AWB Chapter 1228 Abnormal Heat Sensation
Chapter 1228 Abnormal Heat Sensation
Su Xing carried the hypothermic man down Shou Mountain in one breath.
She rushed to the parking lot and helped the man into their car to warm up.
The man who was shoved into the back seat of the car: "..."
After drinking hot water and having the bleeding stopped, he regained some consciousness and realized that he had been rescued by two people. He also realized that initially a man carried him down the mountain, but later... how did it turn into a woman?!
And then... how did he end up in the car in the blink of an eye?
Is he dying? He's hallucinating...?
Just as Su Xing shoved the man inside her, her phone rang.
She took out her phone and saw that it was a local, unfamiliar number. She quickly answered the call.
"I am the ambulance doctor accompanying the patient. We are about to arrive at Shoushan Scenic Area. Where is the patient?"
Su Xing said, "We're in the parking lot at the foot of the mountain..."
She quickly reported her exact location.
After Su Xing hung up the phone with the doctor, He Xu also rushed over.
He asked, panting, "How much further is the ambulance?"
Su Xing said, "We'll be there soon."
"That's good..." He Xu breathed a sigh of relief, then said with a complicated expression, "You run really fast..."
This time, he truly felt his girlfriend's strength and speed firsthand. Carrying a grown man on her back, she was even faster than him!
"Hehe..." Su Xing scratched his head, "It's alright."
He Xu gave his girlfriend a thumbs up, "Amazing!"
Su Xing immediately puffed out his chest, "Of course!"
He Xu couldn't help but smile when he saw his girlfriend's proud little expression.
At that moment, they all heard the siren of an ambulance approaching from afar.
The two quickly ran to a more conspicuous location.
When the ambulance arrived, they all raised their hands and waved to signal it to come.
The ambulance stopped in front of them, and a doctor opened the car door and asked, "Where is the patient?"
Su Xing said, "In our car!"
Several doctors carried the stretcher down and followed Su Xing and He Xu to their car to lift the patient.
The man is waking up, while He Xu and the others are shivering in the back seat of the car.
As the car door was pulled open, several figures in white rushed out to grab him. He asked, "...Are you here to pick me up?"
A doctor said, "Yes, don't worry, we'll pick you up in the car right away."
"Waaah..." the man cried, "I'm really going to die..."
The doctor quickly said, "Don't be afraid, it's too early to talk about this now. Let's do the first aid and examination first."
The man opened his teary eyes wide: First aid? Examination?
While he was still in a daze, several doctors had already carefully moved him out of the back seat of the car that had brought him back to consciousness, placed him on a stretcher, and carried him to the ambulance.
Su Xing turned to He Xu and said, "You drive our car, I'll go with the ambulance."
He Xu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead."
Su Xing's mother is a doctor, and she was the one who performed the emergency treatment on the man. She should be able to describe the man's condition to the doctor more accurately than he could.
The man was lifted into the ambulance by the doctors, and upon regaining consciousness, he lightly jumped into the vehicle.
The ambulance driver started the vehicle and sped off to the hospital.
The accompanying doctor quickly checked the patient's condition, mainly to determine if he was conscious and to assess his complexion, mental state, and other factors.
An electrocardiogram monitor was also installed on the patient to monitor his heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen saturation.
A doctor asked Su Xing, "What is your relationship with the patients?"
Su Xing said, "It doesn't matter. My boyfriend and I were just tourists passing by when we found him on the mountain."
Another doctor began to untie the woman's scarf from the man's leg.
"Is the scarf yours?"
Su Xing said, "Yes, a blood vessel in his leg burst and he was bleeding profusely. We didn't have a tourniquet, so we could only use a scarf to stop the bleeding."
She briefly described how she found the man, his condition at the time, and her guess that he might have varicose veins.
"Well done." The doctor affirmed the emergency treatment that brought him back to consciousness, and added, "He does indeed have varicose veins."
As soon as the scarf was untied, the man's leg started bleeding again.
Doctors and nurses quickly applied a tourniquet to directly compress the blood vessel to stop the bleeding and reduce the bleeding.
However, tourniquets require strict control over usage time and pressure to avoid causing limb ischemia and necrosis.
The doctor asked the man, "Are you conscious right now?"
The man reacted somewhat slowly, and after a while, he hummed in response, "H-clear..."
While treating the man's wound, the doctor complained, "It's so cold out there! Why did you come out hiking wearing just a pair of pants? And your varicose veins are pretty bad, didn't you know?"
Man: "I... I felt really hot just now..."
The doctor glared at him, "That's 'paradoxical heat sensation'! If a kind person had found you any later, you would have frozen to death!"
Man: "...What...the feeling of heat?"
The doctor explained, "When the body loses its temperature, it feels very hot, a condition medically known as 'paradoxical heat sensation.' During hypothermia, the body activates a self-protective mechanism to protect its core temperature, causing peripheral blood vessels to constrict and reduce heat loss. However, when the body temperature continues to drop to a certain level, the vasoconstriction function becomes disordered. At this point, the peripheral blood vessels suddenly dilate, causing a large amount of blood to flow to the surface of the body. This creates a false sensation of heat in the skin receptors, making the patient feel hot..."
"Furthermore, as body temperature decreases, the conduction speed of the nervous system slows down, and the release and transmission of neurotransmitters are also interfered with. This may lead to errors in the nervous system's judgment of temperature sensation, causing the brain to receive incorrect heat sensation signals, thus making the patient experience abnormal heat sensation. In this case, it is not far from freezing to death!"
"...!" The man's eyes widened in horror. His mind was slow, and he didn't understand a lot of the doctor's medical terms, but he heard the key word "frozen to death."
Another doctor said, "You people from other provinces really have no idea how cold it is in Northeast China! Every year, people freeze to death here! You're lucky to be alive this time!"
The man's eyes widened even more. "...Huh?!"
Several medical staff members were talking while their hands were busy.
The patient's breathing was irregular, so the doctor quickly administered oxygen to ensure his oxygen supply.
Meanwhile, they hurriedly removed the men's damp and cold clothes to reduce heat loss.
Then use blankets, hot water bottles, and other items to keep him warm externally.
However, at this time, the hot water bottle should not come into direct contact with the skin, otherwise it will cause burns.
The nurse also put him on an IV drip. Intravenous infusion can help restore his body temperature and quickly establish intravenous access to infuse crystalloid and colloid solutions to replenish blood volume and prevent him from going into shock.
The doctor also performed a simple neurological examination on the man, using a small flashlight to assess his pupil size and light reflex, and checked his limb movements.
The reason I spoke to him just now was to understand the extent of his mental impairment.
Seeing the medical staff working efficiently and the man's condition improving, Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
The doctor asked Su Xing, "It's so cold outside, and the mountain path is slippery. How did you manage to get him down the mountain?"
Su Xing said, "My boyfriend and I each carried him for a part of the way."
Several medical staff members stared wide-eyed at Su Xing.
"You can even carry him on your back? That's amazing!"
Su Xing said somewhat embarrassedly, "I'm pretty strong..."
The man recalled his lightning-fast descent for the latter half of the journey. So… it wasn't his imagination after all…
The doctor then asked the man, "Given your condition, why didn't you call 120 sooner?"
The man's tears started flowing again. "My phone...it's dead. I...I clearly...I just fully charged it this morning..."
The nurse asked, "Are you using a fruit machine?"
Man: "Yes..."
"No wonder... those things would freeze to death in winter here too."
man:"……!"
This time, he truly gained a deep understanding of the cold of winter in Northeast China!