Chapter 498 Sensation around the world, 'Nature' apologizes (2)
Surgery is definitely necessary. Now Li Ting has fallen into a deep coma and may die at any time, so surgery is necessary.
But the opinions of family members should also be sought at the same time.
Li Ting's husband is named Zhang Yong, who is from Shanchuan and works at a construction site in Yanjing.
The two of us have been in Yanjing for 5 or 6 years. The man does some physical work at the construction site, while the woman cooks.
They have made great contributions to the urbanization process of Yanjing.
But it is a pity that the two of them still have neither household registration nor their own housing in Yanjing.
I can only follow the construction site here and there, hoping to make more money.
In an interview with the media yesterday, Zhang Yong said that his biggest wish in coming to Yanjing is to earn more money, return to his hometown, and make the houses in the village more beautiful so that his children can go to school and be successful when they grow up.
Be an intellectual and don't do manual labor on the construction site like him.
The two of them have no registered permanent residence or housing. Of course, there is no medical insurance or social security in Yanjing.
So when faced with the sky-high cost of treatment, Zhang Yong already hesitated - should he save this person?
Fortunately, just when Zhang Yong was about to give up, the state had made it clear that the state would pay for the treatment of this type of disease, and Zhang Yong felt relieved.
So when Qu Ping communicated with Zhang Yong, Zhang Yong's first sentence was still, "Is this new treatment at one's own expense? Does it cost a lot?"
He was not concerned about how Li Ting's body would react after receiving the treatment, or how it would be different from the past, but he was concerned about whether the treatment would cost a lot.
The working people are indeed the most simple and realistic.
Qu Ping understands Zhang Yong's current mentality very well.
Do you think Zhang Yong is worried about his wife and the child in his belly?
He must be worried. No husband doesn't care about his wife and children. If he said he didn't care, Zhang Yong wouldn't have braved the severe cold and stayed outside the hospital for so many days.
But the most realistic problem for the people at the bottom is the economic problem. How to deal with it if there is no money?
Qu Ping said in a very gentle voice: "The state has made it clear that for this type of disease, we must save lives at all costs, and the cost of treatment will be borne by the state."
"I will now tell you about the patient's treatment situation and some situations he will face in his future life after the treatment is successful."
Qu Ping tried her best to tell Zhang Yong in a language that people could understand, some of the things that would happen to Li Ting’s body after using the combined colony treatment method——
In order to avoid severe lung infection causing sepsis, the hospital will completely remove Li Ting's lungs after the combined colony treatment method is completed.
Because the combined bacterial colony is still in its initial development stage, the oxygen supplied to the body is definitely not as sufficient and balanced as the lungs. Li Ting will not be able to engage in heavy physical labor in the future.
In addition, after losing her lungs, Li Ting's speaking voice is no longer as natural as before, and her voice will be a little weird.
Finally, because bacterial colonies require culture fluid, Li Ting needs to go to the hospital regularly to replenish the culture fluid of the combined colonies.
In addition, in order to ensure that the bacterial colony can obtain energy from ionization, Li Ting will also install an electric pump in her body. Although the electric pump power supply has a similar principle to a pacemaker, it does not rule out damage and may require intestinal rupture.
Make a replacement.
Since the current combined bacterial colony treatment method has only been tried at the Xia Academy of Sciences Medical Center, in the future, if Li Ting wants to change or add culture medium, she will have to go to Jiangzhou to find Changtianke, or she can only find Yanjing in Yanjing.
Academy Medical Center.
It's not particularly convenient.
However, Qu Ping said: "Because Li Ting is the first patient under treatment, Changtian Technology will provide you with door-to-door follow-up services, and will also reduce all subsequent culture medium and treatment costs for you."
"It's just that there are no more examples or medical evidence of other abnormalities or side effects that patients may experience after treatment."
When Qu Ping was communicating with Zhang Yong, domestic and foreign media were all around with cameras filming and recording.
What happened from 2012 to 2003 also made everyone understand that it is better to be open and transparent about some things than to keep them secret.
Therefore, they agreed to allow the media to film and record the incident without affecting the communication between the two parties.
On the one hand, it means that all information about the disease is open and transparent, and on the other hand, it also tells the world that the most real thing in Xia State from top to bottom is the safety of ordinary people's lives and property.
The country will save the lives of patients at all costs.
Zhang Yong has not read many books. He understood some of what Qu Ping said, but he did not understand some.
Zhang Yong nodded repeatedly and said: "As long as I can save the lives of my wife and children, I am willing to pay any price."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Yong signed his name on the surgery notification and consent forms.
At this time, emergency surgery was being performed in the operating room.
This operation involved multiple departments cooperating, and the surgeon needed to complete the planned operation under Shu Rou’s leadership.
After the combined colony transplantation is successful and fully functional, Shurou will ask the medical staff to turn off the ECMO and perform lung surgery as soon as possible.
Xiaguo's national TV station, local TV stations, as well as foreign BB, Reuters, AFP, DPA, "New York Times", "Washington Post" and many other well-known media have reported on the progress of Li Ting's surgery and the progress of Qu Ping and Zhang Yong.
