Vegetative state is also called vegetative state. In ancient my country, it was called stupor. The definition generally accepted by the international medical community is persistent vegetative state.
It refers to the loss of cerebral cortex function in the higher-level parts of the nerve center, causing the patient to be in a state of consciousness or coma, while the central parts of the nerve center (subcortical nucleus and brainstem) such as respiration, temperature regulation, digestion and absorption, secretion and excretion, metabolism
As well as a pathological state in which heartbeat, circulatory function, etc. still exist, it is also called cortical death.
A person in a vegetative state has lost the ability to consciously think and act. During this period, the functions of the brain and brainstem are fully preserved, some autonomic nervous reflexes and motor reflexes are preserved, and a normal sleep-wake cycle can be maintained.
People in a vegetative state have no consciousness and thinking ability and cannot communicate with the outside world, which is also called social death.
Xiao Chen and his master and his wife had encountered this kind of vegetative state in a small town near Xiaojiacun. Finally, Xiao Chen found that the master only used less than a week to treat this vegetative state and wake it up.
This is the first time Xiao Chen has encountered a vegetative state in Binhai City. Xiao Chen has also seen a lot about the treatment of stupor in ancient times.
He was not asking the patient's family members like other contestants, but was looking at the middle-aged man on the hospital bed.
The middle-aged man's skin and muscles have atrophied. Even if the man can receive massage every day to help with muscle movement, the skin and muscles are prone to this condition when he is asleep or in a coma for a long time.
Furthermore, Xiao Chen just looked at the middle-aged man and found that the man had not opened his eyes. He didn't know whether the man had opened his eyes or was always in this sleepy state.
Judging from the pulse condition alone, the pulse condition can still be felt. Otherwise, the person may have been dead long ago, and the deceased person would exude the aura of death. This is caused by the liver in the body starting to rot from the inside out.
However, I don't feel it now. This means that the patient is still alive and not brain dead, but is in a vegetative state.
Xiao Chen knew that what was different between him and others now was not only his understanding of the mysterious medical skills, but also his clairvoyance.
Xiao Chen looked at the patient's brain with clairvoyance. What made Xiao Chen very surprised again was that there was a gray gas covering the patient's brain, including the cerebrum and cerebellum.
What exactly is this gray gas?
Xiao Chen didn't know, but he knew that a normal person's brain would not be enveloped by this gray gas when looking through it with clairvoyance.
When Xiao Chen looked at the patient's head very seriously, the old Chinese doctors Zhang Heting looked at Xiao Chen strangely, as if this young man seemed to be in a trance.
However, we are currently participating in the competition and cannot communicate.
When several senior Chinese medicine doctors were preparing to go out, Xiao Chen looked at the middle-aged woman next to the middle-aged man and asked: "Auntie, was your husband caused by a car accident five years ago?"
"Yes, doctor." the middle-aged woman said.
The old Chinese doctors asked these questions many times just now, and almost every time they hit her heart.
Although the stinging pain has long since become numb.
For her, she felt very tired from nursing and taking care of her husband day and night.
However, she still did not give up on her husband, nor did she think about divorcing him. Instead, the children around her only visited him occasionally or shared medical expenses.
Even so, for a family that is not wealthy and encounters this kind of thing, the family would already be as bankrupt.
The middle-aged woman sighed there, and Xiao Chen felt that the other woman was indeed very tired.
Judging from the other party's dress, she is just a woman.
"Auntie, under what circumstances did your husband encounter a car accident, and when did he encounter it? These are very important to me in treating this gentleman's illness."
Those old Chinese medicine doctors didn't ask about this just now, they just asked about the situation after the car accident.
"I remember that I went to the market that day and when I was riding my motorcycle back, my husband hit a rock at a corner and flew out with him."
At first, Xiao Chen thought that the middle-aged man was in a car accident because he bumped into someone else, or someone else bumped into him while driving. Unexpectedly, he was actually the one who got into the accident while riding a motorcycle.
Wait? Could it be that this middle-aged woman was also sitting behind that motorcycle, but she didn't see anything wrong with her!
"Auntie, when you were sitting on the motorcycle, weren't you okay?"
"At first I only lost a tooth, and my arm was scratched and bleeding. I killed someone, flew out, hit my head on a big rock, and then fell into a coma. It has been like this since the doctor treated me."
Hit your head against a rock?
Just bleeding?
Xiao Chen felt even more strange.
Of course, Xiao Chen knew that if a person was not lucky, not to mention hitting a rock, even drinking water might kill him.
Obviously, this middle-aged man was so lucky that he hit his head on a stone, and then he was in a coma and became a vegetative state, where he has been until now.
"Auntie, do you remember what your husband was like before and after the accident? For example, did he meet any strange people when he was going to the market, did he eat anything, and what was his face like?"
The middle-aged woman remembered what happened that day very clearly, but she did not pay attention to the specific situation of her husband. After all, they were an old married couple. How could she pay attention to her husband's normal expressions unless he had a bad temper or something special?
May pay attention.
The middle-aged woman was a little curious as to why the young man in front of her asked such strange questions, completely different from those asked by other doctors.
"Auntie, think about it again." Xiao Chen asked.
"It seems, it seems that a few days before my husband's accident, a widower in the village suddenly died of illness. He and my husband were childhood friends. My husband and the village cadres have been helping to deal with his death."
A widower?
Get smaller.
Many people know about widows, but some people may not know about widows. In fact, they are men in rural areas who have never been married in their lives, commonly known as widowers or bachelors.
And this bachelor is actually the childhood friend of this middle-aged man, which shows that the relationship between the two is very good, and that the other party has always handled the other party's affairs.
"Also, I remembered that after my husband and the village cadres helped deal with the death of the little boy, they seemed depressed and not in a very good state of mind. That day I went to the market with him and rode a motorcycle back. Maybe it was because
He was thinking of something, so he hit something."
"Is there anything else? Is it late at night when you go back from the market?"
"It was six or seven o'clock in the evening, and the weather was not very good. Otherwise, it would be impossible for my husband to have such a problem in broad daylight while riding a motorcycle." (To be continued)