Dr. Duan didn't interfere, didn't say anything, and just left directly.
Zhou Can stayed in the operating room to clean up.
Since there was only one instrument nurse in this surgery, with no circulating nurse or scrub nurse, the task of cleaning was all left to Zhou Can alone.
After Zhou Can finished cleaning, it wasn't long before a team of doctors and nurses hurriedly pushed a patient toward the operating table.
"Oh, how come there's a male nurse?"
The chief surgeon was a man around thirty-eight or thirty-nine, his hair graying, and he had an overall scholarly and energetic appearance.
He was taken aback to see an unfamiliar young man standing in the operating room.
"He's not a nurse, seems to be a new resident doctor. Dr. Zhao asked him to stay in the operating room to clean for the day and to watch other doctors perform surgeries to gain some experience,"
said the surgical nurse who had worked with Zhou Can before as she quickly interjected an explanation.
The looks other medical staff gave Zhou Can showed a sudden change.
They were all cunning.
A resident tasked by superior doctors to clean the operating room is clearly understood by everyone as a punishment.
Only the anesthesiologist, who was carrying a box, looked at Zhou Can with a somewhat surprised expression.
He even nodded slightly to Zhou Can as a way of greeting.
"Quick, get the patient onto the operating table! Dr. Guan, immediately administer anesthesia to the patient."
Judging by the urgency, the patient's condition was very critical.
Zhou Can also stepped forward to help. After all, he was just mooching off the surgery; an extra helping hand would certainly not be minded by the chief surgeon.
Zhou Can was familiar with this anesthesiologist called Dr. Guan.
Because Zhou Can had already performed many surgeries, including not a few Level 3 and above major operations.
On several occasions of general anesthesia for major surgeries, he had often seen Dr. Guan's presence.
Anesthesiologists, like other physicians, are classified into three levels: resident doctor, attending doctor, and director level. Different qualifications are required for different anesthesia surgeries.
At the same time, anesthesiologists, like other doctors, take disciples under their wing.
Anesthetic procedures for surgeries with serious complications of the heart, brain, lungs, endocrine, and other systems, or surgeries presenting a significant risk during the preoperative assessment, all require a director or associate director level anesthesiologist to be in charge.
They make assessments of the overall perioperative risks and give the go-ahead for surgery only if they consider the safety factors to be satisfactory.
Otherwise, no matter if it were heavyweights like Wu Baihe or Hu Kan who devised the surgical plans, if the anesthesiologist deemed the risks too high after their assessment, the operation would have to be postponed.
Or, it could be rescheduled when the patient meets the surgical criteria.
Thus, the status of anesthesiologists is not low.
And they understand the workings of the human body's respiratory, nervous system, blood system, and all organs like the back of their hand.
Each one of them is a hidden master.
The only complaint is that the Anesthesiology Department is considered a subspecialty, and their compensation cannot compare with primary specialty doctors.
They seem to be immune to fame.
Even the most accomplished director level anesthesiologist is known only within the medical community. As for patients and their families, they only know the name of the chief surgeon.
Who the anesthesiologist is, they seldom care.
Dr. Guan must be at least a senior attending anesthesiologist. The fact that he personally took on this anesthesia case indicates that the difficulty is not low.
At least the risks are very high.
What exactly is this patient's condition? The patient looks pale, restless, with cold sweat continuously appearing on the forehead, and experiencing breathing difficulties, indicating extreme pain.
After unveiling the cloth on the patient's body, noticeable external injuries between the ribs can be seen.
Zhou Can immediately understood, the patient likely suffered from hemorrhage in the chest cavity, accompanied by a large amount of pleural effusion.
This condition is extremely dangerous. Ideally, emergency surgery should be performed to stop the bleeding before the patient goes into shock.
Dr. Guan quickly connected the patient to life monitoring devices.
Ideally, even central venous pressure monitoring would be established. However, given the emergency, only heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and temperature were monitored.
"Dr. Zhou, can you help with the tracheal intubation and set up the ventilator?"
Dr. Guan was alone and overwhelmed, as the patient's condition worsened.
In order to save anesthesia time, he had to ask for Zhou Can's assistance.
Others may not know Zhou Can's capabilities, but Dr. Guan was well-aware.
Especially his brilliant deeds in the Intensive Care Medicine Department were not only known by the staff of the department. Most doctors in Anesthesiology had also heard of them.
Because many doctors in the Intensive Care Medicine Department had transitioned from anesthesiology.
For example, Dr. Shi was formerly an anesthesiologist before switching to life sciences. His focus was how to provide better life support to patients and how to save lives at critical moments.
News travels fast to former colleagues in Anesthesiology.
Other medical staff were surprised to hear Dr. Guan asking Zhou Can for help.
It seems that Dr. Guan and this punished resident doctor are quite acquainted!
Tracheal intubation is not too difficult, but to do it quickly and accurately has its challenges.
The operation of the ventilator is relatively easy to learn, but the adjustment of its settings is a true test of a doctor's skill and experience.
Under the astonished and questioning eyes of everyone, Zhou Can quickly stepped forward and proceeded with the tracheal intubation for the patient.
Under the patient's restless and uneasy state, intubation would normally be very difficult.
However, Zhou Can completed the tracheal intubation effortlessly.
Tracheal intubation involves placing a specially designed endotracheal tube through the mouth, past the vocal cords, and into the trachea. It could also be inserted through the nostrils, depending on the situation.