979 A Sensation That He Never Would Have Missed (1/2)

Associate Chief Physician Yao gazed at the patient on the operating table with a solemn expression. The scalpel felt so heavy, and he felt like a disloyal married man with four girlfriends who was holding the keys to the first girlfriend's house.

Every single surgeon was familiar with bleeding control, and as an associate chief physician, Associate Chief Physician Yao did it all the time.

That was exactly why he knew how hard it was to deal with this patient's hemorrhage.

Of course, it was easy to make an incision on the patient's abdominal wall. But if he was unable to quickly and accurately find the bleeding point, the patient's blood would flow out like a broken dam, until all his blood vessels were drained. It would be to the point that the blood would not be able to be replaced quickly enough even if blood was transfused into the veins of both his hands.

Associate Chief Physician Yao knew the feeling of how the success of something would be decided in a split second all too well. The pressure that came with it could kill a person.

He tightened his grip on the scalpel and glanced at Ling Ran. He decided to take a step backward. He said with a soft voice, ”Doctor Ling, I'll be performing laparotomy. Will you be executing bleeding control?”

Ling Ran was renowned in the hospital for his amazing bleeding control skills. As for laparotomy, it was nothing difficult, and it was only about as difficult as opening a door with a key. The decision made after the door was opened was more difficult. It was a matter of where to place his hand or the surgical instrument.

Even though the atmosphere in the operating theater was calm and Ling Ran was confident, Associate Chief Physician Yao would rather play it safe.

However, Ling Ran who was busy making commands had no intention of picking up the baton.

He quickly shook his head regretfully. ”A new batch of ambulances will be arriving very soon, so you'll have to do it.”

”Oh… alright.” There was nothing Associate Chief Physician Yao could do. Ling Ran had a good reason. And more importantly, the patient lying on the operating table belonged to him.

In other words, even though he wanted to avert responsibility, he was unable to do it completely.

”I'll start performing laparotomy, then.” Associate Chief Physician Yao did not say much. As if he was opening a door, he quickly landed his scalpel on the patient's abdomen and made an incision.

Compared with how things were before where Ling Ran ordered him to open the patient's abdominal cavity right away, Ling Ran was doing things differently right now.

Associate Chief Physician Yao thought that it was quite a pity. 'As expected, Doctor Ling has grown as a person. Unlike before, he's no longer…'

That was when Ling Ran spoke. ”Try your best to keep the incision closer to the crotch area. After slicing open the peritoneum, you can insert your hand into the abdominal cavity and move it to the right. See if you can find the bleeding point. I reckon that it should be thirty degrees from the midline…”

Associate Chief Physician Yao froze for a moment. 'Such detail!'

However, there was no time for him to ask any questions.

Associate Chief Physician Yao held his breath a little. He started focusing all his attention on the patient the way he used to put his full focus on his exam papers during examinations.

No matter how much a person prepared himself before an examination and no matter what kind of good or bad things he had predicted, the moment he entered the examination hall, he could only depend on himself. And no matter what kind of accident befell him, he would have no choice but to accept it calmly.

It was the same when it came to surgeries.

Before Associate Chief Physician Yao performed the incision, all kinds of thoughts ran through his mind. He tried to avert responsibility and look for help. But right after he started making the incision, all these were in the past.

All had been said and done...

And his performance in the operating theater would decide the final outcome of the surgery.

Associate Chief Physician Yao made an incision with his eyebrows furrowed and ordered his assistants to aspirate. He then did as Ling Ran had said and slowly inserted his hand into the patient's abdominal cavity.

Associate Chief Physician Yao was neither experienced nor confident when it came to barehanded bleeding control. Hence, he was doing it quite slowly, and he was hesitant throughout the process.

Fortunately, Ling Ran did not say anything about it, and Associate Chief Physician Yao breathed an internal sigh of relief.

It would be embarrassing for him to have Ling Ran point out his flaw.

”Have you found the bleeding point?” Ling Ran's voice rang out from behind.