Just when everything seemed to be wrapping up smoothly.
The ECG monitor suddenly emitted a few sharp beeps—beep, beep.
An alarm? Zhang Tinghai turned his head.
The sudden turn of events happened so fast. Before he had time to take a closer look, a prolonged beep sounded, and the patient's heart rhythm curve appeared to have flattened?
Cardiac arrest?
What's going on?
No major bleeding, the gallbladder was already removed, and the surgical knife wasn't near the gallbladder triangle.
Zhang Tinghai's mouth opened into a perfect circle. In these few seconds, he felt as though he was trapped in a nightmare—a recurring nightmare spanning the past two weeks.
The other people in the operating room momentarily thought they had heard wrong.
The two chief surgeons shot their heads up and turned instantly.
Someone shouted suddenly, "The patient's heart has stopped—"