The dialogue was fully reported.
At this time, the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences was under lockdown. Kelly also saw the video report from Xiaguo TV and received an email from his family - an English report from The Times.
Kelly was suddenly moved and shocked.
The lives of Westerners are precious and no one can afford to die. However, Xia has a large population and the country may not value human life. This is Kelly's previous understanding of the living conditions of people in various countries around the world.
But now that he is in Xia Kingdom, he has also seen the truthful reports from the Xia Kingdom media and The Times, which completely subverted his past thoughts.
Kelly knew for sure that if combined colony therapy could be successful and mastered by Westerners.
Then this treatment method must be quite expensive, not for ordinary patients, but for those powerful groups.
In the Xia Kingdom, this treatment technique was used by ordinary labor patients.
At this time, at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, respiratory experts and professors were also paying attention to Xia Guo's situation.
This time the disease almost only occurs in East Asia, so it has little to do with the United States.
Relevant experts and scholars in the United States can watch the fire from afar and conduct a thorough study of the situation related to the disease.
The Cleveland Clinic is one of the most authoritative respiratory hospitals in the United States and one of the few hospitals in the world that can perform lung transplants.
Professor Kyle Carson, the clinic's chief respiratory specialist and a doctorate from both Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, said to his subordinates and the students he led: "You guys should figure out exactly how Xia Guoren treated Li Ting.
situation?"
The subordinates and students all shook their heads, obviously unaware of the treatment methods in Xia Kingdom.
Clafland Clinic has obtained Li Ting's relevant medical records through internal channels (when Li Ting's condition was serious, relevant experts from Xia State consulted about the situation of lung transplantation in the United States, so the United States provided
Some medical records of Li Ting, including CT of the lungs.)
Kyle Carson said: "We should all analyze Li Ting's pathological condition, especially her lung CT. The lungs have been infected extensively and have fibrosis. As far as clinical medicine is concerned, other than switching back to this path
Otherwise, there is simply no cure."
"However, due to Li Ting's current special situation (pregnancy) and the skills of Xia Guo's lung surgery, the possibility of performing lung transplantation in Xia Guo is 0."
"And because of the contagiousness of the disease, it is impossible for Li Ting to be transferred to the United States for lung replacement."
Kyle Carson said: "My verdict is - death penalty!"
Kyle Carson found it very absurd and ridiculous, "The Xia people actually came up with some kind of combined bacterial colony method, hoping to use bacterial colonies to treat infected lungs. There is no such technology in the world."
After Kyle Carson said this, the team and the students he led laughed.
Kyle Carson added: "But our laboratory is very interested in this virus. It would be great if we could get some strains and samples for study."
When Kyle Carson and his subordinate team and students discussed Li Ting's condition, the entire public opinion and conversation atmosphere were full of indifference to life, and they were limited to medical discussions.
Some students are even making bets privately.
"Shideli, don't let us take a gamble on when this patient will die?" Kaliki said.
Shi Deli looked at the lung CT in detail and said, "Okay, what are you betting on?"
Kaliki said: "Let's have a bet at the bar, and whoever loses will treat us all to a drink."
This time the atmosphere in the laboratory became lively.
Shideli said happily: "There is no problem. This lung CT was sent to our laboratory three days ago. It seems that the condition has deteriorated quite seriously. And I just saw the news report that this patient had passed away 8 hours ago.
ICU."
Shi Deli looked at the lung CT and medical records in detail and said: "I guess there will be news that this patient died in the next four hours. The error will not exceed one hour. Of course, I am talking about the exact time of death, not the time reported by the media.
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Everyone felt that what Shi Deli said was very reasonable, because Li Ting's lungs were completely infected and fibrotic, and she would definitely die in the next four hours according to the development of her condition.
Who knew that Kaliki said: "My guess is that the patient will not be able to get any information about her death at all."
When Kaliki said this, others including Professor Kyle Carson couldn't believe it.
Kyle Carson said: "Kaliki, what do you mean by this? Do you believe that Xia Guo's combined colony treatment method, which has never been heard of and has not been scientifically proven, can be successful?"
"No, no, no!" Kaliki said with a smile: "I mean the patient must be dead, but the person who reported the incident is probably alive. After all, news can be fabricated."
"Hahahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter, and then they realized that Kaliki was being sarcastic.
Four hours later, Shi Deli predicted, in the operating room.
Everyone in the operating room, including Shu Rou, was sweating profusely.
The combined colony that had been cultured in advance was successfully implanted into Li Ting's body, and began to work and reproduce under the combined action of electric power and culture fluid.
"The blood oxygen saturation is up!" The nurse saw that Li Ting's blood oxygen saturation and heartbeat index were returning to normal, which was much better than when ECMO was running just now.
Director Xiao turned to look at Wu Yong and Shu Rou.
Wu Yong asked Shu Rou for her opinion.
After Shu Rou's team checked the patient's physical condition in detail, she nodded and said, "Team Leader Shu, you can turn off the phone."
This means that the ECMO machine can be turned off.
Shu Rou said to Director Xiao and Wu Yong: "Director Xiao, teacher, you can turn off ECMO."
