Surgery Godfather-Chapter 1353 - 1026: 0 and 100%_2

The utterly confused Brian could only tell Zhang Lin, "Can you communicate with me in English?"

I was speaking English, damn it, he didn’t understand a word, such an embarrassment. Zhang Lin stood awkwardly in front of the students while the students around him stared at him in unison, wondering why the foreigners couldn’t understand Teacher Zhang’s English.

"He’s speaking Swedish," Zhang Lin explained to the students before finding an excuse to make a crestfallen retreat with them.

Zhang Lin himself couldn’t figure it out. He had passed the College English Test-6, meticulously studied according to textbooks, so why was it that when he faced a real foreigner, his English didn’t cut it? Before, he never realized this because he had always communicated with Robert in Chinese.

On the contrary, Professor Zhang Zongshun’s Chinglish could actually be understood by Brian without any barrier. Brian simply moved a chair and sat in Professor Zhang’s consulting room, listening in as he saw patients. When Brian learned that Professor Zhang, at the venerable age of eighty, could see over forty patients in one morning, he was astounded.

In Sweden, not to mention such a senior expert, even an ordinary clinic doctor sees at most 10-15 patients per day, while senior specialists at top specialist hospitals might only see four or five booked patients per day, two or three in a morning at the most. This includes the doctors’ break times; after seeing each patient, they need to drink coffee, listen to music, get some relaxation, before they continue seeing the next patient.

This doctor, over eighty, seeing more than forty patients in one morning—if Brian hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it was true, for it was simply beyond his comprehension.

How terrifying a lack of understanding can be. Brian once mentored a Chinese doctor who was also a doctoral student. Brian often asked him about medical affairs in China. When the doctor said that Chinese doctors often see over a hundred patients a day, Brian no longer wanted to communicate with him, even harboring a strong dislike, because he thought the Chinese doctor was dishonest and deceitful. Now, he felt he owed that doctor an apology.

Full of vitality, filled with infinite possibilities. That was Brian’s assessment of China after observing it for a few days.

Aisha’s surgery was finally ready, and Brian concluded several days of overt and covert investigation. Now, he needed to focus on his granddaughter’s surgery. Mr. Brian was arranged to be in the demonstration room where Manstein accompanied him using video to observe the surgery, so he could grasp the entire process. This was to prevent Brian from pacing anxiously outside the operating room, which Manstein hated the most when people paced back and forth in front of him.

Aisha’s surgery was ready, and due to the high difficulty of the operation, any slightest carelessness could have severe consequences; therefore, Yang Ping was the chief surgeon.

The incision was the signature One-Stroke Flow technique—the surgeon’s knife gently slid across, like a breeze over the leaves, from the center of the chest down to the upper abdomen. The surgery required opening up the entire chest and upper abdomen to complete the entire operation.

The skin over the exposed heart was cut open with a single stroke, revealing the heart inside like ripe fruit, though it was still wrapped in the pericardium.

Yang Ping then carefully opened the pericardium, exposing the entire heart—the human body’s engine—in front of everyone, with Yang Ping needing to service and possibly relocate this engine.

The bare heart, beating on the screen, delivered an extremely strong visual impact, creating a sensation for those who had never seen a real surgical operation, far exceeding the visual effect crafted in blockbuster movies.

Brian stood up involuntarily when he saw the beating heart on the screen. Manstein, holding a remote control that could switch and zoom the screen image, immediately magnified the picture of the heart to fill the entire screen for a close-up.

So shocking! It was Brian’s first time witnessing a heart throbbing right before his eyes. At this moment, he felt the impact of life itself.

"This is the human body’s life force—the heart. First time seeing this kind of image, right? If the heart stops beating, it means the end of life."

"In a while, we will make the heart undergo Cardiac Arrest, then after completing the surgery, we will make it beat again. The operation is quite thrilling."

"Did you bring blood pressure medication and angina relief medicine?"

Manstein, next to him, served as the commentator for his old friend, and the shocking images complemented by professional commentary accelerated Brian’s heartbeat.

When Brian previously practiced VR-simulated surgery in the Nandu Medical University Digital Medical Laboratory, it was just a game without any real consequences; Brian not only had no psychological burdens but was actually brimming with the joy of experiencing VR technology.

But now, the surgery on the screen is not a game, it’s his granddaughter’s actual surgery. Should any accident occur, it’s not a matter of simply "Game over"; it would mean the loss of a vibrant life.

The lively heart throbs rhythmically, its vigorous pulsations a sign of life. Brian slowly sits back in his seat, calming his tense nerves. Manstein restores the video to its default size to view the full course of the operation.

After exposing the heart, Yang Ping protects it with moist saline solution, then begins to open the sternum from the center of the chest. Using the incision in the sternum as the entrance, he employs a retractor to spread the entire thoracic cavity open. In the space of the left thoracic cavity that should enclose the heart, there is only a lobe of lung; the original location for the heart is eerily empty, nothing there.

"That’s where the heart belongs, but it has been wandering outside, roaming for six years. Now, it can finally return home, but the journey is fraught with unknown dangers. Let’s wait and see," Manstein narrates each frame slowly.

"Thank you, but your commentary style is making me even more anxious," Brian says, taking a breath.

Beneath the left lung, the space is empty, of course, filled with some loose connective tissue. Yang Ping cleans out these useless tissues and proceeds to trace the main blood vessels from the base of the heart. He searches for the course of the aorta and the vena cava. This is not difficult, and Yang Ping quickly isolates the aorta and the vena cava, following them down below the diaphragm.

The clinical name for ectopia cordis is Cantrell Pentalogy. The surgical correction of such deformity is something several hospitals in China can accomplish well, but in cases of severe Cantrell Pentalogy like Aisha’s, almost no surgeon dares to be the chief operator unless they are prepared for the patient’s certain demise.

The seemingly simple task of "returning the heart" home requires extremely high technical skills.

Soon, all the surgical targets are fully exposed, clear to everyone.

The chief surgeon, like an organizing expert, neatly lays out various disordered items for everyone present to see.

The next part of the surgery is a major undertaking: to correct the deformities of the heart, then to cut the major blood vessels and move the free heart back into the thoracic cavity—its original home.

With the injection of the arresting solution, Aisha’s heart ceases beating, and her brain and body rely on extracorporeal circulation for maintenance. Brian is shocked, unavoidably breaking into a sweat because the cessation of the heartbeat, even temporarily, signifies a reversible "death" state from a physiological standpoint.

"What would happen if the surgery fails or the heart cannot be restarted?" Brian can’t help but ask.

"Death," Manstein replies calmly.

"How likely is that?"

"Although it’s an event with an extremely low probability, when applied to Aisha, it’s a matter of existence or nonexistence, a difference between 0 and 100%, with no in-between," Manstein explains. freёwebnoѵel.com

Hearing Manstein’s commentary, Brian is now extremely tense.

"Buddy, could you switch to a more optimistic style of commentary?"

"No, I’m a scientist. I must respect the objective facts," Manstein answers.

The heart’s major blood vessels have been severed, effectively making the heart a detached organ. Now it’s time to place the heart back into the thoracic cavity and reattach it.

PS: Sorry, I have been studying abroad in Robert’s hospital. I have now returned and can update regularly. Thank you, everyone!