There are three main parts to surgical procedures: anatomy, repair, and transplantation.
Anatomy is easy to understand. It involves cutting open the cortex, muscle layer, or even organs and then excising or cleaning up the lesion site. The most important part of anatomy is the Incision Skill.
Furthermore, there are evolved skills from Incision Skill such as Separation Skill and Wound Cleaning Skill.
Anatomy is purely destructive to the intact human body, and to heal the patient, the damaged tissues and organs must be repaired.
For instance, if a blood vessel is severed, you must stop the bleeding!
If nerves, blood vessels, or tendons are cut, they need to be reanastomosed!
Therefore, the two main categories in surgery are anatomy and repair.
As for transplantation, it depends on the actual needs.
Transplanting a piece of thigh skin to the face or neck is also called transplantation. Cutting off the head and transplanting it to a plete body is equally called transplantation, but their difficulty levels differ vastly.
Practicing any type of medical skill starts with learning and practicing the basic and simple ones.
Zhou Can successfully practiced his Incision Skill to Level 6, which is a major breakthrough in the field of surgery.
It means he already has the foundation to operate on Level 3 or 4 high-difficulty surgeries.
Previously, for anatomical parts of Level 3 or 4 high-difficulty surgeries, he barely pleted them by relying on Fast Knife Skill and Stable Knife Technique. Now he has advanced further in his surgical ability to perform anatomy and excisions.
For major surgeries, safety is most important.
Achieving Director-level beginner proficiency in Incision Skill is equivalent to enhancing surgical safety by at least one step.
He attempted to excise a lymph node cancer lesion, and the feeling of cutting was inparable to Level 5 Incision Skill. He could clearly perceive the tissue, depth, and whether he had reached the edge of the lymph node.
Even some tiny ducts and nerve endings can be perceived vaguely during excision.
To achieve clear perception of tiny blood vessels and nerve endings during excision, it might require upgrading the Incision Skill to Director-level intermediate or even advanced levels.
You must eat your meal bite by bite.
Reaching the current surgical level has already made Zhou Can feel very satisfied.
To be a bit bold, in the entire Tuya Hospital, there might not be more than forty surgeons whose Incision Skill reaches Director-level beginner proficiency.
The proficiency level of a surgical skill has little to do with the title level.
For example, Director Liu from General Surgery.
He was stuck at the Vice Director title because his academic level was slightly lacking and he was nearing sixty. But his actual surgical ability might not be inferior to a Director, and perhaps even stronger than many Directors.
Of course, he has now successfully achieved the Senior Director title, as he wished.
Zhou Can is currently a junior resident doctor, yet his Incision Skill has already reached Director-level beginner proficiency.
It’s believable such examples of inconsistent titles and skill levels exist, and there might be many.
Some academic or research-focused Directors might have surgical skills inferior to an ordinary surgical resident doctor, which is not surprising.
"Six-Level Incision Skill is indeed satisfying!"
After experiencing Director-level anatomical ability, Zhou Can sped up the surgical progress.
At this moment, his Incision Skill and Separation Skill Experience Points are still rapidly increasing.
If he makes an additional effort, he might soon upgrade Separation Skill to Level 6 as well.
Separation Skill has numerous applications in high-difficulty surgeries. It is also an advanced medical skill that all surgeons find challenging.
Some medical skills are easy to learn but hard to master.
Like Suturing Skill, Ligation Skill, and Wound Cleaning Skill.
But Separation Skill is difficult to learn and even harder to master.
Even for someone as strong as Director Hu Kan, an accident occurred while separating the adhesion between critical pathogenic tissue and major blood vessels, leading to a decline in his health since then.
It shows that to bee a truly top-tier surgical master, one must improve Separation Skill.
Otherwise, there will be significant shortings, leading to major setbacks at crucial moments.
While others find it difficult, Zhou Can is unafraid.
He just needs to continue earning Experience Points for Separation Skill to forcibly push this medical skill to Level 6.
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Nearly three and a half hours later, the surgery finally ended.
Zhou Can gained a lot from this surgery.
In addition to the promotion of Incision Skill to Level 6, the Separation Skill is also very close to Level 6. It needs over seventeen hundred more Experience Points. If he is lucky, just two or three large surgeries could help him successfully upgrade.
Anyway, these days, he almost has to help with major surgeries in Cardiothoracic Surgery every day.
Unlike beforehand, when he stood beside Director Xue Yan and Director Le to assist, his current surgical role basically requires him to operate, with Director Xue Yan or Director Le serving as his first assist.
In essence, they stand by to ’guide’ him in performing the surgery.
Legal and regulatory risks must certainly be avoided.
For surgeries requiring him to operate, but he needs to be back-up, he only needs to be in the same operating room.
The largest operating room in Cardiothoracic Surgery has three surgery rooms, where three surgeries can be performed simultaneously.
Taking advantage of this convenience, it’s often like just now, where Director Xue Yan leads a team for surgery in the adjacent room. Zhou Can, along with Vice Director Hee, perform surgery in the nearby room.
If Director Xue Yan needs assistance, Zhou Can can quickly go over to help.
The benefits of doing this are enormous, allowing a significant improvement in the digestion rate of high-difficulty surgeries.
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