Estela's condition is very bad, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is currently in critical condition.
Lu Chen and the others stayed on the cruise ship for four days, and lived and worked at the base for another four days. After eight days of separation from Estella, this young man who could once walk up and down the mountaintop like the wind had lost nearly ten kilograms.
Weight.
The receiving medical team conducted a comprehensive examination on him and provided him with a full range of life support treatment. However, the treatment effect was not ideal - Estela repeatedly suffered from metabolic acidosis and diarrhea, and the level of electrolyte imbalance
It’s also a headache.
A "savage" comatose in a hospital bed has repeated diarrhea. The scene itself is very worrying. But when the patient becomes a "savage", the "contrast" becomes even more concerning. After all, Estella is dressed like this
, it doesn't quite fit the stereotype of a sick man - when Tang Qinglong is placed on the hospital bed, he looks more normal than Estella lying on it.
The AI nursing robot has to change the mattress or quilt for the unconscious Estella every half hour or so. It also needs to clean his body and turn him over frequently.
On the bright side, Estella has basically entered the terminal stage. There is no fundamental difference between him and other people struggling in the ICU. If there is any difference, it may be that he does not have relatives and friends around.
Pray for him outside the ward.
He is the last Sicilian. There are no more relatives or compatriots of his in this world.
After a week of hard work including treatment and examination, the treatment team responsible for Estella reported the situation to the General Investigation Bureau - they believed that Estella's chance of recovery was already very low, and there was little point in continuing treatment.
After discussing with the treatment team, the agents of the General Investigation Bureau decided to inject Estella with a wake-up drug. Regardless of whether the sixteen-year-old child could understand the fact that he was about to die, they still wanted to ask if he was still alive.
What unfulfilled hopes or wishes.
Estella, who briefly regained consciousness with the help of arousal drugs, only made one request, "Please let me meet the people in this tribe."
The agents in the Investigation Bureau had their CPUs burning up and smoking, but they didn’t even understand which part of the tribe “this tribe” refers to.
After careful consideration for a while, they decided to send Estella to the North American Research Center - to let him meet Lu Chen and the others. This can probably be regarded as a beginning and an end.
After being transported to the research center by a smooth-flying medical plane, Estella was escorted by a group of professional transfer robots into the ward that had just been cleared out by the research center.
There are a total of thirty-five doctors and seventy-four nurses in the research center.
These professionals originally gathered here to receive training related to quantum release syndrome. Now that the training is not over, a "job" suddenly comes to them. Everyone expressed their understanding of this and actively signed up to participate in shifts.
Process.
Therefore, the profession of a doctor is like this - although they usually shout "I'm exhausted" all day long, they really don't have to see patients anymore, and they themselves can't accept it first.
And the problem before Yang Jianmin and Lu Chen arose. They were a little unsure whether Estella's treatment should focus on palliative care, or whether they should try another treatment plan.
After all, looking at the treatment records at the Argentario Mountain Base, they basically used conventional treatments for Estela - the treatments were completely conservative treatments for radiation enteritis and other radiation injuries.
Naturally, there is no "effect" in such a treatment plan. Strictly speaking, in this treatment plan, what really works is the body's own repair function. At most, the drugs and various instruments are just applauding and shouting from the side.
Cheerleaders.
The kind of person who is owed three months' salary and still has to go out to cheer for the team.
After being sent to the North American research base, facing such patients, Lu Chen was surprised to find... They seemed to have many plans available.
"Anyway, judging from the previous examination results, the damage to the small intestine is very serious." Yang Jianmin, as the highest-ranking doctor in the research center, presided over the consultation without hesitation. "I took a look at the equipment inventory we have here - directed induction of stem cells.
The breeding equipment can be activated immediately, right?"
"Such a new thing from the beginning?" Lu Chen said hesitantly, "He has a very poor foundation now. Even if we induce a small intestine through targeted induction, we still have to open his abdomen to transplant it - will he not be able to withstand it?
