Chapter 80 - Let Him Take Over The Surgery (2/2)
Profound clinical experience saved him from making a grave mistake.
Chief Surgeon Sun immediately gave up on laparoscopic surgery and decided to perform a laparotomy instead.
He waited for his emotions to stabilize before snapping a picture of the laparoscopic image and left the operating theater to explain the situation to Lin Yuanshan.
Holding the cell phone in his hand, he showed the picture to Lin Yuanshan and pointed out the reason why he could not proceed with laparoscopic surgery.
After being explained to professionally and regrettably as if possessed by a drama queen, Lin Yuanshan finally gave his consent, which made Chief Surgeon Sun sigh in relief. Then, he returned to the operating theater, scrubbed up, changed into a new surgical gown, prepared the necessary instruments and reinitiated the surgery.
Chief Surgeon Sun was average at laparoscopy, at best.
After all, he only started learning laparoscopic surgery at forty-five years old when he was already highly competent at open surgery.
Since he had good knowledge of anatomy, It was actually easier to treat uncomplicated cases with laparoscopy.
However, if an extremely difficult surgical case was encountered, he preferred to proceed with laparotomy due to his proficiency in this domain.
A twenty-centimeter incision was made below the right costal margin and each layer was carefully incised to explore the peritoneal cavity.
Chief Surgeon Sun was dumbfounded the moment the peritoneum was opened.
The situation was worse than expected!
It was a big mess! He could vaguely outline the greater omentum and transverse colon, but as for the gallbladder… it was nowhere to be seen.
He had no choice but to attempt blunt dissection.
However, staring at the clumped up abdominal viscera, he had no idea where to begin the procedure.
It looked like an intertwined flaxen thread ball with its head hidden somewhere inside. If he was merely dealing with inorganic matter, he would cut it straight away without hesitation, but unfortunately, these were abdominal organs in a human body. Once the severely edematous intestines ruptured, it would be immensely troublesome to suture it back.
Blunt separation had to be done slowly and cautiously. Chief Surgeon Liu’s attentiveness was not entirely due to the patient’s ident.i.ty; even if this patient was an ordinary elderly man, his att.i.tude toward this surgery would still be the same.
Five minutes had pa.s.sed and yet he remained clueless.
He still did not have the foggiest notion of how to continue even at the tenth minute. The circulating nurse had wiped the sweat off his forehead twice and the disposable surgical cap had completely drenched in a cold sweat.
At the twentieth minute, a dark green patch appeared on the back of Chief Surgeon Sun’s surgical gown, the result of perspiration soaking his green gown.
An unexpected event occurred as he accidentally ruptured an arteriole while lysing the adhesions, which caused fresh blood to spurt from the wound. The ruptured arteriole ligation process was risky and took him five minutes to complete the procedure.
The surgical lighthead was blinding and Chief Surgeon Sun’s vision was getting blurry.
Sighing heavily, he spoke to a circulating nurse who had just arrived at the operating theater for a.s.sistance, “Call Chief Zheng and ask him to take over the surgery.”
Even though Chief Surgeon Sun had spoken to Zheng Ren preoperatively, he would have never let Zheng Ren take over the operation unless absolutely necessary.
Doing so meant that he admitted defeat and that his surgery standard was inferior to Zheng Ren’s.
However, he did not have the faintest idea even after bluntly dissecting the adhesions for twenty minutes, so he had no choice but to give up.
Medical safety and dignity, which one was more important? The answer was obvious.
Most importantly, if he tried to preserve his image now, he might lose his life in the end.
About Zheng Ren… Since the man was skillful at blunt dissection during appendectomies, he could be able to solve this problem, but of course, the flawless completion of the previous pancreaticoduodenectomy was still the main reason to request his a.s.sistance.
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In the emergency ward office, Zheng Ren was concentrating on the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery book.
An expressionless Su Yun played with his phone, his fingers flying all across the screen; it was impossible to tell if he was chatting up women or playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
The department’s phone rang, and several nurses swarmed into the room soon after.
“Chief Zheng, the operating theater is requesting your presence.”
They fixed their gleaming eyes on Su Yun even though the statement was meant for Zheng Ren.
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