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The group hurried to the obstetric intensive care unit.

The children from before have now been sent here.

One of the nurses who was taking care of the child raised her head and happened to see Du Wei returning.

When she saw Du Wei following House, her mouth opened slightly and she said in surprise:

"Are you really a diagnostician?"

Du Wei smiled and said nothing.

But when Cameron saw the exchange between Du Wei and the female nurse, he looked at Du Wei curiously, and then asked in a low voice:

"Do you know each other?"

Du Wei also leaned close to Cameron's ear and whispered:

"We just met. There was a little misunderstanding because of our status."

When she heard that they had just met, Cameron breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, and she was not even aware of this small gesture.

House in front of them simply ignored the nurses' greetings.

He took the case record aside and read it, then frowned and said after a moment:

"Du Wei is right, there is an unknown infectious disease spreading in the hospital.

Because besides her, the child next to her also had a high fever for unknown reasons.

The difference between the two was no more than 4 hours, and they were born in the same delivery room.

The postpartum wards are adjacent to each other, which is fully consistent with the possibility of transmission."

Furman frowned and said:

"But this baby girl has a high fever caused by intestinal obstruction, and this baby boy has a pure high fever. There is no connection between the two, right?"

House glanced at Furman sideways and handed over the X-ray film in his hand:

"Take a look for yourself. If there is air in the intestines and stomach, it cannot be an intestinal obstruction.

This is just a wrong judgment made by some doctors who are not professional enough.

Du Wei, go check on every child in the obstetrics department.

Pay attention to whether they have similar symptoms, and if so, isolate them as soon as possible.

Also, Chase, go and inform the director, just say it was me who said the hospital stopped accepting obstetric patients, do you understand?"

Chase nodded, turned and walked upstairs.

Then House said to the two people behind him:

"Give them both regular treatment first. I need to know their test results and medication reactions as soon as possible."

Not long after, Du Wei, who had explored the entire maternity ward, discovered that there were six other children with high fevers.

After bringing this result back to the diagnostic department, everyone felt the pressure.

Because in the recent diagnosis, all the babies had fever, blood pressure dropped, and could hardly maintain cardiac contraction.

At this rate, all babies will die within a day.

This means that eight families will experience the pain of losing a child!

Now, the pressure to detect infectious diseases as soon as possible is on all diagnosticians present!

Looking at the symptoms listed on the small whiteboard in front of him, House looked at Duwei, who was the first to notice the symptoms.

“Where do these kids come from, and do they have anything in common?”

Duwei, who was well prepared, began to guide House's thoughts:

“There are 2 delivery rooms and 4 postpartum wards, with no public staff and no shared equipment.

Theoretically they won't get infected, but I noticed that there was a person in the hospital who had been in contact with them."

"who?"

“The aunt who gave the doll, and I noticed that she did not wear a mask or disposable sterile gloves as required.

This means that these infants are likely to be infected with adult viruses."

After hearing Du Wei's "high opinion", Furman couldn't help but retort:

"If it's an adult virus, why are only babies affected and their parents don't have any symptoms?

And explain why there was no increase in lymph nodes during the blood test?

In addition, we have already given them ribavirin (an antiviral drug, mainly used to treat viral colds), but they did not have any reaction.

I think we should consider bacterial infections first."

Du Wei shook his head and pointed out the most crucial point:

"If you think it's a bacterial infection, these kids are hopeless.

Bacterial culture takes at least 48 hours, and they can't wait that long.

Unless you use separate medications and use other children's lives as guinea pigs.

But this is risky, and several children are bound to die.

I still stand by my judgment that the newborn’s antibodies come from the mother.

I recommend drawing blood from healthy babies first to use as a control group.

If we then test which virus antibodies are missing in the mother of the sick baby, we can find the correct option from many viruses.

In this case, we only need to conduct blood tests on the eight mothers and the aunt who distributed the toys."

After finishing speaking in one breath, Du Wei subconsciously reached for the coffee but found nothing.

At this time, Cameron handed the coffee in her hand to Duwei.

Du Wei was stunned for a moment, then smiled at Cameron and drank the bitter coffee in the cup.

At this time, House was pondering the feasibility of Duwei's method.

Furman stood aside, looking hesitant to speak.

He found that he could find no reason to refute Duwei's view.

Duwei's point of view can quickly determine whether babies are collectively infected by the virus.

However, his method requires the baby's life to bet first.

It is clear at a glance which of the two methods is better.

At this time, House has already made a decision:

"Go and collect blood from their mother. I remember that a healthy baby was moved to the fifth floor and has not yet been discharged. Go and draw her blood.

Rule out non-viral infections first before proceeding with risky operations."

Upon hearing House's decision, Cameron was the first to breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, if you want to follow what Furman said, use vancomycin to try to treat possible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and use aztreonam to treat other causes.

They have to inform the family members to prepare for the loss of their child.

This is the last thing Cameron wants to do. She hates bringing despair to others.

Duwei's method effectively avoids this possibility.

Even if Du Wei's method didn't work in the end and she still had to take the risk, at least she would have some time to buffer and be mentally prepared.

Now, she only needs to do the simple task of drawing blood.

Looking at the relieved Cameron, House's eyes flashed twice, and he saw the weakness in Cameron's heart.

Of the three assistants, Furman has now lost his sense of proportion and is targeting the newcomer crazily.

Cameron is too weak, and Chase doesn't care much about work because of his family background.

He looked around and saw that the current performance of these three assistants was actually not as good as that of Du Wei, who was still a mere newcomer.

This really disappointed him.

It seems that it is necessary to talk to Du Wei after get off work and get to know his background.

With the decision made, Haosen walked towards the outpatient clinic. He still had outpatient work to make up for.

As for the testing, just leave it to Du Wei and the other two.

When the results come out, it won't be too late for him to come back and take charge of the overall situation.