Chapter 2350: 2270 Mechanical Beauty (Alliance Leader Served, Nickname Nonexistent, Bonus Chapter 4)

Cheng Qian was somewhat puzzled, not understanding what Teacher Daina meant; he didn't understand it at first.

Dr. Daina Stirling saw the trend, because she was the surgeon and had performed similar surgeries. Cheng Qian hadn't accumulated such experience, so he couldn't realize what had happened at first.

But the data didn't keep him waiting long; in the Operating Field, Zheng Lao Ban reached out, and the Willow Leaf Blade flashed with cold light and struck his hand. The data on the monitor in the upper right corner of the screen showed that the heart rates of the big twin and small twin both dropped to around 102 beats per minute almost simultaneously.

The difference between them was negligible, actually kept within one beat.

Cheng Qian was astonished; his thought matched Dr. Daina Stirling's: "How did they do that?!"

At that moment, Cheng Qian felt that one pair of eyes wasn't enough.

Zheng Lao Ban's willow leaf blade showed no hesitation; he cut straight along the connected atrial position of the twins, separating the hearts.

This is the most crucial part of the surgery! Although it's microsurgery and nothing is visible to the naked eye, Cheng Qian stretched his neck, as if getting closer to the screen would let him see a bit more clearly.

But the most critical part of the entire surgery lay in the anesthesia administered by the twin sisters Zheng Lao Ban brought from Hai Cheng.

They were so synchronized, yet in their synchronized actions they monitored each other's readings, adjusting dosages so that the twins' heart rates dropped to nearly the same frequency!

Two pairs of eyes were needed to see everything; Cheng Qian had no time to sigh, he focused his vision on Zheng Lao Ban's surgery. After all, he himself was a doctor, the lead surgeon, not the anesthesiologist.

Just focus on what should be focused on.

Zheng Lao Ban's surgery was excellent; he used the blunt scissors as hemostatic forceps. The assistant cooperated well, using the ultrasonic scalpel for hemostasis, with no vagueness.

Dr. Daina Stirling sprang to her feet; in her view this step was the line between life and death, a technical point completely unattainable.

No matter how many times they simulated it, it was impossible to achieve. Even during the last failed surgery, Dr. Daina believed this surgery had surpassed existing technology, and only waiting for the future would someone accomplish it.

But who would have thought that, on the other side of the ocean in Di Du, just a few dozen hours later, someone could actually accomplish this step!

Her mind went blank, her eyes fixed on the beating heart; the blunt scissors, willow leaf blade, and ultrasonic scalpel alternated, moving back and forth in the cramped space without a moment's rest.

Not knowing how much time the anesthesiologist could buy for the surgeon, Dr. Daina Stirling unconsciously clenched her fists, as if cheering on the surgeon.

Every second felt like an eternity; Dr. Daina Stirling worried about losing control of the heart rate, and even under the octopus's control the heart was still being torn left and right, leading to surgical failure.

Dr. Daina Stirling imagined herself in the surgery; if she were standing on the operating table now, she would surely be nervous. After all, the period of 'calm' bought by the anesthesiologists wouldn't be long, even though they were so synchronized.

But on the operating table, the surgeon and assistant were calm like two machines, and the surgery progressed swiftly in silence.

After who knows how long, the connecting part of the two hearts was completely severed. The image on the screen was silent, but in Dr. Daina Stirling's mind it felt as if a thunderclap rolled in.

They, they actually did it!

Although the subsequent surgery remained difficult, Dr. Daina Stirling had no reason to doubt that the surgery would proceed smoothly.

The two small hearts beat gently, causing no trouble for the surgery; after separating the connected atrial membrane, Cheng Qian felt his eyes were insufficient again.

As the hearts were separated, Zheng Lao Ban became the primary surgeon, and his assistant became the secondary surgeon.

Because the position of the divided hearts limited the operating field, Cheng Qian noticed that the primary and secondary surgeons were not performing heart surgery on the side nearest him.

They performed cross-operations, using patches to anastomose the opposite side's opened atrial sections!

Whoa… there's actually such a maneuver?

In the image, it seemed as if the twin anesthesiologists had scrubbed up and changed clothes to take the stage; although the primary and secondary surgeons performed cross-operations, there was no interference, like a mirror-image movement, performing suturing under the microscope.

Not only Cheng Qian, but even Dr. Daina Stirling in Philadelphia was dumbfounded.

Such an operation…… is absolutely not mentioned in textbooks.

Dr. Daina Stirling's tightly clenched hands slowly relaxed; her eyes remained fixed on the screen. At this moment, she even thought this was not an operation humans could possess!

After a few seconds, Dr. Daina's superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus, lateral rectus, superior oblique, and inferior oblique muscles almost simultaneously exhibited spasms.

It seemed as if an electric current were passing through, amplifying the physiological reflex countlessfold. She didn't notice the muscles around her eyes constantly twitching; instead, she raised both hands and placed them on her head.

Her fingers trembled slightly, she clasped her hands over her head, expressing her bewilderment and astonishment, looking as if she were performing some mysterious ritual.

Dr. Cheng Qian's entire attention was on the screen, and he didn't notice Teacher Daina's strange behavior.

The surgery proceeded quite quickly; the mirror-image primary and secondary surgeons used patches to repair the weak spots of the heart muscle, orderly yet uneven, and amidst a haze a mechanical beauty permeated.

This beauty was hard, mechanical, with a touch of steampunk feel.

Daina Stirling and Cheng Qian had an illusion that the ones performing the surgery were not people but two machines; if they were human, they would absolutely not perform cross-operations, let alone make a single mistake.

Only machines could be so silent, calm, and without deviation!

When the suturing was finished, Dr. Daina Stirling felt a relief, then a sense of loss.

She hoped the surgery would succeed, but after truly completing the most crucial step, she felt that mechanical beauty drift away before her eyes, impossible to grasp.

Dr. Daina Stirling instinctively reached forward with both hands, wanting to grasp the completed surgical process.

But the cold machines on the operating table seemed utterly unaware that the steampunk beauty had vanished, and they continued on to the next step.

The pleural pericardium and diaphragm were separated, using the ultrasonic scalpel to separate the hepatic bridge.

After the two patients were successfully separated, to prevent high thoracic-abdominal pressure syndrome, the skin defect in the thoracoabdominal cavity was not directly sutured; instead, they chose to reconstruct the pericardium using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.

Externally, the same material was used to reconstruct bony and soft tissue defects of the chest wall; after chest reconstruction was completed, abdominal wall reconstruction proceeded.

Because the peritoneal defect was too large to close the abdomen, they repaired the peritoneum with patch material, the patch being approximately 2 cm × 5 cm.

Finally, after Zheng Lao Ban performed a skin 'Z'-plasty, the chest skin was closed without tension, sutured, and the separation surgery was successfully completed.

At this moment, Dr. Daina Stirling still maintained her forward-reaching hand posture, motionless, like a statue.