My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 798 - Capítulo 798: 321: A Good Beginning Makes a Go

Capítulo 798: Chapter 321: A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending, So Subtle Changes

Dean Zhu must have personally instructed her, which is why she was so respectful to Zhou Can.

The hospital is like a small society, where the vast majority of people are clever and observant. Getting the direct supervision of the dean, the information officer naturally did not dare to treat Zhou Can as an ordinary physician.

Zhou Can took his docunts to the outpatient office of the hospital and easily found Yan Lele.

The data entry for the attending physician was stricter than expected.

While he was handling it, his phone rang again.

Looking down, he saw that it was Director Zhang from Xinxiang Won and Children’s Hospital calling.

He guessed it was about the surgery to correct the deformity of a little boy’s hands.

“Hello, Director Zhang!”

“Dr. Zhou, do you have ti at 11 this morning? I’m ready to perform the corrective surgery for the child this morning.”

“Sure, I’m on my way!”

Zhou Can was very happy to hear that the surgery had finally been scheduled.

That child and his family had been on his mind.

A good start, he thought, deserved a good ending.

After completing the procedure to open a clinic number, Zhou Can quickly headed for Xinxiang Won and Children’s Hospital. The trip was quite a long way, taking over fifty minutes by taxi. When he arrived, it was already close to eleven.

He rushed into the office of Pediatric Orthopedics.

“Dr. Zhou is here!”

Inside the office, Director Zhang, the five-year-old boy, and his family were present. Seeing Zhou Can appear, the little boy’s father imdiately stood up and greeted Zhou Can with a smile.

The little boy was still very withdrawn, his head bowed, hiding his hands in his sleeves.

“Director Zhang, how are preparations going?” After nodding to the family, Zhou Can turned to Director Zhang.

“I’ve already discussed it with the family. They said they trust Dr. Zhou and let us proceed with the surgery without worry. All the other preparations have been completed, just waiting for you to arrive.”

Hearing Director Zhang’s words, Zhou Can felt moved.

The family’s trust made him even more determined to make the surgery a success.

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In the operating room, Director Zhang and his surgical team were already in place. For this kind of surgery, general anesthesia wasn’t usually used; brachial plexus nerve block was more common.

“Here, let do it!”

Zhou Can volunteered to administer the brachial plexus nerve block to the patient.

“To save surgery ti, can we operate on the patient’s two hands at the sa ti?” Today’s main tasks were to release the subcutaneous bands and perform free skin grafting.

“If that’s no problem for you, then of course operating at the sa ti is better.” Director Zhang hadn’t personally witnessed Zhou Can’s surgical skills and was still sowhat concerned.

“I’m completely fine with it. If I encounter any part of the surgery that I’m not able to perform, I won’t be overconfident.”

Zhou Can also administered anesthesia to the boy’s other arm.

Monts later, after the anesthetic took effect, the boy’s arms no longer felt pain.

“Little friend, we’re going to correct your hands so that you can be like the other kids. You mustn’t move around, okay?”

Zhou Can crouched down to soothe the little boy and then placed a blindfold over his eyes.

This asure was to prevent the child from seeing the bloodiness of the surgery and getting scared.

So might think that general anesthesia should be given to the child to prevent him from moving during the surgery.

Because children are not like adults, they are innocent and do not consider the consequences of their actions.

Actually, the thod of anesthesia is not sothing doctors can decide on a whim.

General anesthesia is the highest level of anesthesia and requires strict qualifications.

It is only after the anesthesiologist conducts a preoperative assessnt that we can decide whether to use general anesthesia. Even spinal anesthesia, such as an epidural, has very strict evaluation standards.

If local anesthesia suffices, the doctor will not use general anesthesia lightly.

It’s not just about saving patients money, but also about minimizing risk to the greatest extent.

Besides, local anesthesia also carries risks.

There are nurous cases every year of hospital patients dying from brachial plexus nerve anesthesia.

Not to ntion general anesthesia.

So patients never wake up after anesthesia, becoming vegetative or dying of unexplained multi-organ failure. Cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest during general anesthesia also happen from ti to ti.

Every surgery carries risks.

Before surgery, when doctors have families sign consent forms, it’s not out of excessive timidity or caution.

It’s because doctors have witnessed various surgical accidents and are well aware of the risks involved.

“Let’s start!”

Zhou Can and Director Zhang operated on the patient concurrently.

It’s not uncommon for two doctors to operate at the sa ti. Sotis, even three or four doctors might work on a patient simultaneously. For example, this patient needed a skin graft, which would definitely involve taking a piece of skin from his own body and grafting it onto his hand.

One doctor harvests the skin, while another is responsible for the surgery on the hand, which can save a lot of ti.

Their case was slightly different.

Each was responsible for correcting one of the child’s hands.

Zhou Can quickly began to release the subcutaneous bands on the patient’s left hand. The unusual shape of the hand, resembling a chicken claw, was partially due to abnormalities in the skin and fascial layers.

With insufficient skin, this required a post-graft flap to resolve.

Abnormal subcutaneous fascial bands needed to be loosened through surgery. Moreover, the skin on the hands is unique; palmar and dorsal skins are two different concepts, with the palm belonging to a thick skin layer.

For example, the skin from the thigh is typically considered first for grafts.

This area’s skin is extensive and leaving scars would not cause too much trouble in the patient’s future life.