Xie Wanying’s handling of the separation clamp as the First Assistant was extrely adept.
Glancing at her hands, Lee Yuen thought: This young lady is just as rumored, as talented in this industry as Song Xueling from Beidu.
"Push aside the intestines, the uterus, and expose the bleeding area."
Teacher Li issued her the next execution task.
Xie Wanying was already prepared for what the teacher wanted her to do on stage. No need for much thought, saving the patient’s life was the priority, and with the teacher in charge, there was no fear. The separation clamp in her hand swiftly penetrated the seemingly chaotic organ tissues.
Why wasn’t the surgical field well exposed previously by the First Assistant? Was it unknown that this was crucial? No, it was difficult to push apart. With a small separation clamp, how challenging it was to separate the heavily pressed-down stomach and the squeezed-in uterus and intestines.
The strength of the doctor played a crucial role. It could be seen that the sweat bursting on the previous First Assistant’s forehead was much more than others. What if more strength wasn’t enough? Xie Wanying recalled the final lesson Teacher Tan taught her. The separation clamp needed to be wielded like a cudgel, understanding the characteristics of each organ’s tissues rather than rely morizing anatomical positions. So organs need to be pushed aside; knowing their dryness and wetness, how they function, what they stick to—all must be analyzed clearly before separating them to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Others saw on the monitor screen, the small separation clamp seemingly transford into a jack, suddenly pushing open the huge obstructive stomach in the patient’s abdominal cavity.
Wow! The forr First Assistant standing behind Xie Wanying gasped loudly, staring straight at Xie Wanying’s hands, then at the part of her face exposed outside the mask, confirming if there was a mistake: Is this person really a woman? How could she have such great strength?
Female surgeons able to perform surgeries generally develop strength through practice. Therefore, the First Assistant couldn’t believe that a colleague had much greater hand strength than her.
As said, Student Xie was not rely strong. This point was easier to understand for the Boss.
Xie Wanying quickly noticed Teacher Li, acting as the Mirror Assistant, imdiately followed along with the endoscope, likely swiftly grasping the path calculated by her eyes and brain.
Having the Boss teacher serve as the Mirror Assistant was akin to when Teacher Tan was the First Assistant, the speed could be doubled.
Currently, it must be accelerated to the utmost because the patient was bleeding during the surgery.
"Quick!" Doctor Lee Yuen urged the Chief Surgeon, "Did you see that? What’s in the bleeding area there?"
Doctor Yuan squinted tightly, seeing the target clearly, nodded to the senior doctor, "Yes, yes, it’s the broad ligant."
The broad ligant is one of the uterine ligants, similar to other abdominal organ ligants like the liver ligant ntioned earlier in Hepatobiliary Surgery, belonging to the peritoneum tissue, also functioning to stabilize the organ. These ligants tearing will definitely bleed, but usually the amount of bleeding is less. This patient’s situation could be described as a rare surgical discovery of an unexpected complication. After the separation clamp separated all the tissues and organs obstructing the doctor’s view, a few small fibroids ruptured and bled within the exposed ligant.
The frightening part was that these small fibroids grew too deep and hidden. Due to the patient’s frail build pointed out by Student Xie, the gastrointestinal tract pressed downward, compressing the uterus, fallopian tubes, even the ureter, causing these organs to press, press, press, leading to the fibroids on the ligant being hidden and folded up together.
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