The results of the CT examination came out quickly. Song Hualin's injury was serious, but miraculously, his spinal cord was not injured. His axis was diagnosed as a type I fracture, a type II thoracic fracture, and a lumbar compression fracture. This kind of injury is a serious one.
As an ordinary person, even if he does not die on the spot, he will probably be paraplegic in the future. But Song Hualin is not only alive and well, he can even move his toes and fingers a little. This is indeed an extremely rare miracle.
However, as the experts from Tongxie Orthopedics looked at Song Hualin's broken axis, they fell silent for a long time.
"Without replacement, I'm afraid the bone won't be able to be reattached." Academician Qiu shook his head and asked Director Wang, "Has the data from Southern Medical University been released?"
"It has been sent to the manufacturing station." Director Wang nodded, "The manufacturing there will take about two hours to complete. Including heat treatment and polishing, it will take about six hours."
"Six hours?" Academician Qiu frowned dissatisfied, "Can't it be faster?"
"This is already the fastest speed. The people who heat treat and polish the prostheses are all top students from Shuimu University." Director Wang said with a wry smile, "Although our printing accuracy is already very high, there are still some problems on the prostheses.
There are processing marks. If they are not polished, the processing marks on them may lead to tissue proliferation. Without heat treatment, the strength of the metal components is enough, but the toughness is not enough. If this patient is so unlucky and encounters such an accident again
, maybe the prosthesis will explode into pieces. Then there will be no need to resuscitate him and he will be dead."
Since the steps cannot be shortened, we can only speed up other preparations. This surgery will be guided by Academician Qiu on site, while Director Wang will perform the surgery. After some discussion, the two decided to go out for a meal first.
"You should also tell the young people on the surgical team." Academician Qiu put on his coat and covered his head with a woolen hat. "I will give them a two-hour holiday. Those who should sleep should sleep.
Those who should eat should eat, and those who should take a shower should take a shower. There should be three anesthetists, and more than two pairs of backup pairs of nursing teams and surgeons." He patted the coat on his body, "Today's operation will require at least fifteen people.
Hours, everyone be prepared.”
Zhu Minhua took Sun Lien out of the CT room, "Was your original plan to return to Ningyuan today?"
Sun Lien nodded. Dr. Pascal's family was tired from the journey. According to the original plan, they should have taken a short rest this afternoon and then directly boarded the high-speed rail, so that they could reach Ningyuan the next morning.
"This surgery is indeed rare." Zhu Minhua patted Sun Lien's shoulder without any surprise, "If it's inconvenient for you, I'll call Liu Pingchuan to ask for leave for you."
It would be inappropriate to bother the deputy director of the emergency department of Tongxie Hospital with this kind of thing. What's more, Sun Lien also knew that with the character of his director, if he didn't make this call from Professor Zhu, his future postgraduate life would end in vain.
So he quickly rejected the offer. "No, I'll just contact our director."
"Then make a call quickly." Professor Zhu nodded, "Have you eaten anything for lunch? Why don't you go to the cafeteria with me to eat something later? Tongxie's cafeteria tastes pretty good."
Sun Lien nodded, took his cell phone out of the hospital, and made a call to Liu Tangchun.
"Hello, Li En?" The call was quickly connected, and Liu Tangchun's voice sounded a little vague, "What's the matter? Have you picked up Dr. Pascal?"
"I got it." Sun Lien thought for a long time about how to tell Liu Tangchun about this, but in the end he sighed, "Director Liu, Professor Zhu from the association invited me to see an operation."
"Let's see." Liu Tangchun seemed to be having lunch, probably eating homemade clay pot rice. "What kind of surgery is worth inviting you to see? There are quite a lot of level 4 surgeries in our hospital."
Sun Lien sighed, "Total occipital cervical vertebra resection combined with 3D printing axis replacement."
"Poof!" There was a jingling sound from Liu Tangchun's side, and Sun Lien even heard Zhou Jun's voice, "Teacher Liu, you spilled coffee on yourself!"
Before Sun Lien could ask what was going on, Liu Tangchun shouted on the other end of the phone, "What the hell?"
"Total occipital cervical vertebra resection combined with 3D printed pivot vertebra replacement." Sun Lien answered honestly again, "It is to completely remove the patient's fractured occipital cervical vertebrae and then replace it with a 3D printed metal artificial prosthesis...
"
"I know what total occipital cervical vertebra removal means!" Liu Tangchun cried like an old cat whose tail was stepped on. "The association wants to perform this surgery? I have never heard of it! No, wait a minute!" Liu Tangchun said
As if he had figured something out, he shouted on the other end of the phone, "Li En, let me tell you, there is really nothing good about Tongxie's emergency department. Don't look at Zhu Minhua, he is a professor. He is not even a department chair in the college."
!None of the nonsense this kind of person says is reliable!"
