When Ling Ran was halfway through the third finger, Fei Zhou finally completed the finger replantation for the first finger.
The remaining two fingers were on the right palm. Even if Fei Zhou wanted to squeeze in, he could not. He could only hold his breath and leave the operating theater.
Ling Ran quietly did his own thing. He did not even raise his head.
Even if Ling Ran had experience, he was still mentally exhausted after four hours of meticulous operations. He felt like he was reaching his limit.
This feeling was like a triathlete. Even if he practiced often, he would still be exhausted when he was three-quarters or even halfway through the race.
In comparison, Chief Physician Wang Haiyang had it even harder.
He was the oldest among the four groups of doctors, and he had to control the progress of the entire surgery. Coupled with the heavy pressure, he was even more exhausted when he finished the finger assigned to him.
Wang Haiyang could not help but recall the last time he was so exhausted. Then, he looked at Ling Ran.
Not long ago, Ling Ran was his assistant. The experience of performing finger replantations was something that Wang Haiyang could not forget. That day, Wang Haiyang even set a record for the fastest finger replantation he performed.
Of course, it was a speed record that was meaningful to Wang Haiyang. It was meaningless to others.
"Chief Physician Wang, why don't I perform the right middle finger?" Fei Zhou had been waiting. He had already seen the X-ray scan of the middle finger, and he was waiting to see when the position was empty so that he could perform it again.
As the associate chief physician who performed the most finger replantation surgeries in Yun Hua Hospital, Fei Zhou was very confident that if he performed another round, his speed would be faster, and the quality would be more stable.
"I'll do it myself." Wang Haiyang did not give Fei Zhou a chance.
He was the person in charge of the entire surgery, and there was no reason for him to leave the operating table.
Fei Zhou could not do anything about it. Chief Physician Wang Haiyang was considered half a senior doctor to him, and the communication between surgeons was always so straightforward that it made people uncomfortable.
Fei Zhou stood aside unhappily. He looked at Wang Haiyang, Guo Jianming, and Ling Ran's operation …
Most people were watching Ling Ran's operation.
Master Level Appositional Suture Technique.
Master Level Perineurium Anastomosis.
Perfect Level Finger Replantation.
Experience in three thousand cases of hand dissection.
Master Level MRI Reading for Four Limbs.
When all the skills were used together, Ling Ran did not display explosive skills. Instead, he displayed continuous and powerful skills.
Tendon Anastomosis, high strength, and high stability.
The anastomosis of the blood vessels was done with a super thin thread. It was a success in one go, just like a large blood vessel.
Nerve anastomosis, accurate alignment, rapid suture.
Every step seemed very easy. There was no strange difficulty, as if it was a matter of course.
If the doctors by the side watched for a long time, they would even feel like they were watching debridement and suturing in the treatment room.
After all, Ling Ran's expression was relaxed, and the surgery was progressing steadily.
This kind of situation usually happened in the surgery of a weakling.
However, why did other people have to face all sorts of difficulties when it came to finger replantations, but Ling Ran did not?
Once the doctors thought of this problem, they would start to feel restless.
Of course, the technology itself was important.
Ling Ran's decision made the doctors even more speechless.
Everyone's decisions had consequences.
This was especially true for surgeons.
During debridement, if too many blood vessels were cut off, there was a possibility that the length of the blood vessels would not be enough and the patient would have to undergo a transplant. If they cut too little to avoid vascular transplantation, they might face the consequences of vascular infection or vascular anastomosis failure …
Making the right decision was easier said than done.
If a person could go back in time infinitely, would he be able to perform the perfect surgery?
Of course, it was impossible.
First of all, a surgeon's one minute on the operating table was equivalent to ten years of hard work. A decision might affect two seconds later, or two years later. It was useless to take medicine for regret on the operating table until one was full.
Secondly, there was no such thing as a perfect surgery.
However, in everyone's eyes, Ling Ran seemed to be doing it perfectly.
Ling Ran also tried his best to do it perfectly.
"Ling Ran …" Wang Haiyang suddenly shouted and said, "Are you almost done?"
Ling Ran hesitated for two seconds, as if he had just snapped out of his desperate state of suturing. He then said, "I'm doing nerve anastomosis. Also, I might need to transplant a skin flap here."
Skin flap transplantation was skin grafting. It required cutting off a piece of the patient's own skin and filling in the missing part. This way, both sides could grow, and it was more beneficial for recovery.
However, compared to normal sutures, the workload and difficulty of adding skin flap transplantation would increase. This kind of operation was not suitable for Ma Yanlin to perform.
