godfather of surgery

Chapter 511
People are not machines, they must have feelings.

Lose empathy, sometimes it really can't be done.

Yang Ping left the ward, feeling not completely calmed down.

He always thought that the world was beautiful, and he never thought that he would see this kind of baby in reality.

It was a tiny skinned skeleton.

If it weren't for those black eyes and the sound of his heartbeat, no one would feel the breath of life from him.

It seems that it's not that this world is beautiful, but that I was lucky enough to be born in a beautiful place.

Yang Ping washed his hands in the sink in the corridor, then wiped them clean, and said to the people following him:
"Let's go to the office and discuss it."

Back in the office, everyone sits down.

This time, the case information was displayed on the large screen in the doctor's office, which is usually used for shift shifts, case discussions or meetings.

After Yang Ping took a few sips of water, Li Zehui asked softly, "Doctor Yang, can we start?"

"Have the team of anesthetists and perfusionists come and listen too."

Li Zehui didn't wait for Yang Ping's definite answer. Looking at Yang Ping's firm eyes, now he wanted to ask the anesthesiologist and perfusionist to participate in the discussion, which meant that Yang Ping had decided to operate.

Marshall reacted very quickly. Before Li Ze could call his name this time, he grabbed the phone and informed the anesthesiologist and perfusionist team in the operating room to come to the cardiac surgery center for a meeting.

Marshall emphasized that this was an emergency meeting, and he issued a notice in the name of Li Zehui.

Cleveland's top cardiac surgeon has absolute authority here.

In less than 10 minutes, more than a dozen members of the operating room appeared in the doctor's office, including an anesthetist, a perfusionist, and an operating room nurse. They took their tablet computers and found a suitable position to sit down.

In the best observation position of the big screen, which is also the C position for case discussion, this young man with an Asian face was sitting. Everyone immediately believed that this should be the Chinese doctor who had been making a lot of noise in the hospital recently.

Not only was Yang Ping sitting in the C seat, but Li Zehui was extremely respectful every time he spoke to Yang Ping.

But can this operation really succeed?

Most people know very well in their hearts-it must be impossible to succeed.

Because a few months ago, Dr. Dodge's six-year-old child unfortunately passed away on the operating table.

Subsequent anatomical studies suggested that the surgery could not have been successful given the existing medical conditions.

In the field of pediatric cardiac surgery, no one is more powerful than Dodge and Li Zehui. The Cleveland Heart Center is the pyramid of the world, and Dodge and Li Zehui are at the top of the pyramid.

This Chinese doctor, they have never heard of any achievements in cardiac surgery, never heard of it.

Perfusionist Melvin Mason, a doctor from the North Shore Hospital of Australia, although the heart surgery department is not as good as the Cleveland Heart Center, it also has a place in Europe and the United States.

Nandu Provincial People's Hospital is most proud of its cardiology department, which ranks among the best in the country. The key professors of its cardiology department are all trained by the North Shore Hospital of Australia. It can be said that their technology was established with the assistance of the North Shore Hospital of Australia.

Melvin Mason sat down next to Dodge.

"Man, what's the problem, calling us over in a hurry?"

"I don't know. It was the Chinese doctor's idea. He said that he could complete the operation on the Yemeni baby, and said that my echocardiogram was not professional enough." Dodge's tone was a little mocking.

Melvin Mason is very similar to Dodge in character. He always feels that he is superior to others and has a great sense of professional superiority. Especially for doctors in third world countries, he wears serious colored glasses.

"Just wait and see, man, he's going to go down the drain."

Melvin Mason comforted Dodge. As a perfusionist, he has been involved in various heart surgeries all year round. For this patient, he knows well that he cannot perform surgery at all.

They were talking in a low voice, and Li Zehui over there had already declared "Quiet!".

The meeting is about to begin.

"Everyone, because of its particularity, this case was shared with colleagues in the whole department to gather the wisdom of everyone and come up with the best plan. Although everyone is familiar with this case, we have discussed it many times. But please ask Dr. Marshall to report this case again for us."

Marshall is a resident in subspecialty training in cardiac surgery, with one more year to qualify as attending physician.

He studied engineering for four years, and then entered the medical school for four years of medical education. After graduation, he trained step by step. Today, he is only one step away from success.

Once he becomes an attending physician, it means that he can practice medicine independently, and he can get a salary that others envy, and there will be no shortage of villas and luxury cars.

For such a case, Marshall was very excited. Sometimes a doctor could not encounter it in his life, and now he encountered it.

Marshall opened the medical record:
"Hello, I'm Marshall from Harvard Medical School—"

"Introduce the case, no need to introduce yourself!"

Li Ze will remind.

Damn it, Marshall was probably a little nervous, and forgot, and slipped out this self-introduction, which was the opening line of every speech he gave.

"Yes, sir, presenting the case."

Marshall stared at the medical records, paused, and began to report the medical records.

The medical records in English were slowly passed on the screen, and the pictures were switched slowly one by one.

