Chapter 887 - The Empty Village
"No, don't..."
The young man Cui Jianqiang wanted to object, but he was unwilling to be so troublesome, but he couldn't help but his head swelled up, his eyes were rising, and he rolled his eyes and fainted.
His girlfriend threw away the snack packaging bag on her hand and started screaming in panic.
"Jianqiang! Jianqiang! Are you okay!"
He shouted twice, but there was no response at all.
Who would have thought that altitude sickness would come at any time, without any warning.
"Pinch the person!"
A voice came from the passenger seat. Li Bai was speaking. Although he was a psychiatrist, he still knew some basic rescue techniques.
The Renzhong point under the nose is one of the best ways to temporarily awaken coma.
In a hurry, Cui Jianqiang, who was pinched to the person, woke up, took a breath of air conditioning, and grinned.
My girlfriend's nails were sharp again, and she pinched the skin of his upper lip, leaving deep finger marks, which hurt so much.
However, pinching the Renzhong acupoint alone is a treatment for symptoms but not root cause. Cui Jianqiang once again did not get the qi up, just like a fish leaving the water, trying to breathe hard, but the amount of oxygen inhaled into the lungs was still far from enough.
Hypoxia and low air pressure are the main causes of altitude sickness, the first and most important.
"Do you have an oxygen cylinder?"
Li Bai's eyes scanned the corner of the carriage.
This Highlander driver even has a humidifier, and maybe he also brought the necessary oxygen cylinders on the plateau.
"Yes, yes! In the toolbox in front of you."
After Li Bai reminded him, the driver surnamed Gao immediately began to think of it.
I opened the tool box and saw two portable oxygen tanks that looked like insecticide spray cans.
It’s just that insecticides are sprayed with insects, while oxygen tanks are specially sprayed with people.
As expected, this careful driver considered various situations and the car was well prepared.
Li Bai took out one of the cans and weighed them in his hand.
The portion was heavy and very heavy. It probably had never been used before, but it was full. Then it turned around and handed to the young couple.
At this critical moment, an oxygen tank can save lives.
The girl who had shared snacks in the car before thanking her, quickly took the oxygen tank, pressed her breathing cover on her boyfriend's mouth and nose, and sprayed it again and again.
The gas tank was hissing and spraying high-purity oxygen. Although the air pressure in the car did not change much, the effect was immediate.
The rapid increase in the concentration of oxygen inhaled made Cui Jianqiang, who was in a coma, gradually recover, opened his eyes again, and greedily sucked oxygen.
However, the storage capacity of the oxygen tank is limited, so the clinic still has to hang a large oxygen tank to continuously supply oxygen, otherwise it will be repeated after a moment of interruption.
Relying on familiarity with the road conditions, the driver Gao, who had not slowed down, asked without looking back: "Xiao He, I will bring two cans of oxygen in a few minutes, and I won't last long."
There are only two cans of oxygen in the passenger seat toolbox, and it will be consumed in one hour at most.
On the plateau, once altitude sickness occurs, a small, seemingly inconspicuous bottled oxygen tank can sometimes mean a life.
"It's almost here, and there are ten minutes left to see the T-junction. Turn right!"
As college student He Jian said, more than ten minutes later, Highlander turned a corner and drove into a small path, and soon saw a large area of ranch.
I used to fight with my friends in groups and bandage the wounds here, so I know where.
In this area, the name of ranch mainly refers to the places where herders live.
There is no problem with calling it a village. The administrative name is xx Village. It is mainly based on animal husbandry and there is no farmland. Occasionally, there is a small area of vegetable fields or vegetable greenhouses that are strictly guarded. The villagers' daily life mainly revolves around their own cattle.
Wherever there is grass and water, it can be called a pasture. Often there is no fence. Yaks run around unscrupulously, gnawing grass and drinking water, but herders have their own ways to tell which end is their own.
There are also fences, which are only used to surround residential areas to avoid encroachment by cattle. With the size and weight of yaks, if you want to occupy the road in violation of regulations and get angry with a bull, there is no way to do so even if you have a trailer.
A large piece of iron hanging on the cement telephone poles four or five meters high on the roadside is square or round. It is written in red paint with Tibetan and Chinese characters "Deji Village". It looks more like a sail from a distance. When a strong wind blows by, it will make a clattering sound.
