The Doctors Who Came on the Day You Were Born Whispered Medical Terms (3)

“Doc! What about the baby? Is the baby crying?”

Ahn Hyeon-jeong shouted urgently as she packed in the gauze.

“Not good! The baby’s limp and severely cyanotic!”

I shouted as I pressed the stethoscope to the baby’s chest.

I could hear the heartbeat, but it was far too slow.

Bradycardia.

And there was no spontaneous breathing at all.

“What about the mother? Can we control the bleeding?”

“I don’t know! Looks like atony(* uterine atony)! This is crazy, seriously!”

Ahn Hyeon-jeong shouted, biting her lip...