Chapter 646: [(646)] Shocked the teacher Chapter 646: [(646)] Shocked the teacher She had to follow her teacher’s steps.
After all, the teacher had the experience with this surgery, better than her eyes and brain could operate from experience. Her brain might pinpoint the location more precisely, but how to operate on these locations was her shortcoming, something that required accumulative surgical experience, and was a strong point of her teacher. Following the teacher’s lead would save time.
Tan Kelin knew that the real test for this student had arrived.
Could her extraordinary eyesight and brain keep pace with the experienced rhythm of an old doctor?
Experience was something that couldn’t be calculated, but had to be accumulated.
The teacher’s separation clamp rapidly parted tissue in the patient’s abdominal cavity; Xie Wanying’s eyes watched intently, trying to understand what was what. Just like when she first watched a senior colorectal specialist perform a laparoscopic surgery, she felt somewhat lost in a fog. In emergency surgeries without multiple pre-planned surgical routes in the mind, one had to rely on experience from past similar surgeries.
She terribly lacked such experiential maps.
She could only rush to dredge up and combine all the knowledge she had learned.
That was the uterus; the teacher was guiding her to avoid it while checking around the uterus for any signs of infection. If there was an infection of the uterus, it would need to be handled by the gynecology and obstetrics department. For the moment, the patient’s uterus seemed intact. Next, the patient’s appendix, due to the pregnancy, had moved upwards and might be squished between different layers of tissue, making it harder to locate.
Teacher Tan’s highly skilled technique was fully displayed before her. She always knew Teacher Tan was impressive when observing him as the chief surgeon, but the impressiveness was vague. It wasn’t until she saw Teacher Tan act as the first assistant that she was truly astounded.
Such rapid separation required a surgeon to have an incredibly clear intuition to identify and distinguish every organ and tissue they saw, to be able to clamp down once and grab with another clamp, precise with every move, without causing bleeding, without struggling to separate. It was like a warrior brandishing a broadsword, cutting through thorns and bushes, unstoppable and unobstructed.
Xie Wanying was filled only with admiration in her heart; Teacher Tan’s vast knowledge and the thousands of surgeries he had practiced shone like the sun in a dazzling golden light.
Beads of sweat layered Sun Yubo’s forehead as he could feel Tan Kelin seeming to ignite that night.
How could this indifferent man get so excited in this emergency surgery tonight, it was baffling.
It wasn’t as if he hadn’t performed surgery on pregnant women before; there was no reason to be feverishly impassioned.
As the mirror assistant, it made it hard for him to keep up with the pace, struggling with all his strength to keep his hands from trembling.
Finally, it came to the most crucial part of the surgery, the exploration of other areas was done, and they discovered the elusive appendix.
The appendix was swollen with pus, but fortunately, it had not perforated and had not spread to peritonitis, thankfully.
The fully exposed appendix was first separated from the appendicular artery, clamping the arterial vessel.
They cut the mesoappendix, cutting all the way to the base, tied off the base of the appendix, no need to stitch since it had not perforated.
They cut off the appendix 0.5 centimeters from the tie line and placed the appendix into the specimen bag.
They took care to observe the surrounding area for any bleeding and cleaned the abdominal cavity thoroughly. The teacher’s suction device went “whoosh whoosh whoosh,” sucking up the bodily fluids around the specimen bag until it was clean and dry, which helped prevent contaminating other organs and tissues when removing the specimen bag from the abdominal cavity.
The surgery was over; in the operating room, the anesthesiologist, nurses, Student Li, and others witnessed a thoroughly riveting surgical performance, holding their breath from start to finish.