Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1225 - 948 Midnight Pig Crying

Chapter 1225: Chapter 948 Midnight Pig Crying

Mr. Karen recovered quickly and now he can walk in the hospital garden. Due to a high demand for wards in the Surgical Research Institute, he decided to move to the Overseas Chinese Building to continue his stay for a while.

Manstein had almost finished organizing Yang Ping’s research materials and would soon submit them to the Swedish Nobel Committee. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is assessed by the Karolinska Institute, whose many professors are good friends with Manstein.

Nobel Prize evaluations are based on principles of fairness and transparency, but wherever there are people, there are human factors — it’s just a question of degree. It’s unavoidable. The medical achievements of Ilizarov from the Soviet Union were entirely worthy of a Nobel Prize, but he was denied the award due to other factors.

In Manstein’s view, the committee members were worldly and might be surprised by Manstein’s recommendation this time. The spatial orientation gene was indeed stunning, and the deeper the research, the more apparent the theory’s advance. Manstein just worried whether those big shots could understand the sophistication of this achievement.

But no matter, with Manstein’s recommendation, even if those big shots couldn’t grasp it right away, they would still nod and agree.

To Yang Ping, the Nobel Prize represented a huge amount of points. Points are the most important resource in the System Space, so Yang Ping was full of anticipation for the Nobel Prize. With Manstein’s strong endorsement and barring personal biases from the judges, securing the Nobel Prize shouldn’t be a problem.

Manstein would regularly update Yang Ping on the progress via WeChat, so Yang Ping didn’t have to worry too much. It is always more effective to let professionals handle their domain of expertise.

While the spatial orientation gene’s research achievement was being submitted for Nobel Prize consideration, Yang Ping continued his other research. Basic scientific research is an extremely arduous task, so researchers must be capable of enduring solitude.

The recent incident with the laboratory equipment lock had a significant impact on research progress, but difficulties are temporary and must be faced sooner or later.

The domestic software in the laboratory is running more and more smoothly now, with fewer bugs. The engineers have been very diligent, truly focused on their work. In terms of usability, these domestic software solutions are actually more convenient than imported ones, although they need more time to build up stability and foundational elements.

In his free moments, Yang Ping would visit the three laboratories, which were just up and down the floors. Whenever he had time, he would take a few walks around. Everything was running well with no major issues, and the difficulties caused by the lock have been overcome. There’s no need to worry about lock issues anymore.

After inspecting the laboratories, Yang Ping went to the operating room. Not seeing Song Zimo, he asked Little Five, "Where’s Song Zimo?"

Little Five was sewing up skin with a graduate student, "He just stepped out for something, and I’ll be chief surgeon for the next surgery."

"He left in quite a hurry," a Standardized Training Student added.

"I heard Tang Fei was feeling a bit dizzy," said another voice.

It was Zhang Lin, the chief of the intelligence unit, who provided specific information. It turned out that Tang Fei was having severe dizziness and might have called Song Zimo, so he rushed over to check on her.

Tang Fei, a doctoral student in sports medicine, was often seconded to the Sports Medicine Center. She had been recently borrowed again and felt dizzy during surgery. Two female interns helped her to the resting room to take a break, and the Head Nurse, worried about low blood sugar, made her a sugar drink.

But before she could take a sip of the sugar water, Tang Fei had already returned to normal. She called Song Zimo to explain the situation, and he immediately hurried over.

After confirming Tang Fei was alright, Song Zimo returned to the Surgical Research Institute. This was not the first time Tang Fei had experienced dizziness, so Song Zimo considered taking her for a check-up.

The following surgery was for the correction of scoliosis. The technique was the latest minimally invasive surgery—implanting a precise ossicle organizer, using precision ossification technology to correct the spine.

Recent animal experiment data for precise ossification technology were excellent. This experiment was based on Yang Ping’s extensive basic data on accurate disturbance of ossification. With these data, Song Zimo and August were able to develop miniature inhibitors for controlled bone growth.

Given the positive effects in animal experiments, clinical trials could progress in stages. With Sanbo Hospital and Harald Hospital as clinical centers in China and Germany, phase I clinical trials had begun. Drug and medical device development is a process approached with caution, but medical devices generally progress faster than drugs due to less stringency.

During the European Spine Academic Conference, Song Zimo conducted several surgeries using this technology, which were among the first in the world. Currently, the postoperative correction effects look very promising. Lining up the X-rays for regular checkups, one could almost see the progress in real time. The correction was rapid and the margin of error was completely within the doctors’ control.

The main concern with this technology was the possibility of uncontrolled correction leading to new deformities, which would be counterproductive. However, no such problems had arisen yet.

As for any adverse effects of the device material on the human body, that wasn’t a concern. The material used for the miniature ossicle organizers was a well-established medical material, very safe.

If it were a new material, the safety tests for its implantation could be more problematic than the device itself because of the uncertainties regarding the material’s side effects on the human body.

The first batch of clinical trial patients had arrived at Sanbo Hospital. These children ranged from as young as three years old to twelve, and for this method of treating scoliosis, the older the age, the less growth potential, hence poorer results. Pre-adolescence or early adolescence is best. Mid-adolescence is also manageable, but for severe cases in late adolescence, the effects are surely lesser because the technique itself relies on growth for correction, and without growth potential, the extent of correction will be limited.