Chapter 443 - 443 Intraoperative Assistance

Chapter 443: Intraoperative Assistance Chapter 443: Intraoperative Assistance Aspiring female surgeons must overcome a certain fear that is more commonly found in women, psychologically speaking.

“Something’s happened—something’s happened—”

Suddenly, there was commotion in the hallway outside the operating room, with people running back and forth as though a rescue was underway. Such incidents were rare at this time in the morning. Because from Monday to Friday, during regular working hours, all surgeries planned in advance were not emergency operations, and it was unlikely anything would go wrong during the procedure.

Luo Yanfen and Li Wenhao, hearing the disturbance, couldn’t help but look towards the door and saw someone running in their direction, surprise flickering in their eyes.

“Dr. Tan!” The doctor who burst into the operating room steadied himself with his hands on his knees, trembling slightly as he called out to the operating Tan Kelin.

“What’s happened?” Shi Xu asked on behalf of the Chief Surgeon, glancing up at the person who had rushed in, and said to Tan Kelin, “It’s from Associate Director Liu’s group.”

Associate Director Liu and Director Shen were both not in the department today. Actually, both directors were not usually present in the operating room. Especially Associate Director Liu, who was older than Director Shen, would naturally give the operating table to the younger and more promising. Presently, Doctor Pan, who had just been promoted to associate senior doctor, was leading the surgery. An associate senior title was advanced, but it didn’t mean the doctor was skilled enough to handle every surgery. Even Tan Kelin himself wouldn’t dare say that about himself.

When colleagues from the same department suddenly came running for help, it was almost certain, no, absolutely certain, that Doctor Pan’s surgery had encountered a serious problem.

“Dr. Tan, Doctor Pan just took an emergency case, diagnosed with intestinal rupture. He wanted to do a laparoscopic repair, but when they put in the laparoscope, they found heavy bleeding. They switched to open surgery but couldn’t locate the bleeding point, and the blood loss has reached two thousand milliliters. Director Shen is not here, so they called Dr. Gao over to help, but Dr. Gao couldn’t find the source of the bleeding either. The patient is quite young, had a car accident the day before, and didn’t pay attention to it until abdominal pain prompted a visit for inspection, resulting in the discovery of the intestinal rupture,” the reporting doctor described the patient’s condition as fluently as possible, but couldn’t suppress the tremor in his voice.

The patient’s condition upon being wheeled into the operating room was still manageable, without the blood pressure dropping to shock levels. And the patient was still so young, potentially an only child for the family. If they suddenly died on the operating table, it would be hard for the doctors to explain to the relatives outside. Surgeons do inform the families of many unavoidable accidents during surgery, but those who don’t understand medicine would only question how a patient who was fine entering the surgery room could end up losing their life.

After hearing all this, everyone on scene had already furrowed their brows into knots.

“Alright, I’ll go,” Tan Kelin said.

“Thank you, Dr. Tan!” the other said.

Shi Xu’s brows were deeply furrowed. Their own ongoing surgery was significant, and it took a lot of preparation to proceed. Now, at a critical point in the surgery without the tumor being removed, the Chief Surgeon was being called away.

However, the patient for whom Doctor Pan requested assistance was in even more dire straits. The Chief Surgeon being called away—no one knew how long he would be gone, let alone if he would be able to come back and continue the surgery. What if the Chief Surgeon couldn’t come back?

“If I’m not back, you carry on,” Tan Kelin instructed the First Assistant.

The role of the First Assistant was crucial now. Any surgery the Chief Surgeon couldn’t complete would have to be fully taken over by the First Assistant. The concern was, Shi Xu looked around himself. There was only a Second Assistant who was an intern rookie. The other three, who were supposed to assist with the retraction, might be utterly useless, probably even worse than the intern rookie, Xie Wanying. His instincts had already told him as much.