Wang Haiyang nodded and said, "Once the nerve anastomosis is done, hand the skin flap to Doctor Kang. Come and help me."
Kang Jiuliang, who was acting as Wang Haiyang's first assistant, glanced at Ling Ran with an unreadable expression. He lowered his head and did not say anything.
After a while, Ling Ran completed the nerve anastomosis and exchanged places with the attending physician, Kang Jiuliang.
Usually, Kang Jiuliang, who had outstanding skills, could be the chief surgeon for a slightly weaker surgery. It was already a little unfair for him to be the first assistant. He did not expect that he would be despised by Wang Haiyang.
Moreover, he was replaced by the younger, more handsome, and taller Ling Ran.
However, there was nothing for him to resist.
Not only did Wang Haiyang perform hundreds of surgeries using the M-Tang technique, he was also very familiar with finger replantation surgeries. Kang Jiuliang was too embarrassed to say anything when Wang Haiyang wanted Ling Ran's help.
The operating theater was as quiet as a conference hall.
There was only the sound of the drill, which sounded like a leader's speech. It hummed and hummed …
Ling Ran did not feel any discomfort or overreaction when he changed from being the chief surgeon to Wang Haiyang's first assistant. He went from holding the needle holder to being the prince who led the needle.
For Ling Ran, this change in position was just a simple change in his position. Ling Ran had never thought about things like the status of a doctor. In fact, he refused to think about it.
For example, when he joined the choir when he was young, his teacher would naturally arrange him to be in the middle of the front row. Even when he clearly expressed that he did not want to sing, his teacher would rather let him stand in the middle and lip-sync than let Ling Ran leave the choir. From that moment on, Ling Ran knew that the importance of a person's position was not as important as the person himself.
Ling Ran, who stood in the position of the first assistant, did not just act as a mediator.
He had worked together with Chief Physician Wang Haiyang before. He was familiar with his operation, and he was able to make up for any mistakes.
While Wang Haiyang was extremely tired, Ling Ran's operating frequency and strength also increased greatly.
In China's history, the first pediatric finger replantation occurred on October 24th, 1979, in 401 Hospital. It was performed by the expert Cheng Guoliang. But because the surgery had been going on for forty-two hours, and a total of four fingers had been replanted, the index finger was a failure.
Forget about the fact that Wang Haiyang did not have the energy to perform surgeries for forty-two hours, he was already exhausted after performing surgeries for four hours.
When Wang Haiyang called Ling Ran over, he had the intention of letting him protect him.
Half an hour later.
Wang Haiyang was completely exhausted, so he pointed at Ling Ran and said, "Suture one artery."
They had already reached the last part of the surgery, and there was no need to increase their speed. They could also suture as many blood vessels as possible on the finger that was sutured.
"Okay," Ling Ran replied and asked for the needle holder.
It only took a few minutes to suture one blood vessel.
"Suture another vein?" Ling Ran turned the child's right middle finger over. Compared to patients who only lost one or two fingers, it would be more difficult for the patient to recover after losing eight fingers in one go, because there were no more fingers to provide compensation.
It was easy to imagine that the rehabilitation work in the future would be several times harder and more difficult.
At this time, suturing more blood vessels could increase the patient's recovery ability as much as possible, and it could also better ensure the function of the hand.
Naturally, Wang Haiyang did not object to it. He allowed Ling Ran to perform the anastomosis of four blood vessels and the even more difficult perineurium anastomosis.
The surgery had been going on for more than five hours. Ling Ran finished suturing the middle finger, ring finger, and little finger of his left hand. He also assisted Wang Haiyang in suturing half of his right middle finger.
The entire process could be said to be incredibly depressing.
However, the number of doctors who gathered in the operating theater and the on-call room to watch the livestream increased.
Finger replantation surgery had always been one of the most high-end surgeries in the Hand Surgery Department, and it was performed frequently. For the doctors in Yun Hua Hospital's Hand Surgery Department, the frequency at which they watched finger replantation surgeries was even higher than the frequency at which they watched movies.
Some people dared to write movie reviews after watching a few movies for a few years, and they even dared to speak boldly about it. Clinicians who had studied medicine for many years and practiced it in real life had even more thoughts about finger replantation surgeries. Everyone could not help but express their deep and penetrating opinions that were both emotional and infectious. They went straight to the heart, and they were concise and comprehensive.
"Cool!"
"So cool!"
"So cool!"
"Awesome!"
"Super awesome!"
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