Sun Lien explained with a wry smile, "Director Liu, you know my level, and the colleagues will definitely look down on me. Xiao Hu and I met this patient on the way back from picking him up, so I followed the ambulance by the way.
We’ve arrived at the Tongxie.”
"Shit! Ah...ah?" Liu Tangchun wanted to continue to say something bad about Zhu Minhua, but suddenly heard this explanation and immediately changed his tune. "Is that so? Then it makes sense that he invited you to watch the operation.
"Liu Tangchun coughed twice, as if he wanted to cover up his embarrassment. "How long will the operation take? Is it possible that I won't be able to make it back on time?"
"That's the problem, that's why I wanted to call you to ask." Sun Lien was a little embarrassed, after all, this kind of thing is actually a bit against the rules. Especially because he was unable to go back to work on time because he visited the operation. "Otherwise I will
Let’s put this matter aside.”
"Push? Why push?" Liu Tangchun laughed and seemed to relax a lot, "Don't take advantage of the bastard. This kind of surgery has no precedent in the world, let alone domestic. You can visit it and improve yourself.
It's also very big." He paused and suddenly asked, "How long until the operation starts? How long will it last?"
"Academician Qiu from the Department of Orthopedics said that it may take at least six hours to make the prosthesis. The operation itself will last at least seventeen hours." Sun Lien calculated it and found that this time is really not short. "I guess it will be done after the operation is over.
It won’t be until this time tomorrow.”
"It's okay for you to visit." Liu Tangchun thought for a while, "But you have to tell Zhu Minhua to let Yourong also visit."
"Ah?" Sun Lien was stunned, "But isn't Dr. Xu still in Ningyuan..."
"You can let her fly over." Liu Tangchun chuckled, "Since you can take advantage, you must take advantage of it. Take Xiao Hu with you. If Dr. Pascal is willing, let his family stay in Beijing for one more day.
, he can also go and visit. If he doesn’t want to, I’ll ask someone else to pick him up.”
"Visiting the surgery?" The black MPV finally arrived at Tongxie Hospital. Hu Jia jumped out of the car, got directly into Sun Lien's arms, and gave him a big hug. Dr. Pascal also slowly walked out of the car,
After hearing the advice conveyed by Sun Lien, he looked at Tongxie Hospital behind Sun Lien with great interest. "I have never heard of this kind of surgery. Is it a brand-new surgical plan?"
"According to the information I have obtained, this should indeed be the first in the world." People who engage in scientific research like to talk about "the first in the world" and "the first in the world". Sun Lien nodded and said, "I have just discussed this with colleagues.
Professor Zhu has discussed it, and with me, we can bring a total of five people in for a visit."
"Then of course I am willing to visit." Dr. Pascal readily agreed to Sun Lien's invitation. He turned to his wife and said softly, "My dear, take the children to the hotel to have a rest first."
Rachel counted the number of people present and wondered, "But there are only four of us medical staff here, right? Why is there a quota of five people?"
"Xu Yourong has already boarded the plane to the capital." Sun Lien announced the second piece of good news with a smile, "There is still a quota reserved for her..."
"Yes!" Rachel jumped hard on the spot and ran directly to Sun Lien, hugging him and Hu Jia together. "Great!"
Hu Jia looked at Rachel, then at Sun Lien who looked embarrassed, put her mouth to his ear and whispered, "Don't worry, I won't be jealous if Rachel hugs her."
Sun Lien carried his bag and returned to the hotel with Hu Jia. The operation after a while would be very tiring, and he had to find a place to sleep as soon as possible. Although Sun Lien repeatedly refused, in the end, Hu Jia said, "Don't worry, I won't."
Under the strong persuasion of "What are I doing to you?", I still carried my luggage and entered the room with her, even though the hotel had extra rooms today.
Dr. Pascal and his family decided to stay one more night in Beijing. The two children seemed to have recovered from the fatigue of the trip and were clamoring to see the pandas. After asking the hotel front desk, Mrs. Pascal decided to take a trip on her own.
Before leaving for the trip, Sun Lien specifically gave his and Hu Jia's mobile phone numbers to Mrs. Pascal, and repeatedly told him to call him immediately if there was any problem.
After putting down the luggage, Hu Jia directly stuffed Sun Lien into the bathroom. "There is a plastic cover for the bathtub that I brought. You put the plastic cover in the bathtub and soak it in water for a while. Otherwise, you will catch a cold!" Sun Lien looked embarrassed.
He started to lay out the cover and put out water, while Hu Jia said at the door, "I'll go out and buy some food and come back. If you're tired, just go to bed and I'll wake you up to eat."
After being single for so long, Sun Lien had never been treated like this. His heart was full of joy and emotion. He was indeed very cold, and he already had a headache. Looking at the steaming bathtub, Sun Lien simply took off his clothes and got into the bath.