I can see the status bar

Chapter 607 The source is a mystery

"We are doctors." Liu Tangchun didn't directly answer Iweala's words, he just smiled relaxedly, "The reason why we chose to come back to the camp is the same as the reason why you didn't leave here."

After putting on the protective clothing, Sun Lien and others quickly devoted themselves to the work of caring for the sick patients.Under Sun Lien's strong insistence, Hu Jia agreed to just watch from the sidelines as the aseptic operation supervisor.The actual operations were all done by Sun Lien, Hu Chunbo and even Liu Tangchun.

Liu Tangchun didn't say anything to Sun Li'en's insistence, and Hu Chunbo didn't complain in order to show his ability—he thought his current job was a trial test before recruitment.

But the situation at the scene was worse than everyone imagined.The American camp extravagantly used a separate personal room as an isolation room, but because it was a temporary building, it was impossible to build a negative pressure room that met the standards for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.To make the patients in the rooms feel a little better, air conditioning was turned on in all the rooms – which resulted in the isolation rooms effectively becoming positive pressure rooms.

This is dangerous, especially when dealing with an infectious disease whose transmission route is not yet known.The first thing Sun Li'en and others put into work was to turn off the air conditioners in all the rooms.Then switch to open windows for ventilation—the isolation rooms are concentrated in the southeast corner of the camp, which happens to be the downwind of the camp.Opening windows for ventilation is much safer than the previous air-conditioning and closed environment.

"All the patients showed severe and persistent headaches." Hu Chunbo volunteered, walked around the isolation room first, and then came back worried. "All the eight patients had elevated blood pressure to varying degrees. If this continues, I'm afraid they will all die of pain before the acute meningitis develops into brain herniation."

"Have you used painkillers?" Liu Tangchun frowned and asked, "Americans are not as strict as us in the use of anesthesia drugs, and the pain is like this... Should you use painkillers?"

"It's on, and it's still fentanyl." Hu Chunbo sucked his teeth when he announced the name of the drug, "1.5ml of fentanyl citrate injection was mixed with 150ml of normal saline for intravenous infusion. They're on positive pressure ventilation, and the patients on the medication don't improve at all—they're still crying."

"Fentanyl is useless?" Liu Tangchun was really frightened, "Are they resistant?"

Hu Chunbo shook his head hesitantly, "Should...not be so? Americans abuse a lot of psychotropic drugs, but it's not so abused that everyone is resistant to fentanyl." He looked at Liu Tangchun and Sun Lien, " I suspect . . . the pain is not due to any real nerves sending signals to the brain—maybe nerve damage from meningitis, which is similar to neuropathic headaches, but closer to the delusional ones."

The brain is the most important core sensory organ of the human body.The feelings transmitted by other nerves will be "translated" in the brain into feelings that people can understand subjectively.Such as pain, itching, cold, warmth and so on.But after the brain is damaged, the human body sometimes has various strange and unexplainable sensations.For example, it feels like there is an extra pair of wings on the back, or it feels dry and hot even though it is soaked in cold water.If even fentanyl doesn't work, it just means that these patients don't really "feel" the pain.Their brains are constantly sending them false warnings.

"I've heard of cases of false sensations caused by damage to brain nerves." Liu Tangchun frowned and asked, "But according to what the officer said before, half of the patients with acute meningitis have severe headaches. The odds of several patients each having lesions in the area of ​​mastering pain are too low."

Liu Tangchun and Hu Chunbo were arguing about where the patient's pain came from, while Sun Lien frowned and fell into deep thought.

Something is not quite right.

The status bar didn't show up as usual, with "Warning" written in huge red letters as he approached the isolation room.There is no "high risk of transmission" or "high risk of fatality". The status bar is like a lazy old gatekeeper. After a glance, he thinks there is nothing wrong with it, and then returns to the recliner with a teacup in his hand and begins to take a nap. Like.

The gap between the actual situation and the expectation was too great, and Sun Lien was a little uncertain about what was going on. 27 people became ill one after another in a short period of time, and the symptoms were consistent and the fatality rate was extremely high.This shows that it should be an infectious disease, but why doesn't the status bar prompt?

Sun Lien's confusion lasted for a while, but it's good to be an emergency doctor - even if they don't know the situation, they can first deal with it according to their experience and the value of the symptoms displayed by the patient.

"Is there any mannitol? Give everyone a bottle first." Liu Tangchun waved his hand and stopped arguing with Hu Chunbo. He turned to Sun Li'en and said, "Control the intracranial pressure to buy time, and find all their previous treatment records. Come out, life or death, all records are required."

Sun Li'en nodded, and walked quickly towards Iweala's office.My group is really "unfamiliar with the place" in the American camp. The fastest and most convenient way to find the previous treatment records is to ask Iweala.

"Treatment records? Yes, I put them here..." Iweala nodded after hearing Sun Lien's Chinglish request, turned around and began to search for reports and materials.For the sake of caution, Sun Li'en glanced at Iweala's status bar - there was no hint of acute meningitis, except for anxiety and tension, Ms. Iweala's physical condition was normal.

"These sick people..." Sun Lien decided to do some medical history collection when Iweala was looking for the report.Since patients are mostly unable to communicate effectively because of severe pain, Ivera has become the most reliable and easy source of medical history now, "Do you think they have anything in common?"

"The biggest thing they have in common is that they are all men." Iweala's answer fully reflects the high sensitivity of a medical worker, "The 27 patients with the disease are all men, and they have just been stationed in Africa from China— — they have only been in this camp for a month.”

Are there still infectious diseases that infect only one sex in this world?Sun Lien frowned deeply. Although he is not an expert in infectious diseases, Sun Lien, who has received medical education, knows that everyone is equal in the face of infectious diseases.Maybe some people who are weaker and have underlying diseases are more susceptible to the threat of infectious diseases, but in general, infectious diseases do not have gender preferences.

"Are there any other characteristics?" Sun Lien continued to ask, "These people lived in the same community in the United States before?" He began to wonder whether this severe infectious disease came directly from the United States.

"Most of those soldiers received training at the Fort Detrick Army Base before they were sent to Africa." Iweala shook his head, "But the doctors haven't been to that area before. Before they came to Africa , Distributed in six states in the country. I can be sure that they were infected after they came to Africa - if there is such a serious infectious disease in the United States, the news media would have reported it."

(End of this chapter)