Chapter 246: Surgery begins Chapter 246: Surgery begins In big hospitals, everyone is eager to be the first, teachers are very responsible and don’t trust others easily, so it’s impossible to pull someone to be the First Assistant to enrich the workforce like in small hospitals. Xie Wanying was very clear about this.
First, do a good job with retracting.
Since the job of retraction was given to her, Sun Yubo, who often got called to retract as the Second Assistant, could relax quite a bit. However, Sun Yubo didn’t understand why Tan Kelin would ask an intern on her second day to retract.
It’s rare to see someone on their second day of clinical internship get into the operating room to retract.
How well could she retract?
Last preparations before surgery.
The Chief Surgeon, the Chief Surgeon’s Assistant, and the Second Assistant all put on their surgical magnifying glasses.
Once they put them on, it was almost impossible for others to see the faces of the surgical doctors. In addition to glasses, they wore masks and caps, covering the surgeons’ heads so that nothing leaked.
As the third assistant, whose only job was to retract, Xie Wanying didn’t need to, and had no conditions to, wear surgical magnifying glasses.
She had been looking forward to observing the teachers’ expressions and guessing their thoughts during surgery, but it seemed that trying to observe their subtle facial movements with her eyes was now out of the question.
The instrument nurse appeared very professional, knowing that now when you couldn’t see the handsome face of a surgeon, it was better to watch the surgeon’s hands.
Although some surgeons have chubby, pudgy hands, when they got to work, those little pudgy hands could flutter like butterflies, looking wonderfully elegant and utterly cool. It’s like Zhao Zhaowei turning into a handsome guy when he puts on a white coat.
This is what you call technical handsomeness and beauty, displayed to the fullest on doctors. No wonder many ordinary people aspire to be doctors.
The beeping of the monitor and the steady heartbeat of the patient were especially pleasant to the medical staff’s ears, as soothing as classical music, indicating the rhythm of life that put everyone at ease.
Picking up the scalpel blade, Tan Kelin’s hand, without hesitation, made the first incision on the patient’s skin, cold, swift, accurate, devoid of emotion, like slicing a steak in a restaurant.
As previously mentioned, the more professional a surgeon is, the less human they seem during surgery.
The scalpel blade was very small, about the size of a finger joint, but its sharpness was extraordinary. The moment it made an incision, it would burst blood vessels.
A bead of blood popped out from the incision, and Dr. Liu Chengran, standing across from him, had already prepared the gauze, dabbing and pressing on the blood bead at the incision to make it easier for the Chief Surgeon to continue the operation.
After making the incision, Tan Kelin switched to the Electrosurgical Unit.
The advantage of the Electrosurgical Unit was that it could continue to make incisions while coagulating and stemming the blood flow from the vessels.
Under the surgical magnifying glass, all that could be heard was the sound of the Electrosurgical Unit: “Zzz, zzz, zzz—”
Using the Electrosurgical Unit to cauterize blood vessels came with conditions; some bleeding points couldn’t be cauterized with it. The First Assistant opposite had to quickly ligate the bleeding points.
This is why medical students must practice, practice, practice their knot-tying, preferably to ultra-fast speed—its value becomes apparent at times like these.
Normally, there is no blood in the human abdominal cavity; blood flows within the vessels, even if some of them, the tiny capillaries, may be too small to be visible to the naked eye. Bleeding means there’s a rupture somewhere. Hence, when there is a bleeding point, sutures are placed, hands tie a knot to secure the rupture, the bleeding stops, scissors snap, and the process is completed within a few seconds.
All these actions are the speed at which a doctor races against the Grim Reaper.
Continuously, the Electrosurgical Unit moves deeper, while tissue scissors and other surgical instruments assist, all to quickly expose the patient’s lesion and determine the true nature of the patient’s condition.