However, he also knew that with Imperial Capital Hospital helping him, the possibility of him keeping that person was really not high either.
Moreover, it was a matter of water turning into oil over many years, so it was diligent effort throughout the years that had made him even more vigilant.
It was better to wait until the surgery was over and send the video to his classmates to confirm it.
While he was pondering in his mind, the door of the operating theater opened. Zheng Ren had already taken off his sterile gloves and walked out.
"Boss, Boss Gao is very skilled. He's almost catching up to my speed." The professor walked up to him with a smile. The way he spoke was completely different from when he was conversing with Chief Qi before.
Chapter 582 - Was Teaching Goddamn Surgery!
It was done so quickly?
Chief Qi looked at the time without batting an eyelid—the surgery had lasted 28 minutes.
How could it be so fast? Was he taking too many shortcuts? Chief Qi called over the department chief from his office and whispered a few words.
The department chief quickly looked for the Information Center's department chief to start downloading the surgery and then prepared to send an email.
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At Mayo Clinic headquarters in Roc.h.e.s.ter, Minnesota, USA at around 8pm.
Mu Tao sat quietly in the laboratory opposite a senior Chinese Doctor, Wu Chuntian.
Wu Chunchun had a very rustic sounding name. Doctor Wu was one of those people who went abroad in the 1980s and ended up staying at Mayo Clinic as a tenured professor.
He and Wu Haishi were old friends and had a good relationship. Wu Haishi sent Mu Tao to Mayo Clinic for further study through his relationship with Wu Chuntian.
In the United States, academic doctors had titles similar to domestic ones like assistant professors, associate professors, and tenured professors. The process was similar to that in China. It involved teaching and publishing a certain amount of papers with quality.
Academic titles are granted by the medical school but there was no title if you did not go to one.
That was why American doctors like to be called 'doctor' instead of 'professor' or 'chief'.
Doctors were eternal. Everything else was temporary in a certain period of life.
However, Mu Tao knew that Wu Chuntian would never leave the Mayo Clinic if he could.
No one wanted to leave the place. Mayo Clinic was the Holy Land of the medical world.
They were quietly waiting for the signal transmission from their hometown on the other side of the ocean.
The latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine was on the table. The page that Mu Tao flipped to was an article about TIPS surgery.
Mu Tao's brain was a mess. The article said that the number of times the TIPS surgery was performed was incredible.
When he recalled the surgery that was broadcasted live in the surgery room, although Teacher Wu did not believe it, Mu Tao was sure that it was real.
Could it be that the Xinglin Garden live broadcasting room's live surgeries were done by that doctor called Zheng Ren?
It was not important who did it. What was important was that Mu Tao felt like he was so far from reaching that sort of level.
It was the pinnacle of TIPS surgery!
How many interventional doctors dreamed of having a successful needle puncture!
His teacher Wu Haishi could not realize it and the Mayo Clinic too. However, such a simple and honest young doctor had managed to make it a reality?
That was impossible!
Mu Tao was not convinced but did not voice it out. He just sat quietly. His eyes were fixed on the magazine on the table. The first author was Zheng Ren and the second author was Rudolf G. Wagner.
Professor Rudolf G. Wagner, the top scholar in the industry. Mu Tao knew him.
He also knew the gap between the first author and the second author of an article.
Everything was true. Had the young doctor who had perfectly completed the prostate interventional embolization in the Imperial Capital grown to this extent?
It was unbelievable.
The sound of an email coming in was heard on the computer. Wu Chuntian immediately opened the email as fast as he could.
As expected, the content of the email was a video of the surgery.
The video was not big and was quickly downloaded.
The air in the laboratory felt as if it had frozen over. A few tenured professors of the Mayo Clinic stared at the computer screen and watched the video. They did not want to miss even a single image.
In the surgery video, Mu Tao really saw the young figure.
He appeared in the corner of the video at the very beginning. Beside him stood a tall German man.
The person who disinfected the operating table and laid out the surgery list looked quite old. He was very serious and meticulous.
This was an authorized recording. From the moment the patient walked onto the operating table, the entire recording was recorded. It was completely different from the Xinglin Garden live broadcast room.
Therefore, Mu Tao saw more information than when he was watching the live broadcast room.
Soon, Professor Rudolf Wagner left the operating room. The young figure that he would never forget standing in the assistant's position.
It turned out that he did not know how to do it. He could only be an assistant. Mu Tao felt much better.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #'s-studio_16489637605120805/was-teaching-goddamn-surgery!_51157111001906633 for visiting.
However, the surgeon personally disinfected the patient but the assistant just stood on the side... Forget it, that kind of detail was not worth pondering.
The video was pushed forward frame by frame. The intravenous catheter, the guide wire, and the catheter entered. In Mu Tao's opinion, Gao Shaojie's technique was indeed very good but not good enough. It was definitely not world-class.
