Surgery Godfather
Chapter 951 - 814 High Mountain Flowing Waters_2

Chapter 951: Chapter 814 High Mountain Flowing Waters_2

The surgery was incredibly swift but possessed a wonderful rhythm, and it exhibited such a high quality that one couldn’t help but think of a phrase—masterful craftsmanship.

The needle with the thread repeatedly went in and out, followed by constant knotting and snipping. In no time, the repositioning of the aorta and the pulmonary artery was complete.

Within the chest cavity, the initially jumbled structures completely disappeared, replaced by a neatly organized new heart and major vessels, the beauty of reconstruction presented on the screen.

Li Zehui remembered this piece of music; it seemed every time he saw Professor Yang perform surgery, it was this piece. He quietly asked the patrolling nurse, "What is this music piece?"

The nurse said, "It’s the guzheng version of ’High Mountain Flowing Water’!"

High Mountain Flowing Water!

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Academician Wang returned to the operating room, still harboring lingering anger.

If it hadn’t been for Yang Ping’s confidence, facing such a situation would have definitely affected the emotions of anyone on the operating table.

"It’s nothing! Just a fuss, a misunderstanding. She heard somewhere that the child’s heartbeat had stopped and thought something was wrong with the kid, crying hysterically. The child has undergone several operations, yet she didn’t understand what cardiac arrest meant." Academician Wang explained the situation to Yang Ping after returning to the operating room.

Clearly, Yang Ping was not affected by the incident; he continued the surgery calmly, treating the drama as if it were a trivial joke during the operation.

The young man’s mental strength was truly admirable, Academician Wang couldn’t help but praise.

Academician Wang approached the screen to continue observing the surgery—only to find that the surgery had already ended. They were now preparing to restart the heart, and then it would be time for hemostasis.

What did this mean?

Wasn’t there just the anastomosis of the aorta and the pulmonary artery? Their positions weren’t correct and needed adjustment; that was already completed? That stage of the surgery was quite labor-intensive.

Sitting down to watch the surgery, one wouldn’t feel much, but stepping away for a moment, Academician Wang suddenly realized that Yang Ping’s surgery was incredibly fast, unbelievably so.

In just that short time, he had missed the most important step. Academician Wang asked Professor Chen, "Is it finished?"

Professor Chen nodded: "It’s finished!"

Professor Wang couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed, but he could always watch the surgical video later at a slower pace, though it wouldn’t compare to the live experience.

They discontinued the extracorporeal circulation, the heart successfully restarted, and as per the usual steps, the final hemostasis was crucial, often taking a lot of time.

After the restoration of blood flow, tiny bleeding spots appeared sporadically within the chest cavity, which were promptly eliminated by bipolar electrocoagulation. All anastomosed parts required no hemostasis, and even if there were some minor bleeding spots, they were due to abnormalities in coagulation function and could naturally stop bleeding after pressure for five minutes.

Academician Wang had observed two of Yang Ping’s surgeries, each one very clean, with the entire surgical field spotless, and almost no bleeding to be seen.

"Surface Ultrasound!"

Yang Ping put down the instruments in his hands.

This confidence radiating from him was something Academician Wang could hardly describe; it was like possessing a millennial cultivation, capable of dissolving any difficulty.

In a typical heart surgery, intraoperative surface ultrasound is performed by a sonographer, while cardiac surgeons’ knowledge of surface ultrasound is limited to the basics.

But it’s different in comprehensive surgery, where learning to perform and interpret surface ultrasounds is a mandatory part of the training.

Song Zimo was preparing to remove his gloves and step down to conduct the surface ultrasound when Liang Fatty volunteered, "Let me do it!"

For Liang Fatty, surface ultrasound was a fundamental skill, and esophageal cardiac surface ultrasound was nothing to him; for any senior doctor in comprehensive surgery, including the young Li Guodong, it wasn’t a problem.

An anesthesiologist who can perform surface ultrasound?

Academician Wang was surprised once again. Coming to Sanbo Hospital, he was constantly in a state of amazement.

Liang Fatty wheeled over the ultrasound machine, his movements were very adept, and he quickly inserted the probe into the esophagus, reaching behind the heart. The ultrasound screen showed the heart beating, with the circulating red and blue blood.

"Interatrial septum, interventricular septum intact, no insufficiency observed in the mitral valve and tricuspid valve, no stenosis in the aorta and the pulmonary artery—" Liang Fatty proficiently dictated his report.

Academician Wang walked up beside Fatty, looking alternately at the surface ultrasound and at Liang Fatty, marveling at how adeptly the anesthesiologist performed the ultrasound.

"Do you anesthesiologists also train in surface ultrasound?"

Driven by curiosity, Academician Wang couldn’t resist asking.

"It’s one of our basic subjects that we must master," Liang Fatty explained while continuing the examination.

Xia Shu felt immense pressure on the side. Did this mean she had to start from scratch to learn how to perform cardiac surface ultrasound? One had to not only perform but also interpret the ultrasound. In the past, these tasks were handled by sonographers, and many surgeries required the support of skilled ultrasound technicians on hand.

Before surgery, esophageal surface ultrasound was used for diagnosis; after surgery, it was used to assess the effect of the procedure, and only after the assessment was deemed satisfactory did the chief surgeon dare to close the chest.

Liang Fatty examined all the necessary parts thoroughly, with Yang Ping also standing beside him, carefully interpreting each ultrasound image himself.

"Excellent, that’s a wrap!"

Once Yang Ping confirmed the surface ultrasound was fine, Liang Fatty concluded his examination and removed the ultrasound probe.

Professor Yang himself could read esophageal surface ultrasounds?

Academician Wang found it hard to believe, as even as a representative of the older generation, he only had a rudimentary knowledge of surface ultrasound, far from the expertise of a specialist.

The fact that such an important surgery did not require the assistance of a sonographer, and instead the surgeon completed the entire process himself, indicated that Professor Yang’s level of expertise in surface ultrasound was extremely high.

Next was closing the chest.

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Outside the operating room, Yao Xiurong was pacing like an ant on a hot pan, "Five or six hours, how come they haven’t come out yet?"