Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 173

Chapter 173: Chapter 124: This Person Is in Trouble, Solving the Mystery of Infant Diarrhea (Part 3)

After enhancing medical skills, using them to save lives is the best way to make full use of them, that has true meaning.

Li Jingsheng has a new understanding of the value of life.

Calculating too much makes one easily become a ’Miser’.

Now with a balance of as high as 378 life points, upgrading gastroenterology diagnosis is not a problem.

It was an unexpected turn of events, it completed him.

Without much hesitation, he directly increased the proficiency in gastroenterology diagnosis to 500 points.

Gastroenterology proficiency 136.7/500, instantly increased to Gastroenterology Minor Achievement 500.7/1000.

This diagnostic skill also finally reached the level of high-attending physician.

He joyfully feels the brand-new gastroenterology diagnostic and treatment abilities.

If at the low-attending level, he already has a slight ability to analyze problems independently and has begun to learn to take charge, then after upgrading to high-attending physician level, he has directly gained capabilities to independently diagnose and treat.

Facing various difficult and urgent diseases in the gastroenterology field, he now has the true ability to handle them independently.

At the low-attending level, at most, he would be a lieutenant, needing to consult senior physicians for many matters.

High-attending physicians already possess comprehensive capabilities as a general.

"Finally, I have the first diagnostic skill at the high-attending physician level, let’s get started!"

Li Jingsheng was eagerly waiting for this moment.

The grandmother and mother of the baby with diarrhea are surely anxious after going home.

After all, the child’s illness has not improved, getting thinner day by day, how could the parents not be anxious?

They haven’t left Li Jingsheng’s clinic for long.

If the cause can be diagnosed now, there might still be a chance.

If it goes on longer, they would surely take the child to other hospitals for treatment.

No matter how optimistic they are, they wouldn’t wait at home for a small clinic doctor’s news.

Li Jingsheng hurriedly analyzes the cause of the infant’s diarrhea again.

This time, with gastroenterology diagnostic skills at a high-attending level, it clearly reaches a higher level.

"The baby’s stool culture is negative, smears show no fungus, stool pH value is 7.5..."

Some overlooked details of examination results resurface in his mind and gain his attention this time.

Stool pH normal values are generally between 6.9 and 7.2.

This child’s pH value is slightly above normal.

Generally, infant stool pH value is around 7, and if purely breastfed, it can even stay between 5 to 6.

After adding complementary foods, stool pH value gradually rises.

So, the child’s stool pH value of 7.5 doesn’t necessarily mean abnormal, it mostly indicates that the child’s diet mainly consists of complementary foods.

Li Jingsheng continues to sort through the baby’s examination results.

Fortunately, he had kept a backup plan, photographing and preserving some data.

It’s relatively convenient now to directly browse through them on his phone.

Otherwise, it’s impossible to remember all examination data with mere memory.

The infant had previously experienced abdominal bloating, which was quite severe, and after the first treatment, the bloating was resolved.

But during today’s check-up, Li Jingsheng found the baby still shows signs of bloating.

Not particularly severe, but worth vigilance.

Linking this to the baby’s reduced food intake, Li Jingsheng suspects possibly intestinal intussusception.

But soon, this was ruled out.

Because the attending physician at People’s Hospital might have suspected this too, an emergency air enema was performed on the child, resulting in smooth intestinal passage.

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