Chapter 54 - Intensive Training Again In The System (2/2)

If the major rescue operation for nitrite poisoning had been unsuccessful, he would not have so unhesitatingly agreed to Zheng Ren’s suggestions.

“Let’s do cholecystectomy then.” Zheng Ren decided for a surgery in the end.

The old man was prepared for surgery straight away as he was in intense pain and had fasted long enough due to having a decreased appet.i.te after experiencing discomfort in the morning.

The test results came back half an hour later and the patient had no contraindications for surgery. After counseling the patient and acquiring signatures on the preoperative informed consent doc.u.ments, Zheng Ren brought the patient to the operating theater on the third floor of the emergency building.

According to the initial design plan for the emergency building, the first floor had the emergency department, observation units, B-scan ultrasonography room, CT scanner and various auxiliary departments. The emergency wards were located on the second floor with fifty-two sickbeds, and the third floor with a few thousand square meters was designated for operating theaters. This full-flow design was among the top in China.

Various surgery departments had set their sights on the high-cla.s.s operating theater, which was the main reason Old Chief Physician Pan had been so eager to develop emergency surgery. If the emergency department had no use for it, someone else would take over instead of letting it go to waste.

Deep inside the operating theater on the third floor lay an interventional radiology suite, which was dedicated specifically for interventional radiology.

The suite had been constructed based on a new design—a hybrid operating room.

A hybrid operating room was an advanced procedural s.p.a.ce that combined the traditional operating theater with interventional radiology.

This was advanced technology as ordinary Cla.s.s Three Grade A Hospitals did not have hybrid operating rooms.

However, the hybrid operating room in Sea City General Hospital had been idle for a long time. The hospital management would be held responsible for wasting resources recklessly if no one tried to seize the opportunity to a.s.sume control of it.

The operating theater was fully equipped with disinfection facilities and the still air was maintained at a constant temperature to control airborne infection. Anyone who took a deep breath in this room would get the feeling that the air could purify one’s soul.

Zheng Ren went to the male locker room to change into surgical attire while the other doctors a.s.sisted with the patient transfer.

He was convinced that, instead of conspiring against him, the System had actually predicted that he would perform cholecystectomy in the future. Well, what was he waiting for? It was time to spend all his skill and experience points in the System for intensive training in laparoscopic cholecystectomy!

In the male locker room’s smoking area, Zheng Ren lit up a cheap Ziyun [1]and took a deep drag comfortably before diving into the System.

As he entered, he decided not to spend his skill points, which were but a drop in the ocean. There was no way he could achieve the Master rank and receive a skill upgrade anyway.

He opened the Shop interface, clicked on cholecystectomy and exchanged his entire stock of 75000 experience points from the last mission reward for 20.83 hours of intensive training. Then, as the operating theater formed around him, training had officially begun.

It saved time performing surgery in the System as the mannequins were anesthetized in advance.

In reality, a cholecystectomy required at least two hours from start to finish, but in the System’s operating theater, Zheng Ren could simply focus on mastering his skills without having to wait for the anesthesia to take effect or consider the patient’s condition and postoperative recovery.

The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy took Zheng Ren nearly an hour to complete. After all, he had not been qualified to perform a cholecystectomy even when he was still in the first general surgery department even though it was just a tier-one surgery.

Subsequent surgeries became much smoother after he had familiarized himself with it.

The time required for each surgery gradually decreased just like during the intensive training for appendectomies. In a sense, one just needed to practice general surgery repeatedly to master it.

In the end, Zheng Ren required only ten minutes to finish a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

No matter how Zheng Ren made the best use of his intensive training time, in less than twenty-one hours, he merely did eighty surgeries in total.

Even so, he felt particularly good as those practice runs were more than enough to handle this situation.

After his intensive training ended, Zheng Ren turned around and checked his general surgery skill tree, which had increased from 1692 to 1930 skill points. He was unsure if this sharp increment had anything to do with the difficulty of the operation.

Long, gray wisps of smoke still hung in the air when Zheng Ren returned to reality. He then stubbed out the cigarette that he had just taken a puff of, put it back into its pack, changed into surgical attire and went into the operating theater.

Xie Yiren, who had already prepared herself and was standing in front of the instrument table, gave Zheng Ren a warm smile as he entered.

The first cholecystectomy was about to begin.

[1] Yunyan (云烟) is a cheap cigarette brand and the Zi (紫) version has better quality among Yunyan.

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