Chapter 342 - Working the Professor Like A Servant (2/2)

[Thanks for the invitation. Let me explain to you guys briefly from an orthopedics surgeon’s perspective.

To remove the spinal cord tumor, it would involve complicated operations to resect the vertebra. In order to reduce the amount of blood loss that could lead to death, the patients should undergo embolization on the tumor arteries, with selective sectioning radiography on the chest and spine 24 or 48 hours before the surgery.]

[Uhm, not too long ago, our hospital did the first spinal cord tumor resection. We did not perform embolization and the patient lost 6 liters of blood. Blood was flowing out even under constant transfusion. The orthopedic surgeon almost peed his pants.]

[You guys can do it even without an interventional doctor. It’s quite easy to do the lumbar artery embolization with a Gelfoam sponge.]

[if it was that easy, would the professor be doing this? Why do I feel that besides the appendectomy that I missed, the surgeon’s broadcasts are becoming less frequent but with an improvement to surgery quality over time? All of his surgeries are extremely difficult to pull off.]

Before the surgery had begun, everyone was happily exchanging their views and opinions.

In the hybrid operating room, Professor Rudolf had inserted the catheter in the femoral artery and fixed the arterial sheath in place, waiting to a.s.sist Zheng Ren in surgery.

The professor had gone down a rabbit hole with no end.

Only a few days ago, Professor Rudolf Wagner was the world’s top surgeon. He had probably not done any preoperative work for at least a decade long.

However, he had accepted his fate in such a short period of time and became an “excellent” a.s.sistant.

Zheng Ren was used to Su Yun inserting the arterial sheath beforehand so that he could start the surgery immediately. However, he was not bothered by whether it was Su Yun or Professor Rudolf doing the preop.

He went on the operating stage and inserted the micro-guide wire. The surgery had now officially started.

When Zheng Ren intentionally avoided the lumbar artery and started the embolization on other smaller branches, many experienced orthopedic surgeons went berserk.

[What surgical method is this surgeon applying? Isn’t the surgery over after inserting the Gelfoam sponge into the lumbar artery? The main event is the vertebral resection.]

[Ya, why is the surgeon performing embolization on the branches?]

[That’s so strange.]

Everybody was baffled on why he was trying to complicate such a “simple” surgery.

Indeed, more artery embolization would significantly reduce blood loss but at the same time, it would amplify the overall risks.

It was not worth it.

Time pa.s.sed as Zheng Ren embolized one artery after another with the a.s.sistance of Professor Rudolf Wagner.

Even the professor could not understand his methods at the beginning.

However, he was still the world’s top interventional surgeon. He understood Zheng Ren’s intention 5 minutes into the embolization.

Professor Rudolf could sense Zheng Ren’s ambition to “complicate” this surgery.

What was supposed to be a simple surgery had turned into a complicated operation.

Was this the reason why Zheng Ren brought him along to the 64-slice CT scan with three-dimensional image reconstruction? Was he trying to show him something?

Once again, Professor Rudolf was overthinking and got all excited.

Based on his professional judgment, Professor Rudolf had guessed that Zheng Ren also did a 64-slice CT scan with three-dimensional image reconstruction prior to performing the prostate interventional surgery.

Zheng Ren must be trying to teach him the embolization techniques through this surgery.

What a selfless young man, Professor Rudolf Wagner thought.

The professor paid full attention since it was related to the prostate embolization surgery, which was his main concern.

Dr. Zhou was totally lost in the middle of watching Zheng Ren and the German Professor from the operating console room.

He did not know much about interventional surgery, but the surgeons from Imperial Capital told him that it would only take around twenty minutes.

How long had it been?

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