"No, Li Xin and Yu Xiaorong suddenly became like this morning, everyone in our company was taken aback, and others didn't dare to come with the ambulance, so I had the courage to follow."

Schinin poisoning can also be ruled out.

"Check the patient's blood."

Blood tests are quick to come back, with elevated white blood cells, typical of bacterial infection.

It's a bacterial infection, not a viral infection.

The emergency doctor had suspected rabies, and it seems that this conclusion will be overturned.

The emergency doctor called Gu Jiashu, the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, "Doctor Gu, there are two patients with strange symptoms in the emergency department, please come down and help with the consultation." ”

Gu Jiashu, who received the call, was looking at a patient's information in the doctor's office, and after listening to the description of the emergency doctor, he thought that if he could make the emergency doctor say that the symptoms were strange, it must be a special patient, Gu Jiashu hurriedly went downstairs to the emergency room.

In the emergency room, Gu Jiashu examines a patient on a hospital bed.

First is Li Xin.

Gu Jiashu moved Li Xin's neck, which was extremely stiff.

The emergency doctor showed Gu Jiashu Li Xin's X-rays, pointed to one of them, and explained, "There was a fracture here, probably because the muscle tension was too high." ”

It is also rare to be able to fracture by one's own muscles.

Gu Jiashu saw that Li Xin's eyes were still clear, and he should be conscious, Gu Jiashu asked her, "Can you smile?" ”

The onlookers were stunned, and the doctor would ask the patient to make various movements to determine the type of disease, but he had never seen a doctor who made the patient smile as soon as he came up.

Li Xin was still very cooperative, trying to squeeze out a smile, but the smile on his face was extremely painful, a bitter smile.

Gu Jiashu brought a tongue depressor and ordered Li Xin, "Open your mouth wide!" ”

Li Xin did so, opened her mouth, and Gu Jiashu used a tongue depressor to stimulate Li Xin's pharynx.

If there is a foreign body that irritates the pharynx, normal people will have nausea and vomiting reactions, but Li Xin has no vomiting symptoms, but her jaw suddenly twitches.

Gu Jiashu examined Li Xin's exposed skin and found a deep wound on his right palm, as if he had been stabbed by something.

"How did you get this wound?" Gu Jiashu asked.

Zhang Jian, a colleague from the company who had been accompanying her, replied, "Oh, I know, Li Xin said that this wound was when she fell into the trap used by nearby farmers to catch wild beasts when she was building a group building in Cloud Farm, and was pierced by the wooden thorns inside, but she took out the wooden thorns at that time." ”

The center of the wound on Li Xin's palm has turned black, and the surrounding tissues are also red and swollen.

"Tetanus!" Gu Jiashu said with certainty.

"Tetanus?!" The surrounding emergency doctors and nurses screamed at the same time.

"Well, if the tongue depressor is positive, it can basically be determined that it is tetanus, and then let the laboratory do a tetanus toxin test to confirm the diagnosis."

The emergency doctor was still in a state of shock, he had been practicing medicine for nearly a decade, and it was the first time he had seen a patient with tetanus.

The little nurse said to herself, "I've only seen descriptions of tetanus patients in textbooks before, but I didn't expect real patients to be like this, it's too scary, like zombies." ”

Gu Jiashu checked Yu Xiaorong in the hospital bed next door, and also used a tongue depressor to stimulate the pharynx.

"Whew......"

Yu Xiaorong turned out to be a vomiting reaction.

Gu Jiashu frowned, Yu Xiaorong's reaction was different from Li Xin's, not tetanus's reaction.

However, considering that the tongue depressor reaction of tetanus was not 100% positive, Gu Jiashu still asked Yu Xiaorong to draw blood and send it to the laboratory for tetanus toxin testing.

During the examination, Gu Jiashu noticed Yu Xiaorong's reaction, she kept staring at Li Xin in the next bed, and seemed to be very concerned.

Gu Jiashu asked Yu Xiaorong, "Do you two have a good relationship?" ”

Yu Xiaorong opened her mouth and didn't make a sound, and the company colleague who accompanied her replied instead of her, "Everyone is a colleague and the relationship is good, but it's not particularly good." ”

Gu Jiashu continued to ask Yu Xiaorong, "Can you laugh?" ”

Yu Xiaorong also squeezed out a wry smile, and at the same time tried to make a sound, and asked, "Doctor, Li Xin and I have both been in contact with the dogs in Cloud Farm, shouldn't it be rabies?" How can it be tetanus? ”

Gu Jiashu pondered, "Have you ever been bitten or scratched by a dog?" ”

"The dog licked my hand."

"Which hand?"

"Right hand."

Gu Jiashu examined Yu Xiaorong's right hand, which was smooth and white, without any wounds and no recent signs of injury.

"Rabies is afraid of light and water, are you afraid of these things?"

Yu Xiaorong glanced at Li Xin, the hospital bed next door, "I was afraid before, but now I am not afraid." ”

"Then you're not rabies."

From the point of view of symptoms, the two patients are very consistent with the symptoms of tetanus, and can be treated according to the principles of tetanus treatment first.

However, what makes Gu Jiashu strange is that the onset of tetanus is sporadic, and it is very rare for two people to develop the disease at the same time.

The emergency doctor asked Gu Jiashu, "These two tetanus patients are now transferred to the infection department?" ”

"Okay, I'll have these two patients placed in two separate wards."

When speaking, Gu Jiashu deliberately accentuated the tone of "two wards".

Gu Jiashu called the doctor in the infectious disease department to arrange the wards of the two patients in advance, and as soon as he hung up the phone, he heard the sound of an ambulance horn outside the emergency room.

Soon, a patient was pushed in, with symptoms like Li Xin's, his head tilted back, his limbs twitched, and his face had a distorted expression.

"Oh my God...... Isn't it Li Ming from our company? How did he do that? ”

Zhang Jian, a company colleague who was helping Li Xin and Yu Xiaorong with hospitalization procedures, saw Li Ming being pushed into the emergency room, accompanied by his family.

Li Ming has been asking for leave since he came back from the group building in Cloud Farm, but he didn't expect to be in the hospital when he said goodbye, and he had the same symptoms as Li Xin and Yu Xiaorong, and his colleague Zhang Jian couldn't help but tremble.

The emergency doctor quickly examined Li Ming, and the muscles in the back of his neck were stiff and his teeth were clenched.

Gu Jiashu and the emergency doctor glanced at each other, and knew in their hearts that it seemed that he was a tetanus patient again.

What kind of evil day is today, in the past few years, I have not met a single tetanus patient, but today there are three in a row.

Li Ming's mother accompanied her and wiped her tears, Zhang Jian came up and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong with Li Ming?" ”

Li Ming's mother said while crying, and seemed to be saying to Zhang Jianhe and several doctors next to him at the same time, "Since Xiao Ming came back from going to the team building with the company, he has been unwell and has taken two days off, and he has a fever and pain all over his body at the beginning, and he became like this morning when he got up this morning." ”

"You know?" The emergency doctor asked.

Zhang Jian nodded, "Well, Li Ming is also a colleague of our company, just like Li Xin and Yu Xiaorong." ”

Gu Jiashu's brows furrowed even tighter, today, on the day of the evil sect, he met three tetanus patients at the same time, and they were all employees of the same company.

I have seen people with tetanus, but not a cluster of tetanus cases.

If there is only one tetanus patient, the hospital will follow the normal process for treatment, and now there are three at the same time, which is a cluster outbreak and needs to be reported to the CDC.

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