Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 1843:
In some TV dramas, such a bridge often appears:
When the male protagonist (female protagonist) is seriously injured and unconscious, it is difficult to feed the decoction, so the female protagonist (male protagonist) first wraps the decoction into her mouth, and then gives it to the male protagonist in a mouth-to-mouth manner ( Heroine) Feed me the soup!
Leave aside the need for the plot for the time being. From a purely medical point of view, is there any scientific basis for this method?
Obviously not!
Not to mention that when a person is lying flat, it is very easy to reflux and to inhale the trachea by mistake when being poured into the liquid. Even mouth-to-mouth medicine cannot change this reality;
In addition, it is an extremely dangerous behavior to give medicine to a patient in a coma, regardless of the posture (lying or sitting)!
In modern medicine, coma refers to the complete loss of consciousness. It is a serious vision of a person who completely loses consciousness of things. It is a high degree of high-level nerves that are severely inhibited due to various reasons. It is necessary to find out the cause as soon as possible and take effective measures in time to rescue.
Generally, coma is divided into two types: light coma and deep coma. Superficial coma refers to the loss of consciousness of the patient, but the pharyngeal reflex, corneal reflex, and pupil reflex still exist, and the patient still has painful expressions and slight movements to strong stimuli such as oppressing the orbit and irritating the nerve of the orbit;
In a deep coma, the patient does not respond to various stimuli, and the clinical manifestations are muscle relaxation, incontinence, etc.
Such a severely comatose patient is impossible to swallow spontaneously. Once someone is infused with liquid from the mouth, since the patient has no basic swallowing emission, the liquid will not move along the esophagus to reach the stomach, but a large amount. When gathered in the throat, it is very easy to reflux and cough and aspirate, that is, these things stray into the trachea to reach the lungs, so aspiration pneumonia will occur, and in this case, lung infections are often life-threatening.
So in modern hospitals, as long as patients have poor swallowing reflexes (such as bulbar palsy in neurology), doctors will consider gastrointestinal nasal feeding, diet and medicine and water, and will not take the patient's life at this risk!
Gongsunliang didn’t know the technical terms such as “swallowing reflex” and “advanced nerves”, and even more ignorant of alternative feeding methods like inserting a nasogastric tube, but the so-called same way is the same thing as a person’s accomplishments in a certain aspect At the extreme, even if his cognition has received the limitations of the times, it does not mean that his personal ability to solve problems will also be limited!
At the very beginning when Duguxin was inspected for his injuries, in addition to giving Duguxin his pulse, Gongsunliang also looked at Duguxin’s eyelids, mouth and other parts, in order to confirm whether Duguxin was still conscious. And whether you can swallow medicine voluntarily.
It is to confirm that Duguxin in a coma still has a certain subconsciousness, Gongsunliang prescribes a prescription, and dares to let the little medicine boy decoct and feed medicine for Duguxin!
"Okay, Little Treasure! Don't feed it now, you carry the medicine bowl and go to the side to wait!"
Under the service of the young medicine boy, Duguxin reluctantly drank half a bowl of soup medicine, and then fed it into his mouth, all the soup medicine flowed out, and when he saw this, Gongsun Liang stopped talking.
Because in his opinion, half a bowl of soup medicine is enough for the two poisons in Duguxin's body to exert some effect!
"Yes! Master!"
The little medicine boy didn't hesitate, and after wiping the medicinal soup at the corner of Duguxin's mouth with a kerchief, he held the medicine bowl decisively and stood aside.