”
Yang Jianmin glared at his student, "Do you know why people who deny personality don't live long?"
"What is negative personality? I've never heard of it." Lu Chen frowned and thought hard. He really had never heard of such a "personality classification".
"Because they can only say no - talking is too annoying and they can easily be beaten to death." Yang Jianmin rolled his eyes, "Then what do you think we should do, just treat the person like this until he dies?"
"The life support equipment can delay the collapse of his system, but if you want to completely reverse the situation, you still have to find the root cause." The critical care physician present put forward his own suggestions, "I remember that there were fully desensitized pigs in the animal room, otherwise
Let’s try proxy absorption?”
This proposal was unanimously recognized by the doctors present. The biochemical magicians in the Department of Critical Care Medicine were indeed very imaginative. The best the surgeon could do was to get some parts from fully desensitized pigs and stuff them into people's stomachs. Once the critical illness was dealt with,
Here comes a "Chimera" treatment plan.
As a very special product of bioengineering, the cost of fully desensitized pigs is still ridiculously high to this day. But its cost is justified - after extremely complex gene editing, the fully desensitized pigs are completely
All tissue cells cannot be recognized by the body's immune cells.
In other words, all organs in fully desensitized pigs can be implanted into patients and function normally without any immune-related treatment. Except for some viral infections that are particularly dangerous to pigs, almost all transplant patients
You will not face other risks.
That’s why fully desensitized pigs are so expensive—the pig’s own immunity level is almost zero, and its intestines don’t even have flora.
Ordinary sows cannot produce such piglets because their immune systems will rush directly into the embryos and leave immune imprints on the cells. Therefore, breeders can only ensure this through in vitro embryo cultivation and umbilical cord immune filtration.
Breeding effect. More importantly, all piglets must be born by caesarean section to reduce the risk of infection.
The cost of cultivating fully desensitized pigs is extremely high, but the cost is worth it. A fully desensitized pig can save at least two kidney failure patients, one heart transplant, one lung transplant, one liver transplant and two corneal transplants.
Seven patients with the disease can benefit from this, and the cost is completely worth it.
Estella's core problem lies in the small intestine. Although the small intestine of a fully desensitized pig can theoretically be transplanted, there are physiological differences after all. The best way is to use stem cell directional culture, through Estella's own stem cells,
Re-induced growth of a set of small intestine.
But this option is not realistic - it is expensive, and the main reason is that the risk of open transplantation is too great now. Many organs in his body are failing, and it will be difficult for him to survive such a major operation.
The advice given by the intensive care medicine doctor... is very unconventional. Although we cannot directly transplant the pig's small intestine to Estella, we can let the pig eat for him.
To be more precise, the medical team plans to use artificial blood vessels and fistula technology to directly connect Estela's arteries and veins with those of the fully desensitized pig. Let Estella become fully desensitized.
Parasites in pigs.
The terminal galactose structure of the red blood cells of fully desensitized pigs has also been knocked out. In other words, their blood can also be directly transfused into the human body and used as normal red blood cells. The effect is better than donating blood - after all, it does not
Can trigger any degree of immune response.
This established the basis for the "Parasite" program.
It is not that no one has thought about this solution, but...the price of fully desensitized pigs is too expensive, and using an entire fully desensitized pig to save one person is indeed somewhat inefficient.
But this problem doesn’t exist now—it’s all distributed free of charge by the coalition government anyway, so it’s perfect to use it to save people.
Finally, after five hours of struggle, the operation was successfully completed. The spinal cords of two fully desensitized pigs were cut off and fixed on the bed frame. With the joint action of artificial blood vessels and blood pumps, the two pigs shared the
of organs and blood.
These two fully desensitized pigs will become Estella's external organs and work hard to create conditions for his recovery. Once Estella's vital signs stabilize and the small intestine induced by stem cells is generated, the transplant can begin.
.
The last Sicilian seems to live for several more decades.