"Boss, this emergency rescue has proven to me how experienced you really are," Su Yun joked after he sewed the heart and noted a sinus rhythm on the ECG monitor, knowing that the patient would survive.
"I could feel the pericardium with my fingers, but not the myocardium. That meant high pressure. The diagnosis was obvious." Zheng Ren retrieved the warm saline from Little Yiren and poured all of it into the patient's thoracic cavity. He then returned the empty vessel to ask for more.
"It sounds easy to open someone's chest in the emergency rescue room and give them an open-chest cardiac massage, but most people don't have the courage to do it," Su Yun said.
He was telling the truth.
Technically speaking, the patient was already dead.