Surgery Godfather
Chapter 762 - 680: Big Topic

Chapter 762: Chapter 680: Big Topic

Indeed, the Comprehensive Surgery Department has come up with something new.

Director Chi’s guess was right; this new thing is skin grafting technology.

He personally took Zhang Lin and Little Five to see the patients - the patients he personally selected.

In the corridor of the burn unit, there is a special smell, this is the smell emitted from patients’ wound exudates during their dressing changes.

Wound dressing change in the Burns Department is the most difficult among all surgical departments, without a doubt.

Especially for patients with extensive burns, often several doctors and nurses are working in cooperation, and it takes one to two hours to change the dressing once.

Of course, the fees for dressing changes in the burn unit are also the highest. The cost varies from a dozen to several dozen yuan for each surgical dressing change in a regular department.

While in the burn unit, surgical dressing changes could cost hundreds or even over a thousand yuan.

The patient was lying down resting. Even while resting, he was wearing a mask and hat; he didn’t want anyone to see that his body was full of scars.

The body-wide scars not only changed his appearance, but also brought a lot of functional problems, such as scar contracture in the joints, which limited the movement of nearly all his joints. The body-wide scars caused him to lose normal skin heat dissipation ability; his risk of heatstroke in the summer was many times higher than others’. Sometimes the scars also cause pain and itching.

This patient, whose surname is Sun, is only thirty years old. He used to be a junior high school teacher. There was once a fire in the senior high school dormitory, and more than a dozen students were trapped inside and couldn’t get out. He repeatedly went in and out of the fire scene to rescue the students. The students were rescued, but he himself suffered severe burns.

At that time, the Education Department took his injury very seriously and sent him to the best hospital in the local province. The burns were healed, but the residual body-wide scars were beyond the provincial hospitals’ abilities to handle.

The Director of the Burn Department at the time also agreed with Director Chi’s judgment: if the scalp is intact, there is still a solution. Scalp can be repeatedly harvested without forming scars. It’s like cutting leeks, wave after wave. Using the scalp as the donor source for skin grafts, though multiple surgeries, can resolve most of the scar replacement problem.

But Teacher Sun’s scalp is now all scarred.

The only preserved skin is in his perineal area. The skin in this area cannot be harvested repeatedly like the scalp, so its use is limited, and the doctors are temporarily out of solutions.

A boss from Nandu Province, who invested in an enterprise in Teacher Sun’s hometown, heard of Sun’s deeds and was greatly touched. So he contacted Teacher Sun’s school, hoping to help Sun with his medical treatment.

This boss heard that a fire rescue hero who had his arm broken into five sections was cured in Sanbo Hospital, so he arranged for Teacher Sun to go to Sanbo Hospital.

Unexpectedly, the burn department at Sanbo Hospital was not very prestigious and couldn’t come up with a good solution. They recommended that Teacher Sun go to the First Affiliated Hospital of the Army Medical University or Changhai Hospital in Shanghai.

The boss who was helping Teacher Sun immediately contacted Changhai Hospital in Shanghai through his connections. They also weren’t very confident, and suggested that Teacher Sun go and have a look first.

Now, hearing from Director Chi that the Comprehensive Surgery Department might have a solution, Teacher Sun was very happy and willing to stay.

When the patient heard that the doctors from the Comprehensive Surgery Department had arrived for a consultation, he shook off his hesitation and took off his mask and hat.

Zhang Lin and Little Five conducted a detailed physical check-up on Teacher Sun. This patient indeed had scars all over his body; throughout his entire body, except for the perineal area, there wasn’t a patch of good skin, all were covered with scars.

His auricle had contracted due to burn scars, making his hearing very poor.

Zhang Lin saw that Teacher Sun’s perineal skin was very intact and heaved a sigh of relief, because Song Zimo’s guidance for him was: as long as a patient has a patch of normal skin, even only one square centimeter, then the patient still has hope.

The technology of skin expansion in vitro requires seed.. a patch of intact skin is the seed.

"How was it?"

Teacher Sun dressed himself and asked with worry.

Without hesitation, Zhang Lin said confidently, "We are all set!"

He had never seen Professor Yang use patients for non-robust experiments before.

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Looking at the induction formula on the A4 paper, Tang Shun pondered for a long time.

If this induction formula is Yang Ping’s "hypothesis", it couldn’t possibly be successful after one experiment. Even after many experiments, and ultimate failure, the conclusion of many topics is still possible. Many topics end in failure.

To come up with such an induction formula, to achieve Professor Yang’s goal, to expand a one square centimeter piece of skin to a few hundred square centimeters, or even larger, is a tall order.

Such a topic, an international top-notch team, even if they’re lucky, wouldn’t be able to complete the task within three to five years.

Professor Mainstein’s team also took a full three years to come up with the induction formula. This formula was purchased by Langnaife Company for further research, which led to the effect we see today.

It’s impossible for Professor Yang to get this induction formula, so the chances are high that he was inspired by Professor Manstein and created his own formula.

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Zhang Lin and Little Five had Teacher Sun sign a bunch of papers – informed consent for the experiment, ethics informed consent, etc. Then they resected a spindle-shaped piece of intact skin from the perineal area, soaked it in preservation solution, and sent it to the stem cell laboratory.

In the several large cultivators as well, the liquid configuration of the inducing factor was already filled.

This isn’t a small experiment, but a large topic that can touch the threshold of a Nobel Prize.

Tang Shun didn’t think that these few people could complete such an advanced topic, but out of his adoration for Professor Yang, he figured that it wouldn’t matter if they tried and failed, so he was willing to give it a go.

There are thousands and thousands of factors in the human body, it’s very difficult to figure out which one is the inducing factor and how they combine with each other. That’s why there’s been no breakthrough developments in stem cell technology.

He could recite the information on the A4 paper by heart now.

If this experiment were to be conducted at Tokyo University, he would start by organizing twenty-three doctoral students, plus thirty-four master’s students. They wouldn’t dare to start the experiment until they had revised the research proposal countless times.

But here they were, casually starting an experiment with just an A4 paper and a few casual team members, laughing and chattering.

He really didn’t understand Professor Yang. The mind of a genius is indeed different.

"Hello, Dr. Tang!"

Several doctoral and master’s students, even brought a bag of steamed buns, came in.

Some people were eating buns and opening their laptops to start working at the same time. This made Tang Shun feel uncomfortable, but he didn’t say anything. After all, he had just arrived, and these people were temporary research staff. They just helped out in their spare time. Their main profession was being surgeons.