Chapter 409: Be a Bit Braver

Chatting, it only took 18 minutes; the surgery was finished in such a short time?!

What can you even do in 18 minutes?

Both directors are clinical veterans; they may not have performed ten thousand surgeries, but two or three thousand is a given.

In such a short time, if it were themselves, they'd fear they hadn't even finished the preoperative preparations, let alone removing the thrombosis and sending the patient off the table... Is this a dream?

"Director Liu, Director Wang, please excuse us." Xu Leyu, the General Manager, called out, pulling the patient along as he walked out.

Ji Xiang pushed the cart behind him, looking exactly like a junior Standardized Training Doctor—even if he was just pushing the patient back, he felt like a real doctor, very serious and very earnest.

Director Liu was a bit dazed, subconsciously making way for the flat cart; after watching them leave and seeing Bai Chuzhang come out, he grabbed him.

"Lao Bai, was the surgery a success?" Director Liu's firm confidence also showed a crack.

He asked cautiously.

This was the first surgery Ji Xiang had performed independently, yet he hadn't witnessed it himself; it was truly a regrettable thing.

"Of course." Bai Chuzhang smiled, as if to prove that his application for an exception for Ji Xiang was correct.

"And the thrombosis?"

Bai Chuzhang was now even more composed and calm, turning to lead Director Liu and Director Wang back into the operating room.

"There, right here."

The Instrument Nurse and the Circulating Nurse were cleaning the Operating Room; the thrombosis hadn't been thrown away, as it needed to be shown to the Family Member, and Sui Zhuren was holding it in his palm.

Sui Zhuren was staring blankly at the thrombosis, looking just like an inexperienced Standardized Training Student.

"So intact!" Liu Zhi exclaimed in surprise.

He had seen other departments remove thrombosis, and under normal circumstances, what was removed was all fragmented and messy; it was extremely rare to see a thrombosis in a complete strip or chunk.

But the thrombosis Sui Zhuren held was different; it was a complete strip, about 8cm long, with a slightly dark color.

The Vascular Surgery Director Wang also stared blankly at the thrombosis; regardless of the patient's postoperative condition, this thrombosis alone was enough to leave one speechless.

The thrombosis came from the compression of the tourniquet during the Knee Arthroplasty; it definitely hadn't formed for long, and at most, it had the shape of a thrombosis, but in reality, this thing was as tender as silken tofu—it would shatter at a touch.

Yet such a "fresh and tender" thrombosis had actually been removed intact!

Vascular Surgery Director Wang wasn't wearing gloves; he seemed a bit distracted and reached out to touch it, to prove the "freshness" of this thrombosis.

But before his hand could touch the thrombosis, Sui Zhuren turned the thrombosis on the sterile Gauze in a different direction.

"Don't touch it!" Sui Zhuren said, "This thing shatters at a touch, and I still have to show it to the Family Member."

"How was it removed?" Director Liu and Director Wang asked in unison.

Both of them were regretting that 18 minutes of idle chatter.

"I'm not in vascular, I just watched Doctor Xiao Ji insert the Thrombectomy Catheter, and then pull out a thrombosis intact." Sui Zhuren glanced at Vascular Surgery Director Wang, then at Bai Chuzhang.

"Go show it to the Family Member." Bai Chuzhang said indifferently.

Sui Zhuren trotted out as if holding a treasure, to communicate with the Family Member.

Vascular Surgery Director Wang hesitated for a moment, then went straight to the control room to pull up the surgical procedure.

The surgical method began with percutaneous left lower limb artery Angiography.

The operator's technique was extremely proficient; after the Catheter entered, the Angiography showed an occlusion in the middle segment of the Popliteal Artery, with no imaging seen in the distal end.

Guided by the Guide Wire, it passed through the occluded segment; manual injection of Contrast Agent showed no stenosis in the Anterior Tibial Artery; the Tibial posterior artery and Fibular Artery were thin, with no imaging seen in the distal end.

