Alluring Temptation (Familiá Altamirano #1)

PROLOGUE

ALLURING TEMPTATION
Familia Altamirano Series #1

"PAGING, Dra. Kelsea Altamirano! Please proceed to the operating room!"

I was doing chess compression to the patient who got SCA or Sudden cardiac arrest when I heard my name get page.

Damn it! Lumingon ako sa gilid ko at nakita ko ang intern na pinapanood ang kanina ko pang ginagawa.

"Intern, change position!" I called him, and he frantically replaced my position. I searched around the ER and spotted one of the Emergency doctors. "Dr. Jonas, supervise the intern! I'm going to the OR," I ordered.

He startles, but he jogs towards me. "Copy, Dra!"

Tinapunan ko pa nang tingin ang intern bago lumabas sa Emergency room. Halos maglakad-takbo ako papunta sa operating room pero nang makita sa nurse station si Nurse Eva, tumigil ako.

"Nurse Eva, come with me to the OR!" I ordered, making her startles. She immediately moves her ass away from her place.

I entered the operating room wearing my complete scrub suit. Nurse Eva already went inside after disenfecting herself. This surgery will be my third surgical operation for today. . . Hindi pa man nagsisimula, parang gusto ko nang matapos.

I'm too exhausted after my last surgery, which was two hours ago. It was a kid who swallowed six of his magnetic toys. The surgery was too risky because we needed to remove some of his organs in order to get all the toys. Yeah, right. Being a doctor is definitely a challenging job.

I can't wait to go home and soak my body with milk and fresh lavender bath bombs.

"Retractor, please." I told my assistant, and she carefully handed me the equipment I needed. I put the given tool to move the split sternum apart.

I am performing a septal myectomy surgery on a sixteen years old teen who's suffering from Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This operation is an open-heart surgery. It might be recommended if medications don't improve the symptoms of cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or HCM is a condition affecting the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart. The walls of the left ventricle become thick and stiff. Over time, the heart couldn't pump out enough blood during each heartbeat to supply the body's needs.

The most common cardiomyopathy is in adults. It is rare in children but can occur in children and infants with congenital heart disease, a heart infection called myocarditis, a protein abnormality in the heart muscle, chemotherapy drugs, metabolic disorders, or muscle disorders.

Being a surgeon takes a lot of courage, bravery, and hard work. It requires long hours, heavy reading, plenty of practice, and a ton of mental energy. Being a doctor is not easy. It is a challenging job, like a battlefield of life versus death. A doctor gives up his life in order to save someone's life.

We set up the heart-lung machine and connected it to the veins and arteries near the heart. This machine will provide oxygen and pump blood to the body during the surgery.

As the patient's body connected to the heart-lung machine, I started cutting the excess muscle from the thickened septum. This allows the blood to empty from the ventricle more easily.

"Let's start disconnecting the heart-lung machine," I stated.

After successfully disconnected the heart-lung machine, I glanced at the monitor, checking his heart rate. I bit my lips and shut my eyes in relief when I saw the patient's heartbeat comeback to its normal rhythm.