Surgery Godfather
Chapter 902 - 791: Stomping to the Rhythm of the Heartbeat

Chapter 902: Chapter 791: Stomping to the Rhythm of the Heartbeat

All the experts were seated, and the doctors, graduate students, and visiting physicians from Anzhen Hospital who could squeeze some free time after dealing with their matters, started to arrive one after another.

Actually, surgery demonstrations like this are a common occurrence at Anzhen Hospital. Ordinarily, as the hospital’s doctors, graduate students, and visiting physicians, they would not be so enthusiastic. But today, these doctors were obviously very eager.

The meeting room was packed with people. There were not enough chairs, so many plastic stools were brought in, and still, there weren’t enough, and people ended up standing at the back of the room to watch.

Some hadn’t had breakfast, rushing to the meeting room while eating; others came with empty stomachs. With a surgery to observe, who cared about breakfast?

These doctors were all here for Yang Ping, a prodigy who had published 13 CNS papers. Now he was demonstrating a surgery, and not just any surgery but the pinnacle of cardiac procedures—coronary bypass. Opportunities like this were rare.

Additionally, because of today’s surgery demonstration, several leading doctors who normally led the surgical teams had taken a break from surgery, and, as a result, their team members also had the day off, enabling them to attend and observe the procedure.

To say that the entire Cardiac Surgery Department at Anzhen was present wasn’t an exaggeration.

Was Yang Ping as skilled in surgery as he was in scientific research? What level was his surgery really at? Everyone was very curious.

After all, research can rely on talent, but surgery? No matter how talented, surgery requires time and cases for refinement.

It was like a math teacher getting the chance to see Shing-Tung Yau taking the College Entrance Examination in mathematics. He is a "Math Emperor"; but can he really solve such examination questions?

"The surgery has already started!"

A graduate student reminded everyone.

The somewhat noisy meeting room fell silent immediately as everyone began to observe the surgery.

However, the image on the screen was just from a camera in a corner of the operating room, not the one mounted on the surgical light.

The surgery hadn’t truly begun yet. On the screen, the patients for Professor Zhong and Professor Chu were already undergoing prep and draping, while Yang Ping’s patient was still being intubated, and apparently, there was a minor anesthesia issue causing a delay.

The experts had come with a mission and clearly couldn’t relax. Later, they would have to assess the surgeries of the three professors participating in the selection.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have to participate in surgery today, so Director Ming Jiantai will accompany you all, my apologies, my apologies!" Professor Xu’s voice came through from the operating room via the communication system.

Director Ming Jiantai stood up to greet everyone. Today, he would be hosting the observation meeting on behalf of Director Xu.

Director Ming Jiantai was also a student of Professor Xu and a top figure in cardiac surgery in the country. His skill in coronary bypass surgery was among the top five.

"I’m not sure about the situation in the other two operating rooms, but we’ve faced a slight difficulty with the anesthesia, intubating the trachea wasn’t very smooth---" Professor Xu transmitted another message from the operating room.

No wonder the other two surgeries had already begun with the prep and draping, while this one was still waiting to start.

The progress in the other two operating rooms was about the same, with the sterilization, draping, and pre-surgery checks completed, and skin incision begun, so the screen had switched to the surgical field view from the camera on the surgical light.

Meanwhile, in Yang Ping’s case, the anesthesiologist was trying to intubate the trachea using a fiber optic bronchoscope.

There were three screens for observation, with simultaneous surgery start times for the three surgeons to save time. Otherwise, if all six surgeries took their turn, everyone would have to stay until the evening, which was clearly impossible.

Finally, the anesthesia was successful, and both Yang Ping and Director Xu began scrubbing in.

Yang Ping’s first surgery was on a patient who required eight bypass grafts.

Anzhen’s doctors began the sterilization and draping, as Director Xu, accompanied by Yang Ping who had finished scrubbing, entered the operating room to put on surgical gowns.

Yang Ping was the chief surgeon, with Director Xu as the assistant surgeon, and the rest of the assistants were two associate professors from Anzhen.

Everyone took their positions, and once the surgical light was adjusted, the screen switched to the view of the surgical field.

This case was challenging because the patient had diffuse distal coronary artery disease, a complex coronary heart condition. Their coronary arteries were like a bunch of spider legs, extremely thin, afflicted with atherosclerosis, solid instead of hollow, leaving no scope for grafting.

This was the situation Elder Academician Meng found himself in—with diffuse disease at the distal ends of the coronary arteries.

This case, elsewhere in China or even abroad, was basically deemed intractable; there was simply no way to perform the bypass, let alone several.

Director Xu had chosen this case for himself today because it bore similarities to that of Elder Academician Meng’s. He wanted to warm up in advance.

It was unexpected that Yang Ping would be operating on this case. Since Director Xu was at the operating table, he could take over at any time. This case required the use of a surgical technique he had pioneered—end-to-side anastomosis for diffusely diseased coronary vessels, allowing veins to arterialized which could not be achieved through any other method. Director Xu’s new technique had already accumulated hundreds of surgeries.

Thus, Director Xu never actually considered letting Yang Ping complete this case.

"This case has diffuse disease at the distal ends of the coronary artery, and the conventional method simply won’t work. Let me take over," Director Xu suggested exchanging places with Yang Ping.

Yang Ping said indifferently, "I know—to block the venous blood flow in the heart, connecting it to the bridge vessel. This reverses the blood flow direction, allowing oxygen-rich arterial blood to supply the myocardial cells via capillaries. Since the venous walls are thin, we must precisely control the flow of blood entering the bridge vessel through the surgery—"

Professor Xu paused, surprised: "Have you done it before?"

"Otherwise, how would I dare to stand at this operating table? The operating room is a serious and sacred place; I understand that. Director Xu, with a world-leading technique like yours, how could I not master it? Let me give it a try," Yang Ping was confident.

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