Li Jun finally woke up, but his lung condition made it impossible to detach from the machine.
He had survived the first challenge, the second one seemed even tougher.
Yang Ping arrived at the ICU, and Dr. An accompanied him at the bedside: "He woke up last night, but was a bit groggy, but he was responsive this morning when we called his name."
The young man was lucky.
In fact, it was his "cousin’s" perseverance that saved him. From admission into the ICU to waking up, the ECMO cost alone amounted to hundreds of thousands, not to mention the expensive imported lifesaving drugs.
They must have depleted their one million by now.
Sometimes, money can prolong life, an irrefutable fact.
"Did he ask about anything?" Yang Ping asked Dr. An.
Dr. An shook his head, "He just woke up, he doesn’t know anything."
Thinking about Qin Xiaowei’s freehand rock climbing, Yang Ping still hoped that this young man would be safe and complete the climb smoothly.
"His cousin was very happy to know that he woke up, but he can’t come now, as he seems to have some training to carry out."
Dr. An has also kept in touch with Qin Xiaowei.
After visiting Li Jun, Yang Ping had to go to the operating room for a surgery.
Usually he found time in the afternoon to check on Li Jun, but this morning, he got the news that Li Jun woke up, so he came to visit right after his shift.
Arriving in the operating room, the operation had started.
Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang were taking turns as the chief surgeon, with Little Five Zhang Lin as their assistant, and August also present on stage.
"Dr. Song, what book were you and Dr. Xu reading yesterday?"
August noticed that each of them had a photocopied thread-bound book, which they read daily and often looked through before and after each surgery.
"That is our department’s Sunflower Manual!" Zhang Lin said.
August was curious: "Sunflower Manual?"
"Yes, only they have it in our department now, we don’t even have it." Zhang Lin explained to the research doctors.
Actually, that book was not really a book, but a collection of Yang Ping’s hand-drawn anatomical diagrams and array of surgical techniques. It was a comprehensive summary of Yang Ping’s anatomical and surgical experiences, almost like a textbook.
Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang were studying this hand-drawn textbook daily, whereas Little Five Zhang Lin’s knowledge and experience hadn’t reached this stage, so it was difficult for them to understand.
Neither was it any classified material. Regarding the research doctors, Yang Ping felt that their philosophies hadn’t fully caught up yet, so they weren’t suitable to read his manuscript.
When they have more understanding of his theories and philosophies, they’d find it easier to accept the manuscript.
"Dr. Ao, do you want to read this book too?" Zhang Lin teased him.
"Can I?" August asked tentatively.
When Takahashi came for his research previously, this "Manual" hadn’t been released yet, so all three of them hadn’t come across this book.
"To practice magic arts, you must endure the pain of self-castration!" Zhang Lin guided him accordingly.
August either mulled over the phrase, his Chinese may be highly proficient, but he’s still a foreigner after all, and didn’t understand its implications immediately.
Robert and Takahashi were temporarily on break, so they were resting under the stage. When they heard about Professor Yang’s "Sunflower Manual", their interest piqued immediately.
"This book contains Professor Yang’s hand-drawn diagrams, will be published as a book in the future, and the basic knowledge I teach you daily is from this book. For example, the anatomical diagrams and surgical diagrams of the spine are from this book. The contents are too complex, I thought you might not be able to digest it all at once, so we didn’t give you a copy yet." Song Zimo didn’t want August to be misled by Zhang Lin.
If the German got pedantic and went researching "To practice magic arts, you must endure the pain of self-castration" online.
If he were to take a blade to his testicles in the dormitory one day, that would be international news.
So there was such a manual, these three research doctors only heard about it for the first time, so they made up their minds to get one.
After Yang Ping performed a demonstration surgery at Nandu Affiliated Hospital One, the hospital was the first to start phase II clinical trials.
At the same time, the Orthopedics Department of Hospital 301 was also busily preparing for the clinical trials.
In the Department of Orthopedics meeting room of Hospital 301.
Professor Qin Shi, wearing a military uniform shirt with a white gown over it, looked spirited.
All the doctors in the official hospital staff of Hospital 301 dressed the same, giving off a different kind of aura.
There are only four leading hospitals in the treatment of spinal scoliosis nationwide: Xiehe, 301, Nanjing Drum Tower, Nandu Affiliated Hospital One. Following closely were other hospitals like 304, 306, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing Children’s Hospital which were also considered as secondary hospitals. All other hospitals fell under the tertiary category.
The educational videos on the surgical treatment of scoliosis using spinal external fixator were played repeatedly, and everyone had also received guidance materials on the new technology.
A child with a Cobb angle of 176 degrees astonishingly managed to gradually correct the shape successfully using the Illizarov theory.
Those present undoubtedly thought about how great it’d be if the Illizarov theory for limb correction could be applied to the spine, but the problems to be solved were too many, almost unachievable.
But in just a few months’ time, this young Golden Knife Award winner solved this problem. The new technology not only was launched but also successfully completed phase I clinical trials.
If they showed everyone animal experiment monkeys, some would certainly have doubts, but now they had actual successful cases, which was undeniable.
This kind of innovation was not just an improvement in surgical technique, but it was a revolution in the whole surgical system, completely different from traditional operations in terms of theoretical basis.
Although it involved osteotomy, the method and purpose of osteotomy were completely different.
Although it involved correction, the theoretical basis and method of correction were also completely different.
A few months ago, Hospital 301 attempted to bring in Yang Ping, but Yang Ping had no intention to leave Sanbo, and Sanbo Hospital also played double games, so Professor Qin felt they could wait.