Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1111 - 896: You Are One of the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Soldiers Besieging the Great Saint

Chapter 1111: Chapter 896: You Are One of the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Soldiers Besieging the Great Saint

The European Spinal Surgery Annual Meeting is, in fact, the world’s academic feast of spinal surgery, with over six thousand doctors from around the globe gathering together.

Among the Japanese doctors who came to attend were Fujiwara Masao from Tokyo University Medical Department’s affiliated hospital, along with Takahashi, Sasaki, and Mitsui who followed Fujiwara.

Kobayashi Takeshi from Juntendo Hospital in Japan, being one of the leading figures in Japanese spinal surgery, also brought several doctors to the conference, as did the team from the spinal surgery experts at Keio University Hospital, led by Yoshiichi Yoshimura.

Of course, other Japanese hospitals sent doctors to participate as well, but compared to Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital and Juntendo Hospital, their presence at this academic conference was somewhat more like that of minor characters.

There were even more doctors from the United States attending, with many sent from hospitals such as the New York Special Surgery Hospital, Minnesota’s Twin Cities Spine Center, among others, with Woodhead representing the Minnesota Twin Cities Spine Center at the meeting.

Among the many American hospitals participating, one was particularly prominent: Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, the most authoritative academic institution for research on spinal deformities in the world, with several of its chairs coming from the International Scoliosis Research Association.

Dr. Martin Jerry, the representative of this hospital, is the current president of the International Scoliosis Research Association, and his academic presentation was scheduled right after August’s.

The top experts seated in the first row all came from these hospitals.

They were all stunned by Song Zimo’s presentation, as for the past twenty years, they’d been going in circles, unable to break through the iron wall of technology. Now, a Chinese doctor was leading the charge, pioneering a brand new path in spinal surgery.

Not only had Chinese doctors achieved tremendous innovation in theory, but they also had vast practical experience, having demonstrated the application of three different spinal correction techniques in three surgeries.

At this moment, Professor Su and Professor Liang were sitting in the first row, feeling incredibly proud. The main characters of this academic conference turned out to be Chinese doctors—it was like the new waves in the Yangtze River pushing forward the old waves, and they were full of confidence in the future of Chinese medicine, believing that China’s youth were destined to lead the world.

In addition to China, the United States, Britain, and Germany, many doctors from countries like France and Italy were also attending.

Now, Song Zimo was performing the second surgery, which had a higher technical content than the first, but the operation was even simpler.

The second surgery adopted a minimally invasive approach, using only a few small incisions to complete the whole operation. All the leading figures in attendance were amazed that spinal deformity correction could be done in such a way.

If the second surgery could be completed through small incisions, then the third surgery wouldn’t require any incisions at all—it would be done directly through a puncture, with a needle diameter even finer than that used for vertebroplasty.

After Song Zimo finished demonstrating the three surgeries, the entire venue was ecstatic. The technology brought by the Chinese doctors was so magical, coveted techniques that every spinal surgeon had dreamt of.

Especially for some of the world’s top doctors in attendance, the impact was even greater. Chinese doctors had addressed their pain points and realized their dreams.

There was a time when they feared the most serious complication in the correction of severe spinal deformities—paralysis.

Especially during the early stages of conducting surgeries, the rate of paralysis wasn’t low. As experience accumulated, the rate of paralysis dropped significantly but still existed and was directly proportional to the severity of the spinal deformity.

Even using spinal cord evoked potential monitoring was of no help because monitoring was just that—monitoring. When spinal cord injury occurred, its role was merely to give timely warning.

Back then, many doctors wished there was a way to avoid this complication. Now, that technology had appeared in the form of Yang-style osteotomy, no longer groping its way across the river by feeling the stones but using scientific theory to sidestep this massive risk.

When the Ilizarov technique was used for correcting limb deformities, some spinal surgeons wished it could be applied to spinal correction. That way, there would be no need to fix so many spinal segments, and there would be no fear that sudden correction would cause spinal cord injury.

Because external fixators are elastically secured and not absolutely stable, the spine loses stability after osteotomy, and relying on the external fixator alone cannot achieve stable fixation. The patient’s spine is very likely to shift out of place, leading to spinal cord injury. This became the impasse in applying external fixators for spinal correction.

In the face of this huge challenge, few explored the application of this technique for the spine, and the research of the few teams that did halted before formidable obstacles, or they eventually gave up altogether.

Epiphyseal blockade technology was to some extent used in the correction of limb deformities, but when doctors applied it to spinal correction, the complexity of spinal growth and the non-precision of the epiphyseal tissue meant the technique could only be employed for correcting simple side curvatures in children.

Now, based on animal experiments, Chinese doctors have mastered the precise epiphyseal arrest technique and have gathered extensive basic data on spine growth. Supported by these technologies and data, precise epiphyseal correction technology can be applied for correcting any degree of spinal deformity in children, provided that the patients have sufficient growth and development potential, which must encompass the extent of their spinal deformities.

If this precise epiphyseal blockade technique is revisited for limb correction, as long as the timing of application is appropriate, it could correct nearly all childhood skeletal deformities.