107 A Prominence in Wood (1/2)

”Ling Ran, you did a perineurium anastomosis today?” asked Doctor Zhou in a soft voice when he saw Ling Ran enter the office.

There were no secrets in the hospital, especially when it came to medical matters and romantic affairs.

”Yes.” Ling Ran who had just finished performing the surgery drank the bottled water on the table in one go, finally quenching his thirst.

After waiting quietly for a few seconds, only then did Doctor Zhou continue to ask. ”How was the result? You're really gutsy.”

Doctors were accustomed to abstaining from food and water before surgery, especially ordinary surgeries that were a few hours long as they could basically only hold their urine during the surgery. The more water they drank, the harder it would be for them.

Although adult diapers could solve most of their problems, due to considerations for their image and the price of adult diapers, doctors tried their best not to resort to this.

Ling Ran reflected earnestly for a moment, and said, ”If the nerve recovers well, the result should be quite good.”

Doctor Zhou looked as if he was being choked, and said, ”Are you really confident about it?”

”Yes.” Ling Ran's reply was so brief that it made Doctor Zhou even more confused about the situation.

”Then, go and get yourself prepared. Department Director Huo will definitely ask you about it later,” Doctor Zhou reminded Ling Ran and went back to his seat to drink tea.

Among the three types of nerve anastomosis, perineurium anastomosis was the one that was the most hardcore.

Ordinarily, a doctor with good suturing skills could give epineurium anastomosis a try. For example, those with suturing skills on par with Ling Ran's Master Level Simple Interrupted Suture Technique would have the basics that allowed them to carry out epineurium anastomosis only after putting in a bit more practice. However, perineurium anastomosis which was carried out under a microscope required relatively more specific skills.

The third type—epineurium and perineurium anastomosis—was even harder than perineurium anastomosis since it was a combination of the other two types.

But if a doctor knew how to perform nerve anastomosis, regardless of which type, the range of surgeries he could perform would instantly go up by one level.

In the past, when Ling Ran was performing flexor tendon surgeries in Zone II, every time he encountered patients with associated nerve damage or associated fractures, Huo Congjun would straightaway reject these cases.

When it came to patients with flexor tendon damage, Yun Hua Hospital's Emergency Department only took in those with pure flexor tendon damage. At most, they would only take in patients like Li Huamin with one or two ruptured nerves that doctors may choose not to suture.

Patients who exceeded that range could only find ways to receive treatment outside the province, or head to the Hand Surgery Department to have their tendons sutured with techniques like the Kessler suture technique before they sought treatment from the Neurosurgery Department to have their nerves sutured. If those two options were not viable, they could only give up nerve anastomosis and have their tendons sutured first. For even more complicated cases, amputation might be the only way to go.

However, if the perineurium anastomosis performed by Ling Ran were to have a high success rate, it would be a lot easier for Huo Congjun to find patients... because many patients with hand injuries also suffered associated nerve damage.

More importantly, doctors able to carry out tendon anastomosis in no man's land together with nerve anastomosis were a step above those who could only carry out only tendon anastomosis. They were only slightly inferior to doctors who could perform limb replantation.

In the field of hand and foot surgery, not many hospitals could do this. If you were to consider the success rate, the surgeries done by Ling Ran were even worth looking forward to.

But a moment later, Huo Congjun charged angrily into the office.

”Ling Ran!” Huo Congjun shouted the moment he walked through the door. His demeanor was so imposing that he sounded like a marshal looking for his disappeared knights in anger, and his hair was so tousled that he looked like an old cat with unruly fur.

Ling Ran turned to look at him.

”You did a perineurium anastomosis?” Huo Congjun's question was almost the same as what Doctor Zhou had asked Ling Ran earlier. Pleased with himself, Doctor Zhou arched an eyebrow at Ling Ran. Doctor Zhou never slacked when it came to predicting other people's actions.

Ling Ran answered Huo Congjun the same way he answered Doctor Zhou, ”Yes.” After thinking about it, he added, ”The condition of the nerve after it was sutured was quite good. We'll see how the patient recovers after this.”

”Let's go and take a look at the patient.” Of course Huo Congjun would not let things go after just listening to what Ling Ran said.

When Doctor Zhou saw that Ling Ran was getting up, he put on his large white coat and followed Ling Ran without hesitation. A few other doctors in the office who had nothing to do at the moment did the same.

In the ward.

Li Huamin was already awake. Even though her hand was bandaged and fastened into a fixed position, she was struggling to get up and shouted, ”I want to be transferred to another ward. This ward is bad for my recovery.”