182: The number one person in Northwest General Surgery is a joke in front of Lin Yi!
Chapter 182: The Foremost General Surgeon in the Northwest Five Provinces is a Joke in Front of Lin Yi!
"Wipe the sweat!"
Hearing Lin Yi's command, Fang Xiaoran quickly used forceps to hold gauze and carefully wiped away the fine beads of sweat on Lin Yi's forehead.
"Doctor Lin, why don't you rest for a bit before starting on the bile duct?"
"No need. The shorter the time we take, the better the quality of the patient's post-operative recovery."
"Scalpel!"
After Lin Yi rejected Fang Xiaoran's suggestion, he took the scalpel she handed him and, following the system's optimal incision prompt, unhesitatingly cut open the patient's common bile duct again... Compared to a simple gallstone surgery, gallbladder cancer surgery is more taxing on one's mental energy.
For a simple gallstone surgery, Lin Yi could complete everything from cutting open the gallbladder to removing the stones and thoroughly suturing the gallbladder within two to three minutes.
The entire stone removal process was just a matter of a few up-and-down swings of the scalpel; even if there were some tiny residual stones, they would be automatically expelled from the body with the aid of stone-expelling medication during the patient's recovery.
gallbladder cancer surgery is different. Eradicating cancer cells requires a significant amount of Lin Yi's physical and mental energy. He must constantly follow the system's prompts to thoroughly clear the cancer cells attached to the patient's gallbladder wall.
Even a tiny residue of cancer cells would, in a short time after the patient's discharge, develop into a terrifying malignant tumor again, and there's even a risk of metastasis, rendering this radical gallbladder cancer surgery completely futile... "Whoa! Good heavens! The bile duct can also be cleared of tumors in this way!"
"This guy's mastery of strength has reached an unprecedented level!"
"How thin the bile duct wall is! Can it really be scraped? It would be troublesome if it ruptured!"
"With this skill, even blood clots in blood vessels could be scraped clean..."
Watching Lin Yi use his previous method again to begin clearing stones and tumors from the patient's common bile duct,
the Expert Professors in the observation room started exclaiming in an endless stream again... If simply excising tumors within the gallbladder without guaranteeing no residual cancer cells was something most Surgeons present could do, then excising tumors within the patient's bile duct was a surgical method no one had ever even considered.
Although the gallbladder wall is relatively thin, it is incomparably thicker than the bile duct wall.
Excising tumors on the bile duct wall is already an extremely difficult surgical technique, and to scrape the bile duct wall to achieve the complete eradication of cancer cells is an almost impossible task.
The experts present estimated that if they were to perform the surgery according to Lin Yi's plan, they would surely scrape away the patient's bile duct wall entirely... "Round needle, absorbable suture."
But what was impossible in everyone's eyes became the simplest, most subconscious action, like eating and drinking, in Lin Yi's hands.
In less than three minutes, Lin Yi had already finished dealing with the tumors inside the patient's bile duct and was performing the final suturing work... "Is this for real?! This suturing speed is truly unbelievable!"
"I even doubt if he actually sutured or not. My eyes can't keep up with the speed of his needle!"
"This is definitely the fastest Suturing Technique I've ever seen in history!"
"At such a fast speed, how does Doctor Lin ensure the quality of the sutures...?"
The treatment method of scraping the gallbladder to remove cancer had already left the Expert Professors in the observation room stunned beyond belief.
The final suturing of the bile duct and gallbladder, however, once again elevated everyone's level of shock to the height of Mount Everest.
The differences in departments and specialized fields meant that the areas of expertise for these experts also varied.
While some experts might not be very familiar with gallbladder surgery, Suturing Technique is a fundamental skill for a Surgeon, and everyone is extremely proficient in it.
Especially those older experts, they have probably sutured countless wounds throughout their lives, too many to even count.
Many of them, even with their eyes closed, could precisely suture ordinary wounds based on their sense of touch.
Yet, even so, a Suturing Technique as fast as Lin Yi's was unheard of, whether in teaching videos domestically and abroad or in reality.
To give a simple analogy, a suture that would take them ten minutes to complete could be finished by Lin Yi in perhaps one or two minutes at most.
What kind of concept is this? Is it the limit of human hand speed... Everyone accepted the speed, as every few years, there would always be a few doctors with extraordinary talent in a certain field.
But from the monitoring on the large screen in the observation room, everyone discovered an even more incredible scene.
The gallbladder and bile duct, after being sutured by Lin Yi, were so perfect that not even a trace of the sutures could be seen... "Director Cui, may I ask how long it would take Doctor Lin Yi to complete a standard gallstone surgery, by which I mean a Gallbladder-Preserving Surgery?"
Having personally witnessed Lin Yi's miraculous surgical skills, Professor Zhong Wei of Chang'an Jiaotong University Affiliated Hospital had completely lowered his stance and humbly asked Director Cui about his confusion.
gallbladder cancer surgery could no longer be compared to the prodigy before him.
He also wanted to know the exact difference between himself and Lin Yi in the most common gallstone surgery... "With 4 operating rooms open simultaneously and 4 assistant Surgeons cooperating with Lin Yi, Lin Yi has completed 30 gallbladder-Preserving Surgeries for gallbladder patients within 4 hours."
"If Lin Yi operates on a single gallbladder surgery alone, not counting preparation time like anesthesia, the time from incision to completion is estimated to be no more than 20 minutes."
Director Cui pondered for a moment and then proudly told Professor Zhong a relatively accurate surgical time.
After all, she had only assisted in Lin Yi's gallbladder surgeries; as for him operating alone, she hadn't witnessed it herself and could only infer based on Lin Yi's performance... "Ah... that fast...?"
Professor Zhong Wei's face suddenly darkened, unsure how to continue the conversation.
He had expected Lin Yi's surgical speed to be very fast, but he truly couldn't imagine a Doctor being able to complete a patient's Gallbladder-Preserving Surgery through laparotomy at such a rapid pace.
In the best General Surgery Department in the Northwest Five Provinces at Changjiao University, even he, with his top-notch skills, performing the most common minimally invasive cholecystectomy, couldn't complete a single surgery in less than an hour and a half at the fastest.
Compared to Lin Yi, his title as the foremost General Surgeon in the Northwest Five Provinces seemed like a joke... "Doctor Lin, you rest. I'll take care of the abdominal closure."
Seeing that Lin Yi had completed the suturing of the patient's gallbladder and bile duct, it meant that the surgery was nearing its end.
Fang Xiaoran, who hadn't been of much help, volunteered to take on the final and simplest task of closing the abdomen.
For such a major gallbladder cancer surgery, as the first assistant, she couldn't just do the miscellaneous tasks that a scrub Nurse would do, right... "Doctor Lin... Doctor Lin..."
Seeing that Lin Yi neither refused nor agreed, but just stared blankly at the surgical field, Fang Xiaoran had to ask again.
"Don't talk! The patient's condition is very wrong..."
What exactly went wrong? Why didn't the system reward appear in real-time?
Lin Yi scanned the area around the patient's gallbladder and bile duct inch by inch, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper...