My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 960: Chapter 380: Level 5 Encirclement Surgery and Urethral Dilatation

Inserting a catheter was a minor task for Zhou Can.

However, this patient’s condition was quite unusual, and Zhou Can faced noticeable difficulty when inserting the catheter.

Thankfully, he volunteered to help Qiao Yu, otherwise, she might have been even more embarrassed.

The skill level of nurses in catheter insertion, even for an experienced head nurse, barely reaches the level of an attending physician. For a novice like Qiao Yu, who has only been working for about three years, achieving a level comparable to a Resident Doctor is considered decent.

Zhou Can exerted some effort and finally managed to successfully insert the small catheter into the bladder.

[Catheter insertion successful, implantation technique experience points +1. Completion of a high-difficulty catheter insertion, bonus experience points +100.]

This was quite a surprise, he received an additional reward of 100 experience points.

Is this perhaps a reward for good deeds?

[Congratulations, your implantation technique has been successfully upgraded to Level 5, current experience points 1/100000, at the introductory level of an Associate Chief Physician. Can perform high-difficulty intraluminal and intracavitary insertions, can perform deep insertion of special medical instruments, can perform partial organ insertions...]

This medical skill may seem negligible, but its significance in clinical practice is immense.

In many surgeries, the tasks required for implantation techniques are often the crowning touch.

For example, the insertion of vascular stents, or loops, many doctors begin to tremble before starting the surgery because some malformed vascular aneurysms are indeed challenging to handle.

Arterial dissections are even more daunting.

A small mistake, and a human life is at your hands, doesn’t that frighten you?

Zhou Can’s previous Level 4 implantation technique, at the attending physician level, made it challenging to perform deep insertions of certain special medical instruments. He could only attempt challenges with a low success rate and a lengthy process.

Now it’s different; upon upgrading to Level 5, even without trying, he already has some confidence.

Additionally, organ insertion sounds somewhat absurd.

In fact, during some major surgeries, returning an organ to its original cavity or within a tissue is often required. However, the risks involved are exceptionally high, and the difficulty is immense, with extremely strict requirements on the surgeon’s skills and experience.

Many organs and tissues are easy to remove but difficult to put back.

Zhou Can now officially possesses this ability.

"The patient’s vital signs are normal, ready for surgery!"

The anesthesiologist didn’t say much.

He only glanced at Zhou Can with slight surprise, as normally, the chief surgeon, due to their high status, wouldn’t pay much attention to the nurses in the operating room.

He could see Zhou Can’s care for Qiao Yu.

"Let’s begin!"

Dr. Xu spoke.

He didn’t give Zhou Can any hints, intentionally using this surgery to test Zhou Can’s surgical skills.

He didn’t even prepare a preoperative diagram.

Everything had to be done by Zhou Can himself.

"Qiao Yu, are all the urethral probes ready?"

Zhou Can looked at Qiao Yu.

She looked at Zhou Can with eyes that seemed unusually close.

"Yes, everything is prepared!"

It seems that she knew what surgery they were about to perform beforehand.

"The patient’s urine retention is quite significant!"

Zhou Can found that even after the customized thin catheter had been aspirating urine from the bladder for a long time, it kept coming out endlessly.

It’s understandable why the patient found life unbearable.

Urinating was extremely difficult and very painful during the process, with the bladder distended and full of the urge, yet unable to be relieved. You can imagine how excruciating that feeling must be.

His current condition likely includes physiological issues, making it utterly normal that he cannot engage in intimate activities with his girlfriend.

This is probably also the main reason why his girlfriend was contemplating breaking up.

No woman wants to live a life of loneliness at such a young age.

Binding a woman’s lifelong happiness with just the word "love" is unrealistic.

"Alright, the urine is mostly drained! Doctor, can we begin the surgery after withdrawing the catheter?"

Zhou Can consulted Dr. Xu for his opinion.

"Today’s surgery is essentially a test for you, so you should only consult me when you encounter difficulties. At other times, all steps are for you to decide. Remember, try to solve problems yourself as much as possible. Each time you consult me, it reduces your surgical score and affects future surgery assignments to you."

Dr. Xu reminded him.

This surgery was deliberately set to evaluate Zhou Can’s surgical ability and level. If Zhou Can performs excellently, future surgeries of this difficulty might readily be provided to him.

If the performance is not adequate, considering surgical safety, only a downgrade might be permissible for Zhou Can.

It is also possible to only provide Level 1 or Level 2 surgeries.

Currently, Dr. Xu is still under restricted status because of a medical accident years ago, still working with an invisible ’shackle’. Level 4 surgeries are forbidden for Dr. Xu.

Therefore, the Emergency Department can only perform up to Level 3 surgeries at most.

Assigning a surgery nearly approaching Level 3 right at the start for Zhou Can shows the high expectations placed on him.

"Understood!"

Zhou Can no longer asked for guidance, directly withdrawing the special catheter from the patient.

Then he picked up a probe. Since the patient was in a supine position, he stood by the patient’s left side.

He could actually stand on the right side for the examination, depending entirely on the chief surgeon’s personal habit.

If the patient was in the lithotomy position, the chief surgeon generally needs to stand between the patient’s legs.

Situations requiring the lithotomy position are relatively uncommon.

Zhou Can held one of the patient’s organs with one hand, and the probe gently entered the external urethral orifice. This was just the first step; the next step was to pass the probe into the bulbar urethra.