Chapter 1123: line with translation of chapter title

1094 You guys call such a simple surgery difficult?

Zheng Ren didn't do as before; he first looked at the images, waiting for Professor Rudolf Wagner to disinfect.

He and Su Yun put on lead clothing together, scrubbed hands and disinfected.

The two remained silent, the water sounding splashing, revealing utter monotony and boredom.

Nobody spoke, and there was nothing to say. Zheng Ren's heart was calm as water; even after completing the final step of the interventional surgery, reaching the peak, there was no excitement, everything seemed to have become bland and tasteless.

One person disinfected, another laid out the drapes; the preoperative preparations proceeded in an orderly manner.

Director Yan sat in a chair, looking through the lead glass at the two busy young people inside, and suddenly asked, 'Doctor Zheng Ren just came back?'

'Yes, we notified him about today's commendation ceremony, so he rushed back from Heidelberg in a hurry,' Director Kong said from the side.

'Comrade Zheng Ren has made outstanding contributions to the people,' Director Yan muttered to himself.

Director Kong didn't know how to respond, so he could only stand silently to the side, watching Zheng Ren and Su Yun disinfect and lay out drapes through the lead glass, while Xiao Yi Ren prepared the surgical instruments; a small team worked in orderly fashion.

It seemed like that night in Hai Cheng, they were also this busy; Director Kong felt an inexplicable thought arise in his mind.

Zhao Wenhua stood in the corner of the wall, vaguely hearing the conversation between Director Yan and Director Kong, his hands clenched into fists, his teeth tightly gritted, making a ka-ka sound like a mouse gnawing in the dead of night.

After preoperative preparations were complete, Xie Yiren came out of the operating room and closed the airtight lead door.

At this moment in the operating room, Lao He wore lead clothing, replacing Director Xu, and watched the general anesthesia machine and various medications.

'I heard from my comrade-in-arms in Rongcheng that Doctor Zheng is making surgical videos, and they're still studying them,' Vice President Yuan said.

Director Yan gave a slight nod, saying nothing.

Zheng Ren performed femoral artery puncture, placed an arterial sheath, and directly advanced the microguidewire. Although Director Miao's condition had stabilized somewhat, saving even a little time was still saving time.

After finishing his own surgery, the Orthopedics Department still had to do theirs. As for whether neurosurgery needed to be done, that would be after going to the ICU.

In Pengxi Xiang, performing interventional embolization for severe pelvic fractures made one vomit. Returning to 912, it was still the first time performing this procedure.

With practiced ease, the microguidewire in Zheng Ren's hand was quiet like an obedient child, directly manipulated blindly into position.

Press the line, inject contrast, image, continue super-selective embolization.

Su Yun had coordinated this process countless times, already extremely proficient; yet this time he felt something was different.

Zheng Ren's manipulation was more …… supple than before? It seems appropriate to describe it as supple.

But it's not certain.

Su Yun felt the microguidewire's movements were simple and crisp, with no superfluous motion whatsoever; even the finest blood vessels felt like walking on level ground.

Following the direction indicated by the contrast agent, one blood vessel was super-selectively embolized.

Zheng Ren's level was different from before, and Su Yun could clearly feel it. But for Zheng Ren, the interventional embolization of pelvic fractures might not be that difficult, not much different from before.

Su Yun pushed the embolic agent while widening his eyes to carefully observe the microguidewire's movement on the screen.

His level is very high; using Zheng Ren's words, no matter how hard others try, they can at most reach Su Yun's standard.

Although to Su Yun it didn't sound like praise, it is indeed a fact.

But Su Yun also couldn't tell how much Zheng Ren's level had improved.

The surgery went very smoothly; Zheng Ren was very cautious. After embolizing five small blood vessels, he still took an image.

After confirming there were no problems, Zheng Ren withdrew the catheter and arterial sheath, then turned and stepped down.

Su Yun couldn't tell, but Zheng Ren could feel the difference between peak level and master level.

The surgery was performed more steadily and more meticulously.

Although this change means little for the vast majority of surgeries, it becomes very apparent in some ultra-high-difficulty procedures.

For example, the dual-guidewire operation just performed could not be completed within a few minutes even by master-level standards; even if done in about twenty minutes, the surgical completion compared to peak level still shows a large gap.

Has he reached the peak? Zheng Ren also felt a bit dazed, hoping Director Miao would pull through; after just a brief thought, only this single idea remained in his mind.

……

'Is interventional embolization for pelvic fractures difficult?' Director Yan asked after watching the surgery, then glanced at his phone.

Twelve minutes; as for how many seconds, Director Yan paid no attention. It's not the Olympics—why pay such close attention? It's completely unnecessary.

A 12-minute surgery, and Director Kong actually said it was difficult? Director Yan was somewhat puzzled.

Although he too was a military doctor with a clinical background, when he entered the agency, interventional surgery had just begun to emerge, and there was hardly any overlap.

So he doesn't know much about interventional surgery, but from a commonsense perspective, a 12-minute procedure—is that also called difficult?

Director Kong wanted to cry but had no tears; how should he answer this question? He felt helpless, secretly glancing around, seeking help.

Director Jing of the Orthopedics Department stood to the side, staring with wide eyes.

He had glanced at the announcement for the commendation ceremony yesterday. Regarding that shocking figure, Director Jing originally showed utter contempt. Having spent his whole life in orthopedics, how could he not know the time required for interventional embolization of severe pelvic fractures?

In the earliest days when there was no interventional surgery, whether a patient with severe pelvic fractures lived or died depended on fate. High retroperitoneal pressure compressed the small blood vessels; if bleeding was stopped, the patient could survive.

Once the bleeding vessel was relatively thick, the patient was doomed, with absolutely no chance.

When interventional surgery appeared over twenty years ago, there was no need to rely on fate anymore. Interventional embolization, a hemostatic treatment, has saved countless patients' lives.

Back then, Director Jing would sit in the control room watching the surgery. A procedure that initially took seven or eight hours was reduced to about four hours, after which it could not be significantly shortened further.

This is the average level of a typical doctor, and it's not even a particularly difficult pelvic fracture interventional embolization.

To keep up with especially difficult cases, patients may go into hemorrhagic shock on the table, and the surgery still can't be managed; Director Jing has even seen patients die on the operating table.

As for Director Kong… Director Jing knows his level all too well.

The most difficult severe pelvic fracture surgery can be completed in one and a half hours. That's already an exceptionally skilled Intervention Department Doctor, but unfortunately his peak period passed quickly. As he ages, with blurred vision and trembling hands, he rarely performs such surgeries anymore.

Nowadays, the younger-generation professors performing severe pelvic fracture surgery are about on par with Director Kong at his peak; even if they're good, they're not much better, with no essential difference.

But this surgery before our eyes…… the difference isn't essential; it's literally a matter of being able to do it or not.