Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1206 - 939: Hurry Up and Go to China

Chapter 1206: Chapter 939: Hurry Up and Go to China

Xia Shu’s father was transferred to the Surgical Research Institute, and Head Nurse Cai made a special effort to reserve the sole suite in the Ward for Xia Shu’s father. She secretly paid out of her own pocket to have the bed fees listed separately in the Outpatient department for payment, bypassing the total inpatient costs.

Malignant Tumors call for early treatment, early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. Xia Shu’s father’s stomach cancer is currently at an early stage and has not yet spread, so the effect of the surgery is very good.

This way, Xia Shu felt a bit better, but his heart was still heavy. He had been the pride of his parents when he went off to study, having been admitted to Xiehe Hospital. After graduating, he remained in Beijing to work, but now he was without money or a wife, causing his parents worry.

"I will take the films to Professor Yang for a look," Xia Shu’s mood stabilized.

Head Nurse Cai said, "I have already shown them to the Professor. The Professor said it’s early stage, and the effect of the surgery will be very good. You don’t have to worry, and it’s minimally invasive, done under a laparoscope."

The competent Head Nurse had everything well arranged, and Xia Shu was very grateful to her. At that moment, he truly felt somewhat chaotic and distressed, further compounded by his unfamiliarity with the hospital, which made handling matters inefficiently. Fortunately, he had the help of Head Nurse Cai.

Whenever Professor Yang had free time, he would share cases he encountered at the City People’s Hospital with everyone, because they had strong cautionary value.

The case with the fish bone made everyone understand that their daily work required a rigorous attitude, and they absolutely could not neglect certain details, especially when they felt complacent about routine safety being uneventful, thus not adhering strictly to protocols and regulations.

The case of the "Balloon Man" was actually similar to tension pneumothorax; the formation of tension pneumothorax means that the entire chest, including the skin, is already perforated, equating the chest cavity with the outside. At the communicating wound, a flap valve forms that opens during inhalation, allowing air from the outside to enter the chest cavity, while during exhalation, the valve is closed, preventing the air just inhaled into the chest cavity from escaping. Consequently, the air can only go in and not out, building up increasingly in the chest cavity and ultimately severely affecting breathing and leading to death.

Tension pneumothorax is an absolute medical emergency. During on-scene emergency treatment, a large-bore needle is often inserted into the chest cavity to release air, and if possible, immediately followed by a closed chest drainage.

The "Balloon Man" encountered at the City People’s Hospital suffered from subcutaneous emphysema caused by chest trauma, similar in mechanism to tension pneumothorax, but different in process. The formation of this subcutaneous emphysema meant that the chest wall wound had penetrated from the inside out, just stopping under the skin, which remained unbroken, leaving the chest cavity unconnected to the exterior but communicating with the potential space beneath the skin. At the same time, the Lung was ruptured, allowing air from inside the Lung to leak out.

The chest wound also had a flap valve that opened during exhalation. The air leaked from the Lungs during exhalation would enter beneath the skin through the open valve wound. During inhalation, the valve closes, preventing the air just under the skin from being drawn back into the chest cavity. As a result, the air beneath the skin accumulated more and more, eventually spreading to all sides. As the spreading air continued to inflate the skin, the entirety of the body’s skin, being an interconnected whole, could be puffed out, turning the entire person into what resembled a balloon.

Because of the Lung perforation, some of the leaking air accumulated in the chest cavity, also forming a pneumothorax. The primary danger of a pneumothorax is that it eliminates the negative pressure in the chest cavity and the accumulating air compresses the Lung, making it unable to expand, leading to eventual suffocation and death.

Patients at the Surgical Research Institute were increasing in number, all with surgeries that could not or would not be undertaken elsewhere. Because there were so many patients, and they were all high-risk, surgeries had to be scheduled a year in advance.

With so many patients, and all at high risk, without strict work protocols and a rigorous work ethic, medical accidents could easily occur.

So, emphasizing medical safety can never be overdone.

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At this time in the United States.

Li Gaoyang was very dissatisfied with the decision that seemed inconceivable to the elders, and it was not just Li Gaoyang, but the entire company’s younger faction that was discontent.

Perhaps these old men had grown old and lost their fighting spirit. Li Gaoyang and the younger faction secretly convened a meeting and then drafted a petition that everyone signed, hoping to use it to persuade the elders to make a swift and decisive cut.

Recently, the company had been too busy. With so many companies under the BG Group, Li Gaoyang, who already worked at a very fast pace, now faced unprecedented challenges. As the family’s public helmsman, the pressure on him was already great.

After delivering the petition to the elders, Li Gaoyang hurriedly boarded his private jet to Rochester, Minnesota.

The annual comprehensive health check-up had just been completed, and the Mayo Clinic’s medical team had scheduled a phone appointment for Gaoyang to meet in Rochester.

This was a routine procedure for the medical team. As the leader of BG Company, he wouldn’t normally need to make such a trip since, following previous years’ custom, after the check-up, the medical team would come to his office in New York to communicate face-to-face, informing him of his current health status and providing medical advice.

But this time was different; the Mayo Clinic wanted Li Gaoyang to personally travel to Rochester to facilitate communication with the medical team.

In the spacious office, Li Gaoyang met the medical team, who explained and advised on the results of each organ examined. The last person to stay was Doctor John Ansen from Neurosurgery—a familiar face to Li as they saw each other at every annual check-up.

Li Gaoyang’s routine check-up results from the Mayo Clinic had come out, and an MRI of the head revealed a Tumor in a very troublesome location.