Chapter 380 Iron Will

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the temperature in the operating room seems to be still dropping.

The red clock on the wall has passed four hours, which means Lu Liang's heart has also stopped beating for four hours.

Su Jie had heard a saying before that after the heart stops beating, the soul will leave the body and walk towards the escalator to heaven.

And once the soul really enters the kingdom of heaven, the person will never wake up again.

The cryogenic technology slows down the departure of the soul, but at the same time it inevitably affects the medical staff in the operating room.

This is a double-edged sword.

Even Su Jie, who has [anti-freeze properties], gradually felt stiffness in his fingers after four hours of high-intensity surgery.

And my mental state is far less full than when I first came on stage.

Su Jie could clearly feel that he was getting tired.

but.

Fortunately, the results of these four hours are exciting enough!

Although a lot of time was wasted on the mediastinal adhesions, Lu Liang's fragile aorta was completely stripped out.

The thick, swollen aorta lay quietly in the core area of ​​Lu Liang's body, and the huge incision of more than 50 centimeters was frightening to see.

Extraordinary surgery has already shown its horror. This approach, which almost requires drastic reshaping of a person, is daunting.

"It was so fast. The complete aorta was stripped out in four hours. The most difficult stage is over. All we have to do next is replace it with an artificial blood vessel!"

"Can Dr. Su still hold on? My feet are sore just standing here for four hours, but he has been undergoing high-intensity surgery for four hours in a row, and it is still in such a low temperature environment."

"The next suturing is a delicate job and requires very high sensitivity of the fingers. I felt my fingers were a little frozen even in the observation room. Does Dr. Su Jie want to take a rest?"

The doctors in the observation room couldn't help but feel a little worried about Su Jie.

But they also know in their hearts that the surgeon cannot rest under such circumstances. Unless someone else takes over immediately, the surgeon must race against time to complete the operation.

Circulatory arrest is also a different kind of injury to patients. Shortening the circulatory arrest time as much as possible is of great significance to postoperative recovery!

Obviously, the concerns of the doctors in the observation room were not conveyed to Su Jie. After completing the total aortic dissection, Su Jie started the next step without any pause or hesitation.

The diseased aorta is removed, and the artificial blood vessel is cut and replaced.

Coldness and fatigue were like two negative effects attached to Su Jie's body, making him fall into a deep state of weakness.

His body seemed to be stuck in the mire of deep winter. The biting cold mud wrapped every piece of Su Jie's skin and soaked into every pore of Su Jie, dragging him and wanting him to stop.

It's a pity that all this seems so vulnerable in the face of steel willpower.

Su Jie took a deep breath, and a large amount of cold air was inhaled into his lungs. The slight pain from the fine needle made him feel refreshed.

Both hands clenched fists hard, blood was squeezed and quickly transported to the distal knuckles, and the yellow nervous system was fully activated.

Someone once said that when facing a disaster, spiritual will is the first weapon of mankind!

At this moment, facing Lu Liang, who entrusted his life and death to him, Su Jie activated his first sequence of weapons.

All negative effects were forcibly cleared away, and Su Jie's eyes became powerful and sharp again. He slightly raised his head and glanced at the red clock on the wall, then lowered his head and began to replace the artificial blood vessel.

Observation indoors.

James' whole body was almost pressed against the glass window, and his stiff and numb palms were hidden behind him at some point. Through the glass window, his eyes were fixed on Su Jie, and he even ignored that Su Jie was looking at him.

Wonderful operation.

As a talented cardiac surgeon, James no longer cared too much about Su Jie's operation.

What he couldn't understand was how Su Jie maintained such a perfect state for so long?

James once witnessed the Mayo Center complete a total aortic replacement surgery, which lasted seven hours and was completed by two top cardiac surgeons.

Both of them are in their prime, at the peak of their experience and physical fitness.

But even these two experts, after the operation, waved their hands with sweat on their heads and said that they may not be able to perform a few such operations in a lifetime, because it is too difficult and consumes too much.

But now about five hours have passed, and Su Jie's condition is obviously getting better and better, and the accuracy of his hands when suturing is not much better than when he was in the best condition.

How on earth did he do it?

James has always felt that the world is fair.

If you are young, you are correspondingly inexperienced.

You have rich experience, but it means you are no longer young and have insufficient stamina.

James himself is considered an alternative. He has always been called a genius. Although he is young, he already has more exquisite medical skills than many of his predecessors.

But seeing Su Jie's performance during this operation, James suddenly felt confused.

Young, energetic, experienced and highly skilled...

This is simply unscientific.

Time passed minute by minute.

Extraordinary surgeries take too long, and people in the observation room come and go. Although everyone hopes to watch the complete operation, they have to work.

In the entire observation room, only James stood like a wooden sculpture from the beginning of the operation until now.

The red clock on the wall has pointed to six hours, and there is only one hour left until the Mayo Center completes a total aortic replacement.

But on the operating table, Su Jie's operation was obviously nearing completion.

The artificial blood vessels successively replaced Lu Liang's aorta, aortic arch, two sets of intercostal arteries, celiac trunk arteries, superior mesenteric arteries, bilateral renal arteries and other full active and branch blood vessels.

In the huge incision, a brand new white artificial blood vessel lay quietly where the aorta was.

seven hours.

The operation is basically completed.

"Protamine neutralizes heparin, prepares to restore circulation, and see how the bleeding goes."

Su Jie's vocal cords had not vibrated for almost seven hours, and he suddenly started speaking with an unusually hoarse voice.

The cardiopulmonary bypass specialist nodded heavily and began the operation.

All the doctors in the observation room and live broadcast room were also refreshed. They all understood that the moment to verify the final results of this operation was coming.

The ultimate goal of total aortic resection and replacement with artificial blood vessels is to supply blood to the heart.

Anticoagulant heparin is used extensively during the entire operation, and the complex surgical resection process may damage peripheral blood vessels at any time, and these problems cannot be observed in the state of circulatory arrest.

Only when the heart starts beating again and the surging blood vessels are poured into the artificial blood vessels, can the doctors know whether their six or seven hours of hard work was worth it.

The dark red blood was withdrawn from the extracorporeal circulation machine and began to be slowly poured into the snow-white artificial blood vessels. Everyone's eyes were as if they had turned on a tracker, staring closely at the dark red blood as it moved forward.

"No bleeding!"

“Perfect operation!”

"In six hours, a total aortic replacement was completed independently. This is the first of its kind in China!"

James stood in the observation room, feeling a little dazed.

From the beginning, he felt that Lu Liang could not operate, then he questioned Su Jie's ability to perform surgery, and then he wanted to perform surgery with Su Jie.

But what he didn't expect was that in the end, he would become a member of the public. Like all the doctors around him, he could only applaud Su Jie's wonderful surgical operation through this damn glass.

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James pursed his lips, slowly raised his hands, and then clapped them together. The sound was low at first, and then became louder and louder.

The doctors around him were also encouraged and applauded vigorously.
Chapter completed!