The younger the child is to undergo surgery, the smaller his or her body is, and the less surgical space there is for the doctor to operate. Like this kind of open-view surgery on newborns, which has a small chest and heart, the doctor doesn’t want to do it with both hands, so most operations can only be performed by the surgeon.
One person did it.
The difficulty of the Norwood operation for surgeons lies in the first difficulty. How difficult it must be for one person to complete such a difficult operation within the specified time. No wonder some people regard this type of congenital heart disease in newborns as
Surgery is called the pinnacle of cardiac surgery.
Classmates Lin Hao and Pan, who had never experienced it with their own eyes, stood on tiptoes and looked at each other.
When children are young, doctors and students cannot surround them like adult patients. They can only watch from the outside. Who wants two surgeons to stand on the left and right sides of a child’s tiny body?
Everyone was surrounded. Lin Hao and the others now began to feel the extreme horror of operating on a young patient.
We like to compare the size of a person's heart to about the size of a person's own fist. As you can imagine, when the child's chest is opened, the heart exposed is only the size of a newborn's hand. This is not the scariest and smallest thing, the scariest thing is that it is thin.
blood vessels. As mentioned before, this disease will cause the child's aortic blood vessels to become very small.
This palliative surgery is not to target the inside of the heart, but to target these small blood vessels.
The steps of opening the chest, exposing the heart, and applying extracorporeal circulation are similar to other cardiac surgeries.
Ye Sujin, standing at the head of the operating bed, became more and more solemn as the operation progressed.
If the sassy and heroic lady suddenly becomes quiet, it definitely isn't a good thing.
Judging from the past experience of having multiple cardiac surgeries with her husband, Ye Sujin can feel that today's surgery is not easy, and it is expected to be even more difficult than she and her son imagined.
The son who is the surgeon is relatively stable for the time being and there is no chaos.
In the eyes of others, the main surgeon's movements of pulling the sutures were as smooth and unrestrained as before, and the only assistant who was always holding the scissors was also very neat, clicking, clicking.
The electric knife was squeaking, and the suction tube tip in the assistant's hand was swishing, and the progress was not hurried or slow.
The nurse suddenly came over and wiped the sweat from the surgeon's forehead.
Doctor Cheng Yuchen and the others, who were waiting by the sidelines, saw this, and their hearts suddenly gasped. At this moment, it suddenly dawned on them that even Cao Zhao was sweating hotly during the operation, which showed how difficult this operation was.
He was put on extracorporeal circulation, and Ye Sujin personally helped her son keep an eye on the extracorporeal circulation machine.
Cao Yong walked outside to answer his father's call. Cao Yudong said that, but he was actually a little worried in his heart. He called to ask how the operation was going.
Ye Sujin, who was left behind, remembered what her husband had said. The scariest thing about this surgery was that it took a lot of attention from the doctor.
The surgeon is sweating because it takes too much effort and attention.
The child is too young, everything is small, and the lesions are small, so the eyesight is always troublesome. This troublesomeness has nothing to do with the small effort in the surgical field mentioned before, but is related to the fact that the organs and tissues to be operated on are all small.
"Teacher Cao, how about I help you sew some?" Xie Wanying volunteered, seeing that the fairy brother was a little tired.
Cao Zhao raised his head.
Ye Sujin and others saw it, and there was no sweat on her head like a surgeon.
It stands to reason that it would have been a lot of effort for her as a first assistant to help and keep her eyes on him throughout the whole process. Obviously, it seems that Xie didn't spend much time on this aspect.