Chapter 638 - Drug-resistant pneumonia smiles and laughs

"Why do you want to talk about those things?" On the way through the passage, Chiha, who had put on the mask he had worn again, asked Gregory. "Test your cingulate cortex," Grigory explained, walking ahead. "A number of infected people have developed unusually euphoric symptoms at the very beginning of the disease, and the brain MRI shows a slight decrease in the T2 value of the patient's brain - in simple terms, this represents a decrease in water content, which means that the number and integrity of the nerve cells that control the patient's emotions are reduced, and the death and death of the wound have led to the dysregulation of these functional areas. When I told the story just now, you were neither euphoric nor apathetic, and the test result was negative, so you should not have much of a problem. ”

In the middle of this conversation, the two of them have already arrived at the isolation room and walked through the door through which they were isolated.

"We ...... Is it okay? Qian Yu showed a somewhat hesitant expression. Although we say we have masks......"

"It's not that contagious, there are four people infected, three of them are a family living together, and the other is a medical worker here. At least six people went to their residence for examination before they realized the oddity of their condition, but found nothing, and all of them were involved in the unprotected care of the three patients. In such a situation, only one person was infected in two days, so I think the contagion ability can be said to be quite pitiful, and wearing such a droplet-proof mask is enough to ensure safety here. ”

"Could it be that they're actually in the incubation period?" Qianyu was still quite worried. "In the incubation period, there may be no symptoms......

"All the people being examined are wearing masks, and patients with clear symptoms are not passing through you at all, so the danger here is actually very small - don't you see that even I am just wearing a mask."

With that, the two of them had already passed through the passage and completely entered the quarantine area.

【Professional】

This was the first reaction in Qianyu's mind after entering the quarantine area - a large number of transparent closed wards lined up on his left and right sides, and everything inside could be seen clearly. And in the doctor's workspace, which is connected to these transparent wards, there are a large number of protective clothing hanging from hooks and very conspicuous disinfection sprinklers on display.

"Another patient has come in, two!" Immediately, a doctor discovered them.

"Boy, don't talk nonsense!" Grigory then retorted loudly. "You worked so hard to get me here, and even if you really want me to live there, at least you have to give me a TV to watch, right?"

At the same time, he gently patted Qianyu on the back and handed him a document. "Take this and tell them to prepare a conference room big enough for me to diagnose."

"Are you going to go in and see a patient?" Qian Yu asked.

"Of course not, it's just that I can't walk as fast as you," Grigory patted the leg of his body that he was supporting with his cane. "Hurry up, I'm calling you here because you're so calling."

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Conference room.

"First of all, tell me how the infected health care worker got infected." Grigory stopped the doctors from handing over the previous file to him, and asked bluntly. "Did he do anything particularly intimate, like kiss the patient's lips or suck their droplets?"

"No, it's just the most normal contact," the doctor who handed the document to Chiba shook his head immediately. "None of the people who have been to the patient's house like him have any problems, only he has a problem."

"So, what about the patients who are now testing positive?" Grigory asked again. "Little one, you familiarize yourself with those documents first, and you'll answer whatever I ask later."

"None of them have any obvious symptoms yet," the doctor shook his head. "Except for the blood test results, everything is uncertain, so now they are only temporarily placed in separate isolation wards. However, the side of the sick ......"

"What's wrong?" Grigory looked up.

"Before being transferred to our hospital, penicillin treatment was ineffective, and vancomycin treatment in the hospital was ineffective, and it was suspected that it was a highly resistant bacteria." Qian Yu looked at it quickly, and at this time he had already seen the answer that might be mentioned by the doctor.

"Yes, that's it." The physician agreed. "And there are many other symptoms compared to ordinary pneumonia."

"The main symptom of the respiratory system is dry cough...... "When he saw this, Qian Yu frowned - generally speaking, pneumonia rarely has symptoms such as dry cough, and it often continues to deepen and develop some more serious problems." Other symptoms include psychiatric illness, fever, impaired liver function, muscle pain, ......"

"......" Grigory thought for a moment and stood up. Qianyu, you follow me while holding the papers, and I'll go see the situation over there. ”

……

Dressed in a full hazmat suit, Grigory stood in front of one of the first three patients, looking at each other.

"Haha! You look like a capsule," the patient said with a smile as he looked at his clothes with interest. "You're not the one they gave me, are you?"

"Yes," Gregory nodded. "We just need to slit open your stomach and I'll get into it again, and you won't have to worry about how to swallow me."

"Hahahahahaha-" The patient seemed to be genuinely amused, and laughed for a long time before stopping. "That's right, that's right! You're the most skilled doctor I've ever met! But since you still need to hold such a capsule (author: referring to the crutches in a protective bag) to walk, it seems that lameness is the most difficult condition in the world to treat. ”

"By the way, let me ask you a question," Grigory asked, narrowing his eyes slightly. "When was the air conditioner installed in your house?"

"Air conditioning?" The patient made a gesture of hard thinking. "One of them was the one we moved in, the central air conditioning that came with the whole building, and the other one that was born with me - as long as I tell bad jokes, I am the best air conditioner!"

"Move in and you'll have it," Grigory asked thoughtfully, then asked. "Have you cleaned the air conditioner before?"

"I take a shower every day, so we clean half of the air conditioner every day, which is equivalent to cleaning it once every two days!" At this, the patient laughed again—as if he had inhaled laughing gas, as if he would never know what seriousness was.

"Good." Grigory replied casually as he turned around and shouted to Chiba outside the isolation ward. "Did you find anything from the respiratory secretion smear?"

"There are more neutrophils, and no significant flora is found on Gram stain." Qianyu's reaction was quick, and he immediately turned to the report page and replied.

"Okay." Grigory then leaned on crutches and walked without looking back to the exit of the isolation ward's room.