Chapter 247: She has come to life as a third assistant. Chapter 247: She has come to life as a third assistant. Most of the previous examinations were external instrument explorations, which can be somewhat inaccurate. Often, when doctors open up patients for surgery, they find that the pre-surgical examination findings don’t match what is seen during the operation. Therefore, some tumor doctors are hesitant to give patients guarantees, only stating that whether the tumor can be removed can be confirmed after opening up with surgery.
The gold standard for diagnosis is during surgical operations, which is beyond doubt.
As the teachers were busy with tension, Xie Wanying held her breath in silence, quietly awaiting her own work to come.
Standing beside Chief Surgeon Teacher Tan, she could clearly hear the breathing from the person opposite and could faintly sense whether sweat had started to form on the operating surgeons’ brows.
Wearing a thick mask can already make one’s breathing uncomfortable, and if one became nervous, the sound of breathing would be even heavier and more anxious. It was the same for doctors.
After listening for a while, Xie Wanying didn’t notice any fluctuations in Teacher Tan’s breathing beside her, but the breathing of Teacher Liu and Teacher Xiao Sun across from her was slightly hurried.
Once they cut to a certain extent, the work she was responsible for finally arrived.
Two retractor hooks wrapped in saline-soaked gauze were placed into the patient’s body.
Teacher Tan adjusted the position of the hooks with his hands and then suddenly touched her elbow, “Hold this!”
Clinical teachers never spare any thought for coddling, regardless of whether you are male or female; they only know that you are there to assist in saving lives.
Startled by the teacher’s command, Xie Wanying quickly extended her hands to take the baton, gripping the handles of the two retractors firmly.
The resistance coming from the hooks’ heads came in waves, the strength of the patient’s muscles autonomously contracting. The patient, under anesthesia, seemed dead to the world, but as long as a person was alive, everything from breathing, muscles, skin, to internal organs were all in motion. This is the basic physiological function of a person; anesthesia can’t stop that, which would mean death.
It was precisely for this reason that assisting with a retractor was actually like playing tug-of-war with the patient’s muscles. Tug-of-war is exhausting, so those who had never handled retractors would find their arms sore and numb within minutes, with only one sensation: their hands might be rendered useless for the day.
No wonder the seniors say retracting is the most draining and paralyzing job; only the rookie interns seem to enjoy it, their curiosity piqued by the novelty of the operating table.
Adjusting her position, Xie Wanying held the retractor handles firmly without losing any strength.
Lau Jingyun, standing at the head of the operating table, watched her junior with concern. Having spent much time in the operating room and witnessed hundreds of surgeries, Lau Jingyun knew all too well how difficult it was for medical students to handle retractors, an activity that could exhaust even males.
As her junior was crossing the threshold into surgery for the first time, Lau Jingyun wondered what the outcome would be. As she pondered, all she could do was pray that her junior wouldn’t get scolded too harshly by the Chief Surgeon. It was rare for a medical student who was new to retracting on the surgery table to not be scolded.
As the surgery delved deeper, the retractor had to follow the Chief Surgeon’s lead, step by step, to open up deeper tissue and expose the surgical field.
Xie Wanying concentrated solely on the retractors in her hands.
Each member of the surgical team was to do their own duty well and think of nothing else.
Suddenly, the patient’s bleeding increased slightly.
Already being a fragile, late-stage cancer patient with weak blood function, it could be said Teacher Tan’s prediction was correct; such a condition made it very likely the patient could not leave the surgery table.
Xie Wanying’s ears could almost hear the sound of the eldest sister prattling as she ran to help the nurse fetch blood. Fortunately, they were forewarned, and blood supplies were ready in abundance; swiftly, the blood bag was hung up.