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Chapter 14: Confirmed Cases

Yang Xiaorong was already prepared, but she still didn't expect that she could meet so many patients on a night shift. The otolaryngology and head and neck surgery department where she works is not a big department. It would be a failure to have seven or eight patients in one night.

"Doctor! You should take my body temperature quickly, I have a fever..."

A young man ran into the fever clinic in a hurry. He didn't know whether it was his wife or girlfriend, but he stood anxiously outside the glass door and didn't dare to come in.

"Come here, please wait..."

Yang Xiaorong was already sweating profusely, and the two doctors on duty were busy. Not only did they have to guide the patients to wait for the hospital, keep a safe distance between each other, but they also had to measure the body temperature of the suspected patients, ask if they had any history of contact in Wuhan, etc. The four nurses were all busy.

"Stand here, I'll measure it first..."

Yang Xiaorong took an electronic thermometer and brought the young man who had just come in to the corner. In clinical practice, they generally do not use electronic thermometers. Not only does the instruments produced by various manufacturers have different levels of heights, but the reliability is far inferior to that of mercury thermometers.

But in fever clinics, you can only make money. Preventing patients from cross-infection is also one of their jobs. If you use an old thermometer, you will have a risk of infection.

"Ah! 38 degrees 7, you have a high fever..."

Yang Xiaorong looked at the thermometer in surprise, but before she could finish her words, the young man's face turned pale.

"I knew that guy was sick..."

The young man stomped his feet in anger and said, "My classmate came to borrow money yesterday during the Chinese New Year. He couldn't even drive him away. He even kept coughing at me. His snot flowed out of his mask, which made me wrong this morning. If I was infected, I would definitely not let him go!"

"How is it? Do you really have a fever..."

The girl outside the door hurriedly walked in, put on her mask, hat and gloves. Yang Xiaorong hurriedly measured her body temperature and found that the girl actually had a low fever. She felt a sudden blow and didn't dare to speak.

"37 degrees 8! It should be normal body temperature..."

The girl looked at the thermometer in confusion, and Yang Xiaorong hurriedly said, "The electronic thermometer is not very accurate. You two go to the examination room to measure it again, but you don't have to scare yourself. Fever doesn't mean infection. Come with me!"

"Please trouble you, doctor..."

The young man was very polite. Yang Xiaorong looked at the two busy doctors and quickly called Su Xiaohong to guard the reception desk. If this situation continues, there will probably be many people.

"It is not a family member of a patient with limited mobility. Please wait outside the outpatient clinic and keep a distance of more than two meters from others..."

Yang Xiaorong raised her tone to guide the patients. They tried to keep the fever patient alone in a room and measure the body temperature for only a few minutes. The doctor also started working on the mobile office. After asking one patient, they switched to another room.

"Don't be nervous, sit down first, don't touch the items here..."

Yang Xiaorong led the two into the examination room, put on disposable gloves, took out two disinfected mercury thermometers, shook them, handed them to the two of them, and said, "Girl! You need to take off your gloves, you both hold the thermometer under your armpits!"

"Do I have a fever, too?"

The girl's face changed immediately. After Yang Xiaorong handed her the thermometer, she said, "You're always relieved to test it. Have you two coughed, fatigued, or diarrhea and cold?"

"I coughed and had a cold..."

The young man raised his hand nervously and said, "I caught a cold when I got up this morning. I didn't have a runny nose, but my nose was not ventilated. I started to cough dryly at noon. I didn't cough badly, but my throat hurts a little, I didn't have strength all day, but I didn't have diarrhea!"

The girl shook her head and said, "I'm fine. There's nothing wrong with it. I just ran over and was sweating all over. Maybe my temperature was a little high!"

"Yeah! You guys wait a moment..."

Yang Xiaorong walked out and got the registration book. After sitting at the table, she registered the names and addresses of the two people, as well as contact information, and asked: "Do you have any history of contact with Wuhan personnel? Have you ever had any business trips and contacted migrant personnel in other places in recent times?"

"I……"

The young man said with some difficulty: "I have been to Nanjing during the Chinese New Year and have had the New Year's Eve dinner at my relative's house. I can be sure that they have not been to Wuhan, but I don't know if they have ever contacted people from Wuhan. Anyway, the relatives at home have not been diagnosed!"

“We are not married yet…”

The girl waved her hand and said, "My family lived in the local area during the Chinese New Year. I only went abroad for a trip half a year ago. I have never been to another place so far, and I have no relatives from other places. I can definitely not have contacted Wuhan people, nor from Hubei!"

