My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1604 653: Does Tu Ya Need a Personal Hero? One Call, All Respond

Time is passing second by second, and the atmosphere in the operating room is extremely tense.

Everyone is helping Mr. Song fight against death, doing their utmost to extend survival time and create the possibility of surgical success for Zhou Can.

The temperature in the operating room is very low, and many nurses are shivering from the cold.

Various life monitoring instruments, ventilators, and such never stop alarming, sounding like the relentless toll of a death knell.

Zhou Can is removing the sutured part from ten years ago at an extremely fast speed for the patient.

At this moment, his Stable Knife Technique, Fast Knife Skill has significantly improved, and even the Precise Knife Skill he learned later has improved as well.

His knife speed appears slow, but in reality, it's fast as lightning.

Not only that, amidst speed there's stability, while also maintaining precision, it's simply breaking the laws of physics.

Dr. Xu watches in astonishment, eyes filled with endless delight and a hint of inspiration.

He achieves speed to the extreme yet cannot ensure stability; as for precision, it's further impossible to balance.

He can only rely on extremely fast knife speed, along with decades of practiced force, feel, and experience to ensure precision when cutting.

At this moment, watching that cold scalpel come to life in Zhou Can's hands, achieving extreme speed, rock-like stability, and exceptional precision, it's simply a perfect knife skill. It's a skill he dared not even dream of.

This apprentice is truly remarkable.

Insight, talent, diligence, temperament, all are first-class, unknowingly surpassing his teacher's skills.

Whether Zhou Can was independently presiding over Level 3 surgeries before or challenging high-difficulty Level 4 surgeries, Dr. Xu didn't feel that Zhou Can was greater than him. If freed from his shackles, having persevered for years and diligently practiced surgical skills, he absolutely had confidence to surpass his previous peak.

Not until this moment, seeing Zhou Can masterfully integrate three knife skills into one brand new perfect knife skill, did Dr. Xu truly feel the waves of the Yangtze River surpassing the previous ones, the former wave dying on the beach.

He has already been surpassed by his apprentice.

The surgery continues without pause. After Zhou Can successfully debrides the wound for the patient, the next most crucial and core step is performing the nerve anastomosis.

The biggest challenge here is aligning countless nerve guide wires.

Aligning them one by one might take a month without sleep.

Moreover, a microscope capable of magnifying a thousand times is necessary to see clearly.

Almost all nerve anastomoses are blind connections.

It relies on the feel to connect the broken nerve ends together.

Experience, talent, and anastomosis technique all potentially affect the outcome of the anastomosis.

Nerves are unlike blood vessel anastomosis; as long as the severed vessel is reconnected and internal passage is clear, it's sufficient.

Nerves are more like optic cables, containing numerous fine fibers, each needing perfect alignment.

Zhou Can's Level 7 Anastomosis Skill, Level 7 Suturing Skill, Level 7 Ligation Skill, and exceptional nerve anastomosis talent give him a massive edge in this nerve anastomosis surgery.

From cutting open the original anastomosis site, debridement, then successfully reconnecting, it takes a total of eight minutes and five seconds.

After confirming no mistakes, he quickly proceeds to clean the cranial cavity for the patient, then closes it.

Despite using absorbable sutures that require no removal, considering the potential significant risks post-surgery, the removed cranial bone flap is not reattached. It must wait until the patient's vital signs stabilize before reopening the scalp and reattaching the cranial bone flap.

The patient will need to stay in the Intensive Care Unit for at least ten days.

Seeing the surgery successfully completed, everyone breathes a long sigh of relief, visibly becoming much more relaxed.

"Zhou Can!"

Director Feng calls out.

"Yes!"

Zhou Can looks over in confusion.

"The patient's brainstem signal is very flat. Your pontine nerve anastomosis might not have achieved the desired effect. There might even be a chance it's worse than before the surgery. If the patient's brainstem signal maintains this state, even if awoken, it's likely they might become a vegetative state."

Director Feng's rich experience is evident, having handled numerous difficult neurosurgeries.

It's hard to count. If not thousands, certainly many hundreds.

The anesthesiologist is responsible for the entire perioperative safety, naturally aware of postoperative prognosis.

Upon hearing this, those who had just relaxed become tense once more.

Zhou Can seems to have anticipated this.

"Operating on the brainstem inherently carries massive risk. Now that the surgery is complete, all that can be done is possibly awaiting a medical miracle. Jiang Wei, you're responsible for crafting the patient's care plan and nutritional management."

"No problem."

Jiang Wei gladly agrees.

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With the surgery concluded, the patient is essentially hanging by a thread, transferred to the ICU for focused monitoring, ensuring they pass through the most dangerous postoperative half-month.

Because the patient's post-surgery brainwaves are indistinguishable from those of a vegetative person, a shadow also looms over Zhou Can.

The surgery's success or failure remains uncertain.

Time passes quickly, as Tuya Hospital mobilizes its best medical resources to care for Mr. Song.

Half a month passes in the blink of an eye.

The medical miracle doesn't occur; Mr. Song's brainwaves remain flat, now truly in a vegetative state.

When Mr. Song's surgery had just finished, Dean Gao was exceptionally active, showing off before the Song family.

Now, the half-month deadline has passed, and Mr. Song still shows no sign of waking. Dean Gao perceives trouble and has been avoiding the Intensive Care Medicine Department area, clearly washing his hands of the matter.