Postoperative bleeding is actually quite common in surgery. The reason postoperative bleeding is considered normal is that all surgeries involve incisions. Organ removal or suturing, for instance, is performed within the thoracic or abdominal cavity, and drainage tubes are generally used.
What was unusual about this patient was that he had already undergone numerous small-incision appendectomies. Yet, this small wound began to ooze blood less than two hours after the procedure.
His immediate thought was a postoperative infection. He'd encountered such situations before in the hospital, and the outcomes were rarely good.
Rushing to the ward, Liu Banxia carefully removed the dressing.
The incision was somewhat red and swollen, but the oozing blood was fresh. It didn't look like an infection; rather, it seemed to be inflammation. He took out his stethoscope and carefully listened to the patient's heart and lung sounds, as well as his bowel sounds.
