Surgery Godfather

Chapter 380: Chapter 0360: Twisted Dough Stick Folding

Once someone fired the first shot, the courage of those who followed grew.

In various hospitals, one after another, surgeries for pelvic acetabular fractures were started. In less than a month, all of the dozen or so surgeries in this category had been performed.

Chen Ge was being docked points due to incomplete bleeding control during the acetabular fracture surgery, and too many ineffective and repeated movements during fracture reduction, resulting in him falling out of the full score camp in the Southern Region.

In surgery, ineffective or repetitive movements frequently occur, which are manifestations of a lack of proficiency or experience in surgery, and in the face of difficulties, the surgeon is at a loss of what to do. These actions can waste a large amount of time, disrupt the rhythm of the surgery, and make it difficult to proceed normally.

Ineffective actions are those that do not contribute any benefit to the surgery, such as continually changing instruments when the surgery encounters difficulties. These changes do not have a clear objective but only serve to buy time and allow the surgeon to think of countermeasures and adjust their emotions.

Or some chief surgeons complain about improper coordination by their assistants, which is also a sign of insecurity and a lack of confidence. Instead of complaining when assistants perform poorly, the chief surgeon can help correct them.

In short, these actions do not substantively benefit the surgery. They are simply a waste of time.

Repetitive actions, where an operation that could have been completed in one go, undergo repetitive operations, have similar sources and consequences to ineffective actions.

In the regional competition of the Golden Knife Award, the occurrence of ineffective or repetitive actions will result in points being deducted, but in the national competition, no points will be removed for this reason.

The reason is simple. The surgeries examined in the regional competition are all basic surgeries. If ineffective or repetitive actions appear, it means that the basic surgeries have not reached the desired excellent level.

However, the surgeries in the national competition are mostly highly difficult surgeries, facing these surgeries, it’s understandable if you encounter difficulties, need temporary rest, or if ineffective and repetitive actions appear. As long as you can solve it when faced with difficulties in a highly difficult surgery, it’s considered to be sufficiently excellent.

In the Southern Region, Song Zimo, Su Nanchen, and Lin Hao all have full scores. As long as these three teams do not make mistakes, they have the greatest hope of advancing.

However, it is also possible that some teams may be deducted points in later surgeries, allowing those lagging behind to catch up.

This happens in every competition, where teams that have always been leading are overtaken by teams behind them due to mistakes.

Getting past the pelvic acetabulum fracture, the subsequent spinal fracture is somewhat easier on the contrary. The pelvic acetabular fracture is a hurdle, where many people get points deducted.

The main focus of the regional competition in spinal fractures is the posterior surgery of the thoracolumbar vertebrae. The most crucial part of the posterior spinal surgery is still the pedicle screw placement technique, and everyone thinks it’s more relaxed than the pelvic acetabular fracture.

As the next round of the spinal fracture surgery competition begins, Song Zimo has already selected a case, drawn up the surgical plan and handed it to Yang Ping, and if there aren’t any problems, he will be reporting on it in the routine department meeting in the afternoon.

Just as he was halfway through looking at the surgical drawing, Professor Zhang called. He admitted a special patient in the outpatient department and asked Yang Ping to wait in the teaching room.

The “special patient” referred to by Professor Zhang is undoubtedly not some high-ranking official or wealthy person. In his language, a “special patient” refers to someone with a severe or rare condition.

Yang Ping collected the surgical drawing, placed it on his office desk under an Orthopedics textbook and went to the teaching room to wait for Professor Zhang.

He went to the teaching room because it has a large professional film viewing screen, which is used for teaching and is larger than the one in the office, making it easier to view films.

About ten minutes later, the patient appeared at the door, being pushed in by Xiao Mo in a wheelchair, followed by Professor Zhang, and also a woman carrying a luggage bag, presumably a family member of the patient.

If Yang Ping had not seen this type of patient in the system space, he would certainly be shocked to the point of dropping his jaw.

Anyone, any spinal surgeon, upon seeing this type of patient, will be deeply shocked.

The entire person is curled up into a ball, like a spring onion roll, or like a twist stick, the entire waist is curved up, the head is twisted over from the side of the thigh, with the face close to their own buttocks.

The spine is twisted like a twist stick, and the entire person is folded more than 180 degrees. This does not even account for the fact that while folding, it’s twisted like a twist stick.

Both hip joints and knee joints are stiff, in a flexed deformity state, on the wheelchair, the patient is curled into a complex ball, like a caramel ball.

For such folding deformities, no existing medical name can describe them. If one were to use an image-related term to express it, “twist stick” does not convey the full idea, “Caramel Ball Fold” — can only describe this exaggerated deformity.

Yang Ping thought that only the devil training in the system space would show such severe cases of spinal deformity in reality.

The patient’s arrival attracted many curious people. People crowded around the door of the teaching room, whispering and discussing in low voices. Some even took out their phones to take pictures.

Some who had just finished their surgeries not long ago, leaning on crutches, or supported by walking aids, hastened over to the commotion. Nurses followed behind, trying to disperse the crowd.

Director Han came in through the crowd and turned back to tell the nurse who was persuading people, “Don’t let them crowd around, Xiao Mo, close the door.”

Xiao Mo, the graduate student, immediately closed the door to the teaching room, blocking the curious gazes outside the door.

Old Han couldn’t help but be startled too. He’d seen knife-like deformities before, but never one like this caramel ball.

“This is Lu Gang, male, twenty-two-years old, discovered spinal deformity fourteen years ago. I don’t need to describe how serious it is. He has been to many hospitals, in Beijing, Shanghai, all over the country. They all said it was impossible. He came to find me, and I’ve never seen anything this severe either. The young man just graduated from university, he still wants to get married and lead a normal life. Let’s discuss this, can we treat it? If so, how should we go about it?”