Chapter 230 - Lightning-Fast Surgery (Part 4 of 5) (1/2)

Zheng Ren and Su Yun reached the interventional operating theater at 8.18 a.m.

Feng Xuhui stopped at the door as he did not have permission to enter operating rooms in Imperial Capital General. However, right before Su Yun closed the door, Feng Xuhui openly conveyed his intentions: he would be waiting for Zheng Ren and Su Yun to finish their surgery and then go out for lunch together.

“This guy is still too green,” Su Yun commented when he shut the door.

Zheng Ren did not pay Feng Xuhui much attention as he only had one thing in mind—the interventional surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma.

The interventional radiology department had already sent the patient over.

He guessed that Chief Kong had prepared everything earlier to prevent an awkward situation where Zheng Ren arrived before his patient.

These situations happened relatively often, and there was no exception, even for Chief Kong.

Zheng Ren had gained Chief Kong’s recognition after briefly working together and the latter was eager to commence the surgery today, hurriedly handing over his s.h.i.+ft before ordering the first patient sent to the operating theater.

The entire morning s.h.i.+ft of the interventional radiology department was aware of the new surgery. All of its doctors were bubbling with excitement as they crammed themselves into the operating theater.

As for their own department… The operating theater was not far from the ward, reachable on foot within a minute. What was there to worry about?

No extraneous task could surpa.s.s the significance of observing a new surgical method.

Therefore, as soon as s.h.i.+ft handover was complete, not a single white coat could be found in the entire ward. Instead, there were almost twenty doctors standing in an orderly manner inside the interventional operating theater.

There were only eight in-house doctors among them, including Chief Kong. Many professors with their own teams could not get even a single in-house doctor to join them.

All of their in-house doctors had an a.s.sistant professors.h.i.+p at the very least, which begged the question: who would lead the surgery? That was why most teams consisted of postgraduate students, PhD students, and fellows.

Most of the physicians on duty in that room were fellows.

At this time of the year, manpower was still sufficient. Around Chinese New Year, though, the professors all suffered when the fellows, Master’s students and postgraduates returned to their hometowns.

They had to either choose to reduce their number of surgeries or beg someone else to a.s.sist them.

There were countless professors in Imperial Capital, making them stand out much less than they would in a place like Sea City.

Department Chief Kong sat facing the screen in the operating console room outside the theater. There were four other professors sitting around him. Every other physician had to find a spot to stand.

Zheng Ren went to scrub in while Su Yun prepped the table.

The films from the patient’s MRI and 3D-reconstructed 64-slice CT scan were pinned to the radiographic film viewer after being repeatedly examined for mistakes.

After scrubbing in, Zheng Ren gave them one final check while suiting up.

There was no such thing as being too cautious in surgery, even if one was being borderline obsessive-compulsive.

After all, surgery mishaps did happen, such as operations being performed on the wrong kidney or lung.

Why? Most of the time, it was simply because there were too many surgeries that day, and the scans of the previous patient were still attached to the reader.

At first glance, the surgeon would start their operation on the organ on the right side, only realizing mid-operation that the malignant tissue they were looking for was on the left side!

Those were considered the luckier ones. Some unfortunate souls even had their healthy organs removed…

“Dr. Zheng has good habits,” one of the professors, leading their own team, pointed out after watching Zheng Ren carefully examine the scans.

“There are four surgeries today. All four of the 64-slice CT scans were reconstructed by him,” Chief Kong explained, “Each one has a different insertion path, which is why he needs to check them carefully.”

Most doctors from the interventional radiology department had heard about it. They did not fully understand how Zheng Ren had managed to pull it off, but no one was stupid enough to challenge Chief Kong’s words.

As usual, Zheng Ren started operating while Su Yun was scrubbing in.