The Sweetest Thing In the World - Chapter 48

All over the world, total thoracoabdominal aortic replacement is an extremely complicated operation. There are very few doctors who can perform the operation, and the training period is very long. It can only be taught through the traditional method of mentoring and mentoring.

After confirming the chief surgeon and several assistants, the Department of Cardiac Surgery entered an unprecedented state of tension, and everyone felt tense.

The mortality rate of general surgery is 1% to 2%, but the mortality rate of this operation is as high as 20% to 60%. But for cardiac surgery, this operation is only allowed to succeed, not to fail. One can imagine how much pressure there is.

Min Yue hadn’t seen Xu Mai since the meeting on Tuesday. She was called by Director Zheng to train alone, and she didn’t reappear until Friday morning.

The selected doctors were all deputy chief physicians. Min Yue was not qualified to enter the operating room, but she was worried about Xu Mai, so she waited outside the operating room.

Before the operation began, the staff transported the sterilized camera equipment into the operating room in advance. For the past few days, Min Yue has always had a subtle sense of being in the clouds, and it was not until she saw the camera that she finally had the real feeling.

The unprecedented challenge is really about to begin.

This operation is rarely carried out in S city, so after the news spread, it attracted the attention of the local TV station, and specially sent reporters from the social channel to interview and prepare to release the news. The lighting engineer, the cameraman, the reporter’s assistant, and a mighty group of people gathered around the elevator entrance, which made Min Yue feel trembling.

Suddenly, the fire door between the surgery building and Building No. 10 was pushed open, and the nurse pushed the patient out first, followed by the family members, followed by a dozen doctors in white coats.

The reporter extended the recording pen to interview, looked around a few times, and found a familiar face at the end of the line. “Director Xu! Can I interview you for today’s operation? Just two minutes!”

Xu Mai shook his head lightly, said sorry, and bypassed them. Her eyes were blue, and she looked a little tired, as if she didn’t want to waste energy on irrelevant things.

Considering the image of the First Affiliated Hospital, the TV station’s interview is also very important and cannot be ignored. Director Li volunteered to go to the hospital, and other doctors were able to enter the operating room without hindrance.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of someone standing in the distance, Xu Mai stopped in his tracks, and turned his head to look over. “Min Yue?”

“Master.” Afraid of delaying Xu Mai’s business, she planned to take a look at it from a distance, so she was relieved. But when Xu Mai called her name, Min Yue obediently ran forward.

She was very worried about Xu Mai, afraid that she would be too busy to take good care of herself, that she would have a stomachache, that she would suffer from insomnia, and that she would be under too much pressure. But when she saw it, she didn’t know what to say, she just called her stupidly: “Master…”

Simple two words, but the bottom of my heart is full of twists and turns.

Xu Mai seemed to be able to read her mind, smiled softly at her, and said, “Don’t worry, it’s fine.”

Min Yue bit her lower lip and nodded, but she was still uneasy, and subconsciously raised her hand to pull her sleeve. He raised his hand in the air, suddenly realized something, and put it down again pretending nothing had happened.

Xu Mai glanced to the side. Director Li and the reporter were busy interviewing, so they didn’t look this way. Other doctors had already entered the operating room, and there was no one else at the door.

Xu Mai quietly reached out and held Min Yue. “Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

Min Yue’s heart felt moist and sour. It was clearly the master who did the surgery, and it was also the master who bore the huge pressure. He should have comforted her and cheered her up, but it was the other way around.

Xu Mai squeezed her palm, and coaxed her softly: “Go back and wait, it will take a long time.”

“Master, I will wait for your return.”

“En.” Xu Mai let go of her hand and walked into the operating room, her snow-white back disappeared through the door.

With the advantage of the home court, the live broadcast will also be broadcast in the academic lecture hall. Except for the doctors on duty, almost everyone in the surgical system squeezed into the lecture hall, waiting to watch this extremely difficult operation.

This operation took a long time and required a lot of manpower. Five doctors were needed for anesthesia and extracorporeal circulation, and seven deputy chief physicians were dispatched from the Cardiac Surgery Department.