The bottom of the cement pole was piled up by stones of all sizes and large, and there were several used tires pressed. More than a dozen thin ropes radiated to all sides at the top, and strings of colorful pennants were hung, fluttering in the wind.
Perhaps it is to be more eye-catching, but basically it is as simple as it is.
Most of the pragmatists here, and it is not uncommon to use a pulsator washing machine to make ghee. Since Haier lit up the technology tree branch of the ghee washing machine... the ghee machines have a strong washing machine style.
The seven-seat white highlander sounded the trumpet all the way and broke into Deji Village in a breeze.
There was no one in the village, and there was no one watching the fun. There were only a few chimneys emitting green smoke, indicating that there were smoke here.
The air is filled with the smell of cow dung. Because of the lack of firewood and coal, dried cow dung rich in crude fibers naturally becomes the most economical fuel.
When burning poop, there will be a special burnt smell. If you are not used to it, it will smell bad, but if you are used to it, it will feel friendly.
Although the big Red Cross logo is a bit mottled and faded, it is very conspicuous in the village.
"Doctor, doctor! Someone has altitude sickness!"
Under the instructions of college student He Jian, the Highlander driver who parked the car and Li Bai, who supported the weak Cui Jianqiang, who was weak, took two steps at three steps at a time, walked into the sanitary station with only two thick cloth curtains hanging.
The sanitary station in Deji Village is just a color steel tile shed with insulation materials, which is even simpler than the container-type housing that Li Bai once saw at the foot of Helan Mountain. The horizontal and vertical area is only more than 20 square meters, half of which is a pharmacy, half a diagnosis and treatment room with two beds, and a desk makes it look a bit crowded.
The main function is to sell medicine, see bruises, injuries, headaches, fever, and colds.
If you have a fever of more than 38 degrees or have broken bones, you will continue to bleeding. Sorry, hurry to the big hospital and don’t waste time here.
In plateau areas, medical oxygen cylinders are standard, and one or two can be seen at such grassroots health stations.
At one end of the two hospital beds, each leaning against a large steel cylinder that is as thick as an adult's waist.
The two portable oxygen tanks stored in the Highlander co-pilot toolbox are far from comparable to this "regular army" in terms of size and capacity.
"Where are people? I didn't see the doctor! Where did you go?"
The middle-aged woman who came home from work looked around inside and out but couldn't see the doctor.
She shouted loudly at the top of her throat: "Help! Come on!"
He is worthy of being a local, and his voice is loud and it has been spread far.
Strangely, no one responded.
The village seems to be empty.
"What should I do? Who will give it oxygen!"
As Cui Jianqiang's girlfriend, the girl jumped in a hurry and was furious. She watched the medical oxygen cylinder that was more than one person tall but couldn't use it, for fear of being blown up by mistake.
The cylinder contains high-pressure oxygen, which is sprayed directly onto a person, is not a joke.
"What should I do? Who can fiddle with the oxygen cylinder? Think of a solution!"
He Jian, a college student who guided the way, was also very irritated. He was not a doctor, so he naturally would not fiddle with this thing.
"Either can I!"
Driver Gao scratched his head, helpless.
It is obviously very common, but because I can't use it myself, I don't know how to use it.
Although this large cylinder stores a lot of oxygen, it is not as easy to use as a portable small cylinder.
"alright!"
The breathing cover was buckled on the face of the young man lying on the hospital bed, and Li Bai clapped his hands and easily handled it.
"Hey, hey, you, don't do it randomly!"
Driver Gao suddenly widened his eyes. Unexpectedly, when they were still at a loss, someone would just put a breathing cover on the young man. Is this OK?
Infusing oxygen requires technology. You cannot simply unscrew the valve and hard-film it. It is not possible to have less oxygen, and even more so if you have more oxygen, high concentrations of oxygen can easily cause lung damage, which is not a joke.
Li Bai said with confidence: "I am a doctor, and I have a certificate!"
He has strengthened the learning of complete first aid techniques and can even treat gunshot wounds.
Not to mention anything else, even if you don’t have a mental illness, there is no problem opening a small clinic, which is enough to be easy to do.
The girl asked weakly, "What subject are you from?"
"Psychiatric!"
Wait, there seems to be something wrong?
Chapter completed!