Hard! Dangerous! Safe! At this moment, the firefighters also arrived at the scene, and various professional tools such as tiger pliers, needle-nose pliers, screwdrivers, cable cutters, bench vises, electric saws, and steel saws were placed on the table in the nursing station. The orthopedic doctors and the firefighters discussed strategies together. Although the electric saw was faster, the sparks and heat generated by friction would burn the child's fingers and cause secondary injuries. Therefore, they could only use the steel saw to slowly cut through the steel ring and screws. However, the child’s right arm had to be properly fixed to avoid injury caused by struggling.
After two doctors discussed, they decided to try removing it first. If it couldn't be removed, they would immediately contact the fire department to find suitable tools. After the plan was determined, the two doctors quickly took out paraffin oil and applied it to the child's fingers. After sufficient lubrication, they slowly rotated the steel ring outward, but these efforts were of little effect. At this point, the child's finger surface skin had already been rubbed off, and due to the pain, the child wouldn’t stop crying, making the operation more difficult. They immediately contacted the family and the fire department together, while also notifying Director Liu Yumin and Deputy Director Dong Gui xian of the department.
The steel ring that trapped the child was fixed on the vise. Director Dong Gui xian was responsible for holding the child's elbow joint and wrist joint. Doctor Liu Peng used gauze to protect the child's fingers, while Doctor Wang Quan held a saline solution to slowly drip onto the screws to cool them down and flush away the metal shavings from the sawing. A firefighter held the steel saw and carefully sawed through the stainless steel ring and screws. Meanwhile, Director Liu Yumin had already arranged with the operating room. If there was any harm to the child's fingers during this process or if post-examination revealed problems with the finger's blood circulation, surgery would be performed immediately...
At this time, just as the on-duty doctors Liu Peng and Wang Quan were about to eat dinner after finishing a surgery, they heard the child's cries, immediately put down their chopsticks, and quickly went to the nursing station. The sight before them made the hearts of the two doctors tighten: a stainless steel ring was stuck on the child's right index finger, and the child's right index finger had already swollen, with bruising and purpling at its end. After carefully questioning the child's parents, they learned that the child was less than two years old. Around 7 p.m. that evening, while the parents were cooking, the child had found a stainless steel ring on the sofa and put it on his finger. When the parents discovered it, they tried to remove the ring from the child's finger, but the tighter they pulled, the tighter the ring became!
At 9:10 p.m., the steel ring that had been on the child's finger for more than 2 hours was finally removed, and the crowd burst into enthusiastic applause. The child's parents tightly gripped the hands of the orthopedic medical staff and the firefighters, repeatedly expressing their gratitude.
Everything seemed to have stopped, and people held their breath. In the nursing station, only the "squeaky" sound of the steel saw could be heard. Time passed second by second, and beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the medical staff and firefighters. One crack, two cracks...the stainless steel ring was sawed open, the screws were sawed through, and the ring was pried apart...
The patient's condition is the order, and the child's cry is the order. The two directors hurried to the department. After understanding the situation, they agreed to solve the problem together once the fire department arrived. People anxiously waited. This period happened to be the nurse shift change time. Nurses Tian Nan nan and Zhang Lan, who had already finished their shifts, both voluntarily stayed overtime to help maintain order and comfort the child; night-shift nurse Wang Qi, upon hearing that the child hadn't eaten dinner, took out her own cookies prepared for hunger relief to soothe the child. As the child ate the sweet cookies and looked at the three kind aunts, his emotions gradually calmed down.
Shocking!
The plan was set, immediate action! The scene that was previously seen only on TV unfolded in the nursing station of the orthopedics department.
Doctors Liu Peng and Wang Quan carefully examined another identical steel ring brought by the parents: this steel ring was wrapped around a screw about 4 centimeters long, and the small round hole in the middle of the steel ring had a very small diameter, which was what trapped the child's finger. To remove the stainless steel ring from the child's finger was no easy task, especially since the child's finger had already swollen. Any slightly larger movement could damage the skin or even the bones of the child's finger.
By February 8, 2012, 09:55:30, the child's finger had already swelled up, causing him to cry loudly in pain!