Director Li needs to receive people from the TV station, and Director Zheng and another deputy director need to sit outside the operating room to monitor the operation in real time through the computer. If there is any accident, the intercom system can also be used to command the doctors on the operating table.

As a result, this operation alone took up ten key doctors in the Department of Cardiac Surgery.

Min Yue really wanted to watch the live broadcast, but the ward was understaffed, so she had to focus on work, so she could only squeeze in time to watch for a while.

After checking the room, Min Yue ran to the lecture hall, stood in the corridor, and looked at the curtain on the main podium through the sea of ​​people.

The blood vessels have been freed, and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has just started, and the blood vessels at the end are ready to be replaced. This step requires the doctor to act quickly, otherwise, if the circulation stops for a long time, it will cause irreversible damage to the brain and various important organs.

Xu Mai’s stitching speed has always been fast, but today, her hands are so fast that the naked eye can’t keep up with them, almost ghosting.

Blood circulation stopped for 15 minutes.

During these more than ten minutes, Xu Mai has always maintained an unimaginable hand speed. Every movement is a perfect replica of the previous one, clean and neat, without any unnecessary gestures.

All the surgeons present have worked with needles and threads all year round. Everyone knows that this hook-and-pull action seems simple, but it is not ordinary people to practice this effect and keep the same speed without stopping for more than ten minutes. can be done.

Xu Mai’s super-high-level hand movements aroused amazement. Min Yue wanted to hear how others praised her master, but the ward called and urged her to go back to work, so she reluctantly left.

In this busy work, I worked without touching my feet until 4 p.m., seven hours had passed since the operation began.

Her throat was so dry that it smoked, Min Yue drank a few sips of water, sneaked away and ran to the lecture hall again. At this time, the replacement of blood vessels is coming to an end, and the rest is a long hemostasis.

The wonderful highlight was over, some people were busy going home to cook and take care of their children, so they left first, and some seats were vacant in the lecture hall. Min Yue chose a seat near the front and sat down, watching quietly.

In fact, the process of hemostasis is not simple. Dozens of anastomosis must be ensured without any bleeding before the chest is closed. In normal operations, the finishing work is done by assistants, but today’s operation is too important, Xu Mai, as the chief surgeon, did not step down to rest after completing the total artery replacement, but stood by the operating table, watching the assistants closely operate.

This stop is another five hours.

At nine o’clock in the evening, Xu Mai announced the end of the operation, and there was thunderous applause in the operating room and the lecture hall at the same time, full of respect and endless.

Min Yue jumped up and ran back like an arrow leaving the string. At the door of the operating room, she met Xu Mai who had just come out of it.

Surrounded by colleagues from the surgical system, family members of patients, and people from the TV station, she stood in the center of the crowd, stood in the focus of flashing lights, and was surrounded by flowers and applause.

Colleagues congratulated her on successfully performing the first total thoracoabdominal aortic replacement operation. The family thanked her for saving her husband with her kindness. The reporter interviewed her about her thoughts on this operation. She looked indifferent, did not say much, and nodded slightly in thanks.

Zeng Yuan and Dr. Song from the general surgery each held a bouquet of flowers, passed through the crowd, and squeezed in front of them. Xu Mai thanked them, but didn’t answer them.

Looking away from the crowd, facing Min Yue who was standing at the elevator entrance from a distance, Xu Mai raised the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly.

Min Yue opened her mouth, and the word “Master” stuck in her throat. Before she could yell out, she only heard the ding of the elevator behind her, and then someone shouted loudly, “Xu Mai!”

The dean walked out of the elevator with several experts, and the people around Xu Mai dispersed wisely to make room.

Min Yue saw her master’s expression became stiff for a moment, his eyes were cold, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was frozen and gradually sank.

The dean was proud of the spring breeze, with a red face, leading the experts to her, and said with a smile: “It’s been hard work, a few experts said that you did a good job in the surgery, and I want to meet you in person. Let me introduce you. This is the Affiliated Hospital of B University. Director Chen, this is Director Liang of the Z University Affiliated Hospital.”

