Surgical artist

Chapter 506 Brain Dead?

If the patient does not wake up, everything is empty talk.

In case there is a problem with the operation itself, causing the patient to be unable to wake up, then the success this time is tantamount to a dream.

While waiting for the patient to wake up, everyone inquired about various information.

The longer the time dragged on, the tension among the team members also increased.

"No, even if the dose of anesthetic is high, you should wake up now, right?"

"Could it be...a vegetative person?"

"Brain dead?"

A bad premonition flashed in everyone's heart.

A similar situation happened before. After the operation, the patient was unable to wake up, and eventually became a vegetable for life, and could only rely on the care of others to survive.

Even Daiyuan and Chen Jianqing, the two core members, began to have self-doubt.

"Is it possible that some operation during our operation affected the patient's nerves or brain, causing the patient's brain to die and unable to wake up?"

But it's unbelievable that an abdominal operation, a gastroenterology operation, could cause such a problem that only neurosurgery can cause.

But the more this is the case, the more there is no suitable and reasonable explanation, the more everyone falls into various speculations and doubts.

Academician Yang Haicheng led the crowd to check the patient's condition over and over again.

The heartbeat is normal, the blood pressure is normal, and all kinds of life monitoring data are normal. Even the various recovery data after the operation are good, and the part of the colorectal cancer that was removed is gradually recovering.

It can be said that except for the fact that the patient was unable to wake up, the effect of the entire operation was quite good.

"Why can't the patient wake up?" Academician Yang Haicheng and all team members seemed to be in a haze.

The most nervous ones are the family members of the patients.

They got the news of the success of the operation immediately after the operation. They were overjoyed and waited beside the hospital bed, waiting for the patient to wake up, so that they could share the joy with their relatives in person.

Even the rhetoric has been organized several times in my heart.

In the future, I still want to take him to redo those things when I was young, go to the small park that we used to go together, sit on the large swing chair, and watch the sunset together.

Unexpectedly, the patient fell asleep all the time and couldn't wake up. Even the doctor began to suspect that the patient was brain dead and became a vegetative state.

……

Kyoto Medical Association.

"In the project of Academician Yang and Dean Zhao, the patient can't wake up all the time, it's very strange."

"At first, it seemed that success was coming, but something went wrong, what happened?"

"Do you want to coordinate with neurosurgery experts to take a look?"

The leaders of the Medical Association were also talking about it, and they were sweating for Academician Yang and others.

Academy of Engineering, academicians.

The members of the academician group in the court trial were also worried in their hearts.

"Academician Yang's project is really ill-fated."

"Yeah, first there were too many problems, and the project was abandoned in cold storage. Then, finally, Dean Zhao Peiru came up with a concept beyond ordinary people's thinking, and came up with a new solution. It was about to usher in success, but the result happened again. This issue."

"If the patient can't wake up, then this technique is really open to discussion."

"Yeah, who dares to say that there is something wrong with the technique itself?"

If the patient cannot wake up, all problems are possible and doubtful.

Especially, in the case of an accident in the first trial operation, which patient would dare to sign an agreement to be the second volunteer?
If this patient cannot wake up for life, and the medical reason is unknown, is this project going to stall again?

After the foreign media inquired about the news, they didn't know how to exaggerate, distort, and satirize the report.

"It's so difficult."

……

in the project group.

As the patient was unable to wake up for a long time, the faces of academician Yang Haicheng and other team members became more and more ugly.

"Dean Zhao, what do you think... might be the case?"

Zhao Peiru also looked solemn.

In his mind, there is a solution to the corresponding spell, but there is no solution to this unexpected situation.

Even in his mind, during the tens of thousands of "colon cancer combined with portal hypertension" operations, this situation never occurred.

For a while, Zhao Peiru did not directly express his views.

Everyone saw that even Dean Zhao Peiru didn't speak, and couldn't help feeling even more depressed.

During this period of time, Zhao Peiru performed extremely well. Every time they encountered a problem, they could always get a good answer as long as they asked Dean Zhao Peiru.This one is like an encyclopedia, there is nothing he doesn't know.

When everyone was at a loss, Zhao Peiru suddenly spoke.

"Academician Yang, does the patient's anesthetic contain succinylcholine?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, Academician Yang Haicheng said solemnly, "Go and call Xiao Li over."

Xiao Li is an anesthetist, so he ran over quickly and answered the questions of the two bosses. The anesthetic did contain succinylcholine.

Academician Yang Haicheng asked doubtfully, "But this kind of ingredient won't cause the patient to be unconscious for a long time, right?"

At this moment, Zhao Peiru finally showed a smile on his face.

"I guessed the reason why the patient fell asleep for a long time. The patient was not brain-dead, nor was the nerve moved during the operation, but the patient is still under anesthesia at this moment."

Yang Haicheng was taken aback for a moment, and all the other team members gathered around at this moment, listening with pricked ears.

Anesthesia?
After such a long period of lethargy, he is still under anesthesia?

But how is this possible?

Zhao Peiru: "The patient should have plasma cholinesterase deficiency."

Academician Yang Haicheng pondered: "I've heard of this symptom, it's extremely rare. Patients with this symptom cannot decompose the drug succinylcholine. It will cause the anesthetic to take effect in their body for a long time. But..."

"Unless the patient is completely deficient, they will not be able to decompose it at all, and will be lethargic for such a long time."

This kind of symptom itself is very rare, and many doctors will never see a case in their lifetime.

And even patients with this rare condition are not completely deficient.

What Zhao Peiru said is a state of complete lack, "the rarest of the rare".

They do a project, choose thousands of coordinated patients, and they win the prize?
Zhao Peiru said: "This explanation is the most likely. What we need to do is to infuse the patient with plasma cholinesterase to help him digest the anesthetic. It's as simple as that."

Academician Yang Haicheng nodded.

This kind of attempt has no cost and no risk.

Moreover, after excluding other possibilities, this probability, which itself is lower than "winning the 500 million jackpot", has become the most likely situation.

The two bosses nodded, and Dai Yuan immediately went to infuse plasma cholinesterase for the patient.

(End of this chapter)