Mu Tao analyzed it objectively. His skill level was only higher than that of the surgeon in the video.
So that was it. However, Mu Tao still looked at the video seriously and waited for the final scene of the puncture.
The puncture kit entered. The position on the video... Mu Tao could not understand it.
It was only one of the many puncture points. Why did they choose that specific place?
The puncture kit stopped moving. It looked like they were going to perform a puncture.
Suddenly in the surgery video, the young man standing in the assistant's position suddenly moved the hemostatic forceps and smacked the surgeon's wrist.
The Mayo Clinic's intervention laboratory was filled with exclamations.
What a familiar scene.
Mu Tao's heart was in turmoil.
He was not an assistant, he was freaking teaching surgery!
Only when teaching surgery would the teacher stand in the assistant's position, holding a hemostatic forceps in his hand. If his movements were not right, the hemostatic forceps would strike at him at any time.
Why was that happening? The surgeon's skill was not bad. He could reach the average standard there at Mayo Clinic. How could he still be taught surgery at his level?
Mu Tao could not understand.
No matter what he thought, time was still passing as the video kept progressing.
Once the hemostatic forceps were used, the surgeon immediately changed his hand shape slightly and the puncture kit also changed its position.
The almost invisible puncture needle was inserted, and the puncture kit was then withdrawn followed by the membrane stent.
Were they really confident that the puncture would succeed in one try?
That was also...
Mu Tao could not describe his feelings as he watched the video without blinking.
The membrane stent ent
ered and connected the hepatic vein and portal vein through the puncture needle.
During the angiogram, the blood flow between the portal vein and the hepatic vein was smooth. The operation was successful.
After that, another recyclable stent entered and opened the airbag, completing the TIPS operation perfectly.
It was real... It was all real..
The laboratory's atmosphere was suffocating. Everyone felt that it was so difficult to even breathe.
Even trying to breathe in just a little felt like a huge task.
It was simply unbelievable! He really completed the TIPS surgery with just one needle!
Mu Tao suddenly felt that he was watching the Xinglin Garden live broadcast all over again.
The only difference was that the young doctor called Zheng Ren, who was standing in the assistant's position, used a hemostatic forceps to hit the surgeon's wrist.
Just how many surgeries had he gone through before he could master the TIPS surgery to such an extent that he could teach it!
That was a question that hovered in the minds of everyone present, like a crow screeching over and over again.
Chapter 583 - Turning Complexity Into Simplicity
"I think it's just good luck," said a tenured professor at the Mayo Clinic.
Indeed, that was the common thought of everyone present.
The surgeon's luck was too good! It was so good that it made people envious!
Over the years, the Mayo Clinic had been researching new surgical methods related to TIPS surgery.
The Mayo Clinic was the first to develop new surgical methods, such as portal catheters, which were used as markers and puncture points from the hepatic veins.
After the application of the new surgical method, the process of blind puncture in TIPS surgery had been greatly improved.
After all, there was a special catheter in the portal vein as a marker, so there was a target.
In the past, the failure rate of blind piercings were particularly high, so only surgeons with plenty of luck and experience could be relied on.
With the marker, the success rate had increased a lot and been reduced from an average of about 20 needles for blind piercing to four to five needles.
However, because of the influence of the diameter and blood flow of the special marker catheter, they could not reach 100% success rate for one needle. Despite that, it was an extremely important milestone in the development of TIPS surgery.
Mayo Clinic could not guarantee that one needle would succeed, let alone five.
However, the surgeon in the video was actually so confident that one needle would succeed!
That was something that the doctors at Mayo Clinic could not accept at all.
If they were as lucky, then only could they make such judgment.
"Is there any more?" another doctor asked with a serious expression.
One surgery did not mean anything. He had to watch more surgical videos.
"Let me ask." Wu Chuntian stood up and took his phone out.
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Chief Qi stood in the operating room and chatted with Chief Liu.
Suddenly, his phone rang. He picked it up and looked at it. He frowned and walked out of the operating room.
"Old Wu, what's wrong?" Chief Qi asked.
"Do you still have the surgery videos?" the other person asked.
"I think we're doing eight or nine today. There must be more." Chief Qi heard a hint of anxiety and impatience in Wu Chuntian's tone. He could not help but feel pleased.
Especially when he thought of the arrogant faces of those students from America at their class reunion. Wu Chuntian worked at the Mayo Clinic so his pride and ego were through the roof.
Last year, he had wanted to send a few people to the Mayo Clinic to learn through his methods but the other had brushed them off.
He had never thought that he would have such a day of retribution!
"Old Qi, please send me the video again," Wu Chuntian said.
"Hehe." Director Qi smiled steadily, full of intent.
"Old Qi, this is a big matter. It's not a joke," Wu Chuntian said.
