Hard! Dangerous! Safe! At this moment, the firemen also arrived at the scene. Various professional tools such as tiger pliers, needle-nose pliers, screwdrivers, wire cutters, vices, electric saws, and steel saws were placed on the table in the nursing station. The orthopedic doctors and the firemen 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, only the steel saw could be used to slowly cut through the steel ring and screws. However, the child's right arm needed to be properly fixed to avoid injury caused by struggling.
Two doctors decided to try removing it first. If it couldn't be removed, they would immediately contact the fire department to find suitable tools. After determining the plan, the two doctors quickly applied paraffin oil to the child's fingers for lubrication. After sufficient lubrication, they slowly rotated the steel ring outward, but these efforts had little effect. By this time, the child's finger skin had already been rubbed raw, and due to the pain, the child cried incessantly, making the operation more difficult. The two immediately contacted the family to reach out to the fire department and simultaneously notified Director Liu Yumin and Deputy Director Dong Guiyan of the department.
The steel ring around the child was fixed to the vice, and Director Dong Guiyan was responsible for holding the child's elbow and wrist joints. Doctor Liu Peng used gauze to protect the child's fingers while Doctor Wang Quan dripped physiological saline onto the screws to cool them down and flush away the metal shavings with a steel saw. A fireman was using the steel saw to slowly cut through the stainless steel ring and screws. Meanwhile, Director Liu Yumin had already arranged for the operating room, ready to perform surgery if any harm occurred to the child's fingers during the process or if there were issues with blood circulation afterward...
At this moment, just off the operating table and about to have dinner, on-duty doctors Liu Peng and Wang Quan heard the child's cries and immediately put down their chopsticks, rushing to the nursing station. The sight before them made the two doctors' hearts clench: a stainless steel ring was stuck on the child's right index finger, which was already swollen, with bruising and purplish discoloration at the end. Upon detailed inquiry with the child's parents, they learned that the child was less than two years old. Around 7 PM that evening, while the parents were cooking, the child had gotten hold of a stainless steel ring on the sofa and put it on his finger. When the parents noticed, they tried to remove the ring from the child's finger, but the more they tried, the tighter the ring became!
At 9:10 PM that night, after being stuck on the child's finger for over two hours, the steel ring was finally removed. The crowd erupted into enthusiastic applause as the child's parents tightly held the hands of the orthopedic medical staff and the firefighters, repeatedly expressing their gratitude.
Everything seemed to come to a standstill, and people held their breath. In the nursing station, only the "squeaking" 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. A crack, then another crack, the stainless steel ring was sawed open, the screws were sawed open, and the ring was pried apart...
The patient's condition is the order, and the child's cries are the order. The two directors hurried to the department and agreed to solve the problem together once the fire department arrived. People anxiously waited as this period coincided with the nurse shift change. Nurses Tian Nannan 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 pacify the child. As the child ate the sweet cookies and looked at the three kind-hearted aunts, his emotions gradually calmed down.
Shocking!
The plan was set, immediate action! The scene usually 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, with a very small diameter circular hole in the middle of the steel ring, which trapped the child's finger. It was no easy task to remove the stainless steel ring from the child's finger, especially since the child's finger was already swollen. Any slightly larger movement could damage the skin or even the bones of the child's finger.
By this time, the child's finger had already swelled up, causing him to cry loudly in pain!
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