John Ansen was very excited; he had to blend into another demonstration room. This demonstration room wasn’t as big as the main one, but it sufficed.
Scenes from the past resurfaced in his mind. This trip to China was truly worthwhile; aside from the conjoined twins surgery, he could witness this kind of transcontinental remote surgery. If this worked, Professor Yang could perform surgeries in the United States from the control room in China in the future. Thus, over the Pacific Ocean, John Ansen could receive Professor Yang’s technical support.
However, how to solve the legal issues? The excited John Ansen couldn’t help but feel a bit let down.
He glanced at the surgical robot’s brand; it wasn’t their usual brand but a completely new one—Ruixing. He morized this brand, knowing that if Professor Yang were to perform remote surgery in the future, the surgery robot must be of this brand; otherwise, it wouldn’t be compatible with the control console here.
John Ansen secretly communicated with an engineer and then left their company’s phone number for potential future use.
Over there, sterilization preparations were already completed. Actually, this surgery required Yang Ping to be the chief surgeon for the intracranial surgery, which focused on post-operative maximization of brain function recovery, while the rest of the surgery was handled by Song Zimo.
The patient was 64 years old, male, admitted half an hour after a car accident with multiple traumatic injuries and unconsciousness. Yang Ping had committed his case to mory; the most severe injury was intracranial, where the bleeding had begun compressing the brainstem. Despite the minimal bleeding volu, the location was special, enough to cause coma, and as the bleeding worsened, it could lead to death. Yang Ping’s surgical goal was to remove the blood clots inside the brainstem and perform hemostasis.
Lately, Yang Ping had been fated to perform brainstem surgeries; the main issue with the conjoined twins was also the brainstem. In truth, it wasn’t fate, but these high-difficulty, high-risk surgeries were challenging for others, leaving no choice but to find him; otherwise, surgeries that others could manage generally wouldn’t find their way to him, hence fewer opportunities.
Professor Fang’s intracranial hemorrhage volu was indeed minimal, confined to the brainstem, making its location extrely precarious.
Other areas, like pelvis fractures, spine fractures, rib fractures, limb fractures, etc., resulted in massive fractures causing significant blood loss. As for the spine fracture, it currently didn’t seem to have caused severe spinal cord damage, and spinal cord function should recover well in the later stages.
Luckily, the bleeding deep in the brainstem wasn’t rapid; it was likely caused by seepage.
If this were a regular case, Yang Ping would discuss it with everyone before the surgery. Given the race against ti to save lives now, there was no ti for discussion, which would be postponed until after the surgery.
The advantages of robotic surgery over traditional surgical operations are quite apparent, for example, the precision and stability of the robotic arm far surpass human hands, and the robotic arm cos equipped with a vibration filtering device, unlike the vibrations of human hands.
With the assistance of navigation equipnt, the robotic arm can precisely reach the surgical site. Currently, this surgical robot indeed cos with navigation equipnt, utilizing CT-Scan navigation. Ruixing’s independent innovation capability is quite strong; the X-ray dosage of this surgical robot is extrely low, just one-tenth of similar devices on the market.
However, to minimize the X-ray dosage, Yang Ping did not use navigation throughout, only using it for positioning before the surgery. The craniotomy work was handed to Song Zimo, who was responsible for exposing the brainstem, while Yang Ping handled the most critical part—entering the brainstem, removing the blood clots, performing complete hemostasis, and finally closing, which was again completed by Song Zimo.
Their cooperation was very seamless. Song Zimo completed the exposure, Yang Ping utilized the surgical robot to cut open the brainstem, remove the clots inside, and perform thorough hemostasis, then stitch the brainstem, leaving the rest for Song Zimo to complete. Despite the extensive work involved in the surgery, the entire process was very brief. Doctor Deng assud it would take over ten hours, but it only took a little over three hours to complete the entire body surgery. After the surgery was done, there was no active bleeding, stabilizing Professor Fang’s blood pressure naturally.
When the surgery was declared over, the leadership in the demonstration room hadn’t reacted: the surgery was completed so quickly, after all the prolonged preparations, expecting a massive operation, a thrilling ergency; unexpectedly, it concluded leisurely in just three hours.
He even thought there might have been issues with the surgery, imdiately asking, "How is Professor Fang now?"
"The surgery went smoothly, and Professor Fang now has stable vital signs. If there are no accidents, he should wake up within 72 hours," Yang Ping said confidently.
The leadership breathed a sigh of relief, having thought sothing had gone wrong due to the swift completion of the surgery.
Dean Xia and Director Han were already accustod to this pace; surgeries with Yang Ping as chief surgeon were never slow. If it were too slow, it would be abnormal.
Everyone felt as if they had pent-up energy, feeling as if they had done nothing before it ended, and thus genuinely found it hard to adapt.
Since the surgery was completed, there was no need for the leadership to stay at Sanbo Hospital. He left an assistant at Sanbo Hospital, concerned about potential post-operative complications requiring a second surgery for Professor Fang, leaving soone here responsible for organizing communication, while he took the team to rush back to Beijing.
The next day, various websites and newspapers reported on this transcontinental remote surgery and praised Sanbo Hospital, marking the maturation of remote surgery.
This regular report stirred an enormous reaction, being translated into various languages and appeared on the internet and newspapers worldwide.
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