Chapter 2723: 2625.2525 Long Admired

2625.2525 Long Admired

"I didn't say it's definitely going to work 100%; give it a try, what do you not understand?" Zheng Ren said.

"You're too superstitious about interventional surgery." Su Yun said disdainfully: "Cardiac surgery is great—midline sternotomy, low difficulty, the whole process……"

"We can try interventional, but it needs two operators." Zheng Ren said, "Old Gao… never mind, no need to trouble Old Gao."

"Huh?" Su Yun fell silent as soon as she heard it needed two operators.

"Lin Yuan will set up the table for you; I'll do it myself. Down at the femoral vein, we'll insert the guidewire, catheter, snare, and grasper. If the upper approach doesn't work, let's try from below." Zheng Ren said.

Su Yun thought it over, still shook her head slightly after a few minutes, considering Zheng Ren's proposed operation not very feasible.

"Did you tell Yi Ren to bring the surgical box?" Su Yun asked.

"I told her. Once the surgical box is sterilized, we'll proceed. Surgery requires preparation; if not, we'll only……"

Saying that, Zheng Ren shook his head.

If we were to do open surgery, this would be a major heart operation. Although we wouldn't need cardiopulmonary bypass, such a large wound might be too much for the patient.

In the System Operating Room, Zheng Ren had already successfully extracted the pacing lead using interventional surgery, but he still cautiously prepared everything for open surgery.

No one dares guarantee a hundred percent success; if an unexpected deviation occurs, even if unwilling, we'd have to open the chest. The combined cardiothoracic and vascular surgery poses no special difficulty for Zheng Ren, but the patient's age might not tolerate it.

Reducing trauma as much as possible is good; postoperative patients can recover quickly.

"The conventional subclavian approach for pacemaker implantation is outdated, an old technique from decades ago—too many problems." Su Yun said.

"Hmm, the patient had the surgery ten years ago." Zheng Ren said, "Back then, it seems they all placed pacemakers via the subclavian route."

"The jugular or axillary vein would be better, and the technique keeps improving. Hey, Boss, do you have any ideas on how to extract the electrode tip from the myocardium? One slip could tear the heart muscle."

"We have an idea; we can……"

Zheng Ren explained to Su Yun the interventional technique he had successfully tried in the System Operating Room.

Afterwards, the car fell silent.

Su Yun began to ponder Zheng Ren's situation, while Zheng Ren started to slowly review the surgical procedure from the beginning, perfecting every detail. Whenever he had an idea, he'd dive back into the System Operating Room to try a new approach.

After all, a 90% success rate is far from enough in Zheng Ren's view, and there are still postoperative risks.

The patient is likely not young; if complications like myocardial rupture or pericardial tamponade occur, necessitating a second sternotomy, given his condition he might not survive.

Even if Zheng Ren in reality had a Luck Value bonus and the Scholar title granting an extra 10% success rate, he'd still be dissatisfied with a 90% figure.

The driver was utterly bewildered; he couldn't get a word in edgewise.

While driving, he carefully sized up Zheng Ren.

He looks familiar—who is he? Could he be a celebrity? No, I don't follow dramas… maybe it's a star my daughter has on her phone?

The driver strained to recall who these two young people were; upon arriving at Di Du Tumor Hospital, when Zheng Ren and Su Yun got out of the car, he suddenly recognized them from behind!

Isn't he the Nobel Prize laureate who's been on TV nonstop these past few days? What's his name again?

He drives for a living, earning money day after day, with no time to follow the news. When he happened to see a compatriot win a Nobel Prize, he felt a bit proud, but he didn't remember the laureate's name.

In between, I think there was also a foreigner's name… where is that foreigner?

The driver wanted to chase after them for an autograph, but having forgotten their names, he felt embarrassed. He pulled out his phone to search online; when he looked up again after finding the name in the news, Zheng Ren and Su Yun's silhouettes had already vanished inside the hospital.

He felt a bit regretful—what a great opportunity; perhaps he'd never get this close to them again in his lifetime.

……

Zheng Ren and Su Yun arrived at the Interventional Surgery Suite; Lin Yuan had been waiting outside for a while.

"Boss Zheng, Brother Yun!" Lin Yuan waved from afar.

"Don't think you can slack off just because you have a cold; these few days I and the Boss might be going to Germany, and on this side any surgery you're alive for you'll definitely have to do." Su Yun said.

Lin Yuan felt slightly moved.

"Don't think you can slack off just because you have a cold; these few days I and the Boss might be going to Germany, and on this side any surgery you're alive for you'll definitely have to do."

Su Yun's next remark brought Lin Yuan back to reality.

"What's the situation?" Zheng Ren asked casually, then ducked into the changing room.

Lin Yuan looked at the changing room, wryly smiling. Was he supposed to go in with Boss Zheng to report the patient's condition, or wait outside?

Boss Zheng doesn't seem very reliable these days.

A girl would feel embarrassed to barge into the men's changing room, so Lin Yuan, helpless, stood guard at the door and informed his father, Boss Zheng, that he had arrived.

"Can you pull off the technique you described?"

As the party led by Director Lin was just reaching the door of the changing room, Su Yun's voice came from inside.

"We should be able to give it a try. If it fails, we'll just have to do an emergency thoracotomy." Zheng Ren said, "With you here and me here, the difficulty of an emergency thoracotomy isn't that great."

Director Lin and the others exchanged glances; Boss Zheng is truly overconfident! If extracting the electrode tip fails, there's a high chance it will cause myocardial rupture and pericardial tamponade.

Myocardial rupture leading to pericardial tamponade—is the difficulty of this procedure really not that great?

If we went straight for open chest, maybe the difficulty could be controlled. But in an emergency, who can say?

Just then, Zheng Ren and Su Yun had finished changing, put on their sterile caps, and were tying the straps of their masks as they spoke while walking out.

"Boss Zheng, long admired, long admired." Director Lin smiled and walked up, extending his hand warmly.

"I'm the Executive Vice President of Tumor Hospital, and also Lin Yuan's father, Lin Zhao Ming." Director Lin continued his self-introduction.

"Director Lin, you're too polite." Zheng Ren shook hands with Director Lin and said with a smile.

"Sorry to have troubled you to come." Director Lin said, then introduced Zheng Ren to Director Liang and Director Pang.

After shaking hands one by one, Zheng Ren had grown accustomed to making brief small talk. However, while his hand was still clasped with Director Pang's, he asked, "How is the patient's condition?"

"We've already implanted a new pacemaker, but the fractured lead can't be pulled out—the electrode tip is adhesively stuck too badly." Director Pang said.

"Let's take a look." Zheng Ren immediately headed inside.

Su Yun watched her boss bustle about with energetic vigor; through three layers of mask she let out a wry smile—when will this guy ever learn a bit more social finesse?