"Teacher Du, we know you’ve now gone to Gynecology," Du Yeqing explained their plan in detail, "but everyone knows you’re very famous in Obstetrics. In fact, to this day, so cases that Beidou Third Hospital’s Obstetrics can’t handle need you to co back to help."
People from outside the hospital know that Du Haiwei’s reputation and skills in Obstetrics were once prominent, leading to a situation where it seems there’s no successor.
Xie Wanying couldn’t help but recall the two miraculous tis Teacher Du saved the day in difficult deliveries; indeed, no one has replaced Teacher Du.
No matter how others praised, once the patient was admitted, and he ca to Guo Zhi Hospital, it was like boarding Zhang Huayao’s pirate ship. Du Haiwei resigned to his fate, saying, "The patient needs a Cesarean Section. You’re asking to co to help with the Cesarean Section, right?"
This patient couldn’t be transferred to Beidu Third Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Departnt for delivery, fearing there wasn’t enough ti. Because the patient’s condition was too severe, if transferred to Beidou Third Hospital for a Cesarean Section, they might die imdiately post-operation.
"Yes," Du Yeqing, representing the attending physician team at Guo Zhi Hospital, formally stated, and further explained why they invited him, "Teacher Du, you can see firsthand how severe this patient’s condition is. The ti left for surgery for her and our doctors is very short. Only you, Teacher Du, can deliver the child and complete the Cesarean Section in the shortest ti. After that, the patient will be taken over by our cardiothoracic surgery team for heart surgery."
"After the Cesarean Section, are you planning to perform a heart-lung transplant on the patient?" Du Haiwei asked.
In the case of patients with late-stage pregnancy complicated by heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, dication is limited and unable to reverse the worsening condition, predicting a high possibility for a heart-lung transplant or double lung transplant with heart surgery as the next step.
Originally, heart surgery belongs to the cardiothoracic team and has nothing to do with Obstetricians, but since they require cooperation from an Obstetrician, it’s necessary at least to brief them about the patient’s condition. Otherwise, the Obstetrician, when performing the Cesarean Section, would naturally be on edge.
In fact, heart-lung transplant surgery is far from easy as one might imagine.
Perhaps so dical studies in Obstetrics would suggest such an ergency rescue, but this type of surgery is not perford by Obstetricians, but by cardiothoracic surgeons. Truly considering whether it can be done or not is the responsibility of cardiothoracic surgeons, not Obstetricians. In other words, the Obstetricians might only advise verbally, while the cardiothoracic surgeons need to contribute all their effort and expertise.
Currently, there are no precedents in dostic cardiothoracic surgery for rescuing such post-operative mothers with heart-lung transplants, nor are there any abroad. This has led to the situation where once such a patient appears, Obstetricians cannot speak on behalf of cardiothoracic surgeons about the potential success; they can only suggest terminating the pregnancy.
People can’t help but speculate that Zhang Huayao might have accepted this patient to make a headline as the world’s first surgery of its kind. Quickly, Du Yeqing’s words thoroughly contradicted this speculation.
To reach the position of Director, soone like Zhang Huayao, the old eccentric, wouldn’t take any big risks that could potentially implicate the entire hospital in the case of a mishap. He is an old genius with a sharp academic eye when it cos to assessing and selecting patients.
Du Yeqing took the patient records from Dr. Yuh and began explaining in detail to Du Haiwei about the patient’s condition: "When the patient first sought help from Director Zhang at our hospital, she explicitly stated she absolutely did not want to undergo a transplant surgery. The patient has a strong wish to beco pregnant, fearing that taking anti-rejection dication post-surgery would affect subsequent pregnancies and childbirth."
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