"Um!"

Yang Xiaorong quickly recorded it, raised her head and asked, "Have you ever come into contact with poultry, such as live chickens, ducks, geese, or pigeons, or went to the vegetable market to buy live chickens and kill them?"

"Absolutely not! We both never go to the vegetable market, either eat at our parents' house or order takeaway..."

The young couple shook their heads like rattles, and they could see that they were very nervous. Yang Xiaorong nodded and put down the pen. She walked to the two of them and asked the young man to take out the thermometer. She picked it up and saw that the young man was in a state of high fever.

"Show me yours..."

Yang Xiaorong didn't want to aggravate the patient's nervousness, but she couldn't make a comforting expression while wearing a mask. However, after taking the girl's thermometer, she saw that the girl's body temperature had returned to normal.

"Your body temperature is normal, your boyfriend is 38 degrees 9, I'll call you a doctor..."

Yang Xiaorong put away her two thermometers, quickly picked up the registration book and walked out to find Dr. Zhang. Dr. Zhang just stood up and wanted to move, but when she saw her holding the registration book, her arms raised were immediately fixed, and she said in surprise: "Are you there?"

"You can comfort me first, the young man is so nervous..."

Yang Xiaorong had no choice but to hand over the registration book. Dr. Zhang's "Zhong" was naturally not meant, but the initial symptoms were consistent. More than 20 people came one after another tonight, most of whom were scaring themselves, and only two of them did further examinations.

"It's useless to comfort me. Now I will pay attention to it in the whole province..."

Dr. Zhang quickly took the notebook and walked out, came to the young couple to ask carefully, then did a preliminary examination, and then took a step back and said, "I will issue a order for you, go check the blood first, and then do a chest ct, and wait until the film is brought back!"

"Doctor! I won't be infected..."

The young man stood up suddenly, his face turned pale, and the girl was frightened, and she clasped her fists tightly on her legs.

"Don't be so nervous..."

Dr. Zhang waved his hand and said, "It's the high season for influenza, and some of the symptoms of influenza are similar to those of the new crown. Influenza is a very common disease. Otherwise, how could hundreds of people come a day, and there is no one suspected? Go and have a checkup quickly. Don't scare yourself without any trouble!"

"Then I must be flu, I'm running nose..."

The young man quickly cheered himself up, which made his girlfriend laugh, and the tense atmosphere disappeared.

However, Dr. Zhang was obviously not as optimistic as him. After prescribing the test form, he handed it to Yang Xiaorong and whispered: "Take them to do the examination, don't contact outsiders. When you come back, go and go back quickly!"

"Um!"

Yang Xiaorong nodded in understanding and led the two of them out quickly. She deliberately stepped forward a few steps to guide the two of them.

The patient also didn't want to contact someone wearing protective clothing. When he saw her coming, he walked away from home and there was no need to stop him.

"Why are there two more..."

When the person in the blood draw room saw that someone had arrived in the fever clinic, he immediately became highly alert. He quickly took out a disposable tablecloth and spread it on the workbench. He quickly put on the goggles and drew blood for the two of them seriously, and then quickly disinfected the workbench.

"Go in! The girl takes off the necklace..."

Yang Xiaorong took the two to the CT room, handed them over to her colleagues, and walked into the empty corridor. She carefully opened her mask and took a deep breath of fresh air, then pulled the goggles a little apart, relaxing the facial muscles that were pressed to the painful.

"Hiss~It hurts so much! It must be swollen..."

Yang Xiaorong walked to the glass window with some pain and looked carefully with the reflective glass. She was indeed red and swollen around her eyes, and her forehead became even more swollen, and even a complete and profound red mark was struck.

"Oh~ When will it be..."

Yang Xiaorong put the goggles helplessly back. Although the red marks on her face hurt, it was a life protection line. They were always threatened by the virus, and no matter how hard or tired they were, they had to grit their teeth and endure it.

suddenly!

Two people wearing protective clothing pushed open the glass door and walked towards each other, saying, "The doctor's face changed at that time. I saw it while wearing a mask. That person was 100% confirmed. You can wait and see, and at most, the diagnosis notice will be issued the day after tomorrow!"

"Confirmed?"

Yang Xiaorong was shocked and saw only the sign of the emergency center on the protective suits of the two. It should be the ambulance staff who sent the patient to the hospital. No wonder the ambulance was just shouting "Wowa" just now.
Chapter completed!
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