godfather of surgery

Chapter 973 Multi-Armed Thinking
Talent does exist, and it cannot be compensated by hard work. Director Fang understands this very well.

Therefore, if a person wants to succeed, if the direction of his efforts is highly consistent with his talents, the probability of success will be greater. However, if the direction of his efforts is not consistent with his talents, he may get half the result with twice the effort or even no result with twice the effort.

"You're not bad either. The number of general surgery surgeries performed by the Da Vinci surgical robot is among the top in the country, right?"

The chief physician of thoracic surgery felt that what he had just said was very hurtful to his colleague, so he added another sentence to give his colleague some comfort.

"Forget it. I can say that I am good in front of others, but how can I say that in front of Professor Yang?"

Director Fang made a self-deprecating remark and said no more.

On the high-definition screen, several arms were performing cutting, separation, suturing, knotting and other operations at an extremely fast speed. Logically, with only these few robotic arms starring in the whole scene and the plot being monotonous, it should be boring. However, the doctors in the demonstration room were more focused than watching a blockbuster movie, their eyes fixed intently on the screen. The entire venue was unexpectedly silent, and even the occasional communication was in low whispers.

One of the doctors took a video of the venue and posted it on his Moments. He said that so many people gathered together in the middle of the night to quietly watch an action movie starring several robotic arms. This scene seemed strange and interesting. This is the romance that only doctors can have.

Some students who arrived late were extremely anxious and whispered to their colleagues: "Da Vinci lung transplant? What stage is it at?" When they learned about the progress of the operation, they felt extremely regretful that they came too late and did not see the entire operation.

Assistants Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang on the operating table have completed the hilar trimming of the donor lung, making the edges of the blood vessels, bronchi and other tubes neat and of appropriate length so that they can be smoothly anastomosed with the patient's bronchi and blood vessels.

After processing the donor lungs, Song Zimo made an incision of about 8 cm between Ou Lianfeng's right ribs. Through this incision, the donor lungs were sent into Ou Lianfeng's chest cavity. Although the lungs looked large, they were equivalent to a blown-up balloon. Once the air inside was exhausted, the soft lungs were like deflated balloons and could be easily sent into the chest cavity through this 8 cm incision.

The most important thing for any organ transplant is vascular anastomosis. Only when the quality of vascular anastomosis is reliable can the transplanted organ obtain good blood supply and survive. In addition to vascular anastomosis, lung transplantation also requires tracheal anastomosis, so that the donor lungs are anastomosed with the patient's reserved bronchi to assume the respiratory function after the operation.

For Yang Ping, he only has two hands when performing traditional surgery, but when performing robotic surgery, he now has four hands. In addition to the robotic arm responsible for installing the lens, there are three robotic arms ready to work at any time. These three robotic arms act completely according to his consciousness, so the surgical efficiency is much higher.

Yang Ping performed intermittent sutures on the cartilaginous part of the bronchus, stitch by stitch, evenly and precisely. For the suturing of the tubes, Yang Ping always insisted on using intermittent sutures instead of continuous sutures to save time. Each stitch of the intermittent suture is independent and has the greatest reliability. Reliability is the most important thing in medical work.

None of the three robotic arms rested, not even for a short break, and they were working the whole time. Yang Ping's operation of the robotic arms has completely broken away from the traditional concept of two-handed operation. When other doctors operate the da Vinci surgical robot, they still do not break away from the inherent concept of two-handed operation, which makes it difficult to give full play to the maximum effectiveness of all the robotic arms. When Yang Ping performed robotic surgery, he completely broke away from the human two-arm operation thinking and truly achieved multi-arm operation. The da Vinci surgical robot has four robotic arms, one of which is equipped with a lens. Its job is to provide a field of view for the operation, so in each surgical step, it is almost fixed, and it moves to switch the field of view after completing one step.

The remaining three robotic arms can all serve as working robotic arms. The work efficiency of three hands is not just 1.5 times that of two hands, but many times.

Now on the high-definition screen, the bronchi of the donor and the recipient are being anastomosed. Three robotic arms are operating. One robotic arm is pushing the suture needle in and out, while another robotic arm immediately catches the needle at the moment of its removal. The third robotic arm immediately ties a knot, and the first robotic arm that was freed takes over to cut the thread. The connection between each action is almost without delay, and these three robotic arms seem to be an extension of Yang Ping's consciousness.

"This surgery is a bit weird. Why are the three robotic arms moving at high speed all the time? Shouldn't one of them be paused, at least during certain operations? You said that the da Vinci surgical robot only has two main controllers and two foot pedals. How did Professor Yang mobilize all three robotic arms?"

Director Lu from the Urology Department was also sitting next to Director Fang. He was also very skilled in using the da Vinci surgical robot, but he did not understand how these three robotic arms could be used so skillfully.

Although Director Lu is good at robotic surgery, he is not as good as Director Fang. Director Fang can be said to be the person who uses the da Vinci surgical robot most skillfully and understands it best besides Yang Ping at Sanbo Hospital. He sighed: "His thinking is completely different from ours. No matter how skilled we are in using surgical robots, we are always limited by two-arm thinking, while he has multi-arm thinking."

"What do you mean? Can you explain it more clearly? Don't make it so mysterious." Director Lu has performed hundreds of surgeries with the Da Vinci robot, so how come he has never heard of the concepts of dual-arm thinking and multi-arm thinking?

Director Fang smiled slightly. It seemed that Director Fang was still the second in the ranking of robotic surgery level of Sanbo Hospital. Director Lu did not even understand the double-arm thinking and arm-hiding thinking. However, it was understandable. Director Lu had not been to the Surgical Research Institute as many times as Director Fang, and had less communication with Yang Ping. This concept was proposed by Yang Ping, so Director Lu naturally did not know it.

Today, Director Fang is going to teach Director Lu: "Two-arm thinking is innate to human beings and is the basis of human labor ability. Because the duty of human hands is labor, and any labor operation is based on the cooperation of the left and right hands, so since the invention of machines, the control of most machines is also based on the cooperation of the left and right hands."

"Although the da Vinci robot has four robotic arms, most people only use two robotic arms to perform surgery, and they also use the left and right hands to coordinate. Professor Yang is different. He uses the main controller, foot pedals, etc. to control the four robotic arms. The three robotic arms involved in the operation do not use the two-hand coordination mode, but the three-hand coordination mode."

"If you look closely, every surgical operation performed by Professor Yang, such as suturing, knotting and thread cutting, is completely different from ours, because the method we use is completely based on the two-arm model, while his method is based on the three-arm model."

Director Lu suddenly realized: "That's what I said. Why is this knotting and thread cutting method a bit unfamiliar? I don't understand it at all. All three robotic arms are working quickly. None of them is resting. I don't know what the three robotic arms are doing. Anyway, they are always moving at high speed. The suturing of the bronchus is just like a sewing machine, snapping out stitch after stitch."

(End of this chapter)