Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1216 - 943: I Will Keep Up_2

Chapter 1216: Chapter 943: I Will Keep Up_2

The scalp has a rich blood supply and heals quickly. Generally, stitches can be removed in 3-5 days. The high school student’s surgical incision on the head was ready to have stitches removed, and once completed, he could be discharged and return to school.

Mr. Karen from Sweden is still residing in the CCU. Without surgery, he cannot leave the CCU’s monitoring and treatment, and may even require ECMO support if necessary.

This type of valve replacement surgery followed by endocarditis is hard to eliminate the infection of the endocardium with solely medical treatment. It necessitates the surgical removal of the original valve, eradication of all infectious lesions, and subsequent reconstruction surgery.

Yang Ping planned to proceed with the surgery only after all preoperative examinations were completed and all indicators met the requirements.

Mr. Karen’s chief physician in Sweden — Dr. Davenport from Karolinska University Hospital — had accompanied the medical flight to China. He is an outstanding cardiac surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital, renowned throughout Europe. Mr. Karen’s first two surgeries were performed by him, and it was he who proposed the heart transplant plan. Now, he wanted to stay and see how Yang Ping was going to perform this surgery.

Although Sweden is not a large country, Karolinska University Hospital is one of the best hospitals in Europe.

In the Western tradition, respect is granted based on competence, thus Dr. Davenport’s arrival at Sanbo Hospital felt like entering a medical temple, much like the feeling Chinese doctors have when they go abroad to top hospitals for training. Unfortunately, he does not speak Chinese and can only use a translation device for daily communication.

If he were officially here to train, he would not have had the chance, but as Mr. Karen’s doctor, he could provide Mr. Karen’s medical history anytime, which allowed him to stay at the Surgical Research Institute using this special status, and incidentally complete a learning opportunity.

The Swedish doctor was very diligent; he followed Yang Ping everywhere and somehow managed to get a little translation box, which he hung around his neck all day, watching intently.

Yang Ping glanced at the device; it appeared to be a Chinese iflytek translator, likely set up by Ning Qi’s team, as Mr. Karen’s accompanying staff arrangements were managed by people from her company.

Yang Ping, along with Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, went to the CCU to make rounds. Dr. Davenport truly followed closely behind Yang Ping, afraid of losing him in an unfamiliar place. If he fell even slightly behind, he immediately caught up and stood behind Yang, and then naively smiled at the people he pushed past, repeatedly saying, "Sorry." It seemed this was the only Chinese phrase he knew.

Mr. Karen lay in the bed, connected to various tubes, and all necessary measures had been taken, short of ECMO, which was already prepared.

At Karolinska University Hospital, if it weren’t for the fear of severe bacterial endocarditis that had spread throughout his body, Dr. Davenport would have already performed a heart replacement for Mr. Karen. But bacterial endocarditis was like a roadblock; in such a case, forcing a heart replacement could lead to disastrous consequences if the infection became uncontrollable.

At the bedside, Yang Ping personally conducted a surface ultrasound on Mr. Karen: large growths attached to the aortic and mitral valves, with abscess formation around the valve, severely damaging the normal structure of the heart.

This damage led to a significant decline in cardiac function, causing severe heart failure.

"Can we perform a Commando operation?"

The Swedish doctor asked cautiously, then handed the translator to Yang Ping.

"Yes, we can!" Yang Ping spoke into the translator.

Professor Yang had no time to speak to the machine, so a graduate student immediately came forward to help translate. Fortunately, the Swede spoke both Swedish and very good English.

Seeing the Swede’s eagerness to learn, the graduate student reluctantly decided to promote internationalism by acting as his translator.

"The heart structure is already damaged; door, door frame, and walls are all destructible. Can we perform a Commando operation?" the Swedish doctor asked incredulously.

Yang Ping handed the ultrasound probe to a doctor beside him: "Reconstruct, we’ll rebuild the already damaged structures."

In the three surgical stages of resection, repair, and reconstruction, reconstructive surgery demands the highest skill, and cardiac reconstruction is exceptionally challenging. It requires rebuilding damaged structures under extreme conditions. In Dr. Davenport’s knowledge, this type of valve surgery reconstruction was only limited to the door and frame, and the walls were beyond current medical capabilities.

"May I observe the surgery?" Dr. Davenport mustered the courage to ask.

