease that was urgent and fast, and it took people's lives in a short period of time.
Sun Lien frowned and circled around Hunn. There are no new hints on the status bar other than the four faded words "seizures".
Epilepsy, what does epilepsy mean? Sun Lien pondered as he walked. Epilepsy, commonly known as epilepsy, is a chronic disease caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the cerebral cortex, resulting in repeated loss of consciousness and mobility.
The cortex of the brain is abnormally discharged, as if a key component in a computer has suddenly shorted out. When the brain, a delicate instrument, is blocked, the whole system begins to restart gradually...... Sun Lien suddenly stopped, meningitis can cause epilepsy. However, this usually occurs after meningitis has been cured, and some people with meningitis may have epilepsy sequelae after being cured. However, meningitis, which presents with epileptic symptoms, is less common.
If...... What if epilepsy was not directly related to meningitis, but to the causative pathogen? Sun made a bold hypothesis, and he quickly found evidence to support his hypothesis – Hunn's seizures were not typical generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
In generalized tonic-clonic seizures, the patient first loses consciousness and enters a tonic phase, in which all the skeletal muscles of the body contract continuously. This is followed by a clonic phase – intermittent spasms throughout the body. Finally, there is the late stage of convulsions. At this stage, there may be tonic, incontinent, foaming at the mouth, or simply squirting blood foam.
However, Hunn's seizures began with clonus, and it was a tonic-clonic with predominantly limbs, and then moved into a generalized tonic phase. Generalized clonus begins again after the tonic phase.
This episode is not quite in the right order...... Sun Lien struggled to recall what he had learned. If you take this spasmodic symptom apart, he should have had a tonic seizure first, and then it turned into a generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
Tonicic seizures, on the other hand, usually occur in patients who have suffered diffuse damage to the whole brain.
"Brother Hu...... If his initial symptoms were tonic......" Sun stammered his conjecture, "Could this be a hint that the causative agent is not only for the meninges, but also for other parts of the brain?"