JON has been studying transplant rejection for a long time and has basically mastered all the techniques.
He sterilized the two rabbits, carefully prepared the skins on the necks, and performed the entire aseptic operation carefully.
Then, he entered the most stressful first stage of transplantation, connecting the blood vessels of two living bodies.
This set of movements must be fast, accurate, and race against time.
The faster the blood supply to the head, the better. There is no meaning in more than 3 minutes. As for the donor, almost at the same time, two living bodies cut their heads at the same time, throwing away half, and the other half of the other two became a new living body.
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JON has practiced this level very well, and he completed it without much effort.
Next, is the nerve anastomosis.
For nerves that control the heart and lungs, anastomosis is preferred.
After JON tried countless times, he was able to accurately find the nerves that control the heart and lungs. Only by connecting this group of nerves, the heartbeat and breathing would return to normal.
The heart itself has self-beating autonomic cells, but these autonomic cells need to be controlled by the low-level central nervous system to beat normally and effectively.
It takes no more than 6 minutes to complete this set of anastomosis.
This is a key step in head transplantation.
JON has basically mastered it now, with a success rate of over 90%.
The subsequent anastomosis of other nerves will have a lot of time, so the anastomosis can be performed carefully.
This process, JON, usually takes about 5 hours.
All steps are well controlled.
He even completely forgot about Liu Miqiao's warning to him for a few hours. It was not until finally, when JON completed the last injection, that he remembered that Liu Muchiao had talked to him just a few hours ago.
JON smiled painfully, there was nothing he could do. At this point, not to mention Liu Muqiao couldn't stop him, even if all the staff of Antai Hospital came to stop him, they couldn't stop him.
The key is, even he himself can't stop him.
Head transplantation is a must, and JON has no willpower to stop himself.
The rabbit lay quietly on the fixed bed. JON gave him enough sleeping pills. Two hours later, he would inject the rabbit with the first injection of anti-rejection drug.
This is a compound preparation, each hospital has a different formula. JON bought it from the transplant center of the affiliated hospital.
The Kidney Transplant Center of the Affiliated Hospital has been established for 20 years. It has done very well in organ transplantation and the prevention and treatment of rejection is very mature. The incidence of severe transplant rejection is controlled within 5%, and the rate of incurable rejection is 0.5%.
Within.
JON requested a lot of rejection drugs, which can be used to prevent and treat 10 patients.
The amount of medicine used in rabbits is less than one-twentieth of that in humans.
The rabbit is living well.
After the first anti-rejection drug was injected, JON lay fully clothed on the bed and fell asleep. An hour later, he was woken up by the alarm clock and changed a bottle of liquid for the rabbit.
He was late for work the next day.
JON was late, 45 minutes late, and he changed the rabbit into another bottle of liquid.
It is not too difficult to inject liquid into a rabbit. The veins in its ears are easier to inject than the blood vessels in a child's scalp. The difficulty lies in adjusting the speed of infusion into the rabbit. This is not too easy. The key is that no one is watching.
In order not to be discovered, JON still came to work and had to go on stage to perform a moderate operation.
By the time the operation was over, it was already noon.
JON quickly returned home.
Everything is normal.
The rabbit's fluid transfusion was not finished yet, so he added an injection of an anti-rejection compound preparation.
The name of this compound preparation is Compound No. 3. It is the compound formula of version 3.0.
He stayed with Rabbit for an hour, then returned to the department, where he and Song Baibai studied everything about tomorrow's surgery.
Tomorrow's surgery will be performed by Song Baibai, JON will not be on stage.
At the end of the day, JON felt as if he had taken a shot of chicken blood. Although he was very sleepy, he was in a good mood and talked a lot.
In particular, he spent a lot less time speaking English today, and mostly used Qingjiang dialect, which was even better than Liu Miqiao's Qingjiang dialect.
He is excited.
As soon as it was time to get off work, he disappeared quickly.
As soon as JON entered his door, he rushed over to see whether the rabbit was alive or dead.
Yes, it's still alive.
Check your heartbeat and breathing, it's very good! The heartbeat is only 10% faster than normal, and the breathing is at the highest value of normal.
This is good data.
JON picked up the stethoscope and found no rales in his lungs.
Everything is fine.
JON finished busy with the rabbit, then ordered a takeaway, opened a bottle of French red wine, and tasted it with gusto.
I'm in a good mood today.
The rabbit has lived for 18 hours.
The goal this time is that the rabbit lives for 15 days.
This goal is a bit ambitious, but JON thinks it is not a dream. There is a certain probability that he can survive in 15 days.
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Liu Muqiao received an invitation from Hopkins University, inviting him and Zhu Yaguang to attend this year's Spine Surgery Congress.
Ask him to give a keynote speech.
Spinal cord surgery does not have this discipline internationally. They group this discipline together with spinal surgery, which is somewhat unscientific.
It stands to reason that spinal cord surgery and neurosurgery are closer, so it is more reasonable to summarize them into neurosurgery.
However, it is all possible, and it is close to the spine and the outside of the spirit.
Subject classification is sometimes divided into anatomical parts, and sometimes it is divided into functional categories, so it is not a big problem how to classify.
Liu Muqiao refused.
He thought it would be enough if Zhu Yaguang participated.
He really feels that there is no need to compete with Zhu Yaguang and others. He is indeed the best in spinal surgery, but he is more willing to let his subordinates gain more halo.
Because Zhu Yaguang stands on the platform of Union Medical College, he may now receive more courtesy than Liu Miqiao. Finally, Liu Miqiao and Zhu Yaguang discussed and invited Zhu Yaguang to attend the meeting to represent Antai Hospital and Union Medical College Hospital.
Liu Muqiao didn't want to attend a conference that was just a speech. It was boring. Such a conference could be replaced by a paper.
Even in activities such as being awarded a visiting professor, Liu Muqiao is not very interested. He actually has several professor titles in China, but not many abroad. This is not important. He wants to slowly change the world.
Get used to it and don’t think that foreign ones are the best.
Liu Muqiao declined the invitation from Hopkins University. At the same time, he also declined another invitation.
Since the number one person in spinal cord surgery at Antai Hospital was Liu Muqiao, JON was not noticed by others. His situation was completely different from that of Zhu Yaguang.
However, JON doesn't care at all. His interest is not in honor at all. He has been immersed in excitement these days.
His rabbit "Golden and Wood" is still alive and well.
The rejection reaction was a little bit, but not serious. The infection was also well controlled. The vital signs were stable.
All signs indicate that the rabbit "Golden and Wood" has hope of surviving 15 days.
15 days is a dividing line.
7 days is the peak period of wound edema. After 7 days, the edema will slowly subside. By 15 days, the edema will completely subside.
Therefore, 15 days is a critical time node.
This chapter has been completed!