Yang Ping thought for a moment: "According to our protocol, you cannot, but if you can answer our questions at any time and provide past medical history during the surgery, then it is possible."

"I can do that; Mr. Karen has always been under my care, and I conducted both of his surgeries. The information on written medical records is limited, but I have much more stored in my brain that you can inquire about anytime," Dr. Davenport said excitedly.

"Alright then, keep up with us."

Yang Ping removed his gloves and began to review Mr. Karen’s various test data once again. Surgery is a sacred and meticulous practice; every step must be taken with utmost caution.

"I will keep up," the Swede immediately took a few steps forward to be closer to Yang Ping, then naively smiled at the person next to him, muttering apologies.

The implication was that this position was his, and he must keep up with Professor Yang.

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The next day, Mr. Karen from Sweden was scheduled for surgery, but he hadn’t been brought to the operating room yet.

In the changing room, Yang Ping, Song Zimo, and Xu Zhiliang were resting, while Zhang Lin, Little Five, and Liang Fatty were plotting to sneak off for a smoke.

Fatty had been in a bad mood lately, having disagreements with his girlfriend. His good buddies, Zhang Lin and Little Five, accompanied him for a smoke to cheer him up and incidentally gave him some psychological counseling. This was something they hadn’t quite mastered yet, unlike Tang Shun who, no matter how busy he was, his girlfriend didn’t mind at all.

As it turned out, none of them had a lighter. Yang Ping, Song Zimo, and Xu Zhiliang didn’t smoke and didn’t carry lighters either.

Lighters, among other things, were not allowed in the operating room because of the oxygen present. Zhang Lin and Little Five’s lighters were usually locked in a cabinet; whenever they smoked in the operating room’s restroom, they borrowed Liang Fatty’s lighter, which he always kept in the resting room.

"Where’s your lighter?" Zhang Lin asked discontentedly.

Liang Fatty thought for a moment, "Zhou Can confiscated it."

"She confiscated it?" Little Five was quite surprised.

Fatty sighed and said, "She saw me feeling down these past few days and always heading to the restroom, knowing I was sneaking off to smoke. Worried I was smoking too much, she confiscated the lighter."

"She really oversteps her bounds, doesn’t she? Want me to confront her later?" Zhang Lin said, his face filled with anger.

With a cigarette dangling in their mouths and no fire to light it, who could stand it?

"That Swede keeps carrying a notebook around, taking pictures with his phone, constantly asking, ’Can I take pictures here? Can I take pictures there?’ He’s quite earnest about it?"

"Isn’t he always following the professor? Why didn’t he come to the changing room just now?"

"He didn’t follow because he was bent over taking pictures of the gauze in the washbasin on the floor, and when he looked up, the professor was gone."

Without cigarettes, everyone needed to find some topic to discuss.

"You know, that little island in the United Kingdom, that shattered place in Europe, how did the Industrial Revolution start there?"

"There was once a saying, during the axial age of world civilization, the Chinese focused more on human relationships, the Westerners on human-object relationships, and the Indians on human-divine relationships. This view seems somewhat accurate. Europeans tend to focus more on tasks, whereas we emphasize being human. Could this be related?"

"Does this mean we are more suited to lead the world’s populations forward, coordinating human relationships, while Westerners are suited to be workers, burying their heads in tasks, and Indians are suited to be counselors?"

"That seems reasonable. We had Daoism, Confucianism, and Legalism in ancient times, all rather humanities-oriented."

"Wasn’t there also the scientifically inclined Mohism?"

"Didn’t Mohism die out?"

"Later craftsmen were all Mohists, just under a different name."

"Our elementary school texts talked about Li Chun from Zhaozhou Bridge during the Tang dynasty. Wasn’t he an engineer?"

"It was the Song dynasty! Zhaozhou Bridge during the Tang dynasty? Get some culture, will you?"

"It was the Song dynasty? I remembered it wrong."

"Today, you guys are not smoking but sitting here discussing history. The sun must be rising from the west."

Yang Ping went to the restroom to wash his face while these guys hid in the restroom, seriously discussing history.

"Professor Yang! Professor Yang! Professor Yang!"

It was clearly the flat-tone Chinese of the Swedish doctor just learning the language.

Yang Ping responded.

Only then did the Swede tentatively knock and slowly walked in.

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