My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points-Chapter 296 - 150: Surgery a Huge Success, The Most Difficult Skull Base Brain Tumor Operation
Chapter 296 -150: Surgery a Huge Success, The Most Difficult Skull Base Brain Tumor Operation
Dr. Zou just mentioned that traditional Chinese medicine is declining domestically, struggling to survive under market pressure. In contrast, many developed countries abroad are starting to vigorously develop traditional Chinese medicine, recruiting practitioners, establishing herbal medicine planting bases, and conducting in-depth research on Chinese medicine.
This gave Zhou Can a sense of crisis.
His views on Chinese medicine also changed significantly.
In the future, once his status is elevated, his economic strength is strong, his medical skills reach a certain level, and he has considerable influence, his attitude towards Chinese medicine will definitely bring great benefits to its development.
The surgery went smoothly, and Director Wen was in a good mood.
He sat in the chair, chatting with everyone intermittently about the future direction of medical development.
The atmosphere in the operating room was quite good.
Just then, a graduate student exclaimed, “The patient’s fingers seemed to move just now.”
It has been over 15 minutes since the administration of anesthesia was stopped.
Under normal circumstances, it is indeed possible for the patient to wake up.
However, this patient had been in a coma before the surgery, so if he truly wakes up now, it would be great news for both the doctors and the family members.
Everyone’s eyes turned to the patient’s hand.
At this moment, the patient’s right middle finger moved again.
“He’s awake, really awake!”
A joyful smile spread across Director Wen’s face.
“Lin Lizhi, wake up! Lin Lizhi, wake up!”
The anesthesiologist gently patted the patient’s shoulder, calling next to his ear.
During a human comatose state, which is very similar to deep sleep, calling the patient’s name has a high chance of awakening them.
If they don’t wake up, it is generally a deep coma, indicating a critical condition.
Now that the patient’s fingers can move, it indicates that the brain is active.
This is a very good sign.
Following the anesthesiologist’s calling, the patient’s eyelids trembled slightly, then slowly opened.
But it looked very strenuous.
His body was still very weak, having just narrowly escaped death. Opening his eyelids for him probably felt heavier than a thousand pounds.
After opening his eyes, the patient’s gaze appeared a bit dull.
Slowly turning, he surveyed the people around him.
“Where am I?”
He began to speak.
“Lin Lizhi, you were in a car accident, and you are currently undergoing surgery in the hospital.”
Director Wen answered, closely watching the patient’s reaction.
Generally speaking, when a patient wakes up after surgery, there are a few necessary tests to perform.
The first is to see if they are mentally clear.
Then to check if there is any paralysis in the limbs, and finally, to assess if the patient’s bodily functions are normal.
Lin Lizhi fell into brief silence.
After a moment, he seemed to recall the scene before the accident.
“Doctor… is my girlfriend okay?”
Remembering that his girlfriend was also in the car indicates that his brain wasn’t severely damaged.
Memory and mental state appear normal.
“I’m really not sure about that. Once you’re better, you can ask your family,” said Director Wen, who is too busy with various matters every day.
He doesn’t concern himself with issues unrelated to the patient’s immediate medical condition.
Director Wen looked up at the anesthesiologist.
“Your assessment was correct, not only has he woken up, but his mental state is normal, all signs indicate that the surgery was very successful.” After speaking, he looked again at the patient. “Young man, cooperate well with the treatment, I believe you’ll be able to recover and leave the hospital before long. Then you can go find your girlfriend.”
“Okay! Thank you all!”
The patient still spoke with some difficulty.
After waking from anesthesia and observing for a few minutes with no abnormalities, he was directly wheeled out of the operating room.
Escorting this critically ill patient normally involves the anesthesiologist and doctor personally accompanying them, as they fear any complications along the way. After returning to the ward, there’s also a handover to the doctor in charge of the ward.
“Everyone rest a bit, and in half an hour we’ll continue with the second surgery.”
The operating room in the hospital is actually a very scarce resource.
For example, this patient’s surgery was originally planned to take four to eight hours but in total took less than two hours.
This means six hours were left unused.
At such times, if there are patients needing surgery but delayed due to unavailability of an operating room, their surgeries can now be scheduled.
More often, it is some highly difficult surgeries that significantly overrun, leading to scheduled surgeries having no space to be performed.
These freed-up operating rooms can be greatly utilized.
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Half an hour later, Zhou Can and others all returned to the operating room.
The patient was already lying on the operating table.
She was a fairly young female patient, probably in her early twenties. Her hair had been completely shaved, disinfected, and the surgical site marked.
Zhou Can had already reviewed the female patient’s information.
Twenty-four years old with meningioma.
Generally, meningiomas do not often turn malignant. The endothelial type, fibrous type, and vascular type are more common. Mixed types also occur frequently.
Meningiomas usually occur in older patients.
It’s quite rare for someone as young as her to have meningioma.
According to the patient, she had previously sustained a head injury.
The medical community has always considered head trauma to be a risk factor for developing meningiomas because cells inside the skull can mutate easily during the repair process after head trauma.
Her currently reported symptoms include three things: diplopia, constantly experiencing double vision when looking at objects. Numbness in the left side of the face. In daily life, many even privately call her facially paralyzed.
