Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
A ruptured heart caused by a heart attack was the most severe complication of myocardial infarction
The condition was extremely dangerous, with a mortality rate of 100% within a short time. Many people died on the spot before they can even be taken to the hospital.
Luckily, granny was in the ward when it happened, and the nurse on duty noticed and rushed her to surgery
Before Mirabella arrived, Caden had already opened Granny’s chest. He quickly cannulated the femoral artery, and opened the pericardium, but bad news struck: there were large clots in the pericardium.
And then, things took a turn for the worse.
“Damn, sudden ventricular fibrillation!” a doctor cried out.
Mirabella reacted instantly, “Defibrillate.”
Not long after, the doctors breathed a sigh of relief, “Defibrillation successful, heart rhythm restored, blood pressure back to 70mmhg
“I’ll deal with the clots!” Mirabella took over.
Last time, a doctor had seen her deal with adhesion and clots, so he knew that she was a whiz at it, so they let her handle it.
After Mirabella finished, she instructed someone to cannulate a vein to establish extracorporeal circulation, but soon, more bad news came
“Damn, blood pressure is dropping again!” a doctor reported.
Mirabella kept her cool, “Block the ascending aorta, infuse cardioplegia to soften the heartbeat!”
“Blockage successful, cardioplegia infused.”
“Externally palpate the ascending aorta.”
Upon Mirabella’s command, a doctor palpated the ascending aorta, “Palpation complete, no obvious thickening or intramural hematoma”
The possibility of a ruptured ascending aorta was ruled out.
Mirabella glanced at the slightly thickened aortic arch, “No signs of aortic dissection, ruling out aortic rupture, initiate cerebral hypothermia”
She did this to prevent cerebral ischemia from causing brain damage to Granny
“The wound is getting bigger.”
“Bleeding is increasing.”
“The extracorporeal circulation can’t be maintained.”
Doctors kept updating Mirabella on her grandma’s latest condition.
Mirabella had just sorted out all the problems when a new one popped up. A heart attack had caused the heart to rupture, making the surrounding myocardium very fragile. The hole in the heart was 3 cm, and only highly skilled suturing could possibly succeed.
“How about we call Dr. Caden?” one of the doctors who wasn’t familiar with Mirabella suggested, genuinely believing that Caden was more skilled.
But Caden immediately shut him down, “No one is better suited than her!”
Mirabella calmly carried out the suturing operation, ensuring the heart was repaired sturdily.
Those who had never seen her in action were surprised, her suturing technique was seriously top–notch. Likewise, those who had seen her work were amazed all over again, her skills were still unbeatable.
Some of the doctors had never worked with Mirabella before, but this time the teamwork was perfect, the operation went smoothly, and was done in just over four hours!
Just when the operation was about to end, one of the doctors suddenly exclaimed, “We can’t remove the extracorporeal circulation, the blood pressure drops immediately!”
Another doctor also noticed a problem, “The blood can’t return to the left atrium!”
“The heart has failed to beat again; blood pressure is dropping!” another doctor stated in surprise.
Everyone was puzzled, what was going on?
All they needed to do was remove the extracorporeal circulation machine, and the whole operation would be perfectly complete! But now this was happening!
Caden quickly recapped the whole operation, “There were no issues during the operation! Mirabella’s separation and suturing were all handled very well! All the temporary issues were also addressed in the best possible way!”
“Where did the problem come from?” the other doctors asked one after another.
Having stood for over four hours, their faces were all very tense.
Mirabella didn’t answer their questions, instead she ordered, “Continue assisting, bring the ultrasound machine here.”
“Mirabella.”
“Bring it here!” Mirabella suddenly ordered sternly.
Caden looked at her, whispering softly and sympathetically, “You know as well as anyone, it’s the old lady’s physical condition that can’t keep up with the treatment.”
In other words, Grandma’s body simply couldn’t withstand the stress of the entire operation!
This operation was completely different from the one they had planned for tomorrow.
This one was due to a heart attack that caused the heart to rupture! The mortality rate was extremely high!
Besides, Grandma had other illnesses which were not helping the cause.
It wasn’t that Mirabella’s surgical skills were lacking, but that grandma’s life might be nearing its end, perhaps even today.
“Did anyone not understand what I said?” Mirabella’s face showed a hint of anger.
Immediately, a doctor brought in an ultrasound machine from outside the operating room. Mirabella observed that the ultrasound showed very little blood flow in the left atrium, but at least it wasn’t totally empty!
She could do it; she could pull Grandma back from the brink of death once more.
The sun slowly rose, it was already completely bright outside.
Louisa had spent a restless night, but Mirabella had still not returned, not answering calls or replying to her messages. By ten in the morning, she couldn’t stand it anymore and had to call Romeo.
“Romeo, Bella left after two a.m. last night, she seemed in a hurry, and she hasn’t come back yet. I’m worried she’s in danger.”
She had people sent out looking for her, but there was still no sign of Mirabella.
She checked the security footage, only to see her daughter speed out of the driveway like a bat out of hell. It was really dangerous!
The next section of the road had a busted CCTV, so she had no clue where her daughter had ended up.
Serena, standing to one side, couldn’t help but feel a little giddy at the thought. Could Mirabella have been in a car crash?
If that was the case, then the golden goose was hers for the taking!
Excited at the prospect, Serena could barely contain her hopes that Mirabella would never return.
“She just up and left?” Romeo asked over the phone.
“Yeah, she was driving like a bat out of hell, faster than those racecar drivers on TV. Something must’ve happened!” Louisa was nearly in tears as she was still clueless as to what had happened to her.
“Don’t worry, I think I have an idea where she might’ve gone.”
There was only one person who could make Mirabella rush like that!
As Romeo headed for the hospital while getting people to investigate, sure enough, he got a message just as he reached the hospital entrance. In the wee hours, the hospital CCTV had indeed captured Mirabella’s figure!
She had come to the hospital!
“Code blue, we’ve got a cardiac arrest!”
“She’s not breathing!”
“Mirabella, what do we do?”
“Hang in there, Granny!” Mirabella was giving it her all, everyone was fighting against the clock, trying to cheat death!
But things were looking grim, Mirabella’s eyes were red. For the first time, she realized that her medical skills couldn’t cheat death!
Caden, who had been watching her battle for hours on end, couldn’t help but try to reason with her,
“Bella, you know this is futile.”
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