Chapter 300 - The Brave Fear Nothing (Part 4 of 4) (2/2)
Professor Rudolf Wagner could foresee Zheng Ren’s disappointment after failing the surgery.
Let me save you, Eastern boy.
He kept the lid on his smugness.
In the operating room, the puncture on the jugular vein and insertion of the jugular sheath had been completed as they were not difficult.
What came next was crucial. Professor Rudolf Wagner wrapped his arms around his body, his entire focus on the screen.
After angiographic catheter insertion, suction commenced at an exceedingly slow and cautious pace due to the patient’s constant spasms and blood-soaked retching. This emergency surgery was incomparable to any ordinary surgery.
At the same time, the live surgery broadcasting room of Xinglin Garden went insane.
Hemostasis with emergency TIPS surgery! This was the most difficult surgery streamed yet.
A few did not understand the hype around TIPS surgery, but were soon clued in by ecstatic general surgeons and interventional doctors.
The procedure was not very clear, but portal-azygos disconnection was a textbook method, known to all physicians who had been through medical school.
[The surgeon’s about to defy fate!]
[They’re going to perform an emergency TIPS surgery with the patient in a lateral position… if every surgery in the past hadn’t been successful, I would have called this a failure already.]
[Just wait for the news of success, whelp. I have a hunch that this surgeon will achieve victory again if no accidents happen.]
[On that note, post-operative complications of TIPS surgery can be a handful. A few days ago, I received a patient who underwent TIPS surgery three months ago; he had been suffering from hepatic encephalopathy ever since the procedure.]
[There’s usually no choice. It’s between surgery and death. What would you have done?]
[Let’s play a game; those who guess correctly will get a reward. How many punctures do you think the surgeon will have to perform before they succeed?]
Most doctors present did not even understand the question. It was too technical and would never even come close to the domain of those not from general surgery or interventional radiology.
Locally, only hospitals at a provincial level or higher could perform such a surgery.
Failing that, they would invite experts and professors to come over and perform it. One or two successful cases would be sufficient for them to brag about for a year.
Meaningless as it was, it was clout.
It was also part of their culture.
[Twenty times!]
[I think the surgeon will fail. The patient kept moving onscreen and is probably vomiting blood.]
[How would one even develop the images with lateral positioning…]
[The machine can be adjusted. However, the angle makes the surgery more difficult. I’m starting to pity the surgeon who has to perform the surgery under such circ.u.mstances.]
[I think it can be accomplished within ten attempts. We invited a professor from Imperial Capital who succeeded on the tenth try.]
[That’s just luck. A few years back, we also invited a famous professor from Sorcery Capital to perform TIPS surgery, but he failed even after thirty attempts. I think the patient’s liver was perforated from all the punctures but the portal and hepatic veins remained out of reach.]
The viewers’ experiences soon fully conveyed the difficulty of the operation to all present.
Many of the doctors were dismayed from the descriptions of TIPS alone.
What kind of surgery was this? It was more like an attempt on the doctor’s own life.
The procedure required quite a bit of luck. Multiple punctures would seriously injure the liver and increase the risk of hepatic encephalopathy after surgery.
Either reason was enough for the doctor to give up.
If they refused to get involved, the life and death of the patient would not be on their hands.
If they did, and the patient died or suffered from serious hepatic encephalopathy, there was a high chance of a medical dispute after.
This… this surgeon was truly brave.
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