Golden Time (JungYong)

72

"Huuuuh… Huuuuuh…"

Taking a couple of deep breaths, Suhyuk pressed the woman's chest hard, and then he blew air into her mouth.

"Open your eyes!"

Not even a slight reaction.

The crowd gathered there around her began uttering, "Is she dead?"

Hearing them, Suhyuk acted more urgently. 

Her face was becoming more and more pale.

"Don't you think it's just so unfair if you die like this?"

Saying that, Suhyuk once again blew air into her mouth and took his locked arms to her chest.

At that moment, "Cough! cough!"

Some coughing came out of her mouth.

"Wow! She came back to life! She's survived!"

"It's true, he is a doctor!"

Suhyuk, breathing a relief of sigh, squatted on the ground as if he let go of all his strength.

It lasted for only a moment, though. 

Straightening himself, Suhyuk checked her condition, who was breathing hard.

"Can you see me?'

Frowning at his asking, she moaned, saying, "I feel so much pain coming from my chest."

As her ribs were broken, it's only natural she felt like that.

"I called 911, so bear with the pain for a moment."

Her breathing became weaker and weaker. 

She was feeling pain from here fractured ribs as her chest became bigger and then smaller with each breath she took, and she was trying to breathe instinctively even with the pain. 

"Even if you feel the pain, you have to breathe properly."

She might have a problem if her breathing became weak. 

For if the lungs that always have to be inflated with air become shrunken, complications such as atelectasis and pneumonia may arise.

At that moment they heard an ambulance's siren. 

The rescue crew checked her condition.

"She has rib fractures."

One of the crew asked, blinking his eyes, "What did you say?"

Only then did they understand Suhyuk's words, and hardened their look.

Multiple fractures could lead to serious organ damage.

"How did she get hurt?"

"It happened while I was applying CPR. That's not the point. Please transport her as soon as possible."

The crew moved her to the stretcher cautiously, and Suhyuk got on the ambulance.

Whenever the ambulance trembled a bit, she moaned. 

"I find it hard to breathe…"

Suhyuk held her hand tightly, saying, "You'll be alright. So, please bear it a moment. Please put an oxygen respirator on her."

A crew member, seated face to face with her, put the respirator into her mouth, and looked at Suhyuk pitifully.

Rib fracture could happen anytime when CPR was applied properly, but that could also pose a problem. 

Even though one saves a victim's life by applying CPR, in many cases one is accused of causing injury because of the rib fracture. The injurer has to bear not only the treatment bill but also the legal cost.