"The video recording of the surgery must be done in full communication with the patient's family. The hospital must also deduct a portion of the costs. Otherwise, there might be trouble in the future," Chief Qi said.
However, he did not want to embarrass the other side too much, so he immediately said, "But since Old Wu said so, I'll definitely do it."
"It's hard to confirm things through just one video." Wu Chuntian rarely opened his mouth to ask for help, so he was somewhat at a loss.
"It's okay. There won't be many patients who'll allow the surgery to be recorded. You know that the country is still very conservative," Chief Qi said slowly.
Wu Chuntian was so anxious that he was about to go crazy. He really wanted to see if the brand-new TIPS surgery method was 100% successful.
He did not think that Chief Qi was deliberately saying that. He pondered for a moment and said, "I'll do some work here. The quota of overseas patients mentioned last time will be increased to four people. What do you think?"
"That's too much for an outsider." Since Chief Qi had achieved his goal, he did not think too much of himself and immediately said, "Then that's it. I'll go settle the patient's family."
After he said that, he hung up the phone.
He walked back to the operating room with a smile. When the department chief saw that the other was in a good mood, he was just about to come up and suck up to him before being chased away by Chief Qi to organize the surgery recordings and broadcasting them over.
The third TIPS surgery had already begun and Gao Shaojie's technique was getting more and more skilled.
He had forgotten and accidentally knocked Gao Shaojie with a hemostatic forceps out of habit. Zheng Ren immediately apologized afterward. Gao Shaojie was a little absent-minded but his progress was obvious.
Zheng Ren was surprised but also a little happy. Old Gao had insisted on it, and he had mastered the new approach to the TIPS surgery in such a short period of time.
In a while, he would look at his technique. There were still a few key points to remind him about. He estimated that he would be able to handle the second-stage surgery on his own.
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In the Mayo Clinic, everyone was watching the video again.
There was actually nothing interesting to watch. At most, they were just watching for fun.
The technique... The assistant. What method was used to find the puncture point? Everyone was still confused.
There were some descriptions in the journals but they were not very detailed. It was simply impossible to figure out the process of the new surgical method with the journal as the main source.
Soon, the email was sent again.
Wu Chuntian could not wait to open the email and download the video.
The internet speed at the Mayo Clinic was extremely fast, but Wu Chuntian still felt that the download time then took too long. It was so long that he could not bear it.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #'s-studio_16489637605120805/turning-complexity-into-simplicity_51157112075648477 for visiting.
Finally, the download was completed.
Wu Chuntian opened the video and watched it quietly.
There was nothing new about the surgery. A patient lay on the operating table and then the surgeon began to lay out the sheet. The 'assistant' stood in front of the film reader and looked at the film with his chin resting on his hand.
It was as if the film was a playboy, tiger, or panther. He could not get enough of it no matter how much he looked at it.
It was no different from the previous video. The surgery went very smoothly. The only difference was that the hemostatic forceps in the assistant's hand was not used this time around.
The puncture
kit was completed in one go, followed by a membrane stent and a recyclable stent.
It was simple...to the point that one felt that it was boring.
Was this still TIPS surgery? Why did it look simpler than the puncture of a cyst under an ultrasound?
The puncture of the cyst under an ultrasound also used alcohol or a substitute to flush the cyst cavity so that it could be hardened.
In the video, the TIPS surgery was just needle insertion, puncture, and stent removal before being over.
Mu Tao suddenly thought of a joke.
Putting an elephant in the refrigerator required only a few steps.
Yes, everyone knew that the steps were that simple but no one in the world could do it. Of course, there was also no refrigerator that was that big.
That was why it looked so magical.
The second video of the surgery was still simple and clear. It was so simple that many doctors in the Mayo Clinic wanted to cry.
Turning complexity into simplicity was a skill.
After the video was played, everyone stared at the computer screen in shock. At that moment, no one was in the mood to comment or replay the video.
There was really nothing to watch.
Even if they watched the simplest step ten thousand times, they would not be able to understand the principle behind it. No matter what, they would still be unable to comprehend anything.
The laboratory was silent. The low rustling sound of electricity was so clear.
Ding! The sound of an email rang out. Everyone who was deep in thought was shocked.
Wu Chuntian clicked on the email, opened it, and played the video.
It was still the same boring surgery video. It was as simple and plain as the previous two.
The only thing that the few videos proved was that the article published in the New England Journal of Medicine was correct. Moreover, there were countless amounts of surgeries done beforehand to back it up.
A brand-new, radical new approach to TIPS surgery had emerged!
Chapter 584 - Highly Recommended Based On Personal Experience
At nearly 11.30 pm, all the patients with cirrhosis completed their TIPS surgery.
Li Jianguo sent the patient down. On that day, his job was to send the patient down, check the information of the next patient, and then send the next patient up.
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