Withdrawing the Catheter to the upper end of the occlusion and performing Angiography again showed Contrast Agent passing through the original occlusion of the Popliteal Artery, but the lumen was narrow, and the vessel wall at the stenosis was not smooth; blood flow in the Anterior Tibial Artery was unobstructed, with no stenosis in the lumen; the Tibial posterior artery and Fibular Artery were thin.

The process of removing the thrombosis was just as Sui Zhuren had said; he inserted the Thrombectomy Catheter, and the "fresh and tender" thrombosis was actually removed quite obediently and intact.

How the operator had actually done it, Vascular Surgery Director Wang didn't understand at all.

Although he didn't understand, Vascular Surgery Director Wang felt inexplicable horror in his heart; to be able to perform a surgery to this extent, there were probably only a handful of people in the whole country, and in any case, he would never be able to do it in his entire life.

He felt his face burning; the thrombosis wasn't like a wooden plug as ordinary people imagined, which could be easily removed intact.

This was only because the time was short; if it had been longer, the thrombosis would have adhered to the vascular intima, and even if removed intact, there would have been many hidden dangers.

"Director Wang, how is it?" Bai Chuzhang asked indifferently.

"Here." Vascular Surgery Director Wang pointed to the unsmooth vessel wall and said, "There is a high possibility of re-occlusion here."

"Heh." Bai Chuzhang chuckled.

"Director Bai, this is indeed a hidden danger." Vascular Surgery Director Wang stiffened his neck to find a reason for himself.

"A hidden danger is, after all, just a hidden danger. If it isn't removed, the patient's lower limb will necrose and require amputation. There would indeed be no hidden danger, but what then?"

"..."

"As a doctor, one must be a bit braver." After saying this, Bai Chuzhang turned and left with his hands behind his back.

In the Medical Dispute 3.0 Era, for someone to still be able to say such things, and for that person to be Director Bai—who had worked in the Dispute Handling Office for many years, stubbornly bearing all kinds of complaints and disputes from the entire hospital—left Vascular Surgery Director Wang unable to refute.

If it were a hot-blooded young person saying such things, Vascular Surgery Director Wang would feel their experience was too shallow.

But Director Bai...

Be a bit braver?

Director Liu knew Director Bai's character well; he patted Vascular Surgery Director Wang on the shoulder and turned to walk out of the operating room with Bai Chuzhang.

"Lao Bai, have you been planning this for a long time?" Director Liu asked.

"After I knew Ji Xiang had scolded Qin Chu of Shanghai Hepatobiliary, I had been pondering this matter." Bai Chuzhang didn't hide it and spoke the truth, "Technically, I only know a little bit about neurosurgery, but I trust Qin Chu's eye."

"Although his character is a bit lacking, his eye for technique is definitely not bad."

"The next Intermediate Certificate must be given to my Urology Department!" Director Liu didn't dwell too much on the past, keeping his eyes on the long term.

"Heh, we'll see." Bai Chuzhang said.

"Why!" Director Liu asked, very displeased.

Bai Chuzhang suddenly stopped and hesitated for a long time; even he, who usually remained unmoved even if the mountains collapsed before him, seemed to waver.

"Lao Bai, what exactly is going on?"

"Do you really not know how capable Ji Xiang is?" Bai Chuzhang looked at his old friend Liu Zhi and asked, as if talking to himself.

"Of course I know."

"No, you don't," Bai Chuzhang said. "Just now, someone from the Provincial Sports Department called me to ask about Ji Xiang."

"!!!"

"They said he performed two rehabilitation surgeries for athletes, and after a short period of rehabilitation training, the patients have already returned to their peak levels."

"Damn!" Liu Zhuren's curse escaped his lips.

Someone who can't do anything is a waste, but Ji Xiang, Doctor Xiao Ji, this is just too capable, isn't it?

Liu Zhuren felt inexplicably distressed.

(End of this chapter)