Director Xiao still hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and turned off the phone.
After the ECMO was shut down, the entire operating room suddenly became quiet, with only the sound of the vital sign monitor beeping.
The heartbeat is normal, breathing is normal, and blood oxygen saturation is normal.
The operation was successful!
The next step was for the surgeon. Director Xiao immediately made arrangements and said: "Prepare to remove the lungs to avoid infection!"
Another four hours passed, and it was already one o'clock in the morning the next day, Yanjing time.
The door of the operating room opened, and people and other medical staff from Xiaotang Hospital were paying attention to the operation.
Because it is contagious, medical staff wear protective clothing.
During the operation, she didn't even bother to eat. She stood for more than ten hours without eating or drinking. As soon as Shu Rou came out, she collapsed on the ground.
The director of Xiaotang Hospital quickly arranged for staff to send Shurou and her team to the lounge to rest.
Everyone asked about Director Xiao.
Director Xiao nodded tiredly and said, "The operation was successful."
Cheers echoed throughout the hospital.
The director walked out of the hospital and immediately reported the good news to reporters: "Our operation was very successful. The joint colony treatment method jointly developed by Changtian Technology and the Xia Academy of Sciences Biology and Medical Center was successfully used in severe cases for the first time.
pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis patients with great success."
"This is our first combined colony therapy operation. In the future, this operation will also treat more severely ill patients and save more lives..."
At this moment, the reporters who had been guarding the place in the cold wind all day screamed with excitement.
Reporter Fang from Xiaguo TV was so excited that she shed tears.
This moment is worth remembering.
Reporter Fang turned to face the live camera and said while crying: "Friends in the audience, friends in the audience, good morning, everyone. It is 1:35 in the morning on April 24, 2003, Yanjing time."
"We have just received news that after undergoing combined colony therapy surgery and treatment jointly developed by Youchangtian Technology and Xia Guoji Academy of Sciences, Li Ting's surgery was successful, her vital signs were intact, and the fetus was preserved!"
"This is a great moment! This is a great moment for our scientific researchers and medical staff in Xia State to use their own efforts to save lives!"
"This means that all seriously ill patients will no longer be in danger of life and will receive treatment."
"We hope that the difficulties will pass as soon as possible, and we hope that tomorrow's sun will come earlier!"
Xia Guo TV’s earliest news was reported to the world instantly.
Kelly was also among the first to receive the news, and he was so excited that he stayed up all night.
Kelly immediately called his relevant friends in the Yanjing medical community and confirmed that Li Ting had indeed been treated through combined colony therapy.
Moreover, the other party clearly told Kelly that Li Ting's lungs had been removed.
This time Kelly was both excited and shocked.
what does that mean?
This means that the facts stated in this paper by Changtian Technology are completely true and operable.
This means that this treatment method can be promoted globally to treat more patients with severe lung diseases.
This is definitely a leap in technological progress in the history of human medicine.
This time Kelly went to Xia State, carrying in his hand the long article "Study on the combined mechanism of oxygen production and aerobic aerobic combination in biological organisms after Rhodospirillum and cyanobacteria are genetically spliced and replaced with photosynthesis by electric charge"
Paper written by Tian Technology.
It was London, England at this time, and the time was not yet 6 o'clock in the evening.
Kelly immediately opened his laptop and wrote a letter of apology himself.
The content of the apology letter is that "Natural Medicine" missed the publication of this great scientific research result related to the progress of human medicine because of its lack of meticulous research on the paper and lack of responsibility...
"Natural Medicine" expresses its deepest apology to all the scientific researchers who contributed to the paper, and expresses its most sincere respect for Xia Guo's scientific researchers and medical staff who are still fighting on the front line...
After writing the letter of apology, Kelly immediately made a long-distance call on his cell phone to Ferris, the editor-in-chief of "Natural Medicine."
"Ferris." Kelly said: "I just wrote a letter of apology and sent it to you. I decided not to publish "Rhodospirillum and cyanobacteria have been genetically spliced to replace photosynthesis with electric charge, producing energy in biological organisms.
The paper "Investigation of the Combined Mechanism of Oxygen and Aerobic Aerobics in Organisms" was my biggest mistake, and it was also the biggest mistake of our entire editorial department."
"At the same time as the paper was published, this apology letter was published on the front page. I also asked other leaders of the editorial department for their opinions on this matter via email."
Ferris was immediately excited because he was very impressed by this paper. He felt that the content of the paper was rigorous and logical and completely closed-loop. It was a scientific research paper that could definitely change the entire history of human biomedicine.
But both Kelly and other senior editorial staff thought this paper was rubbish.
Now, it can be regarded as bringing order to the chaos.
Ferris said quickly: "The latest issue of Nature will be published in three days at the end of April, and I will work hard to complete the typesetting."
Afterwards, Kelly immediately called his wife and mother.
"Hurry up and charter a flight (with life and medical equipment) from London to Yanjing. While my father's condition is still relatively good, get to Yanjing immediately."
Now my wife thought Kelly was crazy. Yanjing was so scary, how could he come?