Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1022 - 846: How to Use a Knife in Crannies

Chapter 1022: Chapter 846: How to Use a Knife in Crannies

Several days later, Nie Shun’e was transferred from the ICU back to the general ward.

Her condition after the surgery was very stable, and she could now consume liquid diets like rice soup. The yellowish hue on her face was gradually fading, and the distended pain in her abdomen was gone. With standardized pain management, the pain from the surgery incision was basically bearable.

Theoretically, a recurrence of the tumor was certain, but given that the tumor excision was so clean, there shouldn’t be any major problems in the short term.

For Nie Shun’e, she was no longer concerned about the potential recurrence. If she could live one more day, that was all that mattered – to make the most of each day she was alive.

The "Charity Organization" sent someone with a basket of flowers and nutritional supplements to visit Nie Shun’e. They offered to help her apply for a charity assistance fund, which would be a substantial amount, possibly reaching one hundred thousand.

Nie Shun’e declined, saying her life was manageable, she could fend for herself, and she did not need help from others.

Accepting help made one feel obliged and indebted, even if it was charity support, and Nie Shun’e was used to solving her own problems.

Yang Ping arrived at Beijing Xiehe Hospital, which was his assigned station. In his absence, the department with its forty-five beds was managed by Song Yun, who was effectively the acting director.

Work at Xiehe comprised ward rounds, teaching, and supervising surgeries.

Unnoticed until seen, during the ward round, Yang Ping counted the number of patients awaiting surgery, only to find that the team had taken on more than thirty new cases.

Operating on so many patients in just a few days, the team must have been possessed by a drive to push their limits. Song Yun chuckled and said, "Professor, my apologies!"

"How many tables?"

Yang Ping asked, knowing that they wanted to maximize the number of surgeries completed in the few days.

"Two dedicated tables, one for me and one for Kong Weiquan, and you, Professor, need to supervise in rotation. There are also a few surgeries that you have to perform as the chief surgeon because we simply can’t handle them," Song Yun said with a smile.

With so many patients, discussing their cases and performing pre-surgical discussions would take all day, and the discussions inevitably weaved in some teaching. Today, it would stretch into the evening.

After completing the ward rounds, everyone gathered around the digital viewer to discuss the cases.

The cases were manageable, except for one patient with a vertebral tumor, which nearly spanned across the spinal cord and had undergone surgery twice, which was very problematic. Yang Ping requested to see this most challenging case first.

Turning on the digital viewer, the physician in charge brought up the images of the case.

"Professor, I admitted this patient from the outpatient department. They underwent surgery twice. The first surgery did not remove the tumor but just stabilized the spine. In the second surgery, the surgeon intended to excise the tumor, but upon opening during the operation, found it impossible to proceed and didn’t know where to make the incisions. Therefore, the chief surgeon aborted the surgery, only taking a piece of the tumor tissue for pathological examination. Now the main issue for the patient is pain. They suffer from severe pain in the bilateral upper limbs, unbearable, and their muscle strength is diminishing with grade four on the left limb and only grade three on the right. Standing requires the support of family members or a cane, and currently, oral pain medication and cobalamin are utterly ineffective," the physician in charge explained the situation of the case.

Song Yun briefly summarized the history of the case.

Numbness in both hands, unable to put weight on the left foot—as if stepping on cotton, was excruciatingly painful.

"The tumor invades cervical 4, 5, 6, with presence both inside and outside the medulla," Yang Ping commented while examining the images.

"Pathological specimens were taken during both surgeries, and the postoperative pathological diagnosis was hemangioblastoma."

While everyone was discussing the case, Director Zuo from Major Vascular Surgery and Director Wen from the Cardiac Surgery Department, accompanied by two students, came in carrying a basket of fruit. They had heard that Yang Ping had arrived and took the time to come and see him.

Director Zuo knew Yang Ping from when he performed a vertebrae tumor surgery at Xiehe, demonstrating the en-bloc resection of the vertebral tumor with no leakage. Due to the tumor adhering to the aorta, separating it caused the aortic wall to thin, requiring an intraoperative implantation of an artificial blood vessel, which was performed by Director Zuo, giving them a chance to meet.

The medical community can sometimes be very small; Yang Ping was known for his 13 CNS papers and his group coronary bypass surgeries at the 301 Hospital, which had become widely known in Beijing’s cardiovascular surgery circles.

Director Wen had a special case in hand, a little boy just over a month old, diagnosed with Kawasaki disease affecting the coronary arteries, needing a coronary bypass. Coronary artery bypass surgery itself is a high-level precision operation, with very few hospitals in the country capable of performing it, even fewer carrying out children’s coronary bypasses, especially for such young patients, with no precedent to follow.

Hearing about Yang Ping’s research in cardiac surgery, Director Wen came looking for a discussion but didn’t personally know him. Director Zuo, however, did.

Cardiac surgery and major vascular surgery were essentially in the same category, collectively known as cardiovascular surgery, but at a large hospital like Xiehe, they were separated to strive for excellence.

"You shouldn’t have brought anything," Song Yun said, taking the fruit basket while inviting the two directors to sit down.

"This is Director Wen from our Cardiac Surgery Department, and this is our Professor Yang," Director Zuo facilitated the introduction for both of them.

"So young! It seems we really are getting old," Director Wen said humorously upon seeing Yang Ping.

"Thank you, directors. What brings you to visit?" Yang Ping asked bluntly, aware that they must have had a reason to come bearing gifts.

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