Finally, the dean looked at the oldest of the three experts respectfully, and said solemnly: “This is Professor Xu Boyu from J Provincial People’s Hospital.”

Min Yue tilted her head to recall, the name was very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before. After thinking about it for a while, it suddenly dawned on him that he is the second doctor on the big coffee list!

Xu Boyu was a legend in the field of cardiac surgery when he was young, especially in complex congenital heart surgery, and the reconstruction of double ventricle for single ventricle deformity was superb and reached the pinnacle.

If awarding Xu Mai’s operation today was compared to crossing the patient’s name from the book of life and death, then the congenital heart surgery he performed would be a change of fate against the sky.

Sometimes, God would not let the patient live and gave him a tattered heart. Xu Boyu insisted on using a knife and needles to rebuild a new one.

He can afford the term “the grace of regeneration”.

Heroes can also turn gray, and now he is an octogenarian, because of his advanced age, he retired more than ten years ago. But the students he taught are now the technical backbone of major hospitals, and they are all over the world. Even though he is an ordinary old man who is at home now, everyone is still accustomed to respectfully calling him Professor Xu.

None of the doctors present did not know him, and when he heard his name, he was heard like thunder, causing quite a stir.

Many people came forward to shake hands with him, chatted and expressed respect, but Xu Mai stood quietly in front of him with an indifferent expression, as if he was not in his eyes.

The dean noticed something was wrong, and reminded: “Xu Mai, don’t be in a daze, come say hello to Professor Xu.”

Xu Mai lowered his eyelids and didn’t move.

It was too obvious that he didn’t give face, the dean was a little dissatisfied, and he couldn’t show it, so he could only smooth things over with a smile, and said to Xu Boyu: “After all, you are young, and it is the first time for such a major operation. I guess I am exhausted.”

Xu Boyu nodded noncommittally, leaning on a cane with both hands, looked at the woman two generations younger than him in front of him, and said, “You have grown up.”

As soon as these words came out, the dean and the other two experts were stunned. “Professor Xu, do you know each other?”

Even though he is getting old, Xu Boyu still maintains the rigidity and seriousness of his youth. His gray hair is cut very short, and he is meticulously groomed with hairspray. in the jacket pocket.

He is a typical strict teacher. He is very strict with his students, and he is not polite to himself. Others respect him more than they love him.

He kept a straight face and didn’t speak, and the dean didn’t dare to ask any more questions.

Xu Mai said slowly: “I’ll take a step first, excuse me, I’m sorry.”

After finishing speaking, regardless of the reaction of the dean and several experts, she walked straight out of the crowd and walked towards Min Yue.

When she approached, Min Yue gradually saw her expression clearly, and his heart ached.

She hadn’t drank water for more than ten hours, and her lips were covered with dry lines due to lack of water. After lifting her arm for a long time, her muscles were overworked, and her arm hanging by her side trembled uncontrollably.

Every time she took a step, her gaze lowered a little bit, and the indifference and hardness she had just peeled off layer by layer, and in the end, it was crumbling, like a glacier that was about to collapse.

Min Yue hurried up to meet her, took her arm and walked towards the ward area. “Master, are you okay?”

The fire door behind him bounced back with a thump, vibrated, and closed automatically. The corridor between the surgery building and Building 10 was long and narrow, empty and quiet.

Xu Mai suddenly took a few steps forward, and Min Yue followed suit. His shoulder hit the switch on the wall, and with a snap, all the porch lights above his head went out.

At the same time, Min Yue’s shoulders sank, as if bearing a heavy weight.

“Master, master…” Min Yue shouted in panic.

Xu Mai collapsed, resting his head on Min Yue’s shoulder, his voice was light, fragile and exhausted. “Let me lean on it, it will be fine in a while.”

The weight on the body fell down little by little, as if it was about to fall heavily in the next second, falling into the bottomless abyss.

Min Yue quickly hugged Xu Mai around her waist, her arms were tightly drawn, leaving no gaps.

Suddenly, I feel that nothing can compare to Xu Mai.

The person in your arms at this moment is more important than the whole world.

The author has something to say: Babies, don’t be afraid, they are sweet!