Then everyone can access the baby's case information on the tablet computer in their hands at any time.

This is the most difficult heart surgery in the world, not only because of deformities, not only because of tumors, not only because of adhesions, but also because of his brand new anatomy, mirror anatomy, even upside-down, almost extremely weak constitution, and various dysplasia of organs , so that there are defects in the organizational structure, which will cause fatal damage if you are not careful during the operation.

After Marshall reported the medical records in his loud and confident voice, Professor Li Zehui looked around. Before the case was officially discussed, he seemed to have something to say:
"Everyone, I don't need to go into details. Everyone here, even the youngest, is a senior resident doctor who is about to obtain the qualification of attending doctor. There is no doubt about the degree of understanding of the profession. This is a very rare case of heart malformation combined with tumor. The difficulty of the operation is very high. We once assembled the best forces to try to complete a charge for this type of cases, but we failed. Failure is not shameful, especially in the medical industry, because our medical skills today are far from reaching The level of our expectations, the unsolved problems in front of us are far more than the problems we can solve. Dr. Tedolu once said——to heal sometimes, to help often, and to comfort always, this is in medicine And it's also statistically meaningful."

"For the cases we failed, with the consent of the family members and the approval of the ethics committee, we conducted anatomical research. The result of the research is a thick report. You have already obtained that report. The severity is far beyond our imagination. We seemed very naive and reckless at the beginning, but this is not caused by us subjectively, because the original intention of each of us is to help her, even if we are reckless, my impulsiveness, our stubbornness, None of this is for selfish reasons, but to help patients."

"There is a kind of idea that is quietly popular among us-this six-month-old baby, he is so weak, so poor, so isolated, and it is very uneconomical to spend a lot of human and financial resources to save him. There is no need to try hard. Give up It’s only been six months, we don’t know the pain, and if we give up, someone will blame us, not to mention what to pursue, he is like a leaf falling, and will not have any impact on our lives.”

"But we have forgotten that the right to life is given to everyone by God. Even if he is only six months old, he has the right to pursue his own natural right. The purpose of our doctors is to help people pursue the right to life, no matter how thin they are. No matter how humble he is, no matter how poor he is, that is not what we consider. We just need to believe that it is a life and should be treated equally. All lives, we have to go all out, can't, Absolutely never give up any life, this is our bounden duty. Everyone, I seriously ask you, if this choice falls on you, may I ask, should I give up on you, or give up on him?"

The voice of Li Zehui's last sentence was very loud, and just after he finished speaking, the audience was completely silent.

It's been a long time, and I haven't heard such heart-shattering words, and all the doctors present were moved.

Yang Ping turned his head to look at Li Zehui with a serious expression, full of respect for this colleague.

"This is Dr. Yang Ping, whom I invited from China. This baby will be operated on by him. Now he will talk about his views on this case and the operation plan." Li Zehui ended his opening remarks.

Yang Ping stood up, holding an electronic stylus in his hand.

"Everyone, the difficulty of this operation is unprecedented in the history of cardiac surgery. The overall physical condition of this patient is very poor, and he is on the verge of collapse, with multiple deformities overlapping and disorganized. This makes us feel like entering an unknown minefield, and we may encounter danger at any time. explosion, so conventional surgical methods would be rendered useless, and we need a whole new way to achieve the goal—”

Yang Ping paused, he wanted to allow time for everyone to digest what he said, the amount of information was too large and it would be difficult to accept for a while.

What exactly does this new approach refer to?
Even Dodge wants to know that every top player in the industry will more or less retain some curiosity, which is the driving force for their progress.

"We need to learn from the left ventricular tumor operation method, separate the great vessels of the heart, take them out of the chest cavity in sets, and then complete the resection of the tumor and the correction of the deformity on the empty operating table!"

This time Yang Ping used English to express, he was afraid that the translation would be difficult to express and cause some misunderstandings.

As soon as the words were finished, the doctors in the entire venue were almost stiff as if they had been electrocuted collectively.

What a crazy idea, an impossible idea, it is simply a fantasy.

The left ventricular tumor is just a tumor removal, which can be completed within the limit time after the heart is isolated. Even so, only some top hospitals can complete it.

However, to complete the correction of severe tetralogy of Fallot, it must be done in vitro, and no one has such a speed.

Once the first step is not completed, the heart will be necrotic due to hypoxia outside the body, and the cardiomyocytes will collapse, and the operation will not end at all.

Finally, those people understood that this so-called crossover boss was just a magic stick.

Full stick!
He just used this patient as an experiment to sensationalize and gain a sensational effect.

Even Li Zehui was frightened, and Yang Ping's originality turned out to be like this.

In fact, Yang Ping proposed this plan for the case of Juntendo Hospital in Japan at that time, and this child, Yang Ping studied for a long time and tried various methods, but all failed in the end. Only this idea of ​​in vitro transplantation in order to be successful.

Yes, the scheme is a little crazy!

But there is no choice!

(End of this chapter)