godfather of surgery

Chapter 970 I Can't
The results of the pathological examination of Mr. Liao’s lung nodules have come out. They are benign and belong to inflammatory nodules. When he got the exact pathological diagnosis, Mr. Liao was completely relieved.

He is full of energy and radiant face again, in stark contrast to his negativity and sighing in the past few days. Now he has the spirit of a leader. Director Liao had kept the news of his hospitalization a secret a few days ago, but now he reports the situation to his leader as soon as possible. While reporting, he did not forget to criticize the hospital doctors for knowing nothing and making a nodule that was not a problem very complicated.

When he was discharged from the hospital, Director Liao was already surrounded by people, but he kept complaining to his subordinates about the hospital's physical examination, saying that the hospital made a fuss about a nodule. It was just a nodule. It was normal for people of this age to have a nodule. The hospital insisted on doing a puncture, which was unnecessary and purely over-medicalization. After all the trouble, the result was still an inflammatory nodule.

A simple inflammatory nodule was made so complicated that it wasted several days of his time.

Finally, Director Liao invited several colleagues who love badminton to play together next weekend, saying that he had been bored these days staying in the hospital without any exercise and must sweat it out. All his colleagues said that Director Liao didn't look like a sick person at all and was healthier than young men.

One of them said that he hated playing badminton with Director Liao. Everyone immediately focused their attention on this tactless guy, but the colleague continued calmly, "Director Liao! If you weren't my boss, I wouldn't want to go. Every time I play badminton with you, you act like nothing happened, full of energy, but I can't move my legs for three days. It's more tiring than playing with young professional athletes from the provincial team. I can't handle your stamina."

Director Liao didn't care at all about the subordinate's "contradiction". Instead, he said cheerfully: "You must go on the weekend! If you dare to run away, I will show you how I will deal with you."

Niu Zhixuan's elevated CEA problem has not been solved for the time being. Yang Ping has looked at all his test results and believes that it is just caused by intussusception complicated by intestinal inflammatory reaction. This cause is very rare, but Niu Zhixuan is afraid. He demands to have a PET-CT scan, otherwise he will have trouble sleeping and eating in the future.

"That's totally unnecessary. This elevated CEA has nothing to do with tumors. It's caused by inflammation in the intestine. It will slowly return to normal after the inflammation is controlled. You can observe it first."

Yang Ping advised his old classmate that there was no need to use heavy weapons such as PET-CT.

Niu Zhixuan doesn't think so. What if that's the case? Niu Zhixuan feels that when he has no money, he would rather risk sudden death than change jobs. When he has money, he feels that people are more important than money, and anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.

"Then let's do a PET-CT scan and spend money to buy peace of mind." After Yang Ping understood Niu Zhixuan's idea, he also agreed to continue with further examinations. Sometimes it really is worth spending money to buy peace of mind.

An increase in tumor markers only indicates a tumor, not necessarily a tumor. It is like seeing a strong man with a tattoo indicating that this person might be a lawbreaker. Many strong men with tattoos are law-abiding, and many lawbreakers are not strong men with tattoos.

Therefore, tumor markers are only a hint and cannot be used to confirm the diagnosis. Further examination is needed to confirm the diagnosis.

Director He worked very hard. He and his colleagues used all means to grab a few pigs and used them all to practice thoracoscopic lung transplantation. This operation is very time-consuming, especially for a novice. However, for every doctor who performs lung transplantation, at least so far, using thoracoscopic lung transplantation is a novice.

Therefore, each simulated surgery by Director He takes about ten hours to complete, and even more than eight hours at the fastest. The surgery is still very difficult, and it is not easy to get the world's first case.

Director He's basic skills in thoracoscopy were very good, so he improved quickly with practice. With his full dedication, his daily progress was visible. After several days of training day and night, Director He believed that his surgical skills were very proficient, at least on pigs, he could successfully complete the operation in 9-10 hours. The thoracic surgery department's pig snatching also caused some anger. The targets of their robbery were generally young doctors, so these doctors dared not speak out, but would report to their department heads afterwards. Many department heads began to question He Xiangjun about what was going on.

They are all department heads and have a good relationship. It is impossible for them to fall out over a few pigs. He Xiangjun admitted that he was wrong, and then claimed that the situation in his department was special and the lung transplant operation had to be done, so his behavior was a bit inappropriate. He hoped that everyone would forgive him and he would definitely treat everyone to drinks later.

After hearing this, the heads of various departments would not pursue him any further. At most, they would explain and appease the doctors below. He Xiangjun sent people to deliver fruits to each department as an apology. This way, the doctors who were robbed could save their face and save their dignity.

Two pigs a day, almost 17 or 18 hours of high-intensity training. The surgical experience accumulated in the past few days made Director He feel good about himself, and he felt that he should be able to perform this operation.

News came from the ICU that the patient who relied on ECMO to maintain his life finally had a result. The patient has been diagnosed as brain dead. The function of his heart and lungs is completely dependent on the passive maintenance of the ECMO machine. There is no point in continuing like this.

The patient's wife held back her grief and finally mustered up the courage to make a painful decision: to remove the ECMO and let the patient leave this world naturally. In fact, the patient had already left this world, but the machine was still maintaining his heart and lungs. But when she made this painful decision, all the relatives surrounded the patient's wife and scolded her, scolding her for being selfish, ruthless and ungrateful, and for abandoning her husband. But what could she do? The accumulated self-paid part was almost more than one million yuan. For an ordinary family like her, this medical expense was already a huge sum. Selling the only house would only sustain it for a while longer. She and her children had to continue living, so she had to face reality. This was a bottomless pit, a bottomless pit without hope.

At around 1:00 a.m., the doctor was ready to remove the ECMO. According to the patient's wishes before his death, his cornea, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys were all to be donated to different people. Relatives also disagreed with organ donation and scolded the patient's wife, but the patient's wife withstood the pressure. This was her husband's wish before his death, and she wanted to help him realize it.

At around one in the middle of the night, the patient's wife entered the ICU alone in an isolation suit, kissed her husband affectionately as a final farewell, and then the woman left the ICU alone and sat in the empty family waiting area. She would have to live the rest of her life alone.

Ou Lianfeng's lung transplant surgery was also started as an emergency operation. Organ transplant surgery can often be started at any time, because it is uncertain when a suitable donor will appear, and the operation time is also correspondingly extremely uncertain.

The operating room was still brightly lit late at night. Director He hurriedly called Song Zimo and said, "Dr. Song, Ou Lianfeng's lung transplant can begin. I just received a notice that we can go and get the lungs."

"I will notify the professor right away, and you please prepare the Da Vinci robot immediately. This operation will be performed with the Da Vinci robot." Song Zimo ordered immediately.

Director He was a little confused: "Da Vinci robot for lung transplant? I can't do it!"

"I can't do that either!" Song Zimo said.

"What should we do then?" Professor He was confused.

Song Zimo said: "The professor will!"