People are not machines, they must have feelings.
Throw away empathy, sometimes you really can’t do it.
Yang Ping left the ward, but his mood had not yet completely calmed down.
He always thought the world was beautiful, but he never thought he would see such a baby in reality.
It was a small skinned skeleton.
If it weren't for his pair of dark eyes and the sound of his heartbeat, no one would feel the breath of life from him.
It seems that it’s not that the world is beautiful, but that I was lucky enough to be born in a beautiful place.
Yang Ping washed his hands at the sink in the corridor, wiped them clean, and said to the people following him:
"Let's go to the office to discuss it."
Back in the office, everyone sat down.
This time, the case information was displayed on the large screen in the doctor's office. This large screen is usually used for shift handover, case discussion or meetings.
Yang Ping took a few sips of water, and Li Zehui asked softly: "Doctor Yang, can we start?"
"Let the anesthesiologist and perfusionist team come and listen together."
Li Zehui didn't wait for Yang Ping's definite reply. Looking at Yang Ping's firm eyes, he now asked the anesthesiologist and perfusionist to participate in the discussion, which meant that Yang Ping had decided to operate.
Marshall reacted quickly. This time, before Li Ze would call his name, he grabbed the phone and notified the anesthesiologist in the operating room that the perfusionist team had come to the cardiac surgery center for a meeting.
Marshall emphasized that this was an emergency meeting and he issued the notice in the name of Li Zehui.
Cleveland's top cardiac surgeon has absolute authority here.
In less than ten minutes, more than a dozen operating room members appeared in the doctor's office, including anesthesiologists, perfusionists, and operating room nurses. They took their tablets and found a suitable place to sit down.
In the best viewing position of the big screen, which is also the C position for case discussion, the young man with Asian face sitting there, everyone immediately concluded that this should be the Chinese doctor who has caused a lot of noise in the hospital recently.
Not only was Yang Ping sitting in seat C, but Li Zehui was extremely respectful every time he spoke to Yang Ping.
But can this operation really be successful?
Most people know very well that it is impossible to succeed.
Because a few months ago, the six-year-old child operated by Dr. Dodge unfortunately passed away on the operating table.
The subsequent anatomy study report suggested that this kind of surgery could not be successful under the existing medical conditions.
In the field of pediatric cardiac surgery, no one is more powerful than Dodge and Li Zehui. The Cleveland Heart Center is the pyramid of the world, and Dodge and Li Zehui are the figures at the top of the pyramid.
They have never heard of this Chinese doctor making any achievements in cardiac surgery, never heard of him.
Perfusionist Melvin Masson is a doctor from Australia's North Shore Hospital. Although the cardiac surgery department at Australia's North Shore Hospital is not as good as the Cleveland Heart Center, it also has a place in Europe and the United States.
Nandu Provincial People's Hospital is most proud of its cardiology department, which ranks among the best in the country. The backbone professors of its cardiology department are all trained by Australia's North Shore Hospital. It can be said that their technology was established with the assistance of Australia's North Shore Hospital.
Melvin Mason sat down next to Dodge.
"Man, what's the problem that calls us here in such a hurry?"
"I don't know. This was the Chinese doctor's idea. He said he could complete the operation on the Yemeni baby. He also said that my echocardiogram was not professional enough." Dodge's tone was a bit sarcastic.
The characters of Melvin Mason and Dodge are very similar. They always feel that they are superior to others and have a sense of professional superiority. Especially towards doctors from third world countries, they have serious tinted glasses.
"We'll see, man, he's going to be a bust."
Melvin Mason comforted Dodge. As a perfusionist, he had been involved in various heart surgeries all year round. He knew very well about this patient and could not perform the surgery at all.
They were talking in low voices, and Li Zehui over there had already announced "Quiet!"
The meeting is about to begin.
"Everyone, because of its special nature, this case has been shared with colleagues in the entire department in order to gather everyone's wisdom and come up with the best plan. Although everyone is familiar with this case and we have discussed it many times,
But we still ask Dr. Marshall to report this case to us again."
Marshall is a resident doctor undergoing subspecialty training in cardiac surgery. In another year, he will be qualified as an attending physician.
He studied engineering for four years as an undergraduate, and then entered medical school for four years of medical education. After graduation, he received training step by step. Today, he is only one step away from success.
Once he becomes an attending physician, it means that he can practice medicine independently and can earn a salary that is the envy of others, as well as a villa and a luxury car.
Marshall was very excited about such cases. Sometimes doctors would never encounter them in their lifetime, but now he encountered them.
Marshall opened the medical record:
"Hello everyone, I'm Marshall from Harvard Medical School---"
"Introduce cases, no need to introduce yourself!"
Li Ze will remind you.
Damn it, Marshall was probably a little nervous and forgot to say this self-introduction, which is the opening line of every speech he gives.
"Yes, sir, introduce the case."
Marshall stared at the medical record, paused, and began to report the medical records.
The English medical records slowly passed on the screen, and the pictures switched slowly one by one.
Then everyone can access the baby’s case information at any time on the tablet in their hand.
This is the most difficult heart surgery in the world, not only because of the malformation, not only because of the tumor, not only because of adhesions, but also because of his brand-new anatomy, mirror anatomy, even upside down front and back, almost extremely weak physique, and various maldevelopment of the organs.
, leaving defects in the tissue structure, which can cause fatal damage accidentally during surgical separation.
After Marshall reported the medical records in his loud and confident voice, Professor Li Zehui looked around and seemed to have something to say before the case was formally discussed:
"Everyone, there is no need to go into details. Even the youngest ones here are senior residents who are about to obtain the qualifications of attending doctors. There is no doubt about their professional understanding. This is a very rare case of cardiac malformation combined with tumors.
The difficulty of surgery is very high. We once gathered the best forces and tried to complete a charge on this type of cases, but we failed. Failure is not shameful, especially in the medical industry, because our medical skills today are far from reaching the level of
At the level of our expectations, the unsolved problems before us are far more than the problems we can solve. Dr. Tedolu once said---sometimes to cure, often to help, and always to comfort. This is true in medicine.
It also has real significance statistically.”
"In the cases where we failed, with the consent of the family members and the approval of the ethics committee, we conducted an anatomy study. The result of the study was a thick report. You have already obtained the report. The results of this type of cases are
The severity was far beyond our imagination. We seemed very naive and reckless at first, but this was not caused by our subjective intentions, because the original intention of each of us was to help her, even if we were reckless, my impulse, and our stubbornness
, all this is not for selfishness, but to help patients."
"There is a thought that is quietly popular among us - this baby is only six months old. He is so weak, so poor, and so isolated. It is very uneconomical to spend huge human and financial resources to save it. There is no need to try our best and give up.
Let’s go! It’s only six months, we don’t know the pain, and if we give up, some people will blame us, let alone pursue anything. It will be like a leaf falling, and it will not have any impact on our lives.”
"But we have forgotten that the right to life is given to everyone by God. Even if he only has six months, he has the right to pursue his own natural right. And the meaning of our doctors' existence is to help people pursue the right to life, no matter how thin they are.
Bones are as good as wood, no matter how humble he is, no matter how poor he is, that is not something we consider. We only need to determine that it is a life and should be treated equally. We must go all out for all lives. We cannot,
We must never give up any life. This is our bounden duty. Everyone, I seriously ask you, if this choice falls on you, should I give up you or him?"
Li Zehui's last words were spoken in a high voice, and as soon as he finished speaking, the whole audience fell silent.
It has been a long time since I heard such heart-shaking words. All the doctors present were moved.
Yang Ping turned to look at the serious-looking Li Zehui, full of respect for this colleague.
"This is Dr. Yang Ping, whom I invited from China. He will perform the surgery on this baby. Now he will talk about his views on this case and the surgical plan." Li Zehui ended his opening remarks.
Yang Ping stood up, holding an electronic stylus in his hand.
"Everyone, the difficulty of this operation is unprecedented in the history of cardiac surgery. This patient's overall physiological condition is very poor and is on the verge of collapse. There are multiple overlapping deformities and misstructures. This makes us enter an unknown minefield and may encounter danger at any time.
explosion, therefore, conventional surgical methods will become pale and ineffective, and we need to use a new way to achieve the goal---"
Yang Ping paused. He wanted to allow time for everyone to digest what he said. If the amount of information was too large, it would be difficult to accept it.
What exactly does this new method refer to?
Even Dodge wants to know. Every top player in the industry will more or less retain some curiosity, which is the driving force for their progress.
"We need to learn from the surgery for left ventricular tumors, separate the great blood vessels of the heart, take them out from the chest in kits, and then complete the tumor resection and correction of the deformity on an open operating table!"
This time Yang Ping expressed it in English. He was afraid that the translation would be difficult to express and cause some misunderstandings.
As soon as he finished speaking, all the doctors in the venue seemed to have received an electric shock, almost all of them stiffened.
What a crazy idea this is, an unachievable idea, simply a fantasy.
Left ventricular tumor is just a tumor removal, which can be completed within the limited time after the heart is removed from the body. Even so, only some top hospitals can complete it.
However, the correction of severe tetralogy of Fallot must be completed outside the body. No one has such speed.
Once one step is not completed, the heart will become necrotic due to lack of oxygen outside the body, and the myocardial cells will collapse, and the operation will never end.
Finally, those people understood that this so-called cross-border boss was just a magician.
A complete genius!
He just used this patient as an experiment to sensationalize and gain sensational effect.
Even Li Zehui was frightened. The originality Yang Ping said turned out to be like this.
In fact, Yang Ping proposed this plan for the case of Juntendo Hospital in Japan at that time, and Yang Ping studied this child for a long time and tried various methods, but ultimately failed. Only this idea of ex vivo transplantation,
