Chapter 96 - Bullseye (1/2)

Chapter 96: Bullseye

[Doesn’t seem very difficult. I checked the time, five minutes per arterial branch.]

[That’s because the surgeon is a superstar. The difficulty is set.]

[Could you perform an appendectomy in three minutes? I’m sure you can’t even complete one in thirteen minutes.]

The trash-talking on Xinglin Garden was similar to that of any online forum.

In the interventional suite, the man next to Zheng Ren was blown away. Su Yun stared with his mouth agape at Zheng Ren as if he had just witnessed a miracle.

Su Yun had not been bragging when he said he could learn from observation alone.

After observing the placenta abruption case, Su Yun watched a few video clips of interventional surgery to obtain some level of understanding. He believed that he should improve his skills and become better than Zheng Ren.

Su Yun was antic.i.p.ating a failed attempt at artery superselection, which would allow him to step in and save the day.

Who would have thought Zheng Ren could perform artery superselection at such speed and accuracy on the first try?

The diameter of the guide wire was 0.014 inches and one millimeter was equivalent to 0.03937 inch. It was around 0.3556 millimeters thick.

A 4th-grade blood vessel had an approximate diameter of 0.5 millimeters, which was very similar in thickness to the guide wire.

The manipulation of the thin and nimble guide wire into the blood vessel on the very first attempt… Su Yun belatedly realized he was absolutely outcla.s.sed.

Another person who shared the same thoughts with Su Yun was the interventional surgeon from the third-tier city hospital.

There was a minor difference between the doctor and Su Yun. Su Yun had talent and could pick up skills from just observing. On the other hand, the doctor had to sharpen his skills from a.s.sisting in countless surgeries. He had gone through dozens of pelvic fracture arterial embolizations.

No words could describe the hards.h.i.+p and struggle he faced.

Hence, if disappointment was all Su Yun felt, the doctor who witnessed Zheng Ren’s surgery was totally baffled.

Superselective arterial embolization was an incredibly difficult procedure. To reach a 0.5 millimeter, 4th-grade blood vessel with a guide wire on the first try was a miracle!

He calmed down and for the first time, he wondered if he should go to this surgeon’s hospital to learn more.

At this moment, he was just like the many doctors on Xinglin Garden who wanted to become the surgeon’s pupil.

[I think that’s the fourth 4th-grade blood vessel. I believe the bleeding has stopped.]

[Almost. Today I learned that complicated pelvic fractures could be treated like this. Our hospital has an interventional radiology department. I should ask them about this.]

Seeing how clueless these doctors were about interventional surgery, the specialized surgeon from the third-tier city started to type out a message.

[For orthopedics, before the removal of spinal neoplasm, one can use interventional methods to embolize the lumbar arteries. That way, the amount of blood loss can be reduced from 5000ml to approximately 1500ml.]

The G.o.d-like surgeon probably had no time to explain his methods. Well, he would be the one to answer these doctors’ questions.

A flame of motivation flickered in him as he continued introducing the various applications of interventional radiology to the doctors online.

[The surgery is almost ending. That’s the last artery.]

[The selection was perfect, all that’s left is the embolization. Once the image shows no leak, the catheter can be removed.]

[This perfect surgery took…]

The surgeon looked at the time and unconsciously sighed.

23 minutes and 15 seconds…

If it had been him, that procedure would have taken 4 hours. That was the difference between him and the surgeon in the livestream.

He could not even bring himself to challenge that time.

The anonymous surgeon in the Xinglin Garden livestream was like an indomitable mountain that one could only appreciate from afar.

In the operating theater, Zheng Ren switched off the angiography system. He gave a signal and Chu Yanran opened the sensor-activated lead door. With her were drugs needed for the patient.