463 Smoothly (1/2)

Lu Wenbin's gaze traced after the path of Ling Ran's scalpel.

After Ling Ran sliced the skin open and started moving the scalpel downwards. More and more layers of yellow adipose tissue was exposed.

If Professor Huang had not given them a reminder beforehand, Lu Wenbin would have said something sarcastic by now.

To doctors, not only were fat bellies an obstacle during surgeries, but the fat also made it hard for incisions to be made.

”There's blood seeping out.” Lu Wenbin reminded Ling Ran in a hushed tone. He wore a troubled expression as he asked, ”Should we stop it with an endotherm knife?”

”There's no need for that. Give me a gauze.” Ling Ran extended his hand and asked for a gauze. He then carried out bleeding control by applying pressure on where the blood was seeping out.

Professor Huang was standing beside the operating table. He watched as Ling Ran performed bleeding control with the gauze and nodded silently in approval. He said to Lu Wenbin, ”The use of endotherm knife may cause the liquefaction of adipose cells, and it'll make postoperative recovery more difficult. You should use a gauze to stop bleeding whenever you can, as it'll make things easier after the surgery.”

Even though he sounded like he was talking to Lu Wenbin, he actually wanted the members of the Mei family who were watching the surgery from outside the operating theater to hear what he said.

Selecting Ling Ran for this surgery was not an easy choice for Professor Huang either.

If Professor Huang were a little more shameless and unethical, he could have made his life a lot easier by choosing an influential and renowned doctor.

By choosing Ling Ran, Professor Huang had no choice but to repeatedly sing Ling Ran's praises.

Despite all odds, Professor Huang was resolute in choosing Ling Ran who was highly skilled in hepatectomy, had a high success rate, and could ensure good prognosis.

Because of this, Professor Huang was under pressure from various parties, especially the members of the Mei family, who doubted Ling Ran's abilities. All of them, from direct family members and close relatives to distant relatives and Elder Mei's subordinates, never once doubted Ling Ran's abilities.

Professor Huang was only able to remain unfazed despite the pressure because he had been Elder Mei's family doctor for many years and had gained Elder Mei's trust, and because he was extremely confident in his decision.

But Professor Huang still wanted to help the members of the Mei family relax during the process of the surgery.

For the family members of patients, the time period before surgery and during surgery were two entirely different concepts.

This might be due to the workings of the human brain. Before the surgery began, even when the patient had already been wheeled into the operating theater, as long as the doctor had not made the incision, the patient's family member would feel that there's still room for choice and the possibility of the surgery not being carried out.

However, after anesthetics were administered and an incision had been made on the patient's abdomen, the horror that came with watching a family member being operated on would immediately heighten.

All kinds of ”what ifs” and possibilities would immediately fill up the minds of the patient's family members.

Even though Elder Mei's eldest daughter had been through all kinds of emergency situations, she could not help but tear up as she watched her father, whose eyes were tightly shut, through the big screen.

”Thank God we didn't ask mom to come over,” Elder Mei's eldest daughter said as she wiped her tears.

Mei Tiangui hummed softly. He then looked at his phone and said, ”We have already found dad the best doctors and made the best choice. God always keeps the good out of harm's way.”

”So, now you believe in God too?” Elder Mei's oldest daughter gave Mei Tiangui a sidelong glance

Mei Tiangui furrowed his eyebrows, and he looked so fierce that his face, which already looked fierce to begin with since he was a member of the Mei family, seemed to have frozen over. The people beside him immediately lowered their heads when they saw this.

Doctor Jin coughed a few times and said, ”For Elder Mei's surgery, the first risk is the making of the incision. Looking at the way things are going right now, there shouldn't be any problem. Doctor Ling is pretty skilled at bleeding control.”

Even though he had no particular admiration for this young man called Ling Ran, Doctor Jin really could not find any flaws in Ling Ran's maneuvers, especially when it came to bleeding control. Doctor Jin had seen the same when he had observed other surgeries Ling Ran carried out, and this was one of the things about Ling Ran that he secretly admired, even if only a little.

Mei Tiangui glanced at the screen and said, ”By this, do you mean that the surgery has been going smoothly so far?”

”Yeah,” Doctor Jin said crisply, ”Next up would be laparotomy, with the exposure of an adequate surgical field being the aim. Surgical field means what the surgeons could see during the surgery. As Elder Mei is pretty plump, the process wouldn't be very easy…”

”Adjust the lamp a little. Now, we're going to interrupt the blood flow of the hepatic portal vein…”

Doctor Jin froze for a moment before he nodded and said, ”It seems like Doctor Ling is done with the laparotomy. Hm, this means that the first stage of the surgery went smoothly. And it's considered extremely quick too. Just like what the chief surgeon just said, the most important thing that has to be done next is to interrupt the blood flow. As the chief surgeon chose the hepatic portal vein, it would be quite a difficult endeavour. There're a few methods, and each has their pros and cons. As doctors, the only thing we can do is to choose the method with the most pros and the least cons…”

”The blood flow is interrupted already. Start the stopwatch.” Ling Ran's voice rang out from behind them again.

Doctor Jin could not help but turn to look at the big screen behind him.

Through the panoramic lens, he could see that Ling Ran had started operating on the exposed liver.

Doctor Jin gasped a little and glanced at his watch without being aware of it.