Chapter Fifty-One Most of them were .38s

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  Fang Wei's abdominal wound only had the outermost layer of skin left to be sutured, which was the easiest part to sew but also the most difficult to do well. One small mistake could easily lead to the wound not healing smoothly after suturing.

  Ye Nan handed the needle holder in his hand to a nurse beside him and instructed, "Change to skin suture needle, No. 1 ordinary suture thread!" Surgical needles are generally divided into round needles and triangular needles. Round needles are mainly used for suturing organs or muscles that are easy to penetrate; Triangular needles, also known as skin needles, are relatively sharp and have good penetration performance, and are generally used for suturing skin and other relatively tough tissues.

  The nurse was also an old hand, and had already prepared another needle holder and skin needle. Hearing Ye Nan's instructions, she quickly replaced the needle holder with a skin needle and handed over No. 7 thread.

  Ye Nan held the forceps, carefully pinching the skin on both sides of the incision together, before taking over the needle holder handed over by the nurse. With her left hand using the toothed forceps to clamp the skin, her right hand's needle holder didn't dare to slack off either. The curved needle carefully pierced through the skin, emerging from the inside of the incision, and then carefully passed through the opposite side of the skin, with the needle tip reaching the surface of the skin. Only then did she use the needle holder to release the tightly clamped needle tail, re-clamp the needle tip, and laboriously pull the needle out.

  The thread has formally passed through the skin on both sides of the incision, connecting the two edges together. Then it's time to pull the thread tight and start tying a surgical knot. This time, Dr. Huang paid attention when cutting the thread and left a small tail of about 5 mm. This little tail is very important because this thread is non-absorbable by the human body, so it must be removed in the future, and this thread head will be used to pull out the thread at that time.

  After completing the first stitch, Ye Nan carefully stitched with a 5mm interval, one stitch at a time, and finally completed the entire incision after sixteen stitches. After completion, she carefully used forceps to turn out the two sides of the sutured incision, aligning them so that the wound could heal smoothly and reduce the possibility of scarring.

  After everything was ready, I wiped it with physiological saline again and covered it with gauze and band-aid.

  Dr. Huang was extremely satisfied with the entire process of dealing with Ye Nan, this temporary assistant. He had never thought that an internist could do all these things so perfectly! He sighed secretly: "It's a pity that Mr. Ye is doing internal medicine!" However, all these were not what he wanted to think about. After all, the main task at present was to treat the patient's injury well, in order to ensure his own safety!

  As the first surgery was completed, the nurse was about to remove her gloves to change the remaining blood bags and infusion bottles. Peter, who was beside her, saw that she needed to take off her gloves and would have to put on a new pair again, so he spoke in standard Mandarin with a smile: "Beautiful lady, let me take care of this for you!"

  The nurse hesitated for a moment and looked at Ye Nan, she also knew that this matter had to be decided by Ye Nan. Ye Nan glanced at Peter, although he was not very clear about Peter's background at the moment, but looking at Peter's confident face, he nodded slightly, indicating to let Peter handle it.

  With Ye Nan's tacit consent, Peter walked to the medicine counter, found a 500ml bottle of glucose solution on his own, took out several injection agents from the shelf, disinfected the mouth of the bottle, and injected the agent into it with an injector. He brought it over, smiling: "I added 3g of hemostatic agent, is that okay?" Then he hung it on the infusion stand and skillfully replaced the empty **. After finishing, he picked up a bag of plasma and replaced the nearly exhausted blood bag on the infusion stand.

  Dr. Huang looked at Ye Nan in surprise, thinking to himself: "I didn't expect that among these three people, there are actually quite a few who are capable!" However, when he looked at Ye Nan, he only then discovered that Ye Nan also had a look of astonishment on his face, and suddenly realized that perhaps Ye Nan was also unaware of the foreign boy's abilities!

  Since the medicine has been successfully replaced, the three of them continued with the operation. The first abdominal surgery took more than an hour and it was already 4 am. This is not a safe place, so they must complete all treatments as soon as possible.

  This time the operation was on the left shoulder, and looking at the position of the bullet hole, it was just below the collarbone. Ye Nan's heart skipped a beat as she asked, "Dr. Huang, won't this bullet enter the thoracic cavity?"

  Dr. Huang smiled confidently, "No way, if the bullet had entered the thoracic cavity, there would be pneumothorax on the left side, but I've already checked and the lung sounds are normal, so you don't need to worry!"

  "That's good!" Ye Nan heard Dr. Huang say that there was no problem, and he finally put his mind at ease, thinking to himself: "Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise the bullet would have really fallen into the chest cavity, which would be a real hassle! If I need to undergo thoracic surgery, I'm afraid I'll definitely have to go to the hospital!"

  Dr. Huang carefully opened the previously bandaged wound, reapplied antiseptic cotton balls twice, switched to a sharp scalpel, and gently cut open the slightly swollen incision, slowly cutting through the muscle layer bit by bit. At this point, Dr. Huang was extremely cautious because this area had an extremely rich supply of blood vessels and multiple small arteries passing through, so he could only carefully make one cut at a time to avoid accidentally damaging major blood vessels.

  After ten or so cuts, the wound had been enlarged quite a bit. Dr. Huang put down his scalpel and picked up a pair of forceps, inserting them into the wound and gently probing inside. It was clear that he had touched something hard inside. Dr. Huang pried open the forceps, slightly prying open the wound, and with some effort, squeezed the forceps further in, pushing aside the muscle at the edge of the bullet hole, carefully pinching the bullet, took a deep breath, and swiftly pulled out the bullet.

  Dr. Huang held the bullet head in front of his eyes, took a glance, and chuckled: "Indeed, it's 0.38 caliber..." He then dropped it into the plate, flushed the wound with an injector, inserted a strip of Vaseline gauze, picked up the needle holder, and lightly stitched two stitches on the wound before covering it with gauze.

  At this time, seeing that the collection was almost done, Ye Nan glanced at the bullet head in the plate and finally curiously asked: "Dr. Huang, how did you know the bullet was 0.38 caliber?"

  Dr. Huang and Ye Nan had been in contact for so long, and at this time, he could also see that Ye Nan was not a ruthless person, and he no longer doubted his own safety, so he smiled: "Now on the island of Hong Kong, the most common thing is the 38 caliber pistol, you should be the person that Tianyuan Gang has been looking for recently!"

  Ye Nan smiled and said: "I don't know if it's true or not, but I do know that he is currently being pursued by many people, which is indeed true!"

  "That's right, yesterday someone from the Tianyuan gang came to my door and said that if anyone comes to treat a gunshot wound, I must notify them!" Dr. Huang couldn